In Australia, atm, the “current thing” is the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament, aka an unelected third chamber in our national parliament, further dividing the country by race…
Aaand I’ve already lost leftist social media “friends” over it. Not by posting about it. Not even by commenting. But by “liking” posts and/or pages that they disagree with…
“Be on the right side of history”, they cry, while steadily restricting their “friends” to only those who think exactly the same…
It’s bizarre. It really is utterly bizarre.
I don’t tend to do the same, on my end, because, I guess I’m not so “intolerant” of differing views. So I just find the whole idea rather bizarre…
Then again, the kind of people to “proudly” have politics in their profile pics/on their homepages are probably not the types you want around, anyway…
I just find it bizarre, though.
And these are graduates, for fuck’s sake.
No wonder things are so fucked, lol.
True. Yes, I’m increasingly realizing that “Succeeded at jumping through hoops and bullshitting” ≠ intelligent or able to think for oneself, lol…
Is it really that successful at brainwashing people, though?
Dunno why it didn’t work on me, then!
Maybe I was just too cynical and burned out already when I went in, so I wasn’t so… “Susceptible”. Honestly, who knows.
When grades depend largely on how hard they agree with the narrative, "graduate" just means gleefully indoctrinated.