What the fuck level of cult of personality even is this? They’re writing fan fic about their fucking overlords. What the fuck I cannot emphasize enough what the fuck?

  • Mardoniush [she/her]English
    67•11 months ago

    I’ve said it before. Liberals are narrativists. Everything must be a story for them, and if it’s all going wrong? Well that’s where the hero doubles down.

    We saw this with Biden. First he was the stoic, refusing to move when all around him was chaos. Then when he stepped down the story changed, he became a saintly martyr.

    • TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]English
      35•11 months ago

      I think this is just all Amerifat political discourse, our people think real life works the way movies do, which is why while Trump was flopping in office they had to make up that he was doing 4D chess or hiding his power, as if things were going to turn out like a climax in a double cross heist film.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]English
        19•11 months ago

        Or even more sinister, they do the opposite and venerate fiction like Dune, LotR and GoT as if it was real history, then use those ‘histories’ to base their opinions on.

        • TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]English
          15•11 months ago

          Yep, you think their idea of a chosen one leader or shifting loyalties between camps are from the Bible or history, but their mental model is actually the plotline from some show or movie they watched while eating.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]English
          6•11 months ago

          I personally became as liberal as they come after reading The Giver. I used this in conjunction with Narnia to synthesize Markism-Lenonism-Yoko Onoism.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]OPEnglish
            2•10 months ago

            The giver is such sinister evil shit. “Here’s a book about why sharing is bad for children!”

            • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]English
              0•10 months ago

              I haven’t read that book in decades but I didn’t get that message from it. The message I thought I got was why suppressing messy feelings for the sake of conformity and “stability” was bad. What did I miss?

              • Belly_Beanis [he/him]English
                1•10 months ago

                Oh the book is super anti-communist. The whole thing is basically “gommunism is going to tell everyone what to do, destroy the family unit, make fun illegal, and will practice eugenics.”

                9-year old me thought all that sounded pretty good if we just didn’t do the eugenics part. I don’t think that’s what my 4th. grade teacher was hoping I’d get out of it lmao