Average conservative talking head:
"Listen, these liberals are incompetent and don't know how to control the border [because it increases their voter base]. These libtards are such idiots and their ideas are bad for the economy [because weakening the middle class increases dependence on the government]. You need to understand these people are clueless and have no understanding of how the Constitution works [because ignoring it gives them power].
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"Listen, these liberals are incompetent and don't know how to control the border [because it increases their voter base]. These libtards are such idiots and their ideas are bad for the economy [because weakening the middle class increases dependence on the government]. You need to understand these people are clueless and have no understanding of how the Constitution works [because ignoring it gives them power].
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If only it were benign indifference.
The truth is they despise the people of Appalachia.
"Deplorable" is the adjective they use.
The truth is they despise the people of Appalachia.
"Deplorable" is the adjective they use.
> all the incompetent midwits and the damage they have been causing across the globe
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Furthering the metaphor, I bet there is a sort of ideological immune system that will eventually tap the brakes most of the time, but for something that doesn't have that immune system by design and just keep on getting eaten up.
https://youtu.be/I5g_7AtUzQg
These two have some interesting things to say, and this episode is about the "pod people" effect of wokeness.
Given what happens every time, inauthentic people injecting themselves into hobbies so they can eat them from inside, you can see the pod people actions, and also why we might have an instinct against such people -- like a brachnoid wasp, they lay their eggs inside your favorite properties, and when they think they can get away with it those eggs hatch and they start to devour those properties from the inside out.
You can see from there why normalish people get the heebie jeebies from such people, because you can sense their inauthenticity. "As a little girl I always loved Warhammer 40k!" No you didn't.
But here's a further take: thinking about it this way, I'm not sure progressive ideology is itself inherently pod peopleish or even inherently woke the way we think about it. I kind of think that default liberal ideology was super powerful (a famous study around 2007 showed 75% of millennials agreed with it), and so the pod people were drawn to it. It looks like the cause of the disease, but it's just the current carrier, like a zombie beetle carrying around wasp larvae. I'm not even sure it's "patient zero", I think those pod people ate up organized religion before they caused it to collapse, and now they're eating stuff like opposing racism and the like, but they'll jump to a new host once this one is dead (and make no mistake, it's dying). The pod people also force others to conform or be expelled, so that explains why some people who used to be cool seem to have stopped and started acting like pod people full-time.
I can't predict what the next host will be, but it'll be something super popular. It may even be "anti-wokeness" seeing how badly progressive ideology has been destroyed, where they'll inject themselves into it, take power for themselves, make it totally insufferable with pod people, and people will start to hate this thing too. I can imagine something wholesome like anti-pedophilia being taken over, because then you get the power to accuse individuals of horrific crimes due to your movement, and they'll even eat that host so badly people just won't care anymore.
These two have some interesting things to say, and this episode is about the "pod people" effect of wokeness.
Given what happens every time, inauthentic people injecting themselves into hobbies so they can eat them from inside, you can see the pod people actions, and also why we might have an instinct against such people -- like a brachnoid wasp, they lay their eggs inside your favorite properties, and when they think they can get away with it those eggs hatch and they start to devour those properties from the inside out.
You can see from there why normalish people get the heebie jeebies from such people, because you can sense their inauthenticity. "As a little girl I always loved Warhammer 40k!" No you didn't.
But here's a further take: thinking about it this way, I'm not sure progressive ideology is itself inherently pod peopleish or even inherently woke the way we think about it. I kind of think that default liberal ideology was super powerful (a famous study around 2007 showed 75% of millennials agreed with it), and so the pod people were drawn to it. It looks like the cause of the disease, but it's just the current carrier, like a zombie beetle carrying around wasp larvae. I'm not even sure it's "patient zero", I think those pod people ate up organized religion before they caused it to collapse, and now they're eating stuff like opposing racism and the like, but they'll jump to a new host once this one is dead (and make no mistake, it's dying). The pod people also force others to conform or be expelled, so that explains why some people who used to be cool seem to have stopped and started acting like pod people full-time.
I can't predict what the next host will be, but it'll be something super popular. It may even be "anti-wokeness" seeing how badly progressive ideology has been destroyed, where they'll inject themselves into it, take power for themselves, make it totally insufferable with pod people, and people will start to hate this thing too. I can imagine something wholesome like anti-pedophilia being taken over, because then you get the power to accuse individuals of horrific crimes due to your movement, and they'll even eat that host so badly people just won't care anymore.
> It looks like the cause of the disease, but it's just the current carrier, like a zombie beetle carrying around wasp larvae. I'm not even sure it's "patient zero", I think those pod people ate up organized religion before they caused it to collapse
Good insight.
Unfortunately, the "Struggle Sessions" of Mao and Killing Fields tell us it will likely be doubling down and more extreme versions of current leftist ideology until everything collapses.
Good insight.
Unfortunately, the "Struggle Sessions" of Mao and Killing Fields tell us it will likely be doubling down and more extreme versions of current leftist ideology until everything collapses.
Yeah man, I get it.
When I say, "I wish it was cheaper" I don't mean they are doing something wrong.
I mean more like, "I wish someone like Elon Musk would buy 10,000 phones for anyone who wants them to accelerate the project and lower costs through economies of scale."
When I say, "I wish it was cheaper" I don't mean they are doing something wrong.
I mean more like, "I wish someone like Elon Musk would buy 10,000 phones for anyone who wants them to accelerate the project and lower costs through economies of scale."
Participating in [current year] Democracy feels like playing the "why are you hitting yourself?" children's game.