Asking the fine people of chapo.chat for their theories here. What is the common link that makes you so susceptible to a line of word salad that doesn’t mean anything but drips in pathos
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It’s libs of all stripes, the metaphysical is the easiest thing in the world
Yup libs salivate at “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” the same way fash do with the “hard times make hard men…” bullshit
Curiously this never applies to communism
If communism isn’t a perfect utopia day one, then sorry sweaty, “it only works in theory.”
i respond with “the grotesquely insufficient is not good” and “the lesser evil is still evil”
i wonder why libs don’t like the sound of those?
No, no see hard men make good times! But now the soft men made hard times! I’m a hard man of course, even though I lived through the good times
It’s the aesthetics of fascism in words.
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They don’t care about the substance of an argument, just that it claims dominance forcefully.
He was an aphorism writer, there are countless aphorisms of his, I thought, one can assume he destroyed them, I write aphorisms, he said over and over, I thought, that is a minor art of the intellectual asthma from which certain people, about all in France, have lived and still live, so-called half philosophers for nurses’ night tables, I could also say calendar philosophers for everybody and anybody, whose sayings eventually find their way onto the walls of every dentist’s waiting room; the so-called depressing ones are, like the so-called cheerful ones, equally disgusting.
- Thomas Bernhard, The Loser (translated by Jack Dawkins)
The right has been sustaining itself on vibes forever
Anything that implies superiority is good, even if it’s nonsensical. The actual meaning has no bearing as long as it comes from someone they perceive as strong and smart
It’s why they portray Trump as a muscled sex-machine, when he’s the dowdiest little lord Fauntleroy ever. It’s why they love cowboys and Real Men™️ because they’re wise from The Land™️ and not some fancy book-learnin
If there’s one thing my armchair sociologist ass can add on, is that the right tends to have the advantage in battles of charisma, as people like them more and want to believe they are right. It’s “cool” to be a chud and chuds are “safe edgy” so they win over some disillusioned people as well who are too cowardly to face the truth.
Humans are generally more shame-based rather than guilt-based and as such, really want to be seen as the normal people, or at least in the good graces of the current “cool kids” so to speak. I don’t say this is a sneering way, but moreso describing the overton window and how the right wins. It’s why visibility, numbers, and language work for getting shit done. You can know we’re doing something right if someone says “treathog” on Twitter, for example.
Where this leads us is that chuds bank on aphorisms and vibes for this reason. We can be right on literally everything, but the right tells everyone everything they WANT to be true. We are the actual redpill and no one has the guts to admit that. (If it were up to me, we should turn the sunglasses into our dogwhistle to reference They Live, but I digress.)
TL;DR: Check out the alt right playbook’s video on Mainstreaming. This explains everything better than I can.
EDIT: tried to make a coherent thought out of my spitballing.
