Some people have noticed people who are actual Fascists and hate Jews saying “hah, the Left calls everyone a Nazi!” even when they fit the bill pretty well.
This is a form of camouflage enabled by calling too many people Nazis, and the self-aware ones know they’re doing it.
Man, guy saying we need a “revolutionary mass movement” to counter the influence of white supremacists on behalf of a supermajority of Americans…
Yeah buddy, I don’t see you supporting that for any other issue there’s a supermajority of American support on. One of the tricks with Trump is that a chunk of the stuff he says that sparks outrage and incredulity is stuff with majority support.
I can’t help but be concerned that a “revolutionary mass movement” would be far worse. Likely to overturn the Bill of Rights, massively restrict speech, or attempt to implement (and then botch) Socialism. If it comes to that, it’s time to break up the Union.
Congratulations! In an effort to be interesting and unique, you have rendered yourself as boring and predictable as possible — how do you plead? Hey stop photoshopping vaporwave succ memes for a second and listen to me
No.
This isn’t me criticizing you as a human being or trying to make fun of you or anything but an earnest question: what the hell does any part of your description mean? Can you give me an example of how your political stances apply to the real world in a non hypothetical sci fi genre way I can’t picture it
I will answer this question when I have access to a Real Computer, which will be a while.
@count-clark They’re just a fascist
Oh honey, not everyone esoteric is a fascist. Do you really believe that just because you don’t understand someone, they’re plotting world domination?
I mean, I once had a fan. This is the situation of ultra-mass-publishing of the Internet, is it not?
They used to say everyone is famous for fifteen minutes - now, everyone is famous for fifteen people.
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The American Revolution is special. Most revolutions end with governments that aren’t that much better than what they started with, or with something bloody like the French Revolution. Many people fancy themselves revolutionaries, but are unaware of this fact.
Crypto-Centrist
While exotic, most of my policy proposals and viewpoints are in a strange center, center-right, or center-left position in practice.
Transhumanist
I favor the use of technology to improve human abilities above human baseline. I’m broadly in favor on issues such as designer babies once the technology is safe enough.
Nationalist
I believe that the organization of the world into multiple individually sovereign territories with friction around migration is healthier than most other ways to organize human civilization on Earth.
Type-19 Paramilitary Cyborg.
1. I believe Americans should have the right to high-output human augmentations under the Second Amendment, once they become available - and in fact, I believe they will. In order for the citizens to have any chance at standing against a military equipped with powered armor and heart monitoring and stabilization electrical meshes.
2. This is also part of the persona I present as when engaging in futurist shitposting, and is something of a personal goal.
Wanted time criminal.
1. I was future-shocked by the 2016 Presidential election.
2. We are currently living in the cyberpunk future.
3. As part of futurist shitposting, this blog posits different futures (such as white nationalist Richard Spencer becoming a Han Chinese cyborg detective) and alternate timelines.
4. As part of discussing future trends, the Union Girl persona I sometimes post under is from a much more post-national future, where social progressivism has continued, and ordinary civic nationalism is considered deeply right-wing and reactionary - and has traveled back in time with the intent of preventing that from happening, hoping to revive the North American Union. (See also the #supervillain tag.)
Class A-3 citizen of the North American Union.
1. I’m a citizen of the United States of America.
2. Class-based citizenships may be used as a possible change to immigration policy in the future, particularly if North America is formed into a North American Union, a continent-spanning superstate beyond even the USA’s current continent-spanning-superstate glory.
Opposed to the Chinese Hyper Mind-Union,
In the future, it may become possible to share thoughts through the use of cybernetic implants. Ideologues may seek to create a hivemind to create true equality of the likes never seen before. This is bad.
But in our time, I’m opposed to Communism.
the Ultra-Caliphate,
As oil revenues decline in the middle east, and climate change takes its toll, we may see the collapse of governments throughout that area and the formation of a new theocratic order. That’s not really a good thing, though they’re probably too fragmented even then for it to happen.
In our time, I’m opposed to both radical and fundamentalist Islam, and basically any form of Islam that aren’t as watered down as much of modern Christianity, and would take measures to subject Islam to the same pressures that caused so much of Christianity to engage in less suppression.
Also I’m against both cousin marriage and polygamy.
Google Defense Network,
This became less likely now that Google sold off Boston Dynamics, and is therefore significantly less likely to become either a de facto government in grand cyberpunk style, or Skynet.
But also in our time, the power of a handful of large corporations over the Internet is dangerous.
the People’s Republic of Cascadia
So basically, my opinion of modern SJ progressive leftism in combination with Socialism or Communism is that it lacks the necessary safeguards to prevent turning into a terrifying place no one wants to live in, where IRL callout posts take the form of police coming to arrest you for even the smallest transgression if you aren’t well connected within the Party.
National Separationist,
As the popularity of Open Borders as a position increases, wanting to keep the nations of Earth separate will gain its own label as a position, whereas currently it is the default.
enemy of the World Federation government and its unificationist allies.
As open borders as an idea takes off, it will become necessary to create an international police agency to track the criminals across the borders. Over time, it will be gradually given more power by ordinary liberals and progressives, the kind that I recently had suggest using the UN to enforce human rights.
However, even after the first attempt at a world government is formed, there will be holdouts. The political faction which believes in uniting humanity under one world government will gain a name of its own.
The median government on Earth is not as well run as the United States, much less Switzerland or Singapore. The world government would not only have little accountability as each vote is tiny and insignificant in size, but since control of it would mean control over all of humanity itself, the stakes incentivize every single political faction to enact total war to try to take it over, while those within it would attempt to use its resources to expand their power by conquering territories that aren’t part of the Federation.
