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We used to believe — still see this in comments — that the left (and their distant patron the USSR) were ultimately good at one thing: propaganda. And for a long time, they seemed to be so. They could convince people of the most ridiculous things and more importantly, they’d made leftism into a positional good. If you wanted to show you were high class you’d be as leftist as possible in public, all the way to communist.
Turns out though that this wasn’t in any way shape or form a natural system, any more than the public schools are. It turns out they could act superior, sell leftism as a positional good, and act like we were the baddies because they controlled critical positions in the information/art/entertainment industrial complex. They could therefore keep out anyone who disagreed with them, and act like all smart people agreed with the most outrageous idiocies of the communist mind.
… but this is not the case anymore. And it’s becoming glaringly obvious it was all fake.
In fact, the more distributed the information system gets the more the left is becoming like the mean girls once they leave high school: bitter, vociferous, and attracting only the mentally ill.
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The reign of the mean girls is coming to an end. First slowly (these last 20 years) then suddenly, you’ll see communists and leftists in general being derided as the sapskulls with nothing but evil and vain gloating on their side.
Their fall will be sudden and terrible.
And glorious.
Sarah A. Hoyt
June 18, 2026
The Mean Girls – According To Hoyt
She is describing a broader version what I suggest is happening in the gun restriction domain as Nearing Structure Collapse. This also ties in with the potential overturning of Wickard v. Filburn.
Interesting. It is nice to think about. Let’s come back to this in a few years.
We think of Markley’s Law as being the sign of adolescent minds, who are too obsessed with sex to actually be able to explain their views on the Second Amendment.
But in fact it was once one of many arms of the powerful antigun hydra. Its specific purpose was to blur the obvious fact that antigun groups were actively opposed to freedom. After all, they were the cool kids who supported the really important freedom: the right to sexual pleasure. All those gun nuts were a bunch of religious fanatics who just were too closed minded to get any action, so hyuk hyuk, let’s go all Waco on their asses!