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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 30, 2024

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This sort of naked self serving intellectual autofellatio is reminiscent of all the 'liberals are smarter than conservatives' drivel that gets repeatedly updooted on reddit and shared breathlessly by irritatingly smug college kids on facebook from 2004 to likely forever.

It is therefore unsurprising that the meta of Intelligence has been both denigrated and conspiratized by the dissident right who may have been unwillingly grouped into the stupid meanie conservative doodoohead category by an unaware shifting of the overton window (hi guys! thats us here!). Calling oneself Intelligent is for buzzfeed quiz taking morons or mentally damaged pseudointellectuals whining on /r/gifted that they're actually super smart and therefore should be rewarded without cause, not us actually smart people who use our brains for Good!

As a result, one incoherent strain within right wing thinking now is a desire to use Facts and Logic without being Intelligent. Being a polysyllabic sophisticate swirling wine and commenting on the fragrant notes of burnt rubber and bleach to signify rotten grape discernment is the revue of ivory tower intellectuals, which we Real People are not. We are meat eating beer drinking car workshopmen doing Real People stuff, while actually in our deepest of souls we pontificate and circlejerk amongst our intellectual kin as much as possible.

A consequence of this, possibly relatable to some on this board, is an aggressive hiding of ones power level within 'polite' company and a simultaneous revulsion at the baseness (as in lowness, in the originally uncouth way as opposed to chadian basedness) of DR intellectualism. Though one may be comfortable enough to speak openly in forums or even within friend groups, it is unbecoming to actually read or watch DR podcasters. I've alttabbed to degenerate tentacle hentai rather than let my wife notice I'm watching Tucker Carlson.

I've alttabbed to degenerate tentacle hentai rather than let my wife notice I'm watching Tucker Carlson.

As opposed to the non-degenerate tentacle hentai preferred by polysyllabic wine-swirling sophisticates such as myself.

Urotsukidoji vs Dream Of A Fishermans Wife

Touché.

I often think that “hiding one’s power level” often drives the narrative forward. If you have every conservative hiding their power level, and every liberal flaunting theirs, it’s going to keep the myth alive.

To be honest, at best I think most “smart liberals” are actually over educated mid wits who know how to game the education systems to get good grades and pats on the head from teachers. The problem, obviously is that one can grade grub and be a moron. In fact, it probably helps. To win that came, you have to be smart enough to figure out the answers the teachers want you to give, and have the skills to research and produce a paper giving the correct answer. On the other hand, you have to be dumb enough to accept these narrative at face value and to have few original thoughts in your head. To me, this is actually a great tell of lesser intelligence. Just ask them what they disagree with the authorities on. Ask them to come up with an answer where there’s no establishment answer. They absolutely have no idea how to do it. They cannot think through a problem and come up with a real answer to the question.

"Hiding one's power level" is a little different -- it's not about smarts, but about believing politically incorrect facts such as the disproportionate number of US murderers who are black.

I think possibly one of the most revealing papers about this sort of thing was the MIT paper where they lambasted COVID skeptics (and Trump supporters!) for being willing to do research.

Irresistible to quote from that:

Similarly, Francesca Tripodi [98] has shown how evangelical voters do not vote for Trump because they have been “fooled” by fake news, but because they privilege the personal study of primary sources and have found logical inconsistencies not in Trump’s words, but in mainstream media portrayals of the president.

Do you have any evidence that capacity for independent thinking is lower in your outgroup than your ingroup? If not, you are just guilty of a flipped version of the same thing that the parent accused them off, with "free critical thinkers vs. NPCs" taking the place of the "smart pro-science liberals vs. chud knuckledraggers" one.

This sort of naked self serving intellectual autofellatio is reminiscent of all the 'liberals are smarter than conservatives' drivel that gets repeatedly updooted on reddit and shared breathlessly by irritatingly smug college kids on facebook from 2004 to likely forever.

Many people like to use fancy words and sayings and jargon to give the appearance that their position is more profound than it really is. Case and point: sovereign citizens.

I've alttabbed to degenerate tentacle hentai rather than let my wife notice I'm watching Tucker Carlson.

If she can't love you at your Tucker Carlson, she doesn't deserve you at your Tentacle Hentai.

A consequence of this, possibly relatable to some on this board, is an aggressive hiding of ones power level within 'polite' company and a simultaneous revulsion at the baseness (as in lowness, in the originally uncouth way as opposed to chadian basedness) of DR intellectualism.

You put it into words.

We really should introduce AAQCs for the funniest posts.

I don’t think there’s actually any restriction on it.

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