I've never been into that SCP stuff too much although maybe I should, if I want to get serious about being into Forteana. It's a fun but intimidating prospect and I haven't quite made up my mind about how much priority I should give to collecting and sorting esoterica. It's like asking how you can refine dilettantism into a legitimate profession somehow. ~Chara

It's just occurred to me that the "effective altruist" buzzword quietly disappeared from right-wing Twitter, probably a while ago too. I looked up a few big names who'd been attached to that "movement" and they're not using it any more. I feel like the buzzwords are shedding pretences to higher values, slowly. "e/acc" might as well mean "more of everything, faster!" and not much else. Oh that's not a pleasant thought actually.

(Imagine Peter Thiel's name being screamed in the throes of passion! Now un-imagine it, if you can.)

I guess...with that sort of faith, in the end, all words fail anyway. No words can possibly describe the great Technological Whatsit.

~Chara

Political Power is terrifying, as we all know. She's already committed to 100% sales tax as one of the planks of her platform, in an episode of the Chainsaw Man anime series. Sales taxes are extremely regressive, hurting chiefly those with little money and who therefore spend a large proportion of their income on buying products for their own survival, like soap and bath towels. Hence we can conclude that Power's politics are, at the very least, "right-wing".

The distinction between leftist politics and rightist politics really isn't that complicated. It's absurdly easy to tell who's right-wing from a brief sample of their talk, which is bound to be full of praises for some form of authority or other—Trump, Musk, Vance, soldiers, cops. Almost openly do they flirt with pure authoritarianism, but they're wholly committed and invested in their "Greatest American Patriot" act. They've puffed out ungodly volumes of doublethink to cover their tracks.

It's my considered opinion that a substantial fraction of the most prominent Democratic politicians must be construed as effectively hostile, bound to act on behalf of GOP political interests. I think this has happened even if there's been no formal act of betrayal. There's a number of reasons why Democrats might now be effectively working for the GOP that don't require their explicit dedication to GOP political aims.

My own hypothesis for this wretched situation is blackmail.