It’s wild how often the right uses this argument when their incredible gullibility leaves them looking moronic. Like, no, it doesn’t mean anything about society. It means you specifically are dumb and naive and vastly overestimating your own intelligence.
yea I’m double posting this in the thread, but look at how well this lines up:
Being told that the Bad Thing they were purportedly upset about
wasn’t real only made them more upset. Proof that the 23rd largest
corporation in America was not in league with the Devil made them
defensive and very, very angry.
I think they’re mostly right but their uncritical embrace of the seven deadly sins of a concept is pretty weird. Also the idea that one has to be good “for good reasons that are entirely selfless” is kind of weird too. It’s normal and good for people to have pride in not being a bad person, actually. The bad part is when you base that pride on falsehood (and pride is not the same thing as feeling superior to other people)
Of course it should also be based in actually caring about other living things but that’s like, idk kinda of assumed I thought
The followup:
“Sure I made it up, but isn’t it scary that the dumbest people on planet earth believed it???”
It’s wild how often the right uses this argument when their incredible gullibility leaves them looking moronic. Like, no, it doesn’t mean anything about society. It means you specifically are dumb and naive and vastly overestimating your own intelligence.
Boomers: Don’t believe everything you read online, kiddo
Also Boomers: Hot conservative lady said Satan is going to ascended from the earth and eat a baby live on air tonight at 6 PM!
yea I’m double posting this in the thread, but look at how well this lines up:
from https://redsails.org/false-witnesses/
Thanks for sharing, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading but this is a great essay.
These are such wise words.
I think they’re mostly right but their uncritical embrace of the seven deadly sins of a concept is pretty weird. Also the idea that one has to be good “for good reasons that are entirely selfless” is kind of weird too. It’s normal and good for people to have pride in not being a bad person, actually. The bad part is when you base that pride on falsehood (and pride is not the same thing as feeling superior to other people)
Of course it should also be based in actually caring about other living things but that’s like, idk kinda of assumed I thought
“It’s very telling that people believe things I say.”
Yeah, its telling that your followers have rocks for brains