https://twitter.com/DanaHoule/status/1355229478482489346

There's a guy in the replies unironically claiming Will Menaker is a QAnon guy

Libs understand the groups they hate about as well as right-wingers do

      • BasedGiraffe [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        This is basically what Matt says his thoughts are on what all of western politics currently amounts to.

        His most recent Cushvlogs episode was a more in depth take of this basically just being everything in our politics

      • discontinuuity [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I would volunteer to get yelled at by conservative boomers as long as I can yell back and call them boot lickers

          • discontinuuity [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Don't I know it

            I wasted a good half hour last week (while sitting on the toilet at work, natch) arguing with some dumb lib who thought that Hitler was literally a communist

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      love 2 make up shit and get mad at the shit i make up and also share it with others so they too, can be mad at imaginary shit. real good 'ol american pastime

  • neebay [any,undecided]
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    4 years ago

    and now he thinks trueanon is a PUA podcast because they sarcastically responded to the guy calling WSB incels

    • longhorn617 [any]
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      4 years ago

      I mean I think it's established that Brace is pretty popular with the ladies.

    • NaokoYamadaStan [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      These people take everything at literal face value. It's like what Matt said when he said that mainstream movies just tell you everything and don't leave anything up for deeper thought (related to when he also has said subtext is said). People are so used to being spoonfed that they literally do not have the capability to look at anything below face value. This leads one to think Brace fucking Belden is a pick up artist because he makes an edgy joke.

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    4 years ago

    I was listening to the latest QAA and thinking that you could probably make a Q to chapo/left pipeline for the young save the children types. That is, if you had the motivation to make an early contrapoints style YouTube full of their language and tie their half baked shit into actually fleshed out work on government stuff.

    Could you imagine if someone took that deformed sovereign citizen cope going around now and said “it goes deeper - did you know Lincoln, your favorite president, communicated and was friendly with Marx?”

    • MagisterSinister [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Wildest part about that is that somehow they believe Russia's propaganda budget allows you to send your troll armies into every single online discussion, while simultaneously believing that nobody else is doing that.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        4 years ago
        • Infrastructure $120bn
        • Industry $80bn
        • Administration $40bn
        • Troll armies $1.5tn
        • Military $60bn

        someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

    • Zo1db3rg [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      People are mad because life sucks but they don't have the drive (or intelligence) to actually figure out the root cause (fucking capitalism) so they either just make up boogymen to hate or, in many cases, just lump all the groups they don't fully understand into one pile of "I don't understand, nor care to try to understand, these groups, therefore they are all the same and bad."

  • ShoutyMcSocialism [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Can we make up our own insane conspiracy about Bernie secretly controlling the entire government because he was ordained by Jesus Christ?

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Libs: YOU CAN'T JUST CALL EVERYONE YOU DON'T LIKE A FASCIST!

    Also libs: Everyone I don't like is a fascist.

  • fuckhaha [any,none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    There’s a guy in the replies unironically claiming Will Menaker is a QAnon guy

    Will Menaker is in the comments doing the same

  • Zo1db3rg [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    "I do not understand these things therefore they are all the same and bad."

  • Bonescape [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The thing is, once you break down the social order and see through their narratives, then you have to generate a new structure of giving meaning, and this is not easy. Especially dangerous is going in boundless and gobble up all the crazy theories without scrutiny, then you'd easily end up with Q shit. But even more dangerous is just beeing and staying a lib, and having so little understanding of whats going on that you can't tell apart left from right, water from fire.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Did they findout about trueanon and get confused by the name?