lastvalyrian:

The difference between “twitter is just like 2016 tumblr” and “tiktok is just like 2012 tumblr” is that the twitter ecosystem consists of people who migrated there from tumblr and did not change even a bit since then, while tiktok recreated the entire experience from whole cloth. speciation vs convergent evolution

“helicopters using the embassy roof” is good visual shorthand for the fall of an occupation

So from the fall of the Soviet Union (and in retrospective memory but not at-the-time reality from Reagan’s first election) to a few years after the 2007 crash, we were basically in a stable politicocultural era. I was lucky and historically informed enough to to realize it was an era before it ended, but it was still all I ever knew plus the promise of all I wanted. But while its passing might be tragic, the fact that the transition to its degenerated “sick man” state failed and now no one expects stable continuity to tangent off from here means people can stop investing any energy in keeping up with shifts and reorient towards crafting a successor to their taste

nagisa-plushie-deactivated20211:

This is a newspaper comic that started in the 1940s

To Rescue a Nation

this is not so much an explanation of how a strongman could meld their independent will with national purpose to inspire palingenetic renewal as a summoning circle for one, drawn in chalk on the floor of an empty room you just walked into

quoms:

paxamericana:

how is anyone surprised by this? the central premise of all “wellness” bullshit is that you have access to secret information that “they” don’t want you to know. this isn’t some unexpected phenomena, it’s their bread and butter!

It is emblematic of how misinformation is increasingly being co-opted for the benefit of influencers, experts say.

Like homeopathy wasn’t misinformation the whole time? Astrology isn’t misinformation? “Detoxing” isn’t misinformation? It’s only this one thing that’s misinformation?

samuraifuckingfrog:

Love seeing the progression

1. Conservatives are mad about public school curricula about race! They’re structuring and mobilizing to fight on those grounds!
2. But that isn’t actually something any significant faction of us were seeking from the state, consider a useful lever of change, or hold as our power base!
3. Therefore we must aggressively fight back on this issue!

altcomics:

Brad Troemel

the full version

So one of the things I’ve had in mind these past years that in terms of challenge to the established order there’s an enormous second-mover advantage, that was one of the most significant things about Trump, he drew the left from their quiet buildup out to make a first move.

So honestly, Trump’s intense and continuing effort to cast the 2020 election as a first move by the opposing side meriting a reaction is incredibly important.

triviallytrue:

spectorcorp:

himbofisher:

spectorcorp:

shit tumblr funny men 2 stop reblogging from bc they make funny jokes

nonpsychotic / schizprenia: huge transmisogynist and consumes AOT, that yknow glorifies genocide and was created by a man who affiliates with the zaitokukai, a japanese alt right nationalist group that have race supremacist ideals against koreans

halodite / neotrances n generally all his mutuals: friends with nonpsychotic and defends him against all criticism. any criticism halodite gets is also reflected as not a big deal / out of nowhere with no proof

thebootydiaries: harassed a minor publicly for saying their joke wasnt funny

pissvortex: antiblack misogynist

gayarsonist: antiblack and antisemitic, gave a shit apology then said theyd still support antiblack and antisemitic mcyt

toastpotent: transphobic and doubled down on his transphobia by saying its for his personal comfort / dysphoria

peniswakt: friends with toastpotent, also made jokes about the recent bombings on palestinians

johnward / ptsilenthill: freak

spacegirlwhirl: denies the Uyghur genocide

ndiecity: denies the Uyghur genocide

himbofisher: took a fat nasty shit in a 7-eleven toilet in creve couer, missouri, and forgot to flush. also the poop was racist

ok spic

obsessed with this mostly-wrong callout post where the op straight up calls somebody a slur in a reblog

My take on the American culture war as it stands

Over the 2010s the left side of that stuff expanded their base to the maximum size achievable (and then started to reverse and fracture a little)

And using that they might have set trends but didn’t really plant their flag in and institutionally solidify any gains past Obergefell v. Hodges, which it should go without saying is entirely compatible with Andrew Sullivan 90s Thought

Meanwhile they have been a sufficient known annoyance for long enough that institutional antibodies and society-wide reactive-repressive forces have developed in response

With the liberals peeling away from the left in the Biden era any further escalation of the intensity of the conflict likely constricts their coalition further and unlocks far more in the way of (repressive) options for the counter-coalition

The subjection of the cultural left could productively traded in exchange for other adjustments in the construction and legitimizing of a new order; the subjection of the cultural right would only be a stabilizing force on the far side of a great deal of radical restructuring

In the last two years we have undone upwards of 60% of the cultural value attached to the role of “mother” since the Fastrack late ‘80s but it hasn’t been immediately obvious because there hasn’t been a high-profile showdown along precisely that cleavage yet

There are bad things out there but the worst now have no viable path to hegemony and the bad stuff has a narrowing path and you’ll find that a lot of dynamics were based on people thinking they might (or bluffed into certainty they would) have to accommodate them

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

I am honestly struggling with what “femboy” is being used to mean now that it’s escaping containment. Straight twink?

yeah no that’s the thing, I see it in the wild used meaning “cute crossdresser”, “straight crossdresser”, “trap bro”, “straight boy looking to be the submissive one in the relationship”, sometimes it’s hard to tell which

I suppose the unifying theme is that all of these are kinds of gender variance not coded as “queer” like you’d expect in 2021

One way to think of it is the last trans wave came as the peak expression of the two midcentury master-disciplines of health: psychiatry and surgery. And this wave constructing hormones as the key was the peak of the psychopharmaceutical era that started with Prozac and SSRIs in the late ‘80s, Ritalin and the centrality of “ADD” in the '90s.

Maybe just like every major technical advance promising immortality, medicine tends to promise to transcend gender

Honestly what Oregon’s getting in on might be the start of a psychedelic era that takes over some of that weight, I suppose via like MAPS, Erowid and The Lycaeum, “psychonaut” shit, that would fit my model of the 90s suddenly becoming relevant again

“The media isn’t making a big thing over unrest in Minneapolis!” like yes, but if you imagine there’s a world where they do and the takeaway is anything but “stable Democratic administration operating under color of law is insufficient to restore and maintain order” you’re mad

As dumb as all the anti-“CRT” stuff must be, it is satisfying seeing the people whose output used to be “Here Is A New Demand We Will Make And Enforce” switch over to “Here’s Why It’s Totally Not Fair We’re Getting Our Asses Kicked”

So like, me saying the wave crested means the next phase is gonna be some pretty fierce backlash for a while, I guess my advice is, if you have an identity that wouldn’t fly in 2000, make sure you have a plausible account of how to derive and justify it from sources no later than 2010, or at least of how it’s compatible with those that can and then put extra effort into weaving yourself into the narrative