its the same reason the printing press undermined the Catholic Church as the Hegemonic Voice Of God, everyone can read the Bible now so everyone gathers with like-minded people about their own interpretations.

I don’t think the mechanism itself is inherently a bad thing, any major communication revolution is going to erode pre-existing community, but also erode hegemony in the process of its adoption (i.e. capital flailing to put the genie back in the bottle with identity linkage as a chilling effect over the inability to maintain a positive/neutral consensus on the Fifth Reich due to the prominence of pseudonymous and anonymous communication )

true collective monoculture was doomed once the internet’s capability for instant communication allowed for on-demand taste atomization and the barrier for entry into the ‘public square’ subsequently disintegrated. The transition of people onto the Internet has been the drawn-out death of that, imo. Monoculture lowkey relies on a work that appeals to/invigorates The General Sensibility, and why would you seek out something that appeals to you less when it’s equally available as everything else is? Niche is no longer synonymous with labyrinthine to access, so culture itself is a bunch of free-floating nodes now, rather than an explicit culture and surrounding countercultures

ENTRY NUMBER SEVENTEEN   
WOKE, WOKER, YET WOKER
THE WOKENESS KEEPS GROWING
THE FLAMES CARRYING DEEPER
PRONOUN READINGS NEGATIVE
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WHAT DO YOU TWO THINK

he fell into his own creation (gun violence apathy) and shattered across space and time (kirkification)

Charlie Kirk lowkey W.D. Gaster

Destiny bonded with Mitch McConnell

(not tonight tho im fucking eepy )

chat how long should I uphold the Deltarune Chapter 5 Spoiler Strait Closure. the end of that is going to be my personal motivating excuse to kick myself back into gear w/ the emote grind now that I’m finally proletarianized

^ abstract spoiler in this link be warned ^

what if they were leaking YSF

I’ve been thinking along those lines as well. In my opinion, long as Iran holds firm to ceasefire in Lebanon as a non-negotiable, it can really only benefit them (given, of course, we abstract the logic from the various internal strains of war). Either:

• The Entity does not abide by/actively sabotages the terms. Then, Iran backs away from talks with renewed casus belli due to ongoing perfidy.
• The Entity begrudgingly accepts the situation but engages in its historic tactic of going sicko mode hours before they’re wrangled. Then, either Iran can in turn pummel Tel Aviv as they were threatening and say something like ‘clearly, the agreement has not gone into effect yet,’ or Iran can back away from talks with renewed casus belli.
• Washington genuinely wrangles The Entity into unabashed compliance. Sours US-Israel relationship and halts offense on Lebanon.

In any case, all of these have the second order effect of, if genuine, straining relations between US and Israel, and if perfidious, returning to current status quo with a fresh casus belli. The second scenario’s first option may be a bit tenuous, but it is something I can see happening if they really want to project the “we’re reasonable, they’re not” posture they have been taking thus far.

I’ll admit, I am nervous that Iran isn’t operating on this wavelength and worry for the possibility that this results in a state of pyrrhic inertia if The Entity aggresses and Iran doubles down on process, but I think it’s a largely irrational worry because they have shown sustained competence throughout the war.

つまり in other words, no shot. dead on arrival. Israel will kill it before pen meets paper.

this is an announcement of a potential agreement to enter into a formal negotiation about the terms of ceasefire

Dear China: you may have a safe and sprawling high-speed transport network, but we will have Mickey’s Dick Smasher