The take I saw this week, from a discussion I had in relatively polite company:
"The problem with society these days is everyone is so selfish..."
(wait for it)
"... they only think about themselves and what they can get out of everyone else..."
(wait for it)
"...humanity needs a course correction..."
(uh oh)
"... humans need to stop asking for handouts and start asking what they can do for humanity..."
(appetizer, and now main course)
"... and we need to believe in ELO~N so ELO~N keeps believing in us!" :so-true:
:agony-yehaw:
Talking about the war in Ukraine with somebody, they kept talking about how Russia is on the ropes and are about to lose. All I said was we don't really know how things are going or what's going to happen. They said "you know, it takes zero effort for you to root for the good guys and you're both-sidsing this?!"
Apparently you have to agree it's a simple, clear cut good vs. evil situation and then pick a side while you're discussing the way media reports shit during the fog of war.
He's not wrong about it taking zero effort, even if he's full of :brainworms: about what "good guys" means.
That's true, he was putting zero effort into it. Good point.
Yup, this is what it was like in the run up to and early days of the Iraq war. Just a total rejection of reality.
Okay, "nazis are bad. Bigots are bad"
99% of people cannot say this and nose dive straight into explaining why Hitler good, actually.
They're right you know.
It takes zero effort to say "Z".
This really revealing. They think that your rooting for Ukraine is important for Ukraine winning. As if Ukraine were Goku charging a spirit bomb.
Moreover, it's important for you to believe Ukraine is winning for them to win. Which is weird, in sports I root for teams all the time that are losing or that I think will lose.
That's an interesting way to look at it. It's kind of like an idealogical purity test for these people.