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  by neoliberal progressive rugpulling i’m talking about democrats/liberals running on progressive platforms, only to rugpull and basically be a more moderate version of rightwing corporatism. a good example here in canada is when smaller progressive parties started gaining traction on voter reform to avoid the 2 party extreme of this context as we see in the united states. the liberal party (basically democrats) started running on the same voter reform platform, as well as the ‘responsible’ vot...

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  i just enjoy the use of animal farm/1984 as little heuristic environments to convey simple ways that collective efforts are derailed, with a great simple short set of events that show how a movement can be slowly converted into something antithetical to the original collective effort. a problem that still hasn’t been solved, despite any elaboration that could be had on the specific happenings in the USSR. i care about the heuristics because they do map really well to other and current happen...

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  it's both. you have groups that socially confirm themselves out of any attempt to actively re-align with reality rather than their own confabulations. dangerous, powerful, and cancerous cults completely detached from any rationality. then you have weird framing problems that has us finding progressives fighting each other, because they've created oversimplified heuristic ideas of the larger or more complex reality than has been represented by their narrow, and likely emotionally salie...