FACT: The worst thing that ever happened to the left in recent memory was the Something Awful forums and the Weird Twitter subculture it spawned.
Weird Twitter leftism has nothing to do with class struggle and everything to do with ironic hipsters trying to one-up those they deem to have worse taste than them. This kind of shit serves only to alienate the masses from socialism and inflate the egos of a tiny minority living in a bubble.
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I didn't know that came from SA, I used to post on LF until I was banned for not saying that people who buy prostitutes are 'literally disgusting'.
It's one of those hiding behind irony because it would look fucking retarded not to kinds of things.
There are some bigger problems in the world now my man.
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Twitter as a whole is utter cancer
it is true though.
Fucking goons
Let's face it, leftists are always trolling other leftists. That's why this is such a good board. The untrained eye might miss that Holla Forums has got some amazingly subtle masterpieces running through it.
I would actually consider weird left twitter the best thing SA produced after 4chan. Gave us chapo at the very least and those guys have done far more getting people interested in organizing than anyone here.
they have produced many young democrats with ironic characteristics, no doubt
this
Did you just insult PissPigGrandad?
I tought SA spawned tumblr SJW not weird tweeter
DAILY REMINDER THAT THE ONLY WORTHWHILE THING LOWTAX HAS EVER DONE WAS GET THE SHIT BEATEN OUT OF HIM BY A TERRIBLE GERMAN FILMMAKER
no
The entire point of "leftists" like this is to provide a bad example to turn people away from the real left.
That's a rare case and it's not like SA/weird twitter is necessary for those guys to exist.
I'd like to point out that Weird Twitter is FYAD all the way, and they hated the old commie board, LF. Arguably, they sabotaged it to death. SJWs shitting on commies, who would have thought?
Either way, yeah Weird Twitter is cancer on top of cancer and the perfect representation of this mockery-instead-of-discourse, all-rhetoric-and-no-dialectic liberal circlejerk that passes for the American left. Its demise is the one good thing that may come out of the Trump era.
I never gave a fuck about SA back in its prime and I still don't give a fuck about it. I'm constantly amused by people who have the histories of its offshoot boards memorized all the while calling it "cancer"
Right, because nofunallowed.jpeg and leftists should just cede cultural territory and keep circle-jerking to staid, aloof academics and theeeeeeory
ITT nerds who aren't popular
Twitter admins won't save you from cultural obsolescence.
We live in 2006's darkest timeline
You don't have a sense of humor and you have no friends
Aww, sounds like someone got banned from Twitter. I don't know what "cultural obsolescence" you're talking about, that was never at risk and it's even less probable now.
You sound like grill .
Identity politics destroyed the left. It's retarded that the best argument of leftist parties is We need more immigration and be more accepting of different cultures, said by a person of minority descent. It makes the left look just as anti intellectual, maybe even moreso because of media favouritism that it enjoys, than rightwing parties blasting migrants.
What's your take on the Biting Beaver raids as the genesis of SA's cancer on the left? I've heard another major factor was something to do with large numbers of lolberts and other rightists getting purged after a bet involving Ron Paul or something.
No weird Twitter was spawned when Ron "Buy gold, end the fed, kill your parents" Paul containment subforum turned ironic third world Maoism subforum turned unironic Maoist third worldism subforum laissez faire got banned after the SECOND secret service visit lowtax got over people talking about killing bush. (BRING BACK LF)
A bunch of the posters from it went and became the core of weird Twitter.
LF fucking owned
the lets kill the president thing came out of FYAD
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How many times are you going to repeat this like you aren't reciting identity politics on a daily basis
Until we don't have to
Childhood is idolising PissPigGrandad.
Adulthood is knowing PhilGreaves makes more sense.
as far as i can see the only practical things chapo have done is recruit for the fucking democratic party and publicise fascism
The first one was fyad, the second one was LF.
Why even live lads?
Honestly, I can't quite quite place when it became socjus general. It used to be college libertarian central, but it might have started to change when Helldump was created and mercilessly mocked the then-stereotypical goon. LF further intensified it.
