Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
It’s intentional
It fucking sucks because every single time I play with random on Helldivers, I have to deal with people who just miss the joke entirely
Literally had a guy with the username Paleocon88 join up my last game
I shot him with a stun round from my shotgun, then burned him with a flamethrower before I kicked his ass
Beat me to it. It’s not about media literacy but narrative spinning. In this day and age, the more intellectual, the more complicatated, the more nuanced your ideas? The worse. Complexity and nuance are liabilities in this new world.
The good news is we can do it too. One of the best ways to disarm a fascist soyjak meme is just get dumber and say “soyjak right tho.”
This gave me a flashback to the debates in 2020 when Biden(?) asked Bernie to explain his economic plan or whatever, Bernie said “Do you have an hour?”, and Biden(?) said “that’s the problem”. The crowd cheered. This was the one where the crowd also booed literacy.
I disagree. That might be what chuds and some libs do, but in my experience if you know what you’re talking about (more likely than them) you can just dance in fuckin circles around them cause they know NOTHING. Its hilarious in a black comedy kinda way. You can short circuit westerners pretty easy ime
You start at “dumb one liner” and then show them that you actually understand the topic beyond thought terminating cliches, which gets them really mad, as they only ever have one liners and truisms, never any actual analysis.
Yeah, I had a transphobic chud just state, “I don’t want to talk about this anymore” as soon as i pointed out he was confusing Sex and Gender. They have nothing past the surface level. All they can do is repeat what they heard last. Its fucking sad, and terrifying.
That’s when I usually get all up in their face and call them triggered and snowflakes, turn their own bullshit back on them.
leave them with a parting shot from mao, “if you don’t know shit don’t talk shit”