I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

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    11 months ago

    The Overton Window

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

    A concept where political discourse is slowly shifted to one side or another over time. For example conservatism.

    Politics are talked about the right who move even further right, the centralists are moved to old right and the leftists are moved to the center … the old leftists are now seen as extreme and unacceptable while the far right are also unacceptable but gain some ground … everyone shifts one step to the right and now everything is more conservative.

    The right shift is what is happening now … but it can happen and shift towards the left as well.

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      11 months ago

      Trump moved the overton window by shitposting about fascism so hard people laughed at it, and then got used to it.

      We need people shitposting about ideologies further left than communism