WT is definitely FYAD. They had already begun migrating to Twitter while LF was still well alive. See @fart (the admin that did everything in his power to shit LF up), @mobute, @bro_pair etc
Fact: weird twitter has done far more wrt converting normies to Marxism than this board ever has or will do
Why do people here act like that fucking matters?
i thought this is why rhizzone exists
Because you're responding in a thread that starts off with "The worst thing that ever happened to the left in recent memory"
that's why it matters
I'm not seeing the correlation here, user.
Holla Forums isn't your recruitment service.
It's easy to criticize praxis when you have none, bih
rhizzone is good, although little slow
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I didn't imply it was, but the other user is directly speaking to OP's claim WT was actively turning people off. Do you understand now or are you being dense on purpose?
You're right, the only true Marxists are ineffectual pseudoacademics who circlejerk in obscurity and make no attempt to ever implement any theory or spread their ideology
how do I into weird twitter
No, OP, you're wrong. This right here is the worst thing SA ever did. What the fuck do you think you're posting on, you stupid asshole? A cave painting? Nerds made the fucking internet that you're currently filling with your garbage. Don't even post this shit ironically.
And thanks to this, we now have masses of nerds who support Trump because "leftists" treated them like shit and dismissed all of their concerns with ironic hipsterism. Every fucking one of these shitwipes should be doxed and have all of their faggotry put on display for the entire world to see, just like they did to a bunch of people who mostly did nothing to deserve it.
bye grandma
Nerds got turned off to left politics by tumblr liberals, not DSA/ social democrat liberals
1) activate twitter account
2) start posting
"nerds" sure do sound like fragile snowflakes tbh
pic related is what you're defending
And what prior online garbage fire, praytell, may have fed the genesis of the stereotypical Tumblrina?
yep
and the right purposefully build up tumblr liberalism.
What was gamergate and other such thingsother than giving them a national, wait scratch-that, worldwide plattorm, and giving them tons of fuel?
Reactionary-Nerds like that Twitter guy is everything wrong with politics. Lumpens and ignoramuses that are just useful tools for the elites.
Reminder that based Phil Greaves is right about most twitter leftists
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daily reminder that the left is so hollowed out in the U.S. that tankies and LARPers can get away with being representatives of the entire left online basically unchallenged.
Truly, they are. I don't see how someone could be proud of not giving a damn about the wider world until tits and ass became a hot topic in vidya.
You're talking about people who were tormented mentally and often physically for years on end and nothing was ever done to help them. Nerds in America are infinitely more justified in complaining about discrimination than any black person who didn't actually live through the era of segregation, let alone feminist cunts. They're reacting in the only way they think they can, because to them the left hasn't offered a viable solution. When it comes to the things they love, they see leftists being dismissive at best or outright supportive of censorship at worst.
lol this guy rules
I'm not happy about the fact that I just learned what an incel was yesterday.
Mao doesn't make me cum and Phil Greaves is a meme
So we just need to target the black nerds?
Leftism and art, up until the 2010s, had an age-old symbiotic relationship. The former offered an unconditional bulwark against censorship and the hysterical pseudoscience sometimes used to justify it, the latter commonly relinquished any veneer of political neutrality to shit on rightism and promulgate leftism. This worked nicely for many centuries.
Everything changed when the SJWs Attacked.
Hahaha holy shit this nigga really thinks he's oppressed because Kotaku dot com or whatever the fuck posts screeds about how Capcom games have too many titties
Get thee to a gulag
please start a podcast dude. I need to learn more about your incredible worldview
Is this nerd pogrom a new front in white geNOWcide?
C'mon dude, a lot of us here were–and are, still–nerds. Somehow we didn't turn out to be complete fash lovers.
ITT someone doesn't read the post he's replying to.
What part of "tormented mentally and often physically" don't you understand, you fucking retard? Nerds of today often got beaten up (i.e. assault, which is a legally actionable criminal offense) and school administrators looked the other way.
Gulag yourself.
