I think we ended up with an incentive structure where people are lucratively compensated for fully batshit-insane takes that drive engagement, and this moves the Overton window to normalize what used-to-be a batshit take.
I also think it’s worth investigating those incentives and burning them to the ground and salting the soil beneath them
Fucking psychotic. These people have an actual mental illness, and they’re trying hard as hell to normalize it.
Everything they accuse the left of is a confession with the RWAs.
Also, I remember when Ann Coulter wrote some book about how McCarthy really wasn’t soooo bad you guyz!
Huh, wonder why.
How dare you care about people having problems you aren’t currently experiencing. You should be locked up for that. Don’t worry about the people being locked up. Those are problems good citizens aren’t currently experiencing.
they will not live through the attempt.
Posobiec, though he declined to talk, has been a little more precise. In the 2024 book, Unhumans, he and his co-author, Joshua Lisec, wrote that renewing McCarthyism would mean employing the “humiliation tactic” of “naming and shaming” leftists, and a return to the blacklists of the Red Scare.
I’ve not finished the book yet, but it is wild.
They see Communists everywhere. And the Communists (because cultural Marxism is a real thing, and progressives == leftists == Democrats == socialists == liberals == Communists. They are ALL EXACTLY THE SAME. Don’t question it, LOL. Everything to the left of Rush Limbaugh is just famously unified, you guys, everyone knows this.) are coming for your STUFF!
What exactly McCarthyism for our times looks like is still in flux. Loomer declined to elaborate when I asked. In my conversations with Bannon, he was enthusiastic about bringing McCarthy into the modern political moment, but vague about the details. Posobiec, though he declined to talk, has been a little more precise. In the 2024 book, Unhumans, he and his co-author, Joshua Lisec, wrote that renewing McCarthyism would mean employing the “humiliation tactic” of “naming and shaming” leftists, and a return to the blacklists of the Red Scare.
This is just more reactionary purity spiral nonsense from people who are paid way too much to invent hyper-inflammatory political sophistry. Ironically, protected speech like this would not be possible in the oppressive government they lazily describe.
Yeah but back then there was actually a respectably sized Communist movement in the US. Not so much now
There was?
I mean don’t get me wrong they weren’t a big movement, but compared to now they were much bigger then.
The Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) hit peak membership in the late 40’s, before being hit hard by the post-ww2 red scare/McCarthyism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Communist_Party_USA
Membership of the CPUSA peaked in the late 1940s, with over 75,000 members in 1947.[5] But their influence spanned beyond just their membership as some candidates in national elections garnered over 100,000 votes.
Apparently there were about 143.7 million people in the United States at the time.
Anyway, in all of my life, I’ve only met one person (IRL) that admitted they were a capital-C Communist.
