I got bored of attack helicopter memes in mid 2014 and left /r/Tumblrinaction
Every time I look back at r/tumblrinaction I wonder how much it’s gotten worse vs how much I’ve gotten better. It sucks thinking I used to like that place.
edit: my worst fears are true
It was briefly (so, so briefly, I promise) helpful to me because I embarrassingly started my internet life in the White Lady “Feminism” Blogosphere, so I needed a dose of mockery to make me start questioning liberal ideology. But yeah, then I quickly wised up to the fact that it’s pure fash pipeline poison
edit: also I got on Tumblr, met cool people and realized the le Tumblrina strawman was bullshit
There were a few moments right after it was made (like the first 12-18 months) where it wasn’t that bad, though anyone on the left (which I wasn’t at the time) could see where it was headed. It was making fun of otherkin (really no need to punch down, of course) and missing the irony of whatever the equivalent of “kill all white men” was back in 2014. It wasn’t long at all before it fell off the cliff from “bad” to whatever it is now.
Guillotine memes are funnier anyway
If I didn’t suffer under minimum wage for 6 years I’d still probably be an enlighten centrist.
I’ve been mostly left economically my adult life but I was almost duped for a while: even though I’m older I somewhat bought into the whole gamergate nonsense (though to be honest, I still don’t understand what actually happened), SJWs being problematic, and the work place mentality that feminism is destroying the functionality of working men in modern society.
Almost.
At some point about 5 or 6 years ago, someone said, why does everyone hate SJWs? Who doesn’t want social justice?
That forced me to rethink things. While I still believe that many of our social issues are rooted in bad economic policy, advocating for social justice can lay bare all of the problems social inadequacies touch. And people wanting fair and equal treatment isn’t bad; in fact, it’s never bad.
Anyhow, that’s how I ended up almost thinking like a right wing dipshit in the modern age for a little while. I have to hand it to right wing propagandists: they know how to frame an argument. The lack of response from the Left in popular culture is shocking because being Left is fucking logical as it gets. But much like our elected body, there are only 2 trains of thought in the media: the right wing attack line and the limp-dick liberal all-sides-are-equal semi rebuke.
