I need to get some sleep, but
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The extremely online lib comentariate are basically putting on an “I’m a bleeding heart liberal and I care about people costume” because they like being part of that culture. They like the food, the music, they like NPR, they like suits that fit and long meetings
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The majority of libs are hopelessly lost. They’re stuck in this hyperreal whatever the fuck of politics, culture, media. They care about people, or they want to care about people, but they’re so mired in media lies and distortions they have no real concept of what is real - They’re still seeing “40,000 killed in Gaza”, they’re seeing “Uighur Genocide”. They’re seeing their leaders go on and on about immigrants, or Hamas, or whatever teh fuck idk I don’t watch their news. But the important thing is; They don’t know what is or isn’t real. They don’t have the skills, allies, or knowledge to sift through the bullshit.
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and then there’s a tiny layer of dregs down at the bottom of the barrel of nerds and perverts, us, who are obsessive about politics and information, who talk to people across the world, who are reflexively hostile to authority enough to try and i hope to god succeed in trying to pull some kind of actual picture of what’s really happening together.
But the Libs are paralyzed, unable to act, and trapped in their cycle of ritually voting then spending 4 years wondering why things aren’t getting better because they either have no grounding in reality at all, or because they cannot tell what is real and what isn’t anymore. It’s not even just propaganda and lies, it’s an inability to know that there is a real world that could be obscured by propaganda and lies.
IDfk, but there’s some big scale, big picture fuckery happening that turns people in to whatever the fuck is happening out there. I’m goinjg to bed.
Lots of libs are not even spending the four years wondering why things don’t get better. They go directly from believing “things will get better when we win the election” to a mixture of “the responsible adult thing to do is to make things worse and you’re naive to think that things can ever get better” and “don’t believe your lying eyes, things have gotten better because we say so” the moment they win.
Once campaigning season starts again they go back to “things will get better when we win!”. There’s no object permanence to be seen.