one of the subtler crazy things about this election is how every worthwhile crank I’ve run across since the livejournal era, all the bits where I’ve been like “no, of all the weird shit on the net this shit is gonna be important”, are all banging into each other

I think a lot of it’s twitter, maybe in the open field quality will out, but seeing like Ian Welsh and Jacob “IOZ” Bacharach kibitzing about a dispute pitting Freddie deBoer, Jacobin, and Weird Twitter against Sady Doyle, it’s… honestly, it’s a little ominous when all the named characters and plot threads start coming together

course reading serious newspaper articles like “for more insight on /pol/ memes and their role on the alt-right, we reached out to VDare….” is fucking surreal