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.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    5 months ago

    I got into this argument with my uncle a few years back when he was complaining about “frivolous studies on worms when we can just use common sense.” This guy has a degree from a private university and was in the Air Force doing nerd (and ghoul) shit.

    I tried explaining using a similar argument you used. Science is a gradual process where we try to eliminate/reduce bias to advance our knowledge. You can’t do fuck all going off your gut because you end up with non-falsifiable results nobody can replicate. Yeah, it’s tedious to have a ten year study on the mating habits of worms in New Hampshire vs. worms in Nebraska. But it’s necessary in order to find answers and eliminate wrong ones.

    And again, like you say, so much of science is accidental. Penicillin, insulin, and x-rays were all stumbled upon by chance when their creators were working on something else. Then there’s the “common sense” catastrophes like phrenology, creationism, or that time those guys thought they discovered cold fusion.