@dave
How do you keep on finding these amazing philosophers?

Is this sarcasm? I’ll be honest I can’t really tell.

@dave
Without sarcasm
> I think this guy is absolutely retarded, and I am still amazed you were able to find a parson with such a low intelligence.

Better?

Gotcha. So I think he’s absolutely correct, although only with a particular aspect of the “current thing” meme: People joking about how it changes.

If you look at what events “independent thinkers” always put in those memes of NPC chips getting swapped out, the things they use are events that are actually significant:

A new coronavirus that, unlike previous variants where the infected had detectable symptoms and thus could be identified and quarantined, was spreading rapidly, killing around 1% of the people it infected, and crucially made its victims infectious 1-3 days before they became symptomatic. This made it nearly impossible to contain, which stokes panic considering the estimated fatality rate (early on, it was estimated at 1-2%, which would have meant 50-100 million dead if this thing went global).

Making the panic worse, the outbreak started in China, a country that is known for trying to hide its scandals and failures, and particularly was known for already hiding the extent of another coronavirus outbreak, SARS, about 20 years ago. So you’ve got a new virus, that isn’t well understood, with the outbreak happening in a country doing media blackouts, people dying, the curve going exponential, and now cases are starting to pop up in your area. Remember the attached meme?

Secondly, Ukraine. Not gonna hit you with another wall of text but I’m sure you understand why this is also significant.

@dave @LukeAlmighty

>So I think he’s absolutely correct, although only with a particular aspect of the “current thing” meme: People joking about how it changes.

The thing about the "current thing" meme is that people's opinion practically completely mirror the press presenting it pretty much instantly. I can't stress how the supposed anti-war (shit)libs instantly got on the Ukraine war bandwagon, just shortly after being told that the middle east war in the 2000s was all bullshit, pretty much immediately, so fucking fast that I actually legitimately got scared in a way

You can pretty much see it in any shitlibs from the last 5 years. Trump is a big example of it, the presidency wasn't as much awful as much the reaction around it. The press got "TDS", the shitlibs personalities got TDS and everyone else followed. And then COVID happened and you can see them following the propaganda to the letter, up to even doubting the vaccine at first because it was Trump pushed. And etc etc to today, still following the corporate press opinion to the letter