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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - gonna try posting last weekās thread a different way this time)
Sorry about more insta content. Saw this today and it tickled me:
Left: pinker
Right: Yeonmi Park, who is known for defecting from north korea and speaking about it. That should be enough if she just told the truth, but for one reason or another (grifting dosh) she has started just making shit up, which I recommend you research for yourself if you are interested.
Anyway the above picture probably doesnāt come as a surprise when you consider her current tack: saying that āwokeā and ācancel cultureā are the first steps in a country becoming like North Korea. Sheās been on JRE (where she memeably claimed that there is only one train in NK that often requires people to push it). She has a book with her anti-woke thesis with opening shit-volley by old mate JBP.
Man that page has got some really wild sentences.
Now I donāt know if thereās any validity to her claim, but love the expert testimony from Swiss entrepreneur whoās been allowed to tour Pyongyang for a bit.
Itās frustrating because there is plenty of real evidence that North Korea is in a bad way. That satellite image is stark and the volume of reports claiming food shortages and lack of basic services are hard to dispute, as is the sheer obsessive control exercised by the government to avoid the depictions of it. You donāt need to make up stories about using human corpses to fertilize your fields or whatever.
Ah, yes. In case you were wondering about said Swiss businessman and whether or not his actions in the DPRK were morally sound, once again, Wikipedia has something to say.
Dont think that anybody involved in this is going to be a good person. Of all the people mentioned, Pinker is prob the least worse here. And that is saying much.
Somehow not the most horrific thing Swiss did just by trading (that would be war profiteering during Iran-Iraq war, when they sold chemical weapons precursors to one side and gas masks to other)
itās almost as if international trade of weapons creates perverse incentives
Gets easier if you want both sides to lose
And Iām not a proctologist but I still know an asshole when I see one.
LOL @ North Korea being āwokeā. If they are, why are they assisting Russia, the Rightās Great White Hope, in a war against a country that these people also denigrate as āwokeā? But hey, never let facts or logic get in the way of a good grift.
I mean, with how young she is thereās absolutely no credibility she can offer on how a country becomes like the āDāāPā"R"K. But I can see the superficial similarities between the right-wing griftoverseās depiction of cancel culture and the kind of cultural authority that gets exercised. That Bogeyman is why they use that fanciful description, after all. I can see how easily she could get radicalized from there, not that it justified any of the lies sheās believed and passed on or invented outright.
And right now South Koreaās president has declared martial law and banned all political activity, I guess sheāll be just fine with that.
Martial law and free speech restrictions are only bad if the bad guys do it, also we get to decide who the bad guys are
Yeah, i wonder how laughably terribad takes she will try to spin for her grifting gig out of this situstion
I was curious so looked her up. I discovered that there is no rule of law in Chicago and you can just murder people in the streets. And unrelated she did a colab with Gad Saad about her failing dating in the USA or something. Didnāt watch the vid, just saw she had a few vids with Saad. (Vids from a year ago which almost nobody watched 35k/15k views. Sad!). On her twitter she has said nothing about SK, but apparently is upset about cancel culture and DEI. The grift is strong with this one.
Thatās what she said? Thatās literally so much funnier than any of the memes
Yeah in terms of the meme mutation timeline, I believe the initial use would have been from leftists to mock outrageous/outlandishly false claims, in line with Park saying the trains thing. Since then the format has been mutated to also include āthing that exists in culture that is then exaggerated to be construed as dystopianā (see the example that soyweiser posted) and also āthing that is straight up dystopian but itās something from the westā. So I think the only things that would approach the level of humor/absurdity of the original would have to be something else crazy out of YPās mouth.
Wait is that the woman from that meme? E: Yes she is I didnt know that image was from JRE.
Iām just hoping that i get a plaque or something 1000 years from now in the Harvard meme archaeology department or similar
Finally a job im qualified for.