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Originally Posted by Catgirl64
Because right-wing/Trumpite NPCs don't exist...
As if. 
I could start a list of them right here on C-D, but it's probably against the TOS. |
Thank you for stating your sentiment on the subject.
This statement is exactly why the NPC meme has a good chance of slowing or stopping the Left's agendas for some time to come: at least in the presence of our modern government form.
Using Catgirl64's statement as a predictive example, The Left at-large won't be able to help but to steer the collective metaphorical political car further toward the ravine as a result of being labeled NPCs.
The Left depends on enough engagement from their enemies to assure a measure of legitimacy-gloss for their views.
They absolutely need the engagement so that they can respond and then express their moral superiority, most often using "NPC" style sound bites. This is because the modern Left currently relies on manufactured consent for social control.
These talking points most often contain accusations of behavior that the only the Left themselves has deemed immoral (and thus their "arguments" are only circular - "you're argument is wrong because we labeled it immoral") that are meant to serve as definitive responses to the Right's views.
Deeper two-way conversation that accounts for full facts, devoid of such farcical moralizing and circular logic, would have the Left defeated because they are required to operate from a position of fundamental untruths to justify their positions.
Anything else but such controlled, superficial one-way "conversations" in the public sphere would result in the community conclusion of moral positions that are counter to the Left's agendas. Hence, the Left's vulnerability to the NPC appellation.
This necessity for controlled superficial conversation why they avoid such open discussion, and why they are vulnerable to the NPC accusation.
When your position is founded on selective truths, self-referential moralizing, a fundamental racial agenda that skews the scales of morality and justice, and lies, then you cannot engage in open debate.
However, the Left still requires that the Right remains engaged to their farcical version of conversation and endures this ridiculous communication style; wherein they engage in a largely one-sided lecture the Right in the MSM, other major media, and in the schools.
The Left requires this basic level of engagement for purposes of manufactured consent that buoys their self-created illusion as the moral party.
The NPC meme threatens to shut down all communication because it calls out their actual communication style as the farce that it is, and thus invalidates it.
What's the Left's response? To censor more accounts and and call the Right the real NPC's (see the CD member's quote to which I am responding).
Thus aggravating the actual lethal effect of calling people NPC's in the political discussion: the shutdown of all communication. This advantages the Right because, at this point, conversation is only good for the Left.
As I said: the Left likely will at minimum veer their political car toward the ravine as a result of this.
And all the better for the Right. We realized a doing time ago that actual conversation with communists is fruitless at best, and likely damaging as it wastes time and allows their slow creep. We are also used to their NPC style communication, and so we were just biding our time. However, this NPC meme has the potential to cut that time severely short as it eliminates the shared community sense of obligation for engagement because it invalidates one side's form of it.
This is why the media is alarmed by the NPC tactic. It shuts down the thin edge of the political blade that they were required to dance on (cutting between real conversation and no communication). They can't retreat to having open conversations with no social penalties for realtalk and no omitted facts, and they can't accept a shutdown of effective communication. In essence, the media has nowhere to go except to exactly what they are being called out for. This is big trouble.
To truly complicate things much further: unfortunately for the Left, they have been accusing the Right of NPC behavior for some time using differing language.
They were accusing Trump voters of being bots early on, and for decades have been dismissing their political interests as arising from uneducated fools merely in need of jobs (and thus giving the Left and Neocons an excuse to ignore what conservatives were actually saying as citizens of this nation): which is the exact same thing as labeling them NPCs. The Left-Neocons were implying a lack of true agency, when they weren't accusing voters of not even being voters (actual bots aren't physically able to post and survive on CD, genius).
So, on the MSM and even here on CD, liberal voters are in even more of a bind from the NPC meme given their past behaviors.
If they wish to counter the NPC meme with ploys of "stop dehumanizing us and removing our agency" then they will have to walk back one of the core tactics that they have been using for decades. That isn't likely possible, as they ran the tires off of it.
Thus, the MSM complaints over the NPC tactic are also likely a recognition of their inability to morally refute it even if it was practical to walk back their prior similar statements about conservatives (it isn't possible).
This is bad for liberals, which is why there has been such coverage of the tactic and the pleas for sympathy for their humanity in regard to it.
It can't be ignored to any good outcome as it will quicken the political decline in a manner that favors conservatives.
The Left cannot refute it morally without being painted as massively hypocritical and thus immoral and self-interested. They cannot have that because all of their positions literally rest on their supposed unimpeachable moral credibility.
That the popular Left with social media access, as represented by the above quoted post of Cagirl64, isn't likely see the irony in the accusation of foul-play when compared with their behavior means that this will no be handled delicately and the car will go into the ravine.
The media are freaking out for a reason. I would say that Catgirl64 should be more worried than she is, but the truth is that it literally doesn't matter at the moment. This is on autopilot from here on out. Communication is on a fast track to being shut down.
Some people will lament this development, especially liberals who see their knife-edge political dance as 'rational maintenance of the center'. However, the current decline merely an acceleration of the inevitable.
With the advent of the internet, we essentially continued a large oppositional social game in high-gear with vastly accelerated public social communication.
Two decades later, that game is coming to a head as all of the plays are eliminated one by one until the logical conclusion rises to the top.
No one was going to have been able to keep the game eternally in limbo (centrism) because the crowd is unsophisticated and can't be relied upon to act with nuanced strategy: especially in response to player two and as the required counter-moves get more sophisticated.
Sure, grand plans can be devised and attempted, but player responses are an entirely unpredictable variable that is almost impossible to control for. We are essentially witnessing the creep toward the bottom of the barrel of game moves. Buckle up.
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