Blogs Topics: Cyberpunk Nationalism.
This blog discusses Nationalism as ideology for the 21st century, rather than the now-obsolete movements of the 20th century.
Futurist Shtposting.
I use futurist shitposting as a method to encourage people to think about the coming politics before they get here, and with the intent of more closely examining the politics of today. Here’s an example using Richard Spencer, posted weeks before the rally at Charlottesville (link includes bonus discourse questions):
The year is 2064. Having given up on America and Europe, the last remaining members of the Alt Right undergo racial alteration surgery and genetic splicing to join Chairman Liu’s Neo-Chinese Empire, a governmental franchise operating seven megacities on the Asia-Pacific rim.
As a security officer at the front of the Empire’s fight against the Pan-Islamic Caliphate, a sort of distributed theocratic government with enclaves throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, Victor Fang (born Richard Spencer, many years ago) is returned to Hong Kong after being injured by an IED, but he’s about to find out just how deep the Caliph’s conspiracies run…
How does this relate to the modern day? Well you see, with CRISPR (for genetic engineering), tissue engineering, and cybernetics, white supremacy is going to be an obsolete philosophy even on its own terms within a number of decades. (Robotic limbs and lab-grown organs already exist, they’re just not refined yet.) See the #augmented reality break and #chronofelony tags for more examples.
Timeline Vandalism.
Posts related to the Union Girl persona and time travel generally, tagged #chronofelony.
Harassing owls over the Internet.
I send asks to Tumblr user Argumate, who as a running joke everyone pretends is an owl.
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Oh, and, for current contemporary positions, see #policy, #flagpost, and #national technocracy.
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The culture war mentality is: “Everything bad causes and is caused by everything else bad. Everything good causes and is caused by everything else good.“
Culture warriors do not only want to get popular people to join their cause, they also push unpopular people to join the other side. You can do both at the same time by accusing unpopular people of being on the other side. When they defend themselves, you can crucify them for disagreeing with the good people. When they don’t defend themselves, they must do a purity ritual (http://raggedjackscarlet.tumblr.com/post/156092750438/funereal-disease-misanthropymademe) to escape scrutiny. Name other witches so you won’t be burned at the stake!
Popularity is not the be-all-end-all, but the currency. You can cash in on your popularity. You can also gain more popularity for yourself and cash in on the unpopularity of others by forcing them to either disagree with you, highlighting your difference from the unpopulars, or to agree with you, which you can spin as their submission.
Many of the stranger outgrowths of twitter mobs, The Discourse, hot takes and thinkpiece culture do not directly pick on the uncool kids to elevate the cool kids, but stake out territory for the cool kids to claim. Uncool kids have 48 hours to vacate he premises until they are no longer allowed to have the cool opinions.
The thing is, I don’t think what the racial nationalists want is racism as a terminal value. I think for most of them, there are other things that they want, and they see having an [ethnicity]-only country as the only practical or effective way to achieve these things.
This is why I believe most of them can eventually leave racial nationalism, if we work towards making the conditions right, which requires a bunch of stuff we should be doing anyway even if there were no racial nationalists.
@silver-and-ivory said: idk, ask the racial nationalists probably
This is sort-of what I have gathered by observing them.
We’ve all seen various Leftists denouncing “Nationalists and their dumb wars.” While it can be tempting to argue the point regarding past interventions, the future of Nationalism must lay in the future, not the past.
It’s important, in attempting to define a new form of Nationalism, to understand that dumb wars don’t just have a price paid in blood and treasure, but also in the national spirit. Dumb wars undermine and destroy Nationalism.
Nationalism is not only an ideology, but it’s also a form of ideological or political capital. The will of the people to support the government and fight on behalf of the country, while necessary to secure the national defense, is an exhaustible resource. It is very precious, for without it there cannot be a nation. Therefore, in addition to acting to promote it, we must also act to conserve it. A nation that can rise up as one in military response has far greater power and sovereignty than those with only fragmented support, as both its threats and defense are more credible.
Propaganda cannot be the answer, as truth has odds of coming out eventually, since it is less in conflict with reality. And it was some truth or another that lead many of us to become Nationalists in the first place.
Think about it. Suppose you get into some dumb, unwinnable war in the middle east or southeast Asia. In order to pay for the war, you have to raise taxes (if not now, then later), diverting resources from the civic goods those taxes might have paid for. To get the necessary manpower, you must either create a draft, which creates opposition to the draft and thus empowers internal opposition and counter-culture, or your have to raise taxes higher and send some of your most loyal men to get shot at.
Then the history comes along later and says that not only was the mission not a success, but you didn’t even get any resources out of it for the country.
Not only does this make people less likely to sign up for or provide material support for the nation’s wars, but they may come to believe that the nation is bad and turn against Nationalism itself.
How much less powerful would left-wing anti-Nationalists be without the Iraq War? How much less powerful would they be without the Vietnam War?
On top of this all, it may end up preventing the country from having the ability to fight wars in ways that it can win. Having sowed substantial doubt about the virtue of the nation’s military action itself, it will be harder to obtain the necessary political will for the required partial cultural conversion needed to ensure the invaded territory is permanently no longer an enemy.
(Of course, there are other factors that can lead to declines in Nationalism, even in countries with less substantial military adventurism. But those must be addressed separately.)
“Social Justice? More like Social just us,” he sent.
She immediately became furious at his micro-aggression.
