Some might assume I'd say techbros, and while I do despise them for sure, at a personal level I'm especially put off by the cryptobro subvariety of techbro. Talking to them, offline and in person, feels like talking to them online. They're that online. They're that cognitively insulated. Everything to them is transactional. The person they're talking to only exists as a mark or an obstacle to their ongoing acquisition and trade of planet burning internet tokens. I see it in their eyes. I see the artificial and crude predatory switch-flipping when it's clear that someone they're talking to isn't having it, in much the same way that high level Scientologist registers someone as "fair game" and goes hunter-killer on them. It's creepy for me at a deeply personal level.
This one.
And unfortunately I'd also mention that this isn't just an American thing, its everywhere. The middle class sees their barely worthwhile higher education as a validation of their worldview in and of itself, as if having a degree itself gives legitimacy to whatever shit they believe. Its basically having a license to say and believe the most stupid shit.
It is funny because anti-intellectualism is really bad too, but when a chud says "college is brainwashing" I'm confident it is pretty easy for a socialist to make an argument in favor of this in some circumstances, economics or politics(remember the user that was posting their shit professor takes on this site) it is in fact extremely obvious.
And yet it feels very demoralizing having to still have to be responsible and make them understand that on the other hand it is not all bad and people need to learn to be doctors and engineers etc and capitalism is the root problem here.