Comments on: Wingnuts to the right of me, wingnuts to the left of me http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/uncategorized/wingnuts-to-the-right-of-me-wingnuts-to-the-left-of-me/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: ObjectiveReality http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/uncategorized/wingnuts-to-the-right-of-me-wingnuts-to-the-left-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-67883 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:17:02 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=11819#comment-67883 In my observation, the right wingnuts tend to be closer to mainstream for their particular group and thus tend to be more visible from the outside of it. Left wingnuts (or social justice wingnuts – there are feminist nutters I’ve read who aren’t otherwise especially political) had fewer people listening to them before.

The shift (I think) has been 1) that the internet means that you don’t have to be Glen Beck or Alex Jones (i.e. be funded by your listeners or by a corporation) in order to get heard and 2) people (specifically slacktivist youtube political types) seem to do very little research before linking to something they agree with (I’m thinking of self-declared “atheist feminists” who link to videos by violently misogynistic fundamentalist Christians because they said something nasty about Islam, for example) so you need to be on point exactly once at the right time, and your other nutty views can get a whole bunch of exposure.

]]> By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/uncategorized/wingnuts-to-the-right-of-me-wingnuts-to-the-left-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-67837 Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:03:18 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=11819#comment-67837 Or, as a libertarian said to me “In the last part of the 20th Century, the left won the cultural battles but the right won the economic ones. In the 21st, it will be different”.

It’s certainly time for the economic pendulum to start swinging back the other way.

]]> By: Serdar Yegulalp http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/uncategorized/wingnuts-to-the-right-of-me-wingnuts-to-the-left-of-me/comment-page-1/#comment-67835 Sun, 09 Nov 2014 22:27:30 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=11819#comment-67835 “Politics swings like a pendulum do…”

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