Every liberal, they are reborn anew each day with no memories whatsoever of the past

  • NewLeaf
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    1 year ago

    I just have to keep telling myself, most extreme online liberals were born after 9/11 or were very young. Hell, I was only 13.

    Not a defense though. Just something to keep my blood pressure low. The only problem, is every twenty years there's a new crop of people refusing to listen to anyone who was there or learn from history in any way. They just love catchy phrases that make them feel smart

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      It's wild to me having been a teen during 9/11, so many memories coming back of a truly dark time. And you got liberals older than me repeating literally the same talking points.

      • NewLeaf
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        1 year ago

        I was 13 And interested in the military. I had so many brainworms to undo. It only took me smoking some weed and listening to hippie music to break me out of the dominator culture narrative

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          I too was into military shit. I had the picture of Saddam getting captured by navy seals on my locker in high school because I had brainworms.

          • NewLeaf
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            1 year ago

            It was truly a wild time to be learning how to navigate the world. I just wish I would have realized how cringe that all was from the jump

          • NewLeaf
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            1 year ago

            And now I'll be throwing that on when I'm cleaning the garage tomorrow!

    • memehaver2 [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      If only, it seems like they don't apply deduction to anything causing cognitive dissonance. Same shit with cia/fbi - "yeah they did fucked up shit up to %date_of_declassification%, but that's not a reason to mistrust them" but simultaneously they believe in "institutional memory". It is a choose-one situation and yet 🤷

      • NewLeaf
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        1 year ago

        As much as I'm sick of annoying internet phrases like "cognitive dissonance", they wouldn't be libs without it.

        • memehaver2 [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          Only got that and 1984.

          Well actually, freudists also have something about two simultaneous opposing ideas. it could be dialectics of opposite ideas with synthesis of "fuck non-white people"

    • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      The weird thing is I was also in my young teens, but seeing the libs dunking on Bush like they did Trump - with the same ineffectualness - plus things like protest music and Michael Moore, actually helped prime me for being a communist later in life.

      I remember questioning everything, never trusting the news, and now to see people fall for this shit again and again since 2014ish is fucking maddening.

      • NewLeaf
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        1 year ago

        When the war was in full swing, I used to go to all the rallies. After I realized nobody was there to actually do anything effective, I knew these weren't my people. 15 year old me was smoking pot and reading Abbie Hoffman. I fancied myself as an old school 60's leftist, still kinda do. I would come into the protests all full of piss and vinegar, and I would get told by the old folks there I was doing it wrong. Fuck them. Fuck them so hard!