where else would you see this but "White People Twitter". ironically this bullshit is turning me into the Joker.
how do you even get to this point?
"that drone strike is just like ace combat 6!" "that's bad vibes officer, you're being just like Red Skull" "this Hitler guy reminds me of the fella from Wolfenstein"
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/14poz4d/aint_no_song_called_fck_the_fire_department/jqjvzak/
Lately I've been thinking about how it's like the old line about the Civil War: that you learn a little and you think it was about slavery, you learn a bit more and you get exposed to pseudointellectual Confederate apologia and get brainworms, and you learn a lot and realize that yes it actually was about slavery all along.
Here you learn a little about the world and realize capitalism and American hegemony are awful things, you learn a little bit more and you get exposed to pseudointellectual neoliberal apologia for American hegemony and get infested with brainworms (liberals are here), and then you learn more and realize that capitalism and American hegemony are even worse than you originally thought.
And in both cases the second stage is the result of a concerted reactionary propaganda effort that gets institutional support.
Same thing with the Iraq invasion and American control of oil.
#1 America invaded Iraq for oil
#2 It's actually more complicated than that, the US doesn't just invade countries for oil
#3 In 2000 Saddam was about to switch selling oil to the Euro from the Dollar, and it was invaded for control of oil
I've always heard this about wrestling. That as a kid you think it is real, you grow up and learn it is fake, then you become smart and realize how horrifically real the injuries and stakes are