Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Was the right racist about hockey fatality bloke?

 Remember the brown hockey dude who killed another dude with his skate?

 Okay, look: the right wasn't being racist. They were being constructively stupid. They figured, likely accurately, that the brown guy is a liberal, thus if the brown guy ended up in jail that's a defeat for liberalism. The idea is to gaslight the courts into charging him with a crime, so they all pretended it was obviously intentional in an attempt to socially pressure the agents of the system into acting according to their wishes.

 Secondly it's about being friends. "All MY buddies ""knew"" he did it on purpose." 

 Everyone who claimed they were foolish or otherwise unvirtuous for claiming it was "obviously intentional" were merely being autistic. Of course it's too stupid to believe, that's, indeed, part of the point. Showing you're willing to lie for the cause. Virtue countersignalling, you might say. "Loyalty trumps honesty." It doesn't work as countersignalling if the satire is too subtle to catch. 

 Please note that for my purposes, it doesn't matter if it's on purpose or not. We're talking about perception. 


 The problem is the ""right"" thinks you win by pulling down statues, instead of being able to pull down statues because you won. It seems the ignorant bumpkin stereotype is correct. And they're peasant demotists who think mobs are causes instead of results. Ref: folk activism.

 They think the left gained power because they persecuted Ricky Vaughn, rather than noticing that the left proves they have the power they already have via encourager les autres using such totems as dumbass "what's a security" Ricky. When you intend to rule the stupid, it's important to be anvilicious.

 In short the ""right"" agrees with the left: as long as everyone thinks Ukraine won the war, that's good enough. Whose army has collapsed due to lack of ammo is irrelevant, as long as journalists report Ukraine has won. 

 

 It is not very surprising that intellectual folk broadly choose the left when the ""right"" is the only alternative they're aware of. They're both leftist, but one has power and doesn't think wet streets cause rain (no matter how often their journalists say it does).


 The ""right"" is trying to out-lie Satan. Pride's not, like, a sin or anything, right? "We are definitely better prevaricators than the Prince of Darkness." 

 When Moldbug claimed America still had a living right-wing tradition, he was incorrect.

1 comment:

rezzealaux said...

The title/opening didn't make sense with the rest of the post, until it occurred to me "public talk are in essence leftist / unrelated to power", then I read the post after that and it fit.