Do y'all ever just stop and think about how JKR is the most prominent example of why this Red Scare 2: Nazi Boogaloo shit is awful and why modern American/Western in general Leftists are the most self-defeating dipshits ever because they fundamentally do not understand how radicalization works?
I was waiting for someone to ask for an elaboration, and since you decided to be a cunt I’ll tell you!
Because JKR spent years trying to backflip to appeal to woke cultists who outright berate people for trying to extend any goodwill or placation to them.
Make fun of her cringy post-canon bullshit all you want. Laugh at the “Vanish me poopum” and “X is actually Y representation all along” nonsense by all means. (I know I will!) That doesn’t change the fact she spent decades trying to be woke only to be met with vicious contempt.
And I’m not talking about the mockery and laughter that I’d indulge in and someone like her should’ve expected and was no doubt warned about repeatedly, I’m talking about death threats, actual harassment, and constant slander from media outlets twisting her as a bigot (BEFORE she became a TERF), which would negatively affect pretty much anyone.
Like that “Don’t punish people for doing what you want” post where the moral was “If Success merits the same result as failure people are gonna stop giving a shit.” Maybe someone somewhere tried, probably desperately even to tell her this shit was a dumb idea.
But if she was able to be radicalized into TERFdom under the pretense of “men invading women’s spaces”, combined with apparently some pre-existing trauma(?), then it’s not much of a stretch to imagine being bombarded with the cringe-inducing shit you see on tumblr and twitter and accusations of bigotry over absolutely dumb, trivial bullshit made her flock to the one group that seemed to actually want her. This is why people join Nazis. This is why people join Cults. This is why people keep joining incel forums and groups and that kinda shit: Whether it was the result of their own actions or (almost always) not, people who get ostracized will go to whoever will accept them, regardless of whether that group is a toxic influence.
Because it turns out when you’ve been stomped on, mocked, shamed and whatever for long enough, people won’t care about warnings about how this group is bad, even if for extremely legitimate reasons. And they’ll be more accepting when that bad group tells them “Oh they just hate us because X reasons” and whatever other propaganda they shit down your throat. JKR’s a successful rich white lady in England so by no means am I saying she’s had it as bad as say, some poor white trash fuck in the south who’s been put through the ringer Arthur Fleck style.
I’m saying that Cancel Culture’s bad because it directly creates the very problem it “fights against.” If any of the people who scream day and night about the Orange Man actually gave a FUCK about actually stopping racism and bigotry, they’d stop doing it because we have years worth of evidence that it doesn’t work.
But judging by your attitude there I’m just going to assume this is all falling on deaf ears, so by all means keep being part of the problem.
Man just once I wish you people weren’t so disgustingly predictable and didn’t prove my point at every single turn.
Imagine dismissing a person’s entire argument based solely on them having an MLP icon.
I’m not sure when you hopped on to Tumblr, but that’s been an extremely common event to see for around a decade so far.
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This problem with the Leftist mobs defeating themselves is probably by design, not by accident.
We know that they rally around their cult leaders and are regularly incited into action by others rather than taking action themselves. From this, we can figure out that they’re a controlled group, especially given all the co-ordination and co-operation from the establishment. The government forces ordered to ignore them and let them burn down cities unopposed for months on end, the multi-billion dollar corporations giving them upwards of a hundred million dollars, the favourable coverage in the news media, et cetera.
The Left also always eats itself. They destabilize whatever society they infiltrate and then set off a purity spiral after they’ve turned whatever they’ve taken over into a hollow shell of it’s former self.
That makes them the perfect weapons. Tools. Useful idiots.Shock troops.
Take an enemy population. Sabotage them and break up the family. Take over the education system so that your enemy’s children spend more waking time with your cult indoctrinators than with their own parents. Do not instill in them useful habits. Rather, instill wokeness into them. Take their soft minds when they’re most fragile and haven’t developed critical thinking skills yet, and fill them with utter nonsense that will prevent them from being effective and happy people in the future. Then, when they’re near the end of their education, they’ll find themselves unable to get a job. (This works better if you also destroy the economy along the way).
At this point, you have a population of people who have little hope of a better life on their own, and they also have a fundamentalist belief in talking points and slogans that YOU decided back when they were children. Offer to pay them peanuts to go protest. Go rally for something. Go act out their aggression on a society they haven’t been prepared for. Give their urge to destroy an outlet and a target. Due to their own behaviour at this point, once they start drinking the kool-aid, they’ll have little choice but to continue. They’re all mentally ill. Their maturation and growth has been sabotaged. They have been made to be less competent and prepared than their forefathers, and they’ve been dropped into a society that’s in the process of being gutted.
They know that something’s wrong. They want to make it right, but they’re not equipped to understand how. So they jump at the first, most immediate solution offered to them.
I think I may have wandered a bit from the point, so I’ll regroup here. Their only option is to be part of the cult. But the cult is one that was formed based on rabid attacks on heretics. The criteria for what a heretic is ever-changing. They’re all in competition with each other to be as woke as they can possibly be. To do that, they all have to virtue signal as much as possible, at every available opportunity. Their chances at jobs literally depends on it.
This ever-more-fervent virtue signalling has no end point. The cult does not have the concept of forgiveness in it. Every prior act that used to be considered okay is in danger of being considered “evil” in the future, due to no fixed morality system.
Regrouping again: You have a mentally ill slave army that will tear itself apart the minute that it’s no longer being pointed at new targets by their masters. And they’re all being taken from the children of your hated enemy.
One of the most important things once things get really hot at the later stages, it’s important to make sure that the people who notice the patterns get vilified the most harshly. If people start to listen, there’s a chance that things could be turned around.
Hey, @takashi0, I think you have a pretty good example of the mechanic in action. What do you think of my rundown of how it seems to work?
