Imagine being so Stockholm Syndromed by the police state that you blame another country over the cops who actually did it
I know people joke about Conservatism causing Brain Rot, but this seems to be yet more undeniable evidence that it is indeed the case.
We need to seriously discuss mass re-education. Giving a person with this level of brain rot any political power – even a single vote – is a failure of liberal democracy.
Is it really re education if they clearly haven’t had much of an education to begin with?
I’m sorry, that’s mean, there are uneducated people who are decent human beings that didn’t have an education and don’t deserve that comparison.
There are at least three groups here:
- The politically uneducated: they just haven’t received the type of education that allows them to call out bullshit propaganda as bullshit propaganda. Note that this can apply to someone who hasn’t finished high school as much as it can apply to someone with a grad degree.
- The people who just don’t give a fuck about human life: unless it’s a friend or family member, they’ll gladly trade human suffering for money. They’ll butcher countless faceless foreigners to maintain their current standard of living.
- The Ben Carsons: I don’t know what the fuck else to call someone who is a literal brain surgeon but thinks the pyramids were built to store grain.
Group 1 is the easiest to work with, and (hopefully) the most common.
Eh, I don’t think that an average reactionary crank is nessesary something you’d have to worry about.
The average reactionary crank enabled Republicans to obstruct any real climate change action for the past 30 years. Imagine where we’d be on probably the most important issue in the world if H.W. Bush and the ~1990-vintage GOP didn’t turn carbon emissions into a partisan issue. And don’t get me wrong, Democrats are weak on climate change, too – but part of the reason they can be weak and still get elected is because Republicans are so much fucking worse.
More immediately, the average reactionary crank is either cheering on or tacitly approving of the police state going full fascist.
We rip on libs plenty, and every bit of it is deserved, but don’t forget how harmful right-wingers are.
Cold war 2.0 time baby, and this time the commies win
I thought I had already seen the worst China take, turns out it can always get worse.
Weapons grade ideology
President Xi, I’ve asked you so many times on Reddit as well. Please liberate our country.
