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Trumpism has no culture. That's not shade. It just doesn't have any culture, any more than the Goldwater right or Nixon's "silent majority" were ever a cultural
by Zigurd 2y ago
Trumpism has no culture. That's not shade. It just doesn't have any culture, any more than the Goldwater right or Nixon's "silent majority" were ever a cultural force. That Bluesky will be the center of cultural gravity online and be where people on the left migrate toward is just observationally true. Smarter people can speculate why that is.
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- cle 2y ago> the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group Trumpism has a very clear culture, using that definition. But it seems like you're not using that definition. Perhaps you're using the second one in Merriam-Webster? > enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training People self-identifying as this type of "cultured" is just another example of the smugness I'm complaining about. There's also not much to argue about here, there's no way to falsify such a claim, it's just self-annointed "enlightenment and excellence". Some folks on Bluesky define "enlightenment and excellence" in ways that align with their attributes, some folks on X/Twitter define it differently to align with theirs. And they're all smug about it.
- Zigurd 2y agoYou are being weirdly abstract and defining yourself as the victim of smugness, while not bringing any counter-examples, or even a theory of an alternate culture.
- jl6 2y agoThe only weird thing here is your “my enemies have no culture” theory, which could not be a more transparent case of bubble blindness.
- Zigurd 2y agoCounterexamples? Or, what am I blind to? You are trying to pick a fight about "bubble blindness" or something without any example of what I supposedly do not see. Yes, that is strangely abstract.