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This thing of turning fan bases into named tribes weirds me out. Yet another sign most people just want a club to belong to, and actual principles don't matter.
by tnone 10y ago
This thing of turning fan bases into named tribes weirds me out. Yet another sign most people just want a club to belong to, and actual principles don't matter.
- rowanseymour 10y agoHaving principles and enjoying a sense of belonging aren't mutually exclusive.
- jewbacca 10y agoFor what it's worth, Chapo's use of "Gray Wolves" is dripping with irony, and was coined with conscious and deliberate awareness of exactly what you're accusing it of. The "real" Gray Wolves are the paramilitary youth wing of a Turkish ethnic-nationalist party.
- knucklesandwich 10y agoIt's completely ironic, the tone of the show is extremely anti-authoritarian (a huge part of the show is eviscerating "washington consensus" liberals from a leftist perspective as well as pathological sycophants in various political orgs) and appropriating the nickname of fascists in Turkish AKP for their fans is a joke.