Comment Re:can anyone explain the silver thing? (Score -1) 178
I prefer the term "totprog" - short for Totalitarian Progressive. Pronounced "tote progg".
The faction under discussion do call themselves "Progressives". The "tot" is there to differentiate an ordinary prog - who is an obnoxious, conformist, self-righteous wanker but fairly harmless - from a totprog who has learned to love the iron boot.
Some, but not all, progs are liberals. They often inhabit the same social milieu. However zero totprogs are liberals. A liberal totprog would be like an anti-semitic zionist - they just don't go together.
"Leftist" sucks because "left" and "right" are a bullshit false dichotomy that serves only to stultify discussion.
"SJW" sucks because a) that's not what they actually call themselves, and b) there's nothing inherently wrong with the concept of "social justice", despite the utter mockery made of it by our totprog masters.
"Woke" sucks because a) that's not what they actually call themselves, and b) they are the among least "awake", most sheeplike groups today.
Given their militantly racist and imperialist ideology, one could say "totprogs are the new Naz1s". Given the deranged anti-civilizational impulses on display in the Covid atrocities, one could say "totprogs are the new Khmer Rouge". Neither formulation is exactly right; but both make valid points.