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.
I think another key issue is that most people view situations and events from a insular self and so their own sense of feeling toward an event is more valued than what a statement on a event means within a specific context. i.e. that America has troops that have committed horrible war crimes gets seen by so many as “your specific friend/child in the military is a grapist/murderer and should be put on death row” because having loyalty to something outweighs any actual realistic context when someone is emotionally invested. Similarly there’s the “vote blue no matter who” liberal rhetoric that gets proven false when progressives step up to bat but god forbid you point this out to a liberal as it’s seen as wanting to support Nazis (never mind that dems are Nazi enablers/their own flavor of fascist).
Are we really doing the “grapist” thing here?
The other term gets filtered out and sadly Trevor Moor forever planted it in my brain. Honestly wondering though if there’s a similar shorthand term that could be used that isn’t juvenile.
i believe terms regarding SA are terms to avoid without a CW and shouldnt be used without good reason; while I dont always agree with this stuff I did actually edit my post before submission for two different instances of mental health language that there was discussion about. I did actually like doing that, felt neat. Although there are a few terms I do want to use that get autofiltered (degen). As long as we avoid “unalived” that shit is weird.
We should add “unalived” to the slur filter