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what your computer can become

[...] we have contraptions like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, "Wait till you can see what your computer can become." But it's you who should be doing the becoming, not the damn fool computer. What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that …

—p.56 A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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no more an evil word than Christianity

"Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all…

—p.11 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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flogging the dead horse of edginess

[...] when everyone from the President's fanboys to McDonalds are flogging the dead horse of 'edginess', it may be time to lay the very recent and very modern aesthetic values of counterculture and the entire paradigm to rest and create something new.

—p.116 Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right Chapter Seven: Basic bitches, normies and the lamestream (101) by Angela Nagle
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there are no girls on the Internet

[...] The online expression 'there are no girls on the Internet' appeared early on in 4chan's 'Rules of the Internet'. This is intended to be read not literally but as an assertion that the areas of the Internet in which there are few or no women constitutes 'the Internet', meaning the authentic In…

—p.101 Chapter Seven: Basic bitches, normies and the lamestream (101) by Angela Nagle
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the benefits of tradition

A frustrating contradiction and hypocrisy you find in many of these online spaces and subcultures is that they want the benefits of tradition without its necessary restraints and duties. They simultaneously want the best of the sexual revolution (sexual success with pornified women, perpetually dol…

—p.96 Chapter Six: Entering the manosphere (86) by Angela Nagle