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Some notes on how to best pursue respectability politics in this, the current year.
- Reams of what jokes are unsuitable for public consumption. Everyone knows it's much easier to remove concepts from the meme pool than it is to introduce them.
- Set ourselves up as virtuous examples, because the Right are known to care deeply about the conduct of their opponents.
- Assume that if the other side is made to look like "extremists", then that will severely hurt their likeability.
- Operationalize the strategy by constantly complicating the issue to show how clever we're. Nuance is important; it clarifies muddied waters.
- Above all, don't even think of anything uncouth and never do anything which might relieve stress (that means you lose).
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New rule for dodging hack screenwriters: anytime I see someone falling into a bottomless pit, I stop watching. That character is now dead as far as I'm concerned, and good riddance if that's the best development for them you can come up with.
(A similar rule might be helpful for all these people who are Staking Their Good Reputation™ on social media.)
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Unfortunately it seems no-one can develop a sixth sense for when they've begun to buy into their own bullshit, or worse.
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Maybe a bit advanced for people who are dismissive of the French revolution as being too atheistic — why stop there, really? Might as well blame Nazism on Germany being more protestant than catholic.
On a related note, isn't it funny, the particular type of association which idealizes same-sex attraction as the highest form (and not simply another kind of possible constellation)? Especially when it's espoused by people with a femininity so fragile they to cling to accidental features, such as possessing a womb.
The whole thing seems an attempt to persuade themselves that they're not one of those who pose a threat to the familiar order, all the while being well on track to dooming that same order. (If harm often comes from good intentions, that would be because they make it easier to delude yourself about where things are headed.)
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