I hate when people use mental illness as a metaphor to explain why people disagree with them, it sucks for so many reasons
"You would unconditionally obey and absorb my every opinion if not for that little whoopsy doodle with your brainpan being all wrong."
the more I don't want to understand something the more complicated it must be.
Why do liberals need to believe their dumbshit baby politics are complicated? "It's complex it's nuanced" it almost never is, it's just transparent corruption or warmongering.
I got told by my mom during an argument about Israel-Palestine that my solution (israel stops existing and israelis become equal citizens in Palestine) was utopian, shortly before she proposed nuking Israel because "they keep fighting no matter what, so this is the only way"
Even things from living memory! "How will we solve the housing crises?!!" like seizing all the land and building more houses isn't staggeringly obvious.
Every couple of months I get to hear, completely unprompted, how many hundreds of millions of Chinese people we could kill if we somehow interdicted the straights of Malacca. There's something deeply, horrifyingly wrong with Americans.
Guess that's just the natural evolution of "We should glass the Middle East"
I used to think that when I was, idk, 15? 9/11 had just happened and I was about as wise as a not particularly wise rock. It's so weird to look back on, especially now having watched the destruction of Iraq, Libya, and countless other nations while having more experience and perspective.
Being on the opposite side of the country may have helped but I remember my teacher asking us how we felt about getting terrorismed and I couldn't fathom why I should care about a bunch of stock brokers getting got any more than a recent tsunami that had hit China and killed several thousand people.
I was also about as far from NYC as you can get so I really didn't have much context for it. The day of was so weird. I woke up hours after it happened, jumped on IIRC having no idea, and some random Russian person messaged me to say "Sorry about what happened, good luck surviving WWIII". It was hours or maybe a day or two before I figured out what had actually happened. Some people thought China had attacked us (from where? The Atlantic? We were so ignorant). It was eerie, there was always a huge amount of air traffic in my city, big planes and small bush planes, and the skies were empty for days. The only thing up there was air force fighters on patrol. We had an air base, so I was used to seeing them, but not like that.
After that, I got caught up in the propaganda for a year or two, then started to get suspicious, then got dragged out to pride by my hippy girlfriend to put on a prison jumpsuit and a hood and walk in the parade with my hands chained over my head, protesting Gitmo. It was one of my first real political actions, and also the first of many times I got booed for "ruining" pride with politics.
Anyone who proposed the solution of nuclear warfare should seek therapy. I know your mom will never have access to nukes but it says a lot about someone's character when instead of solving a problem, they'd rather murder millions of innocent people.
I don't mean to sound attacky. My own mom would say the same fucking thing.
it's just transparent corruption or warmongering
That's exactly why they need to believe it's complicated. If they recognized that it's not, they'd be acknowledging their own complicity.
yes it's transparent corruption and warmongering, but it also maintains a system that provides me with cheap consumer electronics and year-round fresh tropical fruits, coffee, and chocolate, so it's fucking complicated goddammit!
"Starvation is complicated" No it isn't, we produce more food than we need and throw most of it out before it even reaches a store. Give it away.
It's worse than that. The US massively subsidizes a lot of staples. They're dumped on foreign markets at below market prices. Local food producers can't sell their product and eventually fold, shutting down their farms. Or they switch to cash crops. Then, when the US decides to send it's grain somewhere else, or the market for hte cash crop collapses, there's either no money to buy food or no food at all and people starve.
A lot of 20th and 21st century famines were caused this way, with western powers, the IMF, the world bank, destroying local food security, forcing cash crops on people, instituting expensive input intensive farming practices unsuited for hte land, then wringing their hands and holding Live Aid concerts when a famine ensued.
Also just makes them sound like an incredulous moron to everybody who perfectly understands the problem because they aren't desperately refusing to understand it.
"Noooo you gotta use nuance! Things aren't always black and white in the real world!"
-Liberals who think exploring topics begins and ends with CNN
"Noooo you gotta use nuance! Things aren't always black and white in the real world!"
Also them:
- Russia Bad
- Putin Bad
- China Bad
- Xi Bad
- DPRK Bad
- Kim Jong Un Bad
- etcetera, etcetera
If it's too complicated, you just need to leave it to the experts. And we all know that the folks who make the most money know the most about things, so...
Ppl are really out here saying we have ptsd from the pandemic when there are millions of people in the US alone with permanent disability, disease and damage from Covid, huh?
Honestly there are so many valid reasons to be dissatisfied that I'm surprised there hasn't been another insurrection to overthrow the government yet.
Ok let's take a look at it from the view of the pandemic.
Do we go with the guy who did almost everything he could to make the pandemic worse, or the guy who lied about giving people covid relief money then declared it over and forced everybody back into the office.
The reason for disenfranchisement is that you can pick any topic and both candidates suck dogshit on that topic.
My life is significantly worse now than it was under the pandemic. Anyone that didn't own a home before 2022 is fucked for the rest of their lives. In 2019-20 there was at least some money and eviction protections. Now I get to spend the majority of my income on rent until I'm slowly priced out of living within commuting distance of my job.
Nobody cares that Trump tried to overthrow the government. He had no chance of succeeding in the first place, and in the second I wish he would have, because it would’ve lasted all of about two seconds and at least we would’ve been in one of those weeks where decades happen. Also silly pretending that trying to overthrow the US govt is necessarily a bad thing.
No one even remembers or thinks about it other than the most harebrained liberals. January 6th happened 4 years ago. The American political imagination barely stretches to the past 2 weeks and liberals expect people to still feel indignation for something that didn't impact them, didn't do anything, and happened so long ago it might as well have been fictional
"We captured the capital building, wahooo! That means we control things here at the heart of U.S. powe-" they are swiss cheesed through every window and wall by snipers and grenade launchers and heavy machine guns from planes
