Noah, they believe he's old and doddering in his cups. They watch all those videos and it affects the way they see the world, even if they know it's bullshit. One of the perpetual bullshit machine's main targets is the people who create 'content' for the perpetual bullshit machine and the politicians that are their primary targets and wh…
Noah, they believe he's old and doddering in his cups. They watch all those videos and it affects the way they see the world, even if they know it's bullshit. One of the perpetual bullshit machine's main targets is the people who create 'content' for the perpetual bullshit machine and the politicians that are their primary targets and who help create the content themselves.
(You could see it in action during the War on Terror - people flat out making shit up and people who you would otherwise expect to be pretty sharp and not gullible swallowing obvious bullshit whole.)
It's weird. There's a version of this on the left (usually the far far left) but there's never quite the same level of "let's sit around and tell each other a bunch of bullshit stories and, like, believe them."
It's been a very common cultural tic in the South since the antebellum period, and it probably (certainly) has something to do with evangelical culture, but this is the internet-metastasised version.
Noah, they believe he's old and doddering in his cups. They watch all those videos and it affects the way they see the world, even if they know it's bullshit. One of the perpetual bullshit machine's main targets is the people who create 'content' for the perpetual bullshit machine and the politicians that are their primary targets and who help create the content themselves.
(You could see it in action during the War on Terror - people flat out making shit up and people who you would otherwise expect to be pretty sharp and not gullible swallowing obvious bullshit whole.)
It's weird. There's a version of this on the left (usually the far far left) but there's never quite the same level of "let's sit around and tell each other a bunch of bullshit stories and, like, believe them."
It's been a very common cultural tic in the South since the antebellum period, and it probably (certainly) has something to do with evangelical culture, but this is the internet-metastasised version.
elm
haven't got the foggiest what to do about it
It probably started when they told themselves "Slavery is GOOD for Negros!"
The South has been lying, to others and to itself, since before this country's inception.