Tismguide
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- Feb 24, 2020
That's what chills me to the bone about all this -- how easily controlled they are. It was the same thing with comparing having borders to concentration camps. For a day or two, my friends were rolling their eyes at the absurdity, and not a week later one was screaming at me for saying the comparison was absurd. It was the same with going from "the masks don't work lol you idiot" to "wear a mask". And probably many other things that I myself fell for without noticing. They have no memory of what they believed last week, and anything that contradicts the narrative just gets "it doesn't look like anything to me".Its the same with my friends and family. They were all agreeing initially but then their favorite celebrity idols started saying something else and they abandoned any original thoughts they had. I don't dare say jack shit since according to let's say Patton "Chubkins" Oswalt or Sesame Street, I might be a secret KKK Clan Dragon out to brainwash my loved ones because I happen to think that property damage and assault over this bullshit is stupid and unnecessary and that anarchy and antifa is fucking retarded, especially when some cops have done far worse to even members of their own races over the last few years in isolated incidents.
These are people I grew up with, people who used to analyze politics carefully and give nuanced views, now just completely hijacked by anger and fear, spouting this week's two minute hate, every week. How much of that is getting older and feeling a drive toward tribal politics, an how much is an insidious mind virus that turns people into monsters?