No one with an actual conscience and/or ability for research and critical thinking fell for that bullshit when Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter tried it back in the day and they don't believe it now. People like me don't typically start these things. People like me, when we're trying to make sense of what's going on in the world, and getting frustrated and angry with what isn't going on, say, some actual fucking progress towards a more intelligent, stable society, will randomly think to ourselves something like the following:
"I feel sometimes like I'm in a video game, and all these people around me are like NPCs because it's like they act before they think sometimes", and we might not even be thinking in political terms. Or even "social issues". Just stupid people doing stupid shit. And we'll use this like, once or twice in a few conversations, without trying to force it into a meme, because the irony wouldn't be lost on us if we did. And we don't want a meme, we want a better fucking world for once. And it's not like we're exactly immune to the same impulses as a lot of the people we don't like, we get that. We foster a self-awareness in ourselves and more often than not, it's a bit of real world adversity that "helped us" get there.
That's why we tend to be more creative thinkers who don't beat a dead horse. But then people like you come along and make it so we don't even have the option of using terminology we may very well have thought up on our own, independently, just because it vaguely resembles yours. Shit, you have yet to disavow the alt-right in this conversation. Why is that? "Because everybody has the right to believe whatever they want and freedom of association and..." okay, that worked out wonderfully, didn't it?
The world didn't become a shitty place because I, personally, have liberal views. I came upon a much more overtly liberal stance than what I once had because the world became a shittier place. If people like you serve one useful purpose, it's making people like me find our balls enough to take a fucking stand on an issue. And I get you that you probably feel more or less the same way. Let me put it to you this way. I felt more like an oppressed minority whose freedom of speech was under attack in the early post-9/11 years than I do now... And I know I was, if anything, more of an "SJW" then than I am now. So what happened?
I think what happened is people like me were too afraid to be ourselves because people were losing their jobs for so much as having an anti-Bush bumper sticker on their privately owned vehicles. And we conformed as much as we could. We did what we were told. We went to school. We voted our conscience. We worked any job we could get. Nothing got better for us, only worse. We did things your way and you responded by treating us even worse. And we couldn't fucking take it anymore.
We're dangerously close to being you, I understand that, even if most of my kind don't, and I'm not saying they don't. There are plenty of days we want to riot, burn everything to the fucking ground, completely Year Zero this bitch. Annihilate everything that exists. But you lot are doing a fine job of that yourselves. The difference is you're killing our friends while you do it. And you'll ultimately burn yourselves out and leave us to clean up the mess. And I'm fine with that, because it's about damned time we inherited our fucking world back even if it means you don't get to join us in it.
No one with an actual conscience and/or ability for research and critical thinking fell for that bullshit when Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter tried it back in the day and they don't believe it now. People like me don't typically start these things. People like me, when we're trying to make sense of what's going on in the world, and getting frustrated and angry with what isn't going on, say, some actual fucking progress towards a more intelligent, stable society, will randomly think to ourselves something like the following:
"I feel sometimes like I'm in a video game, and all these people around me are like NPCs because it's like they act before they think sometimes", and we might not even be thinking in political terms. Or even "social issues". Just stupid people doing stupid shit. And we'll use this like, once or twice in a few conversations, without trying to force it into a meme, because the irony wouldn't be lost on us if we did. And we don't want a meme, we want a better fucking world for once. And it's not like we're exactly immune to the same impulses as a lot of the people we don't like, we get that. We foster a self-awareness in ourselves and more often than not, it's a bit of real world adversity that "helped us" get there.
That's why we tend to be more creative thinkers who don't beat a dead horse. But then people like you come along and make it so we don't even have the option of using terminology we may very well have thought up on our own, independently, just because it vaguely resembles yours. Shit, you have yet to disavow the alt-right in this conversation. Why is that? "Because everybody has the right to believe whatever they want and freedom of association and..." okay, that worked out wonderfully, didn't it?
The world didn't become a shitty place because I, personally, have liberal views. I came upon a much more overtly liberal stance than what I once had because the world became a shittier place. If people like you serve one useful purpose, it's making people like me find our balls enough to take a fucking stand on an issue. And I get you that you probably feel more or less the same way. Let me put it to you this way. I felt more like an oppressed minority whose freedom of speech was under attack in the early post-9/11 years than I do now... And I know I was, if anything, more of an "SJW" then than I am now. So what happened?
I think what happened is people like me were too afraid to be ourselves because people were losing their jobs for so much as having an anti-Bush bumper sticker on their privately owned vehicles. And we conformed as much as we could. We did what we were told. We went to school. We voted our conscience. We worked any job we could get. Nothing got better for us, only worse. We did things your way and you responded by treating us even worse. And we couldn't fucking take it anymore.
We're dangerously close to being you, I understand that, even if most of my kind don't, and I'm not saying they don't. There are plenty of days we want to riot, burn everything to the fucking ground, completely Year Zero this bitch. Annihilate everything that exists. But you lot are doing a fine job of that yourselves. The difference is you're killing our friends while you do it. And you'll ultimately burn yourselves out and leave us to clean up the mess. And I'm fine with that, because it's about damned time we inherited our fucking world back even if it means you don't get to join us in it.