Seriously get a life. You know what the best thing to do with Tumblr and feminist trolls are? Ignore them and leave their sites. Don't give them clicks and don't elevate their personalities/brands.
And don't worry about them. They really are harmless if you leave them be. But no, you anti-feminist shitheads had to make such a trashfire out of things that everything you hate is now to the point of being representatives to the United Nations.
Trump won't fix identity politcs, 4chan won't fix identity politics. Just stop obsessing over it.
This guy gets it.
weird twitter makes alt-right anime twitter look like comedic genius
Not sure on this one.
If your hill to die on is protected class status and anti-hate crime legislation for Hikikomori, you're an insane person.
Further, most leftists are or were nerds. If you can be bullied into repping fascism you were likely just a shitty person all along.
Greaves is the kind of dude who calls YPG “white savioring/adventurism”
His rants about left twitter are mostly accurate but still only as productive as pointing out, “People on the internet are stupid/No fun allowed”
His tweets are worth checking out but he tweetstorms every fucking minute and retweets his own rants, shitting up the TL
This time 10,000
Again, read the posts in question. They become fascists because they looked at the left and decided it was full of people who would censor them. They went to the right because they thought that would let them get away from those people.
nah, not really. Frog twitter is only unintentionally funny
But they were bullied beyond belief right.
based Phil, too bad he hates Zizek
I'm talking about the #AnimeRight types, which interestingly enough the biggest names in it don't even watch anime
but speaking of frog twitter, I think honestly Bronze Age Pervert is the best twitter account out there, dont @ me
We virgins are revolutionary comade
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gay frog twitter
again, only unintentionally funny
Is this self-parody of fash homoeroticism?
weird twitter is more class conscious than Holla Forums though.
he is very homoerotic but he occasionally posts women too
he's as muscular as he says he is too so I have really no idea whats genuine and whats not
its a good twitter though
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Fact: Filipinos are the most powerful race in the world
We would if they'd let us, but they they do not allow dissent to exist, anywhere, and invade everything. They infiltrate our sites, they take over our admin positions (or create them if there weren't any!), they chase our artists out of their own businesses leaving only their own replacements and brainwashed lackeys, they impose oppressive internal rules in every sphere they conquer on their march, and aspire (sometimes successfully) to pass actual public laws criminalizing art and mandating the recitation of their ideology.
If left alone, things will only get worse as one institution or subculture (early among those casualties radical leftism itself) after another is incinerated by them as an offering to their ridiculous death cult ideology, and those in power are only too glad to stand idly by or assist them. They have to be stopped.
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SRS called, they want your fat ass back
Livejournal probably had something to do with it too.
Video games AREN'T important. If GamerGate was the first thing that made you care about "politics", sit down and fucking shut up.
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that benedict guy is a cunt
not a fan of bashing nerds, although i agree they shouldn't be nazis
I am confused when I see these by how little people are able to understand social outcasting.
I guess they get confused because for a little while in the 90s and the aughts "being a loser" was hip.
All reactionaries deserve a good bashing. I don't care "why" they became what they are. If they are actively trying to preserve the system then they deserve the gulag.
The thing isn't vidya itself, per say, so much as any particular thing you directly care about. Like if you're politically apathetic until somebody gets your favorite flavor of candy pulled from stores, fences off your favorite beach, or throws bricks through the windows of your favorite magazine. And when you object, suddenly you're the problem, and they won't leave you alone unless you publicly agree with their actions.
Whether or not it's ultimately petty (perhaps particularly because of its pettiness), it's the sort of thing that can uniquely inspire white-hot hatred from a lot of people.
Alex was right
Except weev became a Nazi to preserve his virginal white anus in federal prison.
This is why it's difficult to inspire revolutionary consciousness in any society that is relatively comfortable. Unless people are directly being harmed by something in some way and can associate it with a particular person or institution, they simply don't care.
Only when the rock comes through their windows, literally or figuratively, do they wake up.
okay
nigga are we even on the same internet right now, they're pure bobo trash
I fully agree, but that's a bit too much for us. Maybe we could nudge the Holla Forumss into a campaign against WT?
