Dead Horse Interchange

Liar Revealed wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:00 pm

Guest wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:26 am

So you did nothing then.

I used to believe that until the last few years when people in power started bending to the will of social media. Boomer conservatives are ignoring the culture war in cyberspace.

Don't be silly. The people in power are not bending to the will of social media; social media was shaped into something that promotes their own agendas. They purged all the interesting dissenting voices and only left powerless, boring "dissenters" that are used to pad up numbers and provide a thinly-veiled illusion of normalcy to the shenanigans they pulled there. People like to say that "conservatives lost the culture war on social media", but that was never in dispute to begin with, since they always controlled it from the beginning. You can't really fight something if the opposition controls the battlefield AND the means to fight.

The real battle was (barely) fought and lost when Amazon AWS, Cloudflare, Google, etc. became the backbone of internet infrastructure. Now you can't dissent because they'll simply flip a switch and not only you're gone from social media, your're gone from hosting anything at all. I'd rather score a win against Cloudflare's effective monopoly on reverse proxying than score a thousand hollow victories owning the libs on Twitter.

Le Redditeur wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:28 pm

Liar Revealed wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:00 pm

Guest wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:26 am

So you did nothing then.

I used to believe that until the last few years when people in power started bending to the will of social media. Boomer conservatives are ignoring the culture war in cyberspace.

Don't be silly. The people in power are not bending to the will of social media; social media was shaped into something that promotes their own agendas. They purged all the interesting dissenting voices and only left powerless, boring "dissenters" that are used to pad up numbers and provide a thinly-veiled illusion of normalcy to the shenanigans they pulled there. People like to say that "conservatives lost the culture war on social media", but that was never in dispute to begin with, since they always controlled it from the beginning. You can't really fight something if the opposition controls the battlefield AND the means to fight.
The real battle was (barely) fought and lost when Amazon AWS, Cloudflare, Google, etc. became the backbone of internet infrastructure. Now you can't dissent because they'll simply flip a switch and not only you're gone from social media, your're gone from hosting anything at all. I'd rather score a win against Cloudflare's effective monopoly on reverse proxying than score a thousand hollow victories owning the libs on Twitter.

Even in less pozzed times it was proven that internet arguments are a waste of time and nobodies mind is changed.

Guest wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 18, 2021 1:56 am

Even in less pozzed times it was proven that internet arguments are a waste of time and nobodies mind is changed.

Well, there's the old adage 'Winning an argument on the internet is like winning the Special Olympics. You're still retarded'

But you're retarded with a gold medal.

VoiceOfReasonPast wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:11 am

But you're retarded with a gold medal.

Presented as a blue checkmark.

Yep.

I'm not hallucinating, and I'm not also paying Netflix a goddamn dime. They can bury themselves into this shit for all I care.

Just put on a zentai, ffs. Saves a lot of time and money, and even hides your facial features for a true blind date.
Or better yet, put a wall between the two sweethearts. That shit has been done in similar formats for decades.

Fox did that same thing back in the day, dudes wore masks and a vapid cunt burned through them. This is the same thing but for furry degens.