It’s wild how often the right uses this argument when their incredible gullibility leaves them looking moronic. Like, no, it doesn’t mean anything about society. It means you specifically are dumb and naive and vastly overestimating your own intelligence.
yea I'm double posting this in the thread, but look at how well this lines up:
Being told that the Bad Thing they were purportedly upset about
wasn’t real only made them more upset. Proof that the 23rd largest
corporation in America was not in league with the Devil made them
defensive and very, very angry.
recommend reading the whole thing, but here's a good pull quote (emphasis mine)
In trying to combat the P&G slander with nothing more than
irrefutable facts proving it false, I was operating under a set of false
assumptions. Among these:
I assumed that the people who claimed to believe that Procter
& Gamble supported the Church of Satan really did believe such a
thing.
I assumed that they were passing on this rumor in good faith—
that they were misinforming others only because they had, themselves,
been misinformed.
I assumed that they would respect, or care about, or at least
be willing to consider, the actual facts of the matter.
Because the people spreading this rumor claimed to be
horrified/angry about its allegations, I assumed that they would be
happy/relieved to learn that these allegations were, indisputably, not
true.
All of those assumptions proved to be false. All of them. This was
at first bewildering, then disappointing, and then, the more I thought
about it, appalling— so appalling that I was reluctant to accept that it
could really be the case.
But it is the case. Let’s go through that list again. The following
are all true of the people spreading the Procter & Gamble rumor:
They didn’t really believe it themselves.
They were passing it along with the intent of misinforming
others. Deliberately.
They did not respect, or care about, the actual facts of the
matter, except to the extent that they viewed such facts with hostility.
Being told that the Bad Thing they were purportedly upset about
wasn’t real only made them more upset. Proof that the 23rd largest
corporation in America was not in league with the Devil made them
defensive and very, very angry.
Not really no. They know it's bullshit but it's bullshit that's good for the cause so they do a collective kayfabe for each other to keep the bit going.
That has been the conservative movement since Clinton but nobody wised up to it. Hillary even had a bunch of generals speak at the DNC to "prove" the troops supported her because conservatives were doing this feigned outrage about Dems being anti-troop.
That, and a lot of Americans are aimless so some stupid understimulated suburban dad will hear something from talk radio like "George Clooney mocked American hero Charlton Heston's Alzheimers so we must boycott his movies" then just takes it up as a cause, because then at least they get to perform some sort of crusade participation.
This is like when PT Barnum would take out articles in local newspapers under a false name saying that PT Barnum's traveling sideshow was too amazing for any of it to be more than a fancy parlor trick
"He has dancing whales, which must be some sort of automatons, and his world's oldest woman must just be leather stretched over gears and debtor's bones!"
The doubters would take the articles and run around saying "Look, all these fantastical attractions are fake!" and the people who heard them were like "I want to see these dancing whales"
A little off topic, but anyone else notice how chuds adopt fashion styles of non-chuds years too late? Like all these male chuds now look just like the same early 2010’s urban microbrewery enthusiasts that they would have called “soy boys”.
I think in general they tend to adopt things from the people they hate because they are generally a bunch of talentless hacks who have no creativity or drive to try new things socially.
Yeah they need the aesthetic to feel like a welcomed, known quantity before they take it on, that's why you see MAGA rappers rapping like outdated early 2000s lyrical miracle rappers, or some people calling themselves "goth right." The daring to unleash something unprecedented that they speculate will resonate en masse due to having base level empathy and sense-of-vibes is not there for the reactionary brain.
I know that the small town I grew up in has been consistently 15-20 years behind the times when it comes to aesthetics. I bet that's related, since conservatives like to larp as being from a small town
Maybe? That could be a lot of things. I think what you're noticing is that the political aesthetic of what used to be greasy basement dwellers have now also become the politics of wealthy grifters.
I hear that a white, bonehead Laura Loomer will be performing cringe on a white audience LIVE on Twitter during the DNC Convention in Chigago this August.
The funny thing is that on paper it would be very easy for the Republican Party to gain voters and continue to get everything they want.
But they always end up going down this route of appealing to a shrinking Evangelical radical base. The anti-SJW movement was the best thing they had in years and turned it into a joke with their “woke” obsession.
The problem with the anti-SJW grift was always that there were like 5 videos of 3 different activists that kept going through re-runs, at the end of the line there wasn't enough fuel for the fire of outrage that it fed upon.
True, but I think the emergence of Antifa helped fill that gap. I remember when “Antifa destroyed by patriots” would get millions of views. But even that was mostly repeated clips of the same four or so knockouts.
But seriously, I hope they go further down the route of calling everything Satanic because they don't realize how uncool tying themselves to the religious fun haters they tried so hard to separate themselves from is making them.