In a rather well-timed yet coincidental counterpoint to Why we're Losing the Internet to the Culture of Hate, Milo Yiannopoulos over at Breitbart brings us this:
A warped currency today governs popular culture. Instead of creativity, talent and boldness, those who succeed are often those who can best demonstrate outrage, grievance and victimhood.
Even conservatives are buying into it. Witness, in the days since Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon was announced as Donald Trump's campaign manager, how establishment stooges have bought into the worst smear-tactics of the left. As with the left, nothing is evaluated on its quality, or whether it's factually accurate, thought-provoking or even amusing: only whether it can be deemed sexist, racist or homophobic.
Campuses are where the illness takes its most severe form. Students running for safe spaces at the slightest hint of a challenge to their coddled worldview. Faculties and administrations desperately trying to sabotage visits from conservative speakers (often me!) to avoid the inevitable complaints from tearful lefty students.
In this maelstrom of grievance, there is one group boldly swimming against the tide: trolls.
Trolling has become a byword for everything the left disagrees with, particularly if it's boisterous, mischievous and provocative. Even straightforward political disagreement, not intended to provoke, is sometimes described as "trolling" by leftists who can't tell the difference between someone who doesn't believe as they do and an "abuser" or "harasser."
Yeah, you knew I wouldn't let that kinda SJW nonsense slide without comment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @05:57PM
> The ones making the decisions define the party and we the people get left without recourse if they decide to fuck us.
Then leave the party.
If you choose to stay then that means you accept those decisions.
A party that is all leaders and no followers is no party at all.
You, mr individualism above all else, should know that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:06PM
Funny how that applies to Trump but not Saunders.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:15PM
What's your point? Nobody is making the bernie or bust people stay in the party. If you disagree so strongly with the core party beliefs then you should absolutely leave for a party that you do agree with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @07:24PM
You seem to be conveniently forgetting the whole conspiracy by the DNC to sabotage the Saunders campaign.
Truly the will of the rank and file there.
And how many times have we seen the very public prostrations of Bernie supporters holding there noses and voting for Hillary just. one. more. time (*cough*Nader*cough*).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @08:53PM
> You seem to be conveniently forgetting the whole conspiracy by the DNC to sabotage the Saunders campaign.
You mean a couple of excitable people in the DNC talking smack about sanders?
Yeah, yuuuuge conspiracy. Totally hijacked the entire process.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @12:17PM
Wasn't one of those "couple of excitable people" the person in charge of the party?
It doesn't take a large number of people to make a conspiracy, it only requires two.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:03PM
No it wasn't. As the person in charge she should have slapped it down though.
That was a failure of leadership and is why she got the boot.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:15PM
I do, sweety. Which is why I belong to no party.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:24AM
What a lame-ass cop-out answer.
No one thought we were talking about you in the specific.
Just shed your fragile ego and admit you made a poorly thought through argument.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:30AM
I know, right? What in the world would possess anyone to think they were being spoken to when you hit reply to their comment?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @04:14AM
You were the one who started with the royal "we."
> The ones making the decisions define the party and we the people get left without recourse if they decide to fuck us.
It is funny how you just can't admit you're wrong. What's gonna happen? Does your world implode if you say it?
Are you so rigid that a single crack in the facade must inevitably leads to a total crack-up?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @02:38PM
You're really, really reaching for that troll. Practice up in the mirror a bit and come back when you can do better.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.