Congrats, you are now one of the many posters pat has put on ignore.
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My only comment is that if youse is gonna butcher the use of âyouâreâ vs âyourâ, at least do it in consistent fashion -WTF with the mixing and matching usage???!!! My eyes are spinning.
Let Strunk & White rest in peace.
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But it does! You gotta watch Brain Games. Its a show that was on discovery about the ins and outs of the brain & mind, with emphasis on our brains tendency to conserve energy and be lazy, which makes it easy to trick sometimes.
Thats where weaponized stupidity comes in. It has been utilized by ideologists of all stripes to co-opt entire large groups.
Like Pat. Heâs bouncing around between his own ears right now thinking that âif xyz is bad, and this guy believes x, then heâs xyz.â Which is not always true, and disregards any nuance or reason why one would be x, y, or z but not xyz.
Now imply some virtues or morals or political ideology- and you have weaponized stupidity. Us vs. Them. No need to think any further. Red good, blue bad!
Never mind that I completely disagree with all of the other stuff, and see Russias attack of Ukraine a humanitarian atrocity, not a political âsideâ.
Problem is, everyone assumes the stupid one is the other guy. We should all consider the real possibility that it might be us. (And almost certainly is at least some of the time)
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I predicate a lot of my thoughts with âI could be wrongâ as an exercise or thought validation/invalidation process.
And I am, pretty often. Or at least make decisions and take actions based on intuition, assumption and emotion.
In fact, last week I set about a whole repair plan for some stuff at work based on the assumption that the one part I would be welding everything to would be steel.
Later that night I realized it was an assumption, and there were several good reasons it might be aluminum, which would fuck the plan pretty hard.
After checking, it turned out to be steel, not aluminum, and everything continued smoothly to completion.
But that tendency is always there. I got lucky that time, but there are countless times that I/we werenât.
At least 50% of the time youâll be right.
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I suppose thatâs why so many issues are easlily politicized and people just go along party lines. I think a bipartisan regime as is the case with the US facilitates that ââweaponized stupidityââ you speak of.
The covid vaccine thing, for example, had more to do with a personal stance/opinion and less to with politics in many countries whereas in America you could tell oneâs opinion if you knew who they vote for.
Same with the Russia/Ukraine issue and the pats of the world, apparently.
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Yeah. Our brains like to think in archetypes and schematics. If/then. Make things simple. Spiders bad. Blue berries good.
But things arenât always simple.
In trying times especially, youâll see this type of stuff that makes it really easy. Pick your side and move forward with confidence and certainty!
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What will you say if Ukraine will not have won in a couple of months (dragging it on is both a way to avoid further embarrassment and the strategy to weaken Russia - in theory) and the conflict will end up being mostly ignored?
At which point will you be willing to admit a Russian W?
American warfare since WW2 has always been phony and, frankly, deceitful. Russia will be happy just to occupy and do its thang while the news will be more than happy to imply that total lgbt victory is just around the corner, look hereâs a photo of Zelensky looking swole and angry!
At least in the US, it Is mostly ignored. Like, "this was so many news cycles ago, are they still doing that? ".
Thats not really up to me. There are articles and terms and all kinds of official war stuff. Im just some guy in Pennsylvania.
Is that Russias strategy? They just keep losing battle after battle instead of just retreating. I guess if everybody that fought in this conflict for russia is dead, then nobody can challenge how it gets rewritten in russian history, right?
Oh yeah, and the ussr has just been a sterling beacon of truth in the darkness, right?
Yep.
Well Iâll be darned.
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Can you point us towards the western propaganda? (Or do those evil Russian enjoy a monopoly?)
They both do, but neither one doing it makes it ok for the other one to.
The thinking that it does is called âwhataboutismâ.
Ex. âRussia does blah blah blahâŠâ
Response: " Yeah, well what about the west doing bler bler blerâŠ"
Which is a long way of saying that your response is invalid. 
Can you point us to a Western propaganda?
Almost every western Ukraine article is propaganda and you know it. These basic facts are never touched:
Ukrainian men are getting slaughtered on an unimaginable scale while Russian losses are significantly smaller.
Zelenskyâs government is jaw droppingly corrupt, incompetent and inbred.
The background of this war is not so clear cut if only because Hanko kinda shot first.
Most weapon shipments are a bad joke (here, enjoy these ten tanks!) and a large portion of aid will just be sold on the black market. No gamechanging wonder weapons exist.
Both sides lie like crazy.
Europe is ruining itself because their guys are incompetent lapdogs.
I could go on, but these self evident truths are kinda hard to find these days in explicit terms.
Not saying one side is a paragon of virtue. Right now, paragons of virtue die in a stinky ditch. The best people, Ukrainian patriots and even some American and European idealist idiots are dying left and right for global elites.
Whatâs with the peculiarly Western phenomenon of lonely, angry middle aged men and their masturbatory apocalyptic fantasies about the decline of the West? Why do you hate your country so much? What happened? Where does all this anger come from?
Actual screenshot from Rossiya 1.
Well, Mr. Nazi, if the Ukrainians are âslaughtered on an unimaginable scaleâ wouldnât they have already run out of men? And isnât weird that a âjaw droppingly corrupt, incompetent and inbredâ (I suppose the last one is a code for the Jooooz) not only still stands but is gaining ground? Corrupt regimes as a rule fold in a matter of days or months at most - Afghanistan, Shahâs Iran, South Vietnam⊠Where does this resilience come from?
As Iâve recently spent some time yet again in the temporary frontline capital of the international Soros globalist empire, Iâve got some really bad news for you - the Khokholâs steely determination to win the war and thirst for revenge is greater that ever.
Maybe it has something to do with mass graves of gangraped children discovered in places like Izyjum and with inhabitants of entire villages (from toddlers to seniors) executed by the Russians, sonderkommando-style, but theyâre really, really determined.