• CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    The circle is complete. Hinkle gains exposure, people who were not gonna believe Assad was innocent anyway will just shake their head and reinforce their anti communist beliefs meanwhile impressionable kids are going to look him up like they did Tate instead of actually getting into Marxism.

    Everyone wants to gravitate around hinkle (haz, despite making hinkle, now laps up at his bowl!) because he has the audience and he keeps getting more popular every time one of those convenient articles comes out. There’s nothing unexplainable about it.

    All according to the CIAs plan.

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    I just know that my liberal The Guardian-reading parent is going to see this article and think “Ahh, so that explains why Mae has been telling me Biden is even worse than Trump and that North Korea isn’t actually an evil hermit kingdom, even though I know it is. She’s fallen in with these Trump supporter commies. It’s so sad she thinks she’s on the left when horseshoe theory is obviously correct.”

    stalin-stressed

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        I randomly read their page on themselves, and they cite influence from somebody named Nick Land a lot. Looked him up and holy shit:

        https://qz.com/1007144/the-neo-fascist-philosophy-that-underpins-both-the-alt-right-and-silicon-valley-technophiles

        He advocates for racial separation under the belief that “elites” will enhance their IQs by associating only with each other.

        Land also rejects the idea that Dark Enlightenment has fascist elements, writing that “Fascism is a mass anti-capitalist movement".

        Capitalism has not yet been fully unleashed, he argues, and corporate power should become the organizing force in society. Land is vehemently against democracy, believing it restricts accountability and freedom. The world should do away with political power, according to Dark Enlightenment, and instead, society should break into tiny states, each effectively governed by a CEO.

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          I find followers of Nick Land to be even more repulsive than the average neo-fascist, they are deeply misanthropic and have such twisted views on technology and how it should be used.

          I learned about Land a few months ago and started reading a little about him. He has this weird fascination with Shanghai because of its tech scene, thinking it’s where the “singularity” will emerge and finally replace all humans (I’m probably butchering it here but I don’t want to spend time looking up this trash again).

          There’s a philosophy platform called Theory Underground that has a course dissecting Land, but it’s paywalled. They have some videos on YouTube with 1Dime, discussing Land.

          Anyways, he seems to be the atheist, ancap tech bro’s equivalent of Jordan Peterson, putting out pseudo-intellectual word soups to stir the alt-right.

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    I love how most of the things that incense this writer are things they are correct on which the writer calls misinformation. Things like Assad not doing the chemical attacks, the truth about Russia and Ukraine and US aggression, unspecified “misinformation” on Palestine which was probably too obvious for even Guardian readers and hence the specifics cut. Shows they couldn’t care less about Hitlerite tactics and politics, they’re just alarmed to see anyone spreading the name of communism and secondly that anyone is challenging western narratives and imperialism. And this is ultimately why it’s worrisome, because these two are only going to grow from these dishonest attacks from obvious, serial liar empire shills which is perhaps what they want. As an intersectional coalition that’s class conscious and anti-imperialist is the real nightmare.

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      Yup she constantly smugly remarks how they have been “kicked” off platforms like Instagram and YouTube as if that is any barometer for how honest a person is.