Been noticing that (neo)liberals, not even just fascists/conservatives, dont know what words mean. Its becoming harder and harder to talk to people when they dont know how words even work. Twice this week people have stumbled into conversations I’m having and either havent read the conversation or just only a response and fucked their way into refuting their own point.
Its driving me up a wall to have some one say “The west is liberalism personified. Its the best thing ever” for me to respond “that doesnt make any sense, how would you even justify that? what about the world wars, imperialism, slavery, 400 years of liberal history of primitive accumulation and exploitation” and then for another dipshit to come in and say “you seem to be conflating the west and liberalism commiecuck.”
What. What the fuck did you just say. That was the basis of the entire conversation. This person isnt responding to the OP, refuting the OP, and even follows the OP and likes their posts. Are these people radioactive? Is interacting with these people and dunking on them just a memetic hazard at this point?
I dont see how someone or anyone can operate on a daily basis while being unable to parse something like that. It makes me feel like these people are just bot accounts, operating purely on hallucinations post to post. And this was just one of two this week, I’ve had a few others but the brain seepage seems to be accelerating out of control.
tl;dr America is cooked when even the smug “brain geniuses” cant seem to function.
The thing that identifies you as a ‘brain genius’ is flattering power, not intelligence. Curtis Yarvin is an immense dumbass but there are people hanging on his every word, people with actual power, so he is framed as a genius. We have a large amount of the world’s most powerful people spending their entire days daring each other to say slurs in group chats and talking about how most people aren’t fully human so you can do whatever you want to them. If you don’t want to feel entirely like a ghoul just parrot whatever is the new liberal talking point, currently abundance bs but it could have been effective altruism an couple of years ago, and people will think you’re smart and kind. The smart people on TV are saying it after all. If you scratch past the very thin veneer of it you notice that it is also extremely ghoulish, but the trick is to not think about it. Trying to look deeper into issues or consider how things came to happen isn’t something that is rewarded outside of very niche circumstances.
And then we have people who simply refuse to concede an argument. Just don’t even try unless you are actually trying to convince a third person.