There's very little separation between Tumblr liberals and Twitter liberals.
Weebs got a monopoly on them right now.
I spend a lot of time wondering how old he is, he's either 50 or 15 I can't imagine anything in between
hey Holla Forums
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Do you mean the outcasts or the people doing the outcasting?
All of those things are less petty than caring about consumerist garbage that someone else produces for mindless entertainment.
If you never cared about economics or foreign policy (and somehow ignored that a percentage of your generation were sent to fight in the desert) before, but video games, of all things, are your hill to die on, your opinion is most likely trash.
I'm starting to think you may be on to something here, Joe
weebs to japan, gamers to the grave!
If I was a Holla Forumsyp, why would I be trying to convince people in Holla Forums to convince Holla Forums?
t. Joe McCarthy
i just came here to say Tallahassee is a great album, and I was a founding member of SA but I quit after about two years, they're assholes.
I'm old as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Most of the people here are nerds, come off it.
This "our enemies are just victims" shit is the worst liberal meme of recent history. Sometimes they're just idiots and dicks.
The worstbthing that ever happened to the left was Marx
Read Miles W Mathis.
You know half of the outrage was fueled by anti-feminists, right?
Like supporting mediocre garbage like Senran Kagura because it sold itself on half-assed fan service that supposedly made SJWs angry.
That's really the story of the alt-right. Most of them weren't even all that happy that Trump won, they were more just happy that Trumps victory made other people mad.
I can sympathize to some extent. I am far from alt-right and I was certainly not happy to see Trump win, but getting to see that worthless hag Hillary lose took a bit of the sting out of it.
Come to think of it, Hillary's campaign was right wing corporate shit selling itself on half-assed SJW fanservice.
Maybe some people like mediocre moeshit? Maybe they're angry when some rainbow-haired freak or soulless suit Bowdlerizes or blocks it?
Seriously though, SJWeebs are some of the strangest people I can think of. They're one step above homosexual Catholics on the pointlessly masochistic doublethink scale.
Weird Twitter gave us piss pig and Capone speak Easy so it's not all bad
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It's not censorship unless the government does it.
Censorship is better when the government does it because they are actually bad at it.
God you people are so pathetic. So many people here always hated SJW types the difference is we didn't start to whine everywhere. We saw them as tools of the capitalist establishment class who were trying to devise a new morality for the ruling class to justify themselves over the common man. Now the Hufpo thinks they're "progressive" when advocating capitalist rule. I played vidya, read comics and manga , and at no point did I feel threatened by SJW infulence because most vidya, comics and manga already sucked because the growing normie infulence. I realized that fighting a bunch of oversensitive babies wasn't worth my time and I sought to empower myself intellectually and physically. As a result my life improved vastly in every single way.
You fucks are like "I love my moe shit leave me alone" and the problem is YOU AREN'T ANYTHING ELSE BUT YOUR SHITTY HOBBIES. Someone writes a think piece critical of your stupid vidya gaem's plot and you can't look away and keep enjoying your life.
I'm starting to think censorship is just a code word for people moving stuff in a direction you don't like.
Fam, there are bigger issues in this world than people wanting to remove titties from your video games.
Back to Holla Forums-tumblr-twitter liberal swine
Back to /r/socialism, Redditor.
Show me a single occasion where Anita or any other liberal has said censorship is good, liberals all by into the free speech meme, from tumblr to Holla Forums
Two words.
Hillary. Clinton.
You're seriously fucking kidding, right?
Still can't answer the question
You aren't even aware of the whole "freeze peach" meme mocking the very idea of free speech?
You haven't been paying much attention to liberals lately.
Still can't answer the question
Hillary Clinton was not only one of the original video game hysteria creators, she's called for internet censorship.
Like the old saying goes, where books are burnt, people are soon to follow them into the flames. Best to nip this sort of thing in the bud.
