I made this comment on a YouTube video 10 months ago. That particular video was a well sourced, well organized, intelligent review of some blatant misogyny in printed media. It was on a channel I had fairly recently discovered those 10 months ago. Unlike a conspiracy gematria video that is purposefully a one shot deal maximized for immediate outrage porn attention, the video predates the worst of this political administration.
My purpose in commenting was not in any way seeking glory and attention for myself. It was a message to the author, written in the secret code that truly smart people understand. “I appreciate you. You touched a nerve and I would rather spend time with you in real life than listening to Joe Rogan contradict himself for views and money.”
Joe Rogan was purposefully chosen for that example as a target that doesn’t fit the spirit of my post. When I’m talking about the most terrible people on the planet, I’m talking about the out in the open corruption, hypocrisy, and cruelty of the Trump administration and all that ride the flying monkey coattail riders like Musk.
This is far from my first rodeo being cyber trolled. I “get” the personality of cult members more than the vast majority of members. I “get” that you’ve been trained by dysfunctional media propaganda that an attack on the cult leader is an attack on yourself.
So two weeks ago when I got reverse trolled I was mentally prepared to shake it off without responding. The goal of reverse trolling is to drag the target into a fake debate. A debate that the reverse troller will never lose since all that can rely on is blatant disinformation, logical fallacies, and simply never shutting up about it. The reverse troller can also never actually win as they are living outside of reality. The mouth opens before the brain thinks. Specifically for my new found friend here, the comment is the exact same kind of stupid shit I was supposed to endlessly put up with. Thank you for proving my point. Some people just need to mouth off for attention, as unproductive and meaningless the mouthing off may be.
10 days ago I thought I might get around to posting about this like I am now. After a quick reply to R&R start typing away. Well I don’t have to reply. Someone beat me to it. Someone that recognizes the core issue that generated eight likes on my original comment of a video made years ago. Sometimes you just have to throw the white flag up and drop relationships with toxic people. By R&R’s flawed logic, a beaten wife by an alcoholic husband is never supposed to admit that getting beaten is a bad thing. He or she is right about one thing, oh yeah, I’ve got my flaws. But being a cult member or influenced by cult group think ain’t one of them. I’ve been accused of being flawed off topic of core issues so many times I’m numb to it, personally.
A common theme of the reverse troll is on full display here. R&R is most definitely part of the target audience. The author’s channel is full of anti-Musk and anti-Trump content. Although it is a mental happy chemical to have received the eight likes, it’s not for the reason that the logical fallacy burdened trolls think. There are other curious and intelligent people doing the same thing I did. Making a simple display that they appreciated what I’ve said. And showing support for the video creator indirectly, having made the video years ago that still generates open discussion about an extremely important stage of U.S. history. A safe harbor where mostly people who want real intellectual discussion congregate. And the common mistaken theme of the reverse troll on display? Invading the safe space on a topic that they have zero meaningful dialogue to share. Getting to LARP for a day as a fake intellectual bad ass. It’s like joining a book club that is reading Dickens when you can’t even appreciate See Spot Run. (Uh oh, there’s my flawed personality coming through.)
Back to Rogan, the gateway drug at the center of this piece. He is not too bad, but there’s some issues. There’s no consistency to who he platforms. And the smart people know it. I would rather watch a video from the author of the misogynist video any day than be caught watching a JRE podcast. The video author is the kind of consistent high quality information that makes me say to myself, “Holy shit this guy is smarter than me. I wish I had someone like this in my youth as a role model to hang around with.” Instead what I got was a cult slow burn of capitalizing on the “I was born a Republican, therefore I am a Republican.” The all or nothing group think getting a little worse every passing day, week, month, year, and literal decade. Never swaying from the path of the progressively worse and worse fake leaders instead of true conservatism.
A few days ago, I was wondering how I could sum this up and finalize it and was rescued by one of my super powers. The reference point and an above average memory to the rescue. I saw something on BlueSky that went something like this:
You don't argue with your drunken uncle at holiday dinner to try and change him. You argue so the kids know they have a safe harbor to talk to.
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