Basically, a test to see if someone only knows conformist ideas or if they're capable of seeing alternative perspectives?
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To add onto this, some people aren't just conformist, they're retarded on top of that. I have a coworker who would be best described as "NPC-lite." He will believe most things unquestioningly. That includes when I push back on his occasional NPC-like remarks, we will often discuss and he will admit he isn't super knowledgeable and that what I'm saying is probably more close to the truth
And then a couple weeks later the same topic will come up and he will spout the same NPC talking point that we had already came to a mutual understanding were BS. He will just completely forget entire conversations. That's just a specific example, but I've had similar experiences with multiple people. It's like they don't even have the baseline mental capacity required to be non-conformist.
This kind of thing right here is why so called democracy is a farce. Because most people are goldfish.
Yep. Fortunately this specific dude doesn't vote, but plenty of people at his level or worse do.
Hence why you have the media manufacture consent.
Have you, gradually, come to hate him?
Hate is a strong word but he grates on me a lot at times that's for sure. I feel a bit guilty about it because from the outside we look like good buddies since we often get lunch together but internally half the time he opens his mouth I'm just like "ugh."
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Your coworker didn’t forget your earlier conversation. He’s just a dishonest manipulative fuck.
I can see why you would think that. And if I saw someone saying this without any knowledge of the person I would probably come to the same conclusion. But trust me when I say this dude's memory really is that bad.
He's the type of guy who if you are around him long enough will tell you the same story 3 times in one week thinking he didn't tell you yet. And, the most frustrating part of it, sometimes he gets the details of his own stories mixed up and I have to correct him because I've heard it already....
Sometimes it's easy to forget just how dumb normies can be....
One of my friend's wives tried to understand the "Lets Go Brandon" meme when it was mildly brushed against (Somebody on a show had the name Brandon). Her conclusion was "I thought they were against censorship, it's ironic they can't just say fuck biden".
It's frustrating when so much of the time it isnt even just them disagreeing with us on fundamental issues, it's just them being blatantly retarded. Not being able to understand that that has nothing to do with the type of censorship that is normally discussed in the political arena means you are so retarded you don't deserve to be able to vote.
Funny that you say that though, because I literally just responded to someone on plebbit 5 minutes ago who said I'm advocating against free speech for saying it's a net positive if twitter collapses because it was a leftist cesspool before.
This one. The defining trait of the NPC is that it responds to new information with anger or fear.
COVID is a fairly easy target without showing all your cards