Thread by @17cShyteposter

Therefore the symmetrical response to break this propaganda, whose method is to humiliate you, is to humiliate *it*:

That was the purpose of Trump, our first Troll President, who understood that there is no "reasoning" with those whose goal is to humiliate you

https://twitter.com/skepticaliblog/status/1396666085219258368

This is an ideology that spits in your face, and then belly-laughs as you do backflips to explain why, as its warm spittle drips down your lips, we must be "more civil, more liberal" than it: we will just "reason" people out of their frenzy

lol, no

https://twitter.com/a_centrism/status/1396624302531915777

Liberalism had a nice run there, it was very pleasant for a while. But it's proven so impotent at leading that it can be taken over by a newsroom of 25-year-old "communists" with cow rings who spend more on their SSRIs and therapists than a healthy person spends on their home

Cheeto Hitler, Orange Mussolini, wanted to give you and your children just one more generation of your venerated mid-century liberalism, before the cow-ringed commissars completed their goal

But he was too "rude," lmao. So now you get the ruling class you deserve. Enjoy it

Honestly A Centrist is truly brave for a lot of the stances he takes. I want to admire him for that.

But what frustrates me beyond all reason is this idea that you can restore liberalism, through liberal means, when all of your elites have been trained to loathe it.

What's here is no longer "liberalism." It used up liberalism, and is now shedding it, to continue its ruling process

So you can no longer oppose it through "liberalism." It has already poisoned that ideology, and left it in the dust.

The snake has simply shed its skin

So what *you* need, if you wish to preserve any shred of liberalism, is to embrace the only ideology capable, within democratic rule, of opposing the ideology you enabled, and can't stop on your own

The irony is palpable. But again, you demanded this, it's what you *want*

You are them, you're just a defeated version of their old snake-skins, that's exactly what they want you to be, and as long as you look at the old desiccated skins that they've already shed, and say "Wow that's me!", they will always beat you

You need something harsher.

You won't allow it, though. You're the same "them" you loathe. The rational result of them. Why you can't argue against them, rationally, despite all the contradictions

Unless you are able to say "No, these are not, in the end, my values":

These are, in the end, your values.