Being a right winger must be cool, you can basically just make up shit and lie about anything and your fellow right wingers mostly just say "that's just my opinion" or "kek" or "lol triggered?" and it's like a get-out-of-fact-checking-free card.
Jesus fucking christ, my parents do this shit constantly. About like, shockingly blatant facts. Like I can site the US Bureau of Labour Statistics or my own medical records or something, and they're like "That's your opinion. I could spend just a much time as you googling the opposite opinion" and usually that literally isn't even possible.
Honestly, I think it often skirts further away from "I love America, a country I moved to from a marginally better one in order to make more money in thanks to an exploitative healthcare industry, only to find out that the leopards ate my face and I actually have a lower quality of life than I would in Canada, in spite of having a slightly shinier Mercedes than I would there" and more into "I refuse to believe any objective fact that shows I made any poor choices or abused my children, or that I actually did experience privilege that others may not have had."
That is to say, I think it's less about actual ideology and more about self preservation of their own psyche. Although, perhaps those things are more closely related than we think.
holy shit my brother does that to me, yesterday i told him he wouldnt find any extra enjoyment from buying a big expensive jeep and he said its just my opinion, despite him not even having his permit yet, he hasnt experienced driving more than a dozen times and hes telling me that big box that pulls pedestrians under it is more fun.
My family always seems to have so much fun being right wingers. Half of their politics come down to making people mad, the other half are wild conspiracies about demons wearing people suits.
They've told me North Korea sends air waves over the ocean that makes American water poisonous. They also constantly mix up China and North Korea, but it doesn't seem to even matter to them.
Being a right winger must be cool, you can basically just make up shit and lie about anything and your fellow right wingers mostly just say "that's just my opinion" or "kek" or "lol triggered?" and it's like a get-out-of-fact-checking-free card.
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Jesus fucking christ, my parents do this shit constantly. About like, shockingly blatant facts. Like I can site the US Bureau of Labour Statistics or my own medical records or something, and they're like "That's your opinion. I could spend just a much time as you googling the opposite opinion" and usually that literally isn't even possible.
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Yes you can. :gulag:
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I think his joke was that you can change the programming by zeroing out the memory, so to speak. Doesn't seem we have a wall emote, though.
That really is pure ideology.
Honestly, I think it often skirts further away from "I love America, a country I moved to from a marginally better one in order to make more money in thanks to an exploitative healthcare industry, only to find out that the leopards ate my face and I actually have a lower quality of life than I would in Canada, in spite of having a slightly shinier Mercedes than I would there" and more into "I refuse to believe any objective fact that shows I made any poor choices or abused my children, or that I actually did experience privilege that others may not have had."
That is to say, I think it's less about actual ideology and more about self preservation of their own psyche. Although, perhaps those things are more closely related than we think.
holy shit my brother does that to me, yesterday i told him he wouldnt find any extra enjoyment from buying a big expensive jeep and he said its just my opinion, despite him not even having his permit yet, he hasnt experienced driving more than a dozen times and hes telling me that big box that pulls pedestrians under it is more fun.
My family always seems to have so much fun being right wingers. Half of their politics come down to making people mad, the other half are wild conspiracies about demons wearing people suits.
They've told me North Korea sends air waves over the ocean that makes American water poisonous. They also constantly mix up China and North Korea, but it doesn't seem to even matter to them.
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