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[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Well, after say 10 minutes or so you can get pretty much anyone to say "it's all bullshit anyway" or some variation on "psy-op" on just about any topic. I don't know what chantards are though, so I feel like maybe lingo might be the issue.

Actually I think "lingo" is an issue everywhere. I used to travel in very "left" and labor-based circles back when it was about tangible things and not social issues and identity bs. I later ended up around more middle-class artsy and educated beyond their intelligence (and usefulness really) self-proclaimed left circles (what frauds!). Now I'm around a variety of right-leaning to MAGA and other very right-wing people. The difference between economic "left" back then and "MAGA" now is just in the vocabulary and the historical understanding of how we got where we are. The social-issues left and the social-issues right will probably never see eye to eye on much of anything because their starting points a so far off.

At least the maga crowd and the old labor based left are starting from the point of view of a pay check and their local issues. They just don't speak the same lingo and don't have the same perspective on history. And I mean perspective, they are looking at the same historical events from different places. I think for example one way to unite them is to point out how the USSR was a failure, and how the Bolsheviks chose to cheat and manipulate things to gain power and how that was the seeds of their own downfall and in-fighting and paranoia. Similarly the French Revolution can be looked at the way Archbishop Lefevre sees it, when he asks "which one do you mean?" and he points to all the deaths caused by each of them because some manipulative group (stone-cutters at least in the first one if not others) set the classes against each other and probably created the class differences and social indifferences behind them. Ultimately we have to united, and we have to see each other's problems from each other's points of view and whittle our way down to the actual objective truths of any matters.

But the psyops go that far back if not much much futher.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Chantard means someone who browses 4chan. (It's a neutral term, not a derogatory one.)

I suppose the Netherlands isn't nearly as polarized as the US (which I'm going to assume you're from; correct me if I'm wrong). When I think about tribes, I think primarily around communities who establish themselves around some interest, not about left or right wing politics. I've never stumbled upon any left or right wing group IRL in my entire life.

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I used to be somewhat of a political activist. In the arts, in the US anyway, a lot of people are very politcal in the slactivist lazy meme for opinions way. I think it has to do with the way artists need some kind of empathy and sensativity to be expressive, so they are easily swayed.

Yes, I'm from the US. I've been to the Netherlands, to Amsterdam and Den Hague. I liked it a lot even though I didn't really partake in any much of the illicit activities.

I'm not sure why I drifted into politics, but I guess that is usually the biggest obstacle when people get together. I agree that "tribes" should mostly about activities and localities. I used to want to go to Castlefest which is held in the Netherlands because it looks crazy and fun and crazy, with some good bands and a lot probably not so good.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I almost went to Castlefest once but couldn't go, and it doesn't interest me as much anymore. It's funny how people from abroad look at it, though. Because the option was always there for me, it never struck me as something particularly special. I guess I'm not as enthusiastic about fantasy as many others - I never liked the Lord of the Rings films either.

[–]FlippyKing 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, all that crazy fantasy and hippie and maybe anachronistic aspects of it either pull you in or not. I'm not drawn to it anymore either, but they do get some interesting bands. Coppelius blow my mind.