03-01-2019, 02:09 PM
(02-28-2019, 08:19 PM)genba Wrote: i care about the smollett hoax, because it's hilarious and further exposes how dumb the groups involved are. i don't think a non-leftist group could even buy something like that.
I totally get where you're coming from, and there was a time when I would've found it amusing too. But it's become such a regular occurrence that I can't bring myself to laugh about it or even acknowledge it anymore. It's just nauseating by now.
It's painful to watch so many fellow countrymen get swept up in a mass delusion, and to carry it on for so long and to such outrageous lengths. The left like to point to the behavior of nationalists and patriots, the "toxic" memes that parody the left and so forth, and glibly say, "That's not who we are." But, in the same vein as Smollett's shenanigans, that's just a catchy virtue-signalling buzz phrase designed to score points in the court of public opinion. They don't give a tepid broom closet fuck about dialing back the antagonism or having a rational dialog. Fatherless five-year-olds one-upping each other in the schoolyard. Smarmy douchenozzles trying to "own" each other in the comments and on the message boards.
It's frightening to ponder where it might lead. These people are heavily invested in their narrative, and are desperate to validate it at all costs, and in the face of all contrary evidence. It's become so vile that it's driving the best and brightest on the left away from liberalism altogether. God only knows how far they'll take it. They clearly don't have a moral compass to restrain their actions. That makes them dangerous. Stalin-level dangerous. Pol Pot-level dangerous. Ceaușescu-level dangerous.
