What gets me is how wildly people in the thread blew it out of proportion. You had someone quoting “first they came for” as if lifting sanctions on a leader we installed is comparable to the Holocaust.
It’s like everyone needs everyone to agree that every time Trump sneezes, it’s the literal worst thing that has ever happened, and if you push back on anything ever you’re the enemy. These same people fantasize that they can win elections by appealing to moderates.
But the thing that really grinds my gears is how they all default to hostile intervention in foreign countries despite knowing absolutely nothing about their situation. The “null” position should be leaving everyone alone, but instead, it’s whatever the government or media tell them. Or in this case, whatever a random tweet from a crypto grifter tells them. And they will try to bring down the hammer of social condemnation and use things like this as a way to equate communists to fascists and kick us out of spaces, even when they aren’t actually at all invested in the issue.
It’s the manufacturing of consent at work in real-time. To these loonies, history always resets at some “boomerang” event (9/11, oct 7th, etc…), which is used and abused as justifications to maintain status quo (western interventionism).
I think I’ve said this elsewhere but as long as they’re not on the receiving end of forever wars/genocides, it’ll never dawn on them how privileged they are to say whatever asinine bs without remorse or consequence (they get straight up rewarded for it).
It’s very frustrating and the thread I linked made me feel like I was losing my mind. I try to seek out perspectives I disagree with but a lot of times I just end up concluding, “Damn, these people are even worse than I thought.”
What gets me is how wildly people in the thread blew it out of proportion. You had someone quoting “first they came for” as if lifting sanctions on a leader we installed is comparable to the Holocaust.
It’s like everyone needs everyone to agree that every time Trump sneezes, it’s the literal worst thing that has ever happened, and if you push back on anything ever you’re the enemy. These same people fantasize that they can win elections by appealing to moderates.
But the thing that really grinds my gears is how they all default to hostile intervention in foreign countries despite knowing absolutely nothing about their situation. The “null” position should be leaving everyone alone, but instead, it’s whatever the government or media tell them. Or in this case, whatever a random tweet from a crypto grifter tells them. And they will try to bring down the hammer of social condemnation and use things like this as a way to equate communists to fascists and kick us out of spaces, even when they aren’t actually at all invested in the issue.
Buncha clowns.
It’s the manufacturing of consent at work in real-time. To these loonies, history always resets at some “boomerang” event (9/11, oct 7th, etc…), which is used and abused as justifications to maintain status quo (western interventionism).
I think I’ve said this elsewhere but as long as they’re not on the receiving end of forever wars/genocides, it’ll never dawn on them how privileged they are to say whatever asinine bs without remorse or consequence (they get straight up rewarded for it).
Honestly I don’t get why you engage with them, I would’ve lost my sanity the moment some Western chauvinist tried to sell people on Western-installed puppets with appeal to ahistorism. Props to you though for persevering.
It’s very frustrating and the thread I linked made me feel like I was losing my mind. I try to seek out perspectives I disagree with but a lot of times I just end up concluding, “Damn, these people are even worse than I thought.”