The "freeze peach" and "censorship is government" memes are emblematic of their problem, they belittle and warp free speech as both a concept and an ideal to be upheld until there is nothing left. It's like the way they lump together all sexual behavior into sexual harassment, then sexual assault, then rape, blurring everything together until everything is rape:
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Their entire perspective on human intellect is broken at a fundamental level.
To be completely fair, Clinton (much like other Democrats such as Tipper Gore and Joe Lieberman) in the 1980s-2000s was primarily doing censorship stuff (music, internet, games, etc.) under the largely right-wing aegis of religious fundies & helicopter soccer moms, rather than the feminazi pomo "rape culture" "critique" driving it today, and as supporters behind Republicans rather than spearheading it personally. Even the christard/sex-neg feminazi "ominous alliance" played only a very peripheral role at the time.
Look at this shit, passive aggressive effeminate sniping by a fashion signaller faggot
soooo passe. and what he said would probably be banned by the somethingawful mods, so you know its bad
lmao,
Mcintosh blocked me on twitter, am I toxically masculine?
Anita went to the UN to lobby for government criminalization of social media "bullying". Both sides attempted to use the FBI or SWAT to imprison or kill people they disagreed with on Twitter.
all of them are just bourgeois pets
Yeah.
If people didn't spam Anita bait back when her KS was made and kotaku clickbait articled endlessly for years gamergate wouldn't have been the shitstorm it was.
Then again I'm sure Macintosh and Kotaku themselves spammed 4chan for easy attention.
I know of 3 antis who were targeted, and I can tell you for a fact that at least 2 of them were /baph/'s work.
/baph/ laughed their asses off as they did this to both sides, and both sides refused to blame them for this and instead blamed the other side.
Not true, GG quite famously tracked down a Hue troll who was twattering Sarkeesian very early on.
I didn't say they were the only ones who did that shit. Or that there wasn't obvious false flagging with people making fake threats against themselves like Brianna "John Flynt" Wu.
My point was our side constantly acknowledged and fought against 3rd-party trolls, theirs didn't.
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Culture wars will not bring about collective proletarian ownership of the means of production. You belong in a camp.
When supporting a lewd fighting game is your idea of fueling outrage, maybe the problem is with your idea of what consitutes fueling outrage.
Buying games to "make people mad" is retarded, but it doesn't harm anyone else's ability to enjoy them. The same can't be said of censorship campaigns by moral guardians.
If you want to act like the religious right, go join them; we don't need you on the left.
still best tho
50% of the posters here are right-wing trolls.
Utter bullshit. Listen to Chapo and PPG. It's all about class struggle.
That makes it infinitely more lefty posters than any other board, then, where it's all 90% rightwing circlejerking and 10% discussion about what the board was fucking made for.
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If only 10% are, it's still far more than any other board. Also, you're just fishing for bantz.
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Yeah, but let's be fair; a good chunk of those right-wing trolls (maybe even half) came from /r/socialism.
Carl and Matt are sincere boys
This is why Trump won the election, you retards-you forgot that universal suffrage applies to people you think of as retards.
The unfortunate thing is people dumb enough to adopt truly terrible opinions are also usually dumb enough to be led around by the nose.
Honestly the "nerd culture" pushed by porky is the blame. Video games became cool and profitable which attracted ideologues. I've heard through the grapevine though the "SJW" infestation wasn't grassroots but funded possibly by conglomerates, and/or the government agencies.
None of you have a sense of humor
*but manufactured
your posts aren't funny you're projecting
Thank you. Someone add this to the bingo.
That has been a common theory going back at least to OWS, and it's unquestionably has precedent in the postmodern critical theorists that created SJWs and destroyed leftism in the "long march through the institutions".
The key thing is at what point the SJW conquest of geekdom (IMHO: fantasy, SF, comics, tabletop, internet, skepticism, open source, otaku, vidya, science, in that order) went from routine con-artistry to the staging ground for a culture war in normalfag politics.
weev has banged countless women with daddy issues, though. hardly an asocial type
Including now-SJW Shanley Kane.