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I know it's a meme in its own right now, but LiberalSocialist's "power dynamics" thing at least had some legs when it came to the material conditions that are most likely in place between significantly different aged people in a relationship, even if they're both adults.
They could have articulated that better than just spamming "power dynamics" at people constantly.
Also the more I looked into it the more I was convinced they were a Destiny fan doing a bit.
Why would a "Destiny" (that alias is too pretentious for me to not hang quotes on it) fan be anything but enthusiastic for abusing power dynamics?
Well specifically that whole power dynamics thing came up right when the Destiny sub was having a field day about Hasan having a sus age gap relationship with someone years ago. When someone pointed out the odd correlation in timing there they got really pissed about it.
Someone made a detailed post about it, but all their drama posts seemed to line up with things the Destiny sub were talking a lot about.
I didn't know those details and that explains a lot.
Sounds like it was was a slapfight between "influencers" that went the way it usually goes.
I think Hasan was a dating a Jackson? So the discourse went "Is the age gap problamatic?" >>>> "Is the age gap problamatic even if the younger person is more famous then you are even now, mr-twitch-politics-guy." I don't even remember if any of this was beyond rumor.
You can see how this became a firestorm.
Now THIS is Titoism
I'm still surprised power dynamics is what stuck the most when "do you disagree?" was right there
"Do you disagree?" should have been the dunkable repeated quote. "Power dynamics" was a legitimate argument to me.
I also found "Power dynamics" as a response to like every comment after a certain point to be legitimately funny. If I remember a years old thread correctly LS did respond with some arguments early on but defaulted to it as the comment count got real high.
Are they the "soulist" one or am I thinking of someone else?
I don't recall the use of that term here.
Ah, then probably not the same person. Though their arguments were more "the evil authoritarian tankies are oppressing me by pointing out the flaws in my arguments" sort of thing, so they wouldn't fit in a thread about libs with cogent arguments.