The amount of idiots siding with the brazilian judge is retarded. I remember when banning vpns was a sign of a totalitarian regime
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The amount of idiots siding with the brazilian judge is retarded. I remember when banning vpns was a sign of a totalitarian regime
Likely never for most. One thing I've noticed is that 95%+ of people are only capable of seeing and evaluating the world through the lens of their own experience and position. Cognitive empathy, the ability to truly see and understand the thought process of another and how/why they arrived at their position is exceptionally rare among people, and that includes the Right. One result of that is that the extreme majority of the Right will never be able to break themselves from searching for the next "gotcha! You defended X yesterday and you're attacking it today! You're a hypocrite!" moment. Because being logically and morally consistent is important to, or at very least something worth seriously considering, most on the Right, and since they can only evaluate things through their own lens, they believe it to be an appropriate attack vector on the left. Because it would be for them.
Imagine trying to fight a ghost by shooting at it with a shotgun. The pellets keep harmlessly passing through with no effect. Now imagine being unable to wrap your head around the idea that it's having no effect because you know that if someone shot you with a shotgun, it would be devastating. Your brain can't make the next leap to understand that just because it works on you, doesn't mean it works on the ghost. You just keep trying and trying and trying and trying and every time nothing happens you pause for a confused second waiting for the ghost to be destroyed, and when it doesn't happen, you shoot it again. Nothing happens, rinse repeat.
That's the Right attacking the Left with standards that are important to the Right. Standards like being logically or morally consistent. Since it matters to us, it must matter period. When it doesn't work, and the Left doesn't give a shit about being exposed as a hypocrite, we pause for a confused second not understanding why, and the just try for the next hypocrite gotcha. Rinse repeat. Most humans don't have brains capable of making that next leap of understanding others on any real level. They can only evaluate through their own lens.
And like you said, the real important factor is that it's about beating the enemy. That's what it is for them against us, and that's what it should be for us against them. It's a major handicap of the Right and one of the reasons I personally think we're going to ultimately lose this side of the Collapse. The Right cares too much about fighting "the right way" because they think how you win is important. Since it's important to the Right, back to only being able to see the world through your own lens, most think that means that it's important. It's not. It's only important to you. No one else actually cares. History doesn't remember how the winners win, the winners get to tell history what to remember and believe. It only matters that you win. The left does understand this, the Right refuses to.
Good post. Correct on all accounts. Only thing I would add is that some leftists do care about being morally and logically consistent like the right but because they see the right as such a threat, they fail to see their own hypocrisy while suggesting it's actually different because... and the right-wing actually does something quite similar. The left even tries to attack the right with the right's hypocrisy. Many right-wingers laugh at it because they don't understand how it's hypocrisy, which is what the left does when the right points it out because both sides are so dialed into their bubble of reality, they don't understand the other side's perspective.
I understand both sides only because I was a staunch leftist who even argued for communism before I switched to a staunch right-winger who has now actually dialed back to basically neither anymore. I don't really have a group anymore. I think both sides are pretty damn fucked and don't serve my interests.
Anyway, the other thing I wanted to add is that the right is losing as you say because the right doesn't understand many of the values/beliefs they hold dear are subverted values literally created by their enemies specifically designed to handicap them so they can't win. If you were a slave master, wouldn't you teach your slaves that they shouldn't have moral values that pose any threat to the masters? That's exactly the kinds of morals most right-wingers have. Moral values that pose 0 threat to the controllers of society such that nothing will change even with right-wingers running the government. Many of the values right-wingers hold are values that wouldn't fundamentally change society at all but would just keep society progressing in the exact same way it is now, albeit with a slightly different flavor but at a fundamental level, hardly anything would change and we'd still be headed in the same direction as a civilization as we're going now. Most right-wingers are equally opposed to actual fundamental changes to our society's culture that would change the course of civilization entirely in the same way leftists are against changing these fundamental values/beliefs. If neither side wants to change these fundamental values/beliefs then both sides are basically the same thing wearing different colored uniforms and putting their dicks in different holes.