Talyn
Emissary
There they were again last weekend: the No Kings crowd, out in full regalia, chanting their feelings about tyranny while livestreaming from their smartphones—devices designed by corporations they’d kneel to faster than any monarch.
But this was never really about kings. It’s about the commerce of conviction. There’s an entire industry devoted to keeping people perpetually enraged—an economy that sells rebellion by the click. Keep the fear fresh, the feelings raw, and the donations recurring. Carve out enough villains and victims, and democracy turns into a subscription model. The outrage is organic; the marketing isn’t.
havokjournal.com
But this was never really about kings. It’s about the commerce of conviction. There’s an entire industry devoted to keeping people perpetually enraged—an economy that sells rebellion by the click. Keep the fear fresh, the feelings raw, and the donations recurring. Carve out enough villains and victims, and democracy turns into a subscription model. The outrage is organic; the marketing isn’t.
The Kingdom of Feelings Has No Clothes • The Havok Journal
by Tammy Pondsmith There they were again last weekend: the No Kings crowd, out in full regalia, chanting their feelings about tyranny while livestreaming Tammy Pondsmith skewers the No Kings Protests, exposing fake outrage, paid agitators, and the politics of manufactured victimhood.
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