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[Propagandhim]

Just a reminder this is how they responded to a report that says sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sexualized-video-games-are-not-causing-harm-to-male-or-female-players-according-to-new-research.606036/

Same denial, anger, and attacking the messenger as seen in their reaction to the Cass report.

ResetEra: Believe the science...until it contradicts my beliefs. Then it's rightwing trash.

I think we need to remember that while they're terrible at sticking to the ideology in other respects one of the parts of the ideology that they absolutely fervently believe is the "everything is political" hierarchy. This saying is typically not understood entirely by people from outside the ideology so if you'll forgive me doing what I always do I'll elaborate on it.

The argument behind "everything is political" is not just a stupid statement that everything has some political message, even if that's how it's most often deployed, the argument is actually more than that and has an often abandoned motte to it. Namely that everything is political and that politics determines everything which is why I referred to it as a hierarchy. In their belief system there is politics above everything, everything else comes out completely determined by that original political position. 

They don't reject the scientific method exactly as much as they're saying it's irrelevant. Your results were decided before you even did anything, the "science" is just the legitimizing of your already established political position. It's fine for them to do this because their politics are correct as proven by their divine revelation, your politics are not correct so you're being dishonest and claiming you're reaching your conclusions outside of politics. This isn't possible because everything is politics and politics is everything. Appealing to science or anything else is an attempt to distract away from the politics which predetermined everything.

Because The Bire is full of highly educated cultured intellectuals, you'll recognize one of the most famous examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

This hasn't been abandoned, it's just become more subtle. There are huge swaths of academia, and "activists" in general, who completely agree with the premises behind Lysenkoism. Whole books are published about this. That SCIENCE MUST FALL video is part of this idea. The attack on things coming from white cishet males isn't an ad hoc defense even if it seems like it is, it's the logical extension of this concept plus the associated idea that your politics is predetermined by who you are. (Unless you're capable enough to escape false consciousness and therefore correct your politics to align with Hxrstory.)

This is to say, and TLDR, that the "everything is politics" claim has an unspoken corollary that everything is politics. In a totalizing ideology, this makes perfect logical sense, I won't quote Lenin or any other Marxists to spare you but their complaint about liberal politics was that it wasn't totalizing, that it encouraged you to think of certain spheres of life that were "outside politics" which is a false belief. The benefit of communism will be that everything will be exposed as political and politics will be able to determine everything through a deliberate central plan decided entirely by politics. The problem with capitalism and liberal democracy is that it fools you into ignorantly thinking there are things other than politics, they obscure the natural systemic force of politics that's led to why everything is the way it is. The revolution will correct this and end the alienation we all feel (see: Nepenthe) from the "anarchy" of life under capitalism because everything will be centrally planned. You will know exactly the "rational" reason for everything in life, the political order decreed it so.

edit: This is also why it's inherently totalitarian, not because it "corrupts" into authoritarian states but because ideologically it literally totalizes everything into it. (And so why you can't separate trans rights from Palestine or abolishing capitalism.) This is also why critical theory and its offshoots (often stuff gathered under the "Cultural Marxism" banner by right-wingers) spends so much of its attention on claiming that capitalism and liberalism is totalitarian. Their argument is that every system is totalitarian so you should want the better totalitarian system: communism, because it abolishes the corrupting exchange relations for complete rationally directed planning. It ends the obscuring of social relations.

edit2: For the record, I don't believe many of the ResetERA.com idiots or "activists" on Twitter necessarily truly believe this, they're too liberalism poisoned. I think they just still hold the premises about how things work, especially because they think it's "smart" and "intelligent" and "common sense" to claim everything is just power politics, so that's why they inconsistently go to it hardcore then drift away from it into liberal premises the rest of the time.

I feel like a lot of these peoples' ails basically comes down to feeling alienated from society, and being immediately useful to and valued by other people is the quickest way out of their personal hell.  Nepenthe doesn't have a problem with capitalism, she has a problem with being unable to figure out how to stop hating everyone for one second in order to find a use for herself in regards to other people.  She can't even articulate what capitalism is.  It is more comfortable for her to tell herself society has a defacto hatred for her and her race than it is to want to work on herself in order to be useful to others.

Nepenthe needs capitalism to be a proscriptive thing imposed on everyone rather than a descriptive of something natural and/or logical based in human experience (or worse, inherently good in some respect) because otherwise it's too hard to escape the judgment that her personal status she despises is somehow her own fault.

What's ideal about socialism is that you won't have to listen to all those people you despise and think are beneath you to find a way to be useful to them, you can just do as you're told and it's automatically for everyone's greater good and nobody can dispute this. Your loyalty to the system implies you're essential, unlike capitalism where you "only matter" when you're engaged in exchange relations for commodities which forces you into constant despair about your true societal value.

One of the major problems with our liberal society is that if you don't feel these existential anxieties you're going to go on thinking things are fine rather than realizing you should be exhausted at how terrible life is and how unrelenting it is. This is also the problem with our increasing wealth and why we need to halt it and reverse it, so people can aren't misled about how terrible their lives really are. Also one of the problems with families or other bougie pleasures, you can escape into them rather than be aware of the incessant suffering that is existing.

The fact that you aren't aware of all this just proves how much you've fallen for the capitalist, colonialist and white supremacist propaganda being force fed to you at all times by Stellar Blade or Genocide Joe or the YouTube algorithm. Maybe try educating yourself about basic human decency.

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Hard disagree.  I enjoyed reading this