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Cliff's avatar

"It got censored by one of these garbage bots whose output is dictated by the utterly stellar work of corporate “fact-checkers” on the grounds that it was a misattribution."

Are you allowed to say what platform this took place on?

Also, I am more and more of the opinion that academia in the West has been dead for a long time, and modern intellectuals are by and large wraiths and ghouls parading around in its flayed skin.

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Tricheco's avatar

RE: rickrolling.

Culture-jamming has a long, noble, hilarious history and it does promote unlicensed thinking. But it has weaknesses. Realistically, you can only elicit something from people who are already uncomfortable with prevailing bullshit. It's also vulnerable to recuperation through firehose marketing—i.e. using it to create a "rebel sell". Small groups and efforts are easy to pick off, too. I'd love to see what a mass movement rickroll could create...

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Dabi's avatar

“Every word, if it does not have to be a direct lie, is nonetheless obliged not to contradict the general, common lie. There exists a collection of ready-made phrases, of labels, a selection of ready made lies” - Solzhenitsyn

Happened to come across this shortly after reading and wanted to share that this is not entirely unique.

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