aidan walker
@aidanetcetera
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meme researcher TikTok: @aidanetcetera
Joined July 2021
it’s time to replace the morning scroll with a morning stroll
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My new pamphlet “ON SKIBIDI: Cyborg Violence, Brainrot, and the Phenomenology of Digital Witness” coming to a handheld screen near you. Link in bio to the metalabel place where u can get pdf for $2.67
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Go read @EmilyStewartM's new piece about how "middlemen are swallowing the economy." I had the pleasure of speaking with Emily about the topic. (Per @superwuster's Age of Extraction, Amazon's take rate on merchants can exceed 50% after accounting for advertising fees!) This story
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Hey. Can I borrow one million MrBeast bucks so I can bet on my ability to pay the fourth installment of my Klarna Max membership on my congressional mandate OpenAI compute tax it's a tradable asset streaming live on NetHBOflixCNN Binance Jr. Performative reading.
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This is exactly how the right talked about Trump's nationalist take over so I'm going to assume Hasan or someone similar will be president within 10 years.
Hasan Piker platforms terrorists, promotes political violence and does shameless propaganda for murderous authoritarian regimes. So why is he in such good standing with American politicians and progressive media?
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american canto is like joan didion but if she was kinda dumb
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24 substack subscribers gone after the post titled "notes on gooning." farewell. god bless you, every one.
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Between the inanity of "67" and the crude appeal of "69" we find the prospect of a genuine revitalization: the Spirit of '68.
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Kinda funny how Richard Hanania is currently torpedoing his, so far successful, effort to mainstream race science socially into the op-ed class by suddenly posting obsessively about how adults dating high schoolers is actually good and okay
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Mamdani was what so many politicians, law firms, universities, media companies, and others have not been: totally, completely, authentically unafraid. That's the only way to defeat authoritarianism.
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was this how y'all felt about obama? like for real... the feeling that we're in the story, rather than at its end or epilogue. people who look like me and friends I love fist-bumping, hugging, walking proud in the streets, all kinds. got me libbed out heavy
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funniest gambit of these billionaire funded centrist ideological projects is how they’re always framed as edgy truth-telling, “might be difficult for democrats to hear” my brother in christ this schlock is exactly what Dem elites want to hear which is why they fund and promote it
Really glad to see @ezraklein citing our work in Deciding to Win! It might be difficult for Democrats to hear, but it's important to reckon with reality — voters see our party as more extreme than the Republican Party, not more moderate.
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Watch the full video with @aidanetcetera in THE BACK ROOM. We talk Bill Maher, memes and more!
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The backlash against wonkery and the reduction of politics to data isn't "anti-intellectual." It is the recovery of intellectualism against the wave of shallow, gamified casino-empiricism that has drowned our public discourse.
Weird round of mildly anti-intellectual backlash lately against center-left data nerd types from people who are less data-y and less centrist (all of which is totally fine) but are also objectively speaking huge dorks themselves.
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Chotiner: so last night you posted “real pooh bear hours,” implying you were watching winnie the pooh. but based on your internet activity it seems you were on your phone for most of it me: well, it was on in the background C: and that’s “real pooh bear hours” to you me: in a way
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The Republicans are run by a number of totally insane posters and youtubers meanwhile the Democrats are run by people who are like "uh, well, according to my chart." They are creating publics while Dem consultants are promising them and not delivering
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Did you catch his epic appearance recently on @RealTimers with @billmaher? Writer, creator and internet culture researcher @aidanetcetera's in THE BACK ROOM talking memes, Maher and more! https://t.co/keKsFsloJL
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the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world
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An interesting consequence of Bari Weiss soon running CBS, David Ellison soon owning CNN, and Bezos’s ongoing reshaping of WaPo is that a sizable chunk of American media will soon hold an editorial line—Trump-skeptical conservatism—that has basically zero popular base
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