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I'm no psychologist, but having known people like that and arguing exhaustively with them online and offline for years I think it's a sort of ongoing conscience burial. They want so badly to not feel bad about bad things happening that they make it cool/smart to be status quo warriors. The alternative, that maybe bad things are happening and they don't have to be and that injustice isn't necessary and could be overcome, is too difficult for them to fathom because they got theirs and don't want to feel uncomfortable about it.

"i am comfortable please stop challenging my worldview"

God the longer I’m away from the more the style and tone of the comments on that site make my skin crawl. It’s that fucking combination of smug and lazy that screams “I was a B- student that thought the system was preventing me from being an A+ student.”

Empirically, well...

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity?wprov=sfla1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question?wprov=sfla1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc?wprov=sfla1

Some theories on the author:

• It's literally a child.
• TBI
• It's the Midwest boomer that huffed lines of lead paint, stuck in the town he was born in.
• They live a very safe and comfortable life, to the envy of us all (see above).
• Florida
• Those must be some really good uppers (drugs)
• The author is doing drugs in Florida.
• It's the long awaited results of Ivermectin Self Trials, stages 1-3 (FL assumed)
• It's a hedge fund manager for the Church of Latter Day Saints
• It's literally a Republican Congressman ~~stuffing precious lobby money in it's pocketsies~~campaigning.
• It's that girl from HS that really likes horses
• It's literally the Whitehouse Press Secretary.
• It's the protagonist in a Newbury awarded coming of age novel.
• 3 words: unironic truck nuts
• They work for Rupert Murdoch.
• It's that dude with the fucked vibes that buys all of that junk embossed with The Punisher logo, and you don't know why but you can only assume he's a cop
• It's 5head transcendental dry humour.
• It's a neoclassical Economics professor
• Good old fashioned racism!!
• It's a self aware bot, the harbinger of the singularity.
• We can assume it's their kink.
• They self identify as libertarian (see above)
• ~~Some kind of unchecked antisocial personality disorder that will lead to dark consequences~~Affluenza.
• They love the taste of rubber and smell of Elon's signature Musk.
• They're doing a shitty job at a character study of Randy Marsh
• It's a sexy uncensored GPT bot
• It's your average Onnit connoisseur
• It's the little old lady that relies on her late husband pension and repeatedly falls for Indian call centre scams.
• It's that regular that comes into your shitty part time gig.
• Have you ever wondered who are the people that actually wind up being active members in prosperity gospel megachurches?
• Cargo Cults: NFTs Remixed & Reha$hed - Pt. 2 Electric Boogaloo
• They just really don't give a shit about the third world because we obviously live in a meritocracy.
• It's that kid that won't shut up about Bitcoin and the IMF.

This isn't even advanced, this is bottom-level "AMERICA GOOD" thinking

Prove it with stats motherfucker, I dare you

wildly gestures to global south

Neither cold, nor hard, nor true

When people internalise all the media that puts America as the "good guy" and then starts to think its real

citizen of the reich thinks the reich is good

better for who

BETTER FOR WHO MOTHERFUCKER

Let's start with the username: Rough-Aioli-9622

This is a person who proudly announces their alliance to mayonnaise

The rest of it is a treat demon simply arguing that the treat conveyor is nice and they'd like to keep it.

The cold hard truth is that the world has become an infinitely better place for imperialism since we became a superpower, whether you agree with it or not. I'd like to keep it that way.

"Ftfy"

sole superpower they mean? because America has been a superpower since end of WW2 atleast and America isn't the only superpower anymore, there is China and to a lesser extent Russia.

Most people who spout bullshit like this know it's bullshit on some internal level, they just spout it cuz there's some incentive for them to try and convince as many people as possible to ACT like it's true. Most people who embrace bullshit worldviews aren't doing it cuz some oh so charismatic huckster "brainwashed", they talked themselves into pretending to believe it to protect their treats. These people aren't innocent dupes, they're active participants.

Thank you to whomever translated this from the original Mandarin.

God, it's like if Bill Kristol and Steven Pinker had a baby. This is what it would say immediately after coming out of the womb.

I guess it's better in the sense that not being in the middle of a world war (yet) is better than being in the middle of a world war

feel like pure shit just want her back

Better for who?

schniff