Cognitive dissonance is a real thing, not just a fancy psychology term to throw around and make you sound smarter above your actual smarts. And with multiple generations of critical thinking suppression being ingrained into literally tens of millions of people… well let’s just say the low end of the cult/grifting pyramid really are not dealing with it well right now. The contradictory information is off the charts. People who had been silent out of respect, e.g. respecting your elders at the Thanksgiving dinner, have started to speak out. This is a self inflicted bullet to the foot. There’s a wide variety of things wrong just from this year that should be called out if you prefer democracy to dictatorship. The way the victims of Trump’s utter incompetence and creation of the contradictions is all internal. Openly not talking about or just taking cues from far right wing media propaganda for what to say.
And what are the bottom of the food chain actually saying when they do say the quiet part out loud? It’s not just calling Covid a hoax or a Sandy Hook parent a crisis actor of heaven forbid throwing out a gematria decode distraction. What’s the newest catch phrase or meme that counters Trump being all over the files as Epstein’s FRIEND, shattered alliances from destruction of already dwindling trust and what a couple decades ago would be war crimes. Looking mostly at Epstein related content and the critics commentary the new thing is <drum roll>.
Nothing. It’s replaying the greatest hits. All the old outrage porn from the past that worked in campaign rallies. And not even any new variations. The same fading brain that nostalgically yearns for a fleet of battleships that don’t fit in can’t come up with anything other than Whataboutism. The confused brain’s first or second tactic to avoid having to think about actually answering a question directed at you with no good answer available. (The other being the ever fun filled ad hominem attack.)
And there’s no change from years ago, as I said. Shouldn’t we stop funding ICE. Well the Biden crime family was worse. Obama made a statement about the Pretti execution, what do you think? He’s an immigrant himself. Checkmate! I heard that oil companies are actually thinking that it’s not economically feasible to get a ton of money from Venezuela’s oil reserves. Do you care to comment? They’re flooding our country with fentanyl. It’s insane that you cannot get a straight answer from across the board. The top sycophants are mortified they’ll be thrown under the bus next if they get off the approved answer. The online grifter community doesn’t have anything better than, “at least Democrats aren’t in control”. A sideways acknowledgment that they know things are bad. But whatabout Kamala? Boy she’s dumb. Surely things would be even worse. I really hate the idea of buying cheap groceries and having health care. (But what about those bankrupt soybean farmers! They’ve really got it good!)
If you’ve been around the Zachosphere enough, you’ve seen the Whataboutism. A lot. When pinned down about a failed prediction or the reporting after the fact instead of making an actual prediction. The response? What about how Kobe equals 33 just like Masonry equals 33 and blah, blah, blah. In the old days it worked. Now it can lead to a gematria doesn’t work talking point being defended by doing more gematria that doesn’t work, on an unrelated topic to boot.
This could join the Know Your Grifter Tactics series, here. Know and recognize the whataboutism logical fallacy for what it is. “Hillary would have been worse” has nothing to do with what will go down in history as one of the objectively worst presidents. It would be a shame if we had to go on such a downer.
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