• Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know we’re all itching for some good news but this is just a Twitter spat, hardly an AlL OuT cIviL wAr.

    I’ll believe it when they start tangibly sabotaging each other. They have a tendency to fall in line in practice.

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      1 year ago

      They fall in line when they have a common, reachable enemy. As another user recently said, which I believe was wise. - paraphrased: The only reason they’re fighting is because we haven’t made ourselves a target.

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        1 year ago

        Let’s not ignore that there’s a real, policy-based disagreement here. Tech companies like to be able to import top talent from wherever they can get it (and are generally correct that this is overall beneficial), while white nationalists are dead set against the idea, as it strikes directly against the very core of their values.

        It’s a legit disagreement, and pretty foundational.

        That said, I do overall agree that we’re kinda beaten at the moment, and too busy licking our wounds and regrouping to care that much about this.

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      Remember how the old Soviet Union had leadership which was very opaque, and there were a whole class of “Kremlinologists” who would figure out who was in favor by how closely they were standing to the Soviet Premier in photographs of public events?

      This is similar, we can figure out who is close to our new Prime Minister by how he treats them on Twitter. “X-ologists”? It’s dumb, but so is everything in this timeline.