I realise I'm asking a question that's probably going to get a resounding yes but I'm genuinely curious about the mentality of some people and I've been having a philosophical think about the type of person that thinks it's okay to just make shit up about people when it's clearly completely wrong and lie to their followers about what a person is like for the sake of clicks and virtue signal brownie points.
I feel like even I and others have been underestimating the level of retard we're dealing with in this aspect. Weirdly I keep thinking back to the recent escapades of mainstream media and particularly the Fresh & Fit podcast clip about women that they were circulating if anyone watched that and how they were claiming it's 'misogyny' and the old man the female journalist was virtue signalling was nodding along like everything was normal.
To me it was very much like they were simply reading from a script and got told by the staff when the clip had finished playing because what they said about the clip itself had nothing to do with the context and even by normie standards it was a case of 'where's the misogyny?'. They explained nothing, just said, that's misogynistic and they should be dealt with and moved on. So you know it's bad when even I'm defending lame oversaturated breadtube anti-feminist content.
It would certainly explain a lot of their attitude if it turned out we were dealing with NPCs who are simply getting told what to say through the teleprompter and didn't even look at any of the content they're complaining about which seems extremely likely given we know now how bad the NPCs are at this. The problem is of course unless you're somebody paying fairly close attention, you're not going to notice this is likely what they're doing and normies will go along with it which is why they in turn behave like retards too.
I know there are way more obvious example of this, like for instance Count Dankula ages ago when he got smeared about the nazi pug and it was blatant nobody had even seen the clip. However this one seems to be a more subtle trend I'm noticing. I think that they read this shit out, feign outrage without having even looked at the clip that gets aired on television and then go about their day wondering why they're getting so much backlash and simply assuming it's just evil white men. I also think that a lot of even the social media leftists do this which is why they come across as completely out of touch every time they comment on this sort of thing.
Leftism as an ideology is inherently and inextricably satanic.
This means that they reject the concepts of truth and objectivity. They literally see nothing wrong with lying. This is why it's a mistake to approach their ideology at face value, because all of their supposed ideological and economic arguments are just a motte and bailey.
They are evil for evil's sake. Their inconsistencies make sense when you realize that.
I was considering my own thread for this, but I think I'll just append it under your post since I don't know how to really expand on the idea.
In the recent years of horrible Marvel/Star Wars content, I've had the great misfortune to read a number of comment sections under videos "taking down" the criticisms of said horrible content. It is the usual Lefty nonsense of buzzwords and insults, but what I noticed was that Satanic Inversion that you mentioned.
They will accuse the critics of the slop of pretending to dislike it to farm hate-clicks and create ragebait for views. That "behind the scenes" we really actually enjoy it, but act like we don't because of some twisted mental defect. They do not believe that we can genuinely dislike the New Product, and instead manufacture a plethora of reasons why in order to fit in with some oppositional force. Why exactly we would want to be part of that force is never explained, just created for the purposes of insult and dismissal.
As we are all well aware, the Leftists are the ones routinely arguing against reality and pretending to believe things we know they must be having the most agonizing cognitive dissonance in order to keep living their lives and playing their role of Good Guy. They will say the ugly man in a dress is a beautiful woman; they will say that gender is a social construct, then bemoan the wagegap; they will say that borders aren't real, then demand prosecution for violating certain borders; they will demand the end of Capitalism, then donate money to streamers promoting Socialism who use that money to buy a $200,000 car; they will claim that Conservatives are banning books while hiring "sensitivity readers" to censor and rewrite passages offensive to their delicate feelings; they will claim Conservatives want to prey upon children while their own people keep getting caught in stings and they advocate for increasingly sexualized content be put in front of younger and younger kids.
These filthy animals are every disgusting hypocrisy possible combined with every miserable weakness of the human ego. They have to accuse you of being as bad as they are while pushing for their bad ideas to be normalized just to relieve the pressure on their own tortured souls. Anything to relieve the guilt that as built up over a lifetime of sin and shame and degeneracy. This is the end result of telling little lies to themselves their whole life because they don't want to reflect upon their own mistakes.
This deserves its own thread; it's narcissistic personality disorder writ across the entire population.
They don't even need to be less retarded than their audience, just slightly less so than the effort required to care past the headline. It just needs to sit at the back of their consciousness under "could be true, but I didn't bother to check it out".
Once someone else parrots the "fact", it resurfaces as "yeah, I heard that too". Thus, false consensus is born. You think you hate journalists enough, but you don't.
The Ben Rhodes "they literally know nothing" quote/story was 15 years ago. Which means all those people who "literally know nothing" 15 years ago are now training the next generation of "journalists", who will know even less.
So no, I don't expect them to look. And considering the casual vulgarity that's started to creep into even "prestige" publications, I don't expect it to get better any time soon.
lol it's just getting even more blatant I feel than that weirdness. Which is why I go out of my way to tell people not to debate with people who make NPC talking points even if it's online. This is also a big reason of why I've purged any big tech social media presence I once had and refuse to go there, at least on here I've got more a chance of talking to human beings even if we don't agree on everything.
These people aren't interested in honest debate and that's a mistake that right wingers and others keep making. They want to convince the normies because they know that people who are red pilled as fuck on this will never trust them anyway.
They actively edit out stuff to fit their narrative, of course they listen to it. So they can lie better, it's not just them being retarded. Believing they're just incompetent? That's what's retarded. These are active commie propagandists looking to destroy your way of life, enemies of the people.
Look at the zimmerman call all the way back in 2012
There are definitely people like that don't get me wrong, those are the smart psychopaths. However I think people even those who know the leftists very well like I do underestimate how retarded some of them are. I mean a great example of this is when Dankula trolled them with his whole Justice Dankula shtick and so many of the morons started posting about it on twitter until they realised they'd been trolled. He completely took advantage of their current thing mentality.
Right, but the question wasn't about npcs who listen and consume, it was about the mainstream media.
Yes they do.
They'd have to, if they don't want libel and slander (depending on how it's done) lawsuits at them over and over.
Thing is, they don't. Because most don't read beyond the headlines anymore. I was guilty of that for awhile. Now I just don't read the news at all.
I find I'm much more calm and relaxed when I don't remind myself the level of fucked up they'll go to just for a click and a pair of eyes on their low quality drivel.
I remember the guy who wanted to be famous, so he specifically put any shot of the Pentagon without obvious plane debris. Then he said it was a missile. Tons of people believed it.
Now we have the media doing exactly the same thing, and it's a shock how it works so well?