It's going to come as a massive, massive shock to most TRAs who live in a media bubble and are largely unaware of how the majority feel and the level of anger that will hit the mainstream before too long. TRAs don't know it yet but they are accelerating into a wall.
Yep.
I remember 2015 GE - so many people were baffled by David Cameron’s win because according to their social media feeds, EVERYONE was voting Labour.
Us normies didn’t really know anything about algorithmically created echochambers back then.
Now that we do, lots of us have taken deliberate action to look beyond what the internet serves up to us.
We’ve stopped relying on The Guardian and now look at a single story across several titles (including some we once wouldn’t have touched with Trump’s solid gold bargepole) and we often do our own digging, sometimes we’re so thorough we get ahead of the print media, who definitely use us a research tool.
We no longer consider Twitter opinion to be anything like real world opinion, because we know that there are vast swathes of people who read but don’t post.
We’ve learned to talk face to face with our friends and family, our kid’s teachers, our posties and hairdressers (although perhaps not our colleagues). Many of us are middle aged mums, that’s true, but that doesn’t mean we live in a Gen X bubble - we are the carers for the elderly AND the guardians of the young, we lurk and we listen and collectively, we know far, far more than our opponents expect.
We READ the books authored by the other side, they try to get ours pulped, way too angry to look beyond the first paragraph.
We never get over excited, never rest on our laurels, we know it will take lots and lots of little leaks before the dam finally bursts.
The TRAs have spent the last 5 years hiding behind blocklists with their fingers in their ears chanting ‘Transwomen are women’ and ‘No debate’. While they’ve been in their online safe spaces, protected by a whole generation of uber authoritarian woke bro mods and trans janitors, we’ve fortified ourselves with gin, clutched our pearls and ventured off to the internet’s isolated islands of Free Speech.
And wow did we learn a LOT about all sorts of things they would’ve preferred to keep quiet, including, but not limited to, sissy porn, eunuch castration cults, paedo-apologist academia, black market HRT, cat ‘girls’, human snakes & munchiemoms.
We also learned about scores and scores of convicted sex offenders, including that fat scouser with the golf club and Baloo the Local Elections agent for the Green Party.
We even found a rubber gimp in the loos at the NSPCC.
We’ve ferreted through ONS crime
statistics, made hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, we’ve read reams and reams of medical research (that doesn’t really say what it claims to say) became amateur court reporters, founded loads of womens orgs, safeguarding orgs and orgs to represent the LG&B people who’ve been thoroughly shafted by the TQ folx.
We’ve dressed up as dinosaurs, hosted lectures that turned into dance parties, gotten banned from pretty much everywhere and learned what a VPN is.
Owen Jones, you are on the wrong side of history, not us.
We aren’t going to lose. You are.
And if you don’t believe me, just go and ask Posie.