It doesn’t matter how long you make them read Lenin and break rocks in the gulag, the second you let them out they’ll see an AI generated meme from a CIA holdout posting from a bunker somewhere and immediately revert to being a burgerbrained fash.

I think we need to just dump them on an island somewhere and put them under continuous naval blockade and internet blackout till they revert to a Hunter gather society.

  • Thallo [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    its not about intelligence, its about subcultural narrative and the willful acceptance of a simulated reality that appeals to them on a fundamental level. their identity has been reconstructed around consumption of particular strains of media that appeal to their fantasy

    I keep trying to tell libs this when they keep bringing up how “stupid” maga people are and how the “education system has failed.”

    Very clearly, they have an ideological commitment to something they feel benefits them.