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Watching people cheer shit like this on, on a website that's banned in Russia by Roskomnadzor for the 'Ho-Ho-Holocaust' meme, is really wild. They literally bulldozed a pizza shop over an edgy shitpost - just absolutely insane, petty shit from a country that has the overwhelming firepower advantage. Same thing with the retarded Laura Loomer posts where she's trying to get people fired or harassed for protesting in favor of Hamas - after hearing the same exact people for 6 years (accurately) talk about how cancel culture is incompatible with free speech and democratic self rule. She once came pretty damn close to typing out 'hate speech isn't free speech'.
It's like watching the Iraq War or the Covid mentality coalesce again in real time - where if you pointed out that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with Al Qaeda, or talked at all about a lab leak, people just freaked out on you for cheering for the 'bad side' of the conflict. Can't ever add nuance or any bit of depth to the conversation, just 'ra ra ra America/Israel'. Then, months/years later, when it's crystal clear that they were wrong about everything, they wonder how everyone could have agreed on something so dumb before moving on to the next public crisis and doing the exact same shit.
I think George Kennan once described the modern American body politic as 'Americanosaurus Rex' - a big angry dinosaur with a tiny brain, that reflexively smashes whatever crisis is in front of it without ever thinking very much about the root causes or the ramifications of their proposed interventions. Glad to see the old dinosaur is still thrashing mindlessly around, goaded on by its mass/social media brainworms.
