Imagine being so Stockholm Syndromed by the police state that you blame another country over the cops who actually did it
I know people joke about Conservatism causing Brain Rot, but this seems to be yet more undeniable evidence that it is indeed the case.
We need to seriously discuss mass re-education. Giving a person with this level of brain rot any political power -- even a single vote -- is a failure of liberal democracy.
Is it really re education if they clearly haven't had much of an education to begin with?
I'm sorry, that's mean, there are uneducated people who are decent human beings that didn't have an education and don't deserve that comparison.
There are at least three groups here:
- The politically uneducated: they just haven't received the type of education that allows them to call out bullshit propaganda as bullshit propaganda. Note that this can apply to someone who hasn't finished high school as much as it can apply to someone with a grad degree.
- The people who just don't give a fuck about human life: unless it's a friend or family member, they'll gladly trade human suffering for money. They'll butcher countless faceless foreigners to maintain their current standard of living.
- The Ben Carsons: I don't know what the fuck else to call someone who is a literal brain surgeon but thinks the pyramids were built to store grain.
Group 1 is the easiest to work with, and (hopefully) the most common.
I think 1., as in people to politically uneducated to understand populist scapegoats, overlaps a lot with 2. in form of people that dont want to understand what the real reasons for the problems are, because its just easier for them to follow this bullshit.
And 3. imo is really widespread in form of the following of celebrities, that may be good at something, but dont know shit about anything else, but still get seen as a kind of messias
Eh, I don't think that an average reactionary crank is nessesary something you'd have to worry about.
The average reactionary crank enabled Republicans to obstruct any real climate change action for the past 30 years. Imagine where we'd be on probably the most important issue in the world if H.W. Bush and the ~1990-vintage GOP didn't turn carbon emissions into a partisan issue. And don't get me wrong, Democrats are weak on climate change, too -- but part of the reason they can be weak and still get elected is because Republicans are so much fucking worse.
More immediately, the average reactionary crank is either cheering on or tacitly approving of the police state going full fascist.
We rip on libs plenty, and every bit of it is deserved, but don't forget how harmful right-wingers are.
Ah, I meant like post-revolution, which is when I assumed you get the power to force those people into reeducation. My point is that you don't nessesary need to put those kinds of people into camps or whatever. You just don't give them any power, tell them to shut up about their reactionary bullshit and wast majority of them would be too cowardly to cause any trouble.
Yeah, I know, I'm probably being idealistic and native...
My point is that you don’t nessesary need to put those kid of people into camps or whatever.
There are probably better ways to re-educate people en masse, anyway.
I was going to say, if you control the media, the books, the schools, it only takes a decade to teach everyone to forget the stupid bullshit. the problem is actually getting control of those things while everyone screams about free speech.
I thought I had already seen the worst China take, turns out it can always get worse.
President Xi, I've asked you so many times on Reddit as well. Please liberate our country.
I've heard an easy way to differentiate Falun Gong stuff with other anti-China stuff is the absurd amounts of times Communism is mentioned in said stuff.
As in the Falun Gong does or doesn't bring up communism an absurd amount of times? Because the Chyna posters I see all seem to bring it up a lot
As in Falun Gong stuff will always refer to it as "Communist China" or similar even if they previously have mentioned it.
Looking at this photo "Communist China" is said 5 times in about a paragraph of writing.
The average Redditor will do the exact same thing though, with lots of references to the CCP for good measure.
Gotta mention it as Communist China and highlight it so it looks scarier
He coincidentally died of covid the second he would have otherwise died from the cops, duh.
I don't think comparable countries have comparable numbers of people at this level. This is a high level operator.
Q Thought is spreading internationally though, in a very limited way so far, usually associated with nativism, faux patriotism, antivax, antiabortion, christianity, and anti5G.
