It’s all a part of a massive, incredibly powerful campaign that’s been going on for a century with one goal: maintain the power of the capitalists.

There is layers to it, and people will get past Layer 1 and think they “made it” to “the truth” when in reality there is a half dozen more layers ready to catch their fall before they plummet irreversibly into communism.

Funnel this person into fascism. Funnel this person into drugs. Funnel this person into rise and grind bloomer techbro. Funnel this person into terminally online faux-leftist doomer. Funnel this person into the police. Funnel this person into music. Funnel this person into religion. Funnel this person into atheism.

I’m kind of ranting cuz im tired and in a weird life circumstance but yeah. It’s like exhales cloud of smoke all connected, mannn

Yeahhhh it’s unstructured rant time

Nah but fr it’s just like one of the biggest layers, a final powerful safety net, a Boss level false consciousness, this Synth Left. The Wokeism too. These things are trendy. Sexy. They fit perfectly with the preexisting American capitalistic values ingrained in these people. The apathy, the smug condescension, the dunking. The hatred. Imagine not having to change a thing about how you think or feel or act but getting to feel so powerfully intellectually and morally righteous. The world is doomed, duh, but at least YOU WERE RIGHT. They genuinely believe there is no hope, they are Orientalists who think China is a barbaric brutalist hellscape where everyone eats their pets works for pennies and constantly attempts suicide. Americans are victims of the greatest brainwashing the human race has ever seen.

It’s all just aesthetics. It’s just a cool thing to put in a bio. They attack XYZ bigotry because they have been taught to but happily would mock someone for being ugly or their clothes or a not-famous mental illness or being poor because they don’t like people. They want to be cruel, but they want to be worshipped. They realize they can’t be cruel to Woke protected peoples so they instead channel their cruelty to the “deserving,” the filthy lumpenproles. Only. They’re lowkey scared of them. The Trump dads LARPing with ARs. These synths are (no hate) weaksauce. I have met them in real life: confrontation makes them cringe and stutter and malfunction. They aren’t Real™. They are overwhelmingly middle to upper middle class spoiled, squishy white suburbanites who think the worst thing that can happen to you is getting ratioed or having bad music taste. They’re scared of MAGA maggots so they instead take this cruelty and project it onto the vulnerable.

They don’t know the depths of real suffering. Death isn’t really on the table for them. Reading about it is one thing, truly believing it in your gut is another. They’ve never been hit, physically. They’ve never been hurt, severely. They don’t hide it because they don’t fear any reprisal. It doesn’t occur to them that if they were a serious threat to the system that they would be getting clubbed by fascists or suicided by feds or (at the very least) suppressed in every facet of society instead of lauded with their politics in media (oh, great, more fuel for Nazi conspiracy). It’s just a hobby. A social club. One day we’ll get an epic wokelord anarchist into office and they’ll make all the stinky Trump poopyheads go away and I can work 2 hours a week at a record store for $5000 an hour and I’ll donate it to some African food drive and Everybody Will Like Me.

The divide between the “REAAALLL” leftists and the nasty redfash genocidal tankies (ew, gross) has been purposefully stoked by CIA and friends for decades. They want us to be bogged down in academic gridlock. They want us picking each other apart to pieces, endlessly criticizing and reacting. They want us to hate the lumpenproles instead of appreciating how we are all victims of brainwashing. They want the Revolution™ to be ill defined and for this to be taken for granted. A vague idealistic idea. The world starts and ends with your following online. It’s all just the path of least resistance.

I would apologize for this but…you’re the one who read it. You fool.

I can’t give a one-size-fits-all answer, but for each one in part, I think it might suffice:

• Vaush: grifter, only cares about the money, his goal isn’t to spread correct information, it’s to misinform his audience, to keep them tied to his channel
• Adam Something (also an addendum to Vaush): like most “reformed fascists”, Adam has chosen the wholesome social democrat persona to try to make his fascistic ideals more palatable
• Elon Musk: seeks to distort the meaning of the term, claiming that socialists don’t support unions; obviously he doesn’t give that much of a shit about this persona, since he adopts it and drops it quickly
• George Orwell: from what I know he actually was a member of some socialist organizations, but ultimately was little more than an idealist who had no issues betraying his comrades for some government cash

I think a lot of it comes down to being stuck in the capitalist media and culture bubble while at the same time cluing in to the fact that capitalism is the root of our problems. Then you end up with a sort of “radical centrist” who force themselves to think a middle ground is the only “reasonable” option. Something along the lines of “I know capitalism is bad, but we can’t replace it with communism because Stalin and Mao were demons, there has to be a different way.” There aren’t any other serious alternatives so you end up in this wishy-washy ultimately pro-capital middle space with anarchists and socdems and rad-centrist crypto-fascists (ok maybe they’re just grifters) and of course none of them have read any theory so they don’t have the analytical tools to get out of that rut.