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played the game of thrones and lost.

This is just like Gambo Thrones

I have absolutely no sympathy for royal families getting liquidated for the very simple reason that every royal dynasty ascended the throne through the overthrow and liquidation of the previous royal dynasty and understands that when their time comes, they deserve nothing less than liquidation. The Jacobins and Bolsheviks did not do what another rival feudal family wouldn't have done in their place.

Your royal family got overthrown by a usurper, so now it's time for the previous royal bloodline (eg your extended family) to be exterminated. Don't like it, then gouge out your eyes, mutilate your genitals, and join a monastery. Antoinette could've abdicated and joined a convent as a nun. As a woman, she didn't have to gouge out her eyes nor mutilate her genitals before taking her vows of stfu, but she didn't, so them's the breaks.

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If we start the clock with Hugh Capet in 987AD and with the revolution in 1792 we are looking at just over 800 years, if we really want to get down to the brass tacks of the French Crown

I know this isn't what you are saying, but I genuinely think a ton of people on here used to massively stan her and think her work really meant something, and now that she's turned out to be the absolute worst they can't stop torturing themselves over it.

A few years ago, she was chumming up to the online left at the same time as trolling trans communities, and I imagine quite a few people feel kind of guilty about turning a bling eye to that, so again, they obsess over her. It's a pretty smart media strategy tbh.

because those people don't have a history of betraying their much more leftwing former audience with NB phobia, associating with medicalists like buck angel, or hanging out with the clintons?

I think it's worth considering that this website is extremely terminally online in a specifically entertainment-media-and-twitter direction and so Contra has more salience to them as a "breadtuber" (something many people here still bear some attachment to) than e.g. public intellectuals and the like. This is especially magnified by Nat's method of constantly posting left-punching ragebait on Twitter to make up for the once a year upload schedule she's on. Also there was the Palestine statement and I think at this point multiple subtweets directed at this site's current Streamer Daddy. These factors combine to make her have a greater level of psychological salience for this audience even though she does not remotely merit it.

I agree with the other poster that she deserves the treatment like that other ragebaiting, compatible "left" asshole, because I certainly agree with you that there's a severe bias and it's counterproductive to everyone involved except for Contra, who gets more attention and thereby money with her bullshit.

Considering everything else about the site, from the general culture to their being defensive-to-merely-dismissive of characters like Philosophy Tube (outside of specifically criticizing her silence on Palestine), I don't think the problem is that the site hates trans women. There's probably something to be said for the more generic misogyny of how reactionary left-identifying people will, for example, talk about hating "white women" to smuggle in the real object of their hatred (women in general), especially since Contra very aggressively plays up the sassy girl boss "slay queen" stuff, but I don't think that's the same thing.

Edit: I revised it because I realized one of the points I made was indefensibly foolish. Sorry about that.

I agree with you. The Contrapoints posts are getting old. I mean for fuck’s sake this one is 5 years ago now. Why does it even matter?

I really empathize with her struggle with dysphoria and I think go a little softer on her as a result. What bothers me about her is that she's a de-radicalizer for leftists. I know and see so many people with a sky-high opinion of her who can't see the faults in her ideology that capitalism and Zionism aren't going anywhere so the most revolutionary thing you can do is vote Democrat.