I'm no psychologist, but having known people like that and arguing exhaustively with them online and offline for years I think it's a sort of ongoing conscience burial. They want so badly to not feel bad about bad things happening that they make it cool/smart to be status quo warriors. The alternative, that maybe bad things are happening and they don't have to be and that injustice isn't necessary and could be overcome, is too difficult for them to fathom because they got theirs and don't want to feel uncomfortable about it.
The same reason every white American is "1/16th Cherokee!"
Pretending that Native Americans were assimilated instead of genocided makes everyone a little more comfortable with the status quo.
The rise of DNA testing seems like it's starting to dispel that myth at least.
Agreed with the broad strokes of what you're saying, but some thoughts.
Pretending that Native Americans were assimilated instead of genocided makes everyone a little more comfortable with the status quo.
Even if someone is 1/whatever [insert indigenous tribe of choice] it doesn't mean they weren't genocided, it means that there was also likely a lot of
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sexual assault happening by Europeans as they carried out said genocide. Forced assimilation is a form of genocide anyway.
The rise of DNA testing seems like it's starting to dispel that myth at least.
Indigenous identity isn't based on blood quantum anyway. The idea that having "blood" makes you essentially a member of a culture is a racist conception. It's just the one drop rule but instead of "oh no! I'm not pure white! I've been tainted!" like the reaction used to be 100 years ago, it's now used as a shield to defend against accusations of racism. Right alongside "some of my best friends are X" etc.
It is pretty depressing and existentially terrifying to really try to unpack how much of whatever you are privileged to have was stolen and pillaged and still is. NGL...as I've gotten older and more and more depressed about it I've started taking more and more comfort in the fact that the case for free will being an illusion keeps getting stronger every day.
reminder that the average american will actually see a net wealth gain if global wealth were evenly distributed
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That's just dollar value though, it doesn't really tell the whole story.
Yea, the standard of living would collapse across the entire imperial core without dirt cheap resources and outsourced labour
yes, but what about the average redditor?
fuckin nuts that the countries with the greatest wealth inequality are the US, Sweden (???), and the former Soviet bloc.
Depends how you measure inequality tbh. If you measure gaps between the average income of the richest 10% and the poorest 10%, the US has a 3x higher inequality ratio than Sweden. If you measure gaps between the top 1% and bottom 50%, Sweden becomes more comparable to America, and is actually one of the few countries to have more billionaires per capita than the US. Sure they got their succdem benefits and strong social safety net, but they're the biggest free market shills when it comes to corporations and CEOs
God the longer I’m away from
the more the style and tone of the comments on that site make my skin crawl. It’s that fucking combination of smug and lazy that screams “I was a B- student that thought the system was preventing me from being an A+ student.”I've noticed the same since leaving reddit. i mean I always knew it was a hellhole but for years i just let myself be convinced there was somehow nothing better, no other option. now every time i see anything from
I have to take a bath to wash off the 
"The cold hard truth is that the status quo that benefits me is objectively good. Trust me, I totally don't like this conclusion but had no choice other than to arrive at it after intense scrutiny of all available evidence."
Empirically, well...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity?wprov=sfla1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question?wprov=sfla1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc?wprov=sfla1
Some theories on the author:
- It's literally a child.
- TBI
- It's the Midwest boomer that huffed lines of lead paint, stuck in the town he was born in.
- They live a very safe and comfortable life, to the envy of us all (see above).
- Florida
- Those must be some really good uppers (drugs)
- The author is doing drugs in Florida.
- It's the long awaited results of Ivermectin Self Trials, stages 1-3 (FL assumed)
- It's a hedge fund manager for the Church of Latter Day Saints
- It's literally a Republican Congressman
stuffing precious lobby money in it's pocketsiescampaigning. - It's that girl from HS that really likes horses
- It's literally the Whitehouse Press Secretary.
- It's the protagonist in a Newbury awarded coming of age novel.
- 3 words: unironic truck nuts
- They work for Rupert Murdoch.
- It's that dude with the fucked vibes that buys all of that junk embossed with The Punisher logo, and you don't know why but you can only assume he's a cop
- It's 5head transcendental dry humour.
- It's a neoclassical Economics professor
- Good old fashioned racism!!
- It's a self aware bot, the harbinger of the singularity.
- We can assume it's their kink.
- They self identify as libertarian (see above)
Some kind of unchecked antisocial personality disorder that will lead to dark consequencesAffluenza.- They love the taste of rubber and smell of Elon's signature Musk.
- They're doing a shitty job at a character study of Randy Marsh
- It's a sexy uncensored GPT bot
- It's your average Onnit connoisseur
- It's the little old lady that relies on her late husband pension and repeatedly falls for Indian call centre scams.
- It's that regular that comes into your shitty part time gig.
- Have you ever wondered who are the people that actually wind up being active members in prosperity gospel megachurches?
- Cargo Cults: NFTs Remixed & Reha$hed - Pt. 2 Electric Boogaloo
- They just really don't give a shit about the third world because we obviously live in a meritocracy.
- It's that kid that won't shut up about Bitcoin and the IMF.
This isn't even advanced, this is bottom-level "AMERICA GOOD" thinking
100%. The only thing noteworthy about this vintage of brainworm is that it calls back to Rome in a way the founding slavers would have loved (Pax Romana -> Pax Americana).
Prove it with stats motherfucker, I dare you
wildly gestures to global south
When people internalise all the media that puts America as the "good guy" and then starts to think its real
They see the bad things are necessary, or even cool, and they feel smart by performatively defying expectations and being contrarian by saying so. Ultimately, they nod along to their treats that tell them that The Adults In The Room have to Make The Hard Decisions and Get Shit Done.
The cold hard truth is that the world has become an infinitely better place for imperialism since we became a superpower, whether you agree with it or not. I'd like to keep it that way.
"Ftfy"
Let's start with the username: Rough-Aioli-9622
This is a person who proudly announces their alliance to mayonnaise
The rest of it is a treat demon simply arguing that the treat conveyor is nice and they'd like to keep it.
sole superpower they mean? because America has been a superpower since end of WW2 atleast and America isn't the only superpower anymore, there is China and to a lesser extent Russia.
better for who
BETTER FOR WHO MOTHERFUCKER
