Anyone who thinks Trump wasn't planning to cause riots to overturn the election is forgetting about the three fences he built around the White House BEFORE THE ELECTION EVEN TOOK PLACE pic.twitter.com/emYfYZBuw7— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) February 2, 2021
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Trump repeatedly claimed that the election would be stolen from him before November 3, then unleashed a flurry of disinformation as part of his “stop the steal” campaign to try to overturn the election result and question the validity of Biden's win.https://t.co/9MdkIAjSR0
While AOC was hiding she heard people yelling: “Where is she?” They even opened the bathroom door and she was hiding directly behind it. “I thought everything was over,” she says of that moment.
This is so enraging. How did the insurrectionists get into @AOC’s office. She thought she was going to get killed that day. The American people need answers. #ImpeachAndConvictpic.twitter.com/vVWlVUpU3m
Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?
One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them. Subcultures have a predictable lifecycle, in which popularity causes death. Eventually—around 2000—everyone understood this, and gave up hoping some subculture could somehow escape this dynamic.
(You can read very brief previews of my analysis of subculture dynamics inthis tableand/orthis page.)
The muggles who invade and ruin subcultures come in two distinct flavors, mops and sociopaths, playing very different roles. This insight was influenced by Venkatesh Rao’sGervais Principle, an analysis of workplace dynamics. Rao’s theory is hideous, insightfulnihilism; I recommend it.1
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Unlesssociopaths5show up. A subculture at this stage is ripe for exploitation. The creators generatecultural capital, i.e.cool. The fanatics generatesocial capital: a network of relationships—strong ones among the geeks, and weaker but numerous ones with mops. The mops, when properly squeezed, produce liquid capital, i.e. money. None of those groups have any clue about how to extract and manipulate any of those forms of capital.
The sociopaths quickly become best friends with selected creators. They dressjust likethe creators—only better. They talkjust likethe creators—only smoother. They may even do some creating—competently, if not creatively. Geeks may not be completely fooled, but they also are clueless about what the sociopaths are up to.
The Huntsman spider is a swift, efficient predator, that comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. They are also known as “giant crab spiders,” “wood spiders,” “rain spiders,” and “lizard-eating spiders.”.
Mopsarefooled. They don’t care so much about details, and the sociopaths look to them like creators, only better. Sociopaths become the coolest kids in the room, demoting the creators. At this stage, they take their pick of the best-looking mops to sleep with. They’ve extracted the cultural capital.
The sociopaths also work out how to monetize mops—which the fanatics were never good at. With better publicity materials, the addition of a light show, and new, more crowd-friendly product, admission fees go up tenfold, and mops are willing to pay. Somehow, not much of the money goes to creators. However, more of them do get enough to go full-time, which means there’s more product to sell.
The sociopaths also hire some of the fanatics as actual service workers. They resent it, but at least they too get to work full-time on the New Thing, which they still love, even in the Lite version. The rest of the fanatics get pushed out, or leave in disgust, broken-hearted.
I understand Trump granted himself the valedictorian award for graduating summa cum laude and ranking first in his Trump Law School class. He was also the commencement orator, as well as Class President. https://t.co/a3kFW4TbpP
New Trump PAC raised $31.5 million in the weeks after Election Day, as Trump was making baseless claims of voter fraud || By: Michelle Lee, Anu Narayanswamy https://t.co/57N3CLM47N
Thee last time the military overturned an election and detained Aung San Suu Kyi, they created a global icon of democracy and human rights. This time it will be different. https://t.co/jEjgoL7Aw6
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