> I don't think it was simply being repelled by the left, as Andreesson has stated before, but an earnest rightward turn. The clear contention in the linked ar

> I don't think it was simply being repelled by the left, as Andreesson has stated before, but an earnest rightward turn. The clear contention in the linked article is that it's neither. It's just plain old group think fed by an echo chamber. You take a genuine-but-isolated affront or conflict[1], tie it to one or two other less important side issues[2], and then just line everyone up on the "good" or "bad" side of a line. Before you know it our community is cheering the return of a regime that literally tried to stage a coup and making tortuous excuses for why we need to be deporting four year old citizens with cancer. It's 4chan. It's just 4chan all over again. [1] Ex: the anti-elite current within the lefty political sphere that has never really loved the idea of making common cause with SV billionaires. [2] Middle aged dudes, demographically, tend to be a little squicked out by trans rights and pronouns and LGBTQ+ issues, think paper straws are dumb as fuck, and really hated seeing stuff burned down in protets.