When did you guys stop being lolberts? I think I was in my mid twenties
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I am reluctant to call it "mastery", because it's just superficial, dumb bullshitting tactics, sophistry for the dumb. The problem is that people, who should be able to dismantle these linguistic tricks, struggle to do so, even though it's simple.
It's more about the persistence to the bullshitting, the insolence and shamelessness to use tricks to no end.
While that's true, I don't think you give yourself enough credit.
Even that understanding (that it's all dumb bullshitting tactics) is on a plateau too tall for most to reach. Most can't see the mothership through the chaff,,, they don't even know the mothership exists. Many believe the chaff is all there is and that they're arguing in good faith. Even the very *concept* of there being a mothership is foreign to them.
I often wonder if a lot more people are secretly awake than I think, and nobody wants to start rocking the boat and ending the party, so to speak. But then I remember the general public is generally pretty stupid.
chaff is an apt way to put it. people genuinely believe ideology and politics are "too complicated" to understand. there is almost a worship of this Insurmountable Complexity of Life because it lets people check out completely and pretend nothing is ever understandable or controllable. they'd sooner pretend that people and politicians are eldritch beings with foreign, four-dimensional minds than ever admit to themselves that murderous psychopaths, like jews, exist and need to be dealt with.
It's exactly this lens that they don't want you to look through.
> they'd sooner pretend that people and politicians are eldritch beings with foreign, four-dimensional minds than ever admit to themselves that murderous psychopaths, like jews, exist and need to be dealt with.
I think many people just aren't inherently that evil, and so cannot believe how someone else could be that evil. *"Ohhhh, no one is sitting there plotting all this. That's a waste of time..."*
I think it's genuinely that simple. Most White people are gentle, simple people that just want their labor to be theirs and live in peace.