Jeremiah Crotser

Is it better to not question?

Structurally this is a major shift that in my view should be addressed. It’s a shift that bears witness to something, ya know?

Let me put it like this: I live in Houston. The richest area of town is River Oaks. That was very Republican when I moved here, but it’s trended Democratic since then. Alternately, Trump had picked up a lot of working class voters…

I mean, he’s a polemicist. I think discursively, it’s almost like people can’t process the purpose of a polemic anymore. And it’s not complete bullshit, there is real truth in his critique which people avoid.

It’s not the political left that he’s challenging, it’s a specific manifestation of left discourse that is paralyzing.

That’s an easy way to skip the work of structural analysis. I mean, when you read Frankenstein is it a lack of deep thinking to recognize that the blame for the Creature’s actions doesn’t lie lie solely with him?

I’m referring to when and how people talk about politics on here. Of course there are other things just like there are other things on all the other platforms.

How so?

But yes, of course I mean Bluesky has for instance really good music, criticism and a lot of interesting things of course but I think that as a platform that has a cultural dominant just as every disc cursive space does, and in that case blue skies is really stupid

Well, there you go, you have a really good disccursive apparatus for policing speech. Maybe on this basis you can even find common ground with the conservatives. They seem very effective at it if a little bit more militant in their organization.

And people on here do attack, Tyler consistently, and in a very generalizing way. I admit that I was generalizing as well when I came on to point that out. It is frustrating to me and sad to see that a site like this is as good as we could do on the left. It is not political. It is a fetish.

Well, there you go then. The reaction I’m getting from you is because you told me I didn’t understand the meaning of a word which, in fact I do. Or at least I understand it, as well as most people who study those things which is to say not a lot but a little. Also, I don’t call people cunts

Well, I’m referring to the way that a particular writer is characterized. And I think that he people over generalize about him because they don’t want to see the kernel of truth in his argument. I still wanna ask if you can explain why it’s not OK to criticize THIS site?

I just want to redirect your attention to the question about why it’s OK to defend this website as special and diverse?

Yes, this would be the classic Bluesky take.

OK, that may be the case, but why is "this site" not allowed to be seen as a hellhole? I mean, I do willingly avow that Twitter is one. What is so special about this precious one? I've yet to hear it.

No, I'm not shaming people. Or I'm not trying to. If I am, I'm sorry. I'm arguing that on the left, we can't win if we're so "to the man" or ad hominem in our attacks. Harper is making an argument, but over here on bluesky, he's just treated as a dartboard.

But at some point, doesn't the dunking just become masturbatory--a substitute for a more meaningful political gesture?

I don't think so. I think the typical bluesky lib is not a left winger at all. I want actual open borders, I want trans kids actually in sports, I want billionaires to be abolished, I want honestly to abolish private ownership of land. Bluesky libs want electric car chargers and organic produce.

This is what's interesting about Bluesky: you go on Twitter and talk about how it sucks, and people will just be like, "yep." You go on Bluesky and say it sucks and people come after you with pitchforks. I just prefer the former form of torture because yes it does seem a bit more honest.

This is what's interesting about Bluesky: you go on Twitter and talk about how it sucks, and people will just be like, "yep." You go on Bluesky and say it sucks and people come after you with pitchforks. I just prefer the former form of torture because yes it does seem a bit more honest.

What are the "actual qualities of the site?" dear defender of the discursive structure of this place?

Give me some.

So this is about my bluesky credibility?

I mean he's focused on politics rather than just shaming people on the internet.

It's not too far left at all. It substituted its own weird siloed, shaming discourse for political action. It's not far left enough!

Love is a lot of things and I do not hate my bluesky bretheren. I just think it's weird how discursively siloed things have gotten, and I do get annoyed about it.

We all are goldfish, buddy.

You told me I didn't know what I was talking about so I replied, I took the bait, and then you tell me I masturbate in public because I used more than 300 characters or whatever. You're the one doing the same rhetorical maneuver over and over, since like 2016, so who's really jerking off here?

No problem for me. I'm just responding to the guy who said I didn't know what I was talking about!