FortifiedAttack [he/him]
Mine is a statement that takes many forms but usually boils down to the exact same mindset – namely that the current “villain of the week” is always assumed to be the most primitive simpleton imaginable.
It’s not even limited to leaders of foreign countries. Somehow, liberals are incapable of attributing any strategic ability to their enemies.
For example, they will see a corporation get into a legal fight, where it is quite clear that the corporation is morally in the wrong, and they will immediately claim the corporation is going to lose because of some supposed foolishness by the corporation.
If you ask them about their reasoning, it usually becomes clear that they are actually completely clueless about the topic. Confusing patent, copyright and trademark law is a classic in this area.
But they just can’t imagine that these corporations, who regularly exploit the system to their advantage, and have highly paid teams of lawyers doing this for them, might know what they are doing, and might very well succeed.
Maybe it’s because even the acknowledgement of this possibility is already interpreted as support for the villain. You can’t claim that the Russians aren’t losing, because if you do, you must obviously support Russia.
Liberals would rather delude themselves with boundless hubris than correctly assess the situation.
The “evil Putler” narrative, combined with Israel’s insanely brazen behavior, has made me give up hope that Western society has any chance of improving.
I’m sorry, but if you can’t draw the connection that the very same countries who demonstrably, enthusiastically support an ongoing genocide, and are actively spreading lies about it MIGHT NOT have told you the truth about the Ukraine war, then there simply is no hope for you.
Liberals will trot out decades old propaganda as gospel, not realizing that their unwavering, unshakeable belief in this dogma is precisely the reason why they are incapable of changing the system in which they live, and in which they, their friends and their families suffer.
They are fundamentally incapable of identifying the sources of their problems because of this. If you base your logical calculus on contradictory axioms, nothing will make sense as a result.
Join the “Nothing Ever Happens” faction, you’ll sleep easier at night if you do.
My view is that if you have the ability to self-reflect, talk therapy is 100% useless. They aren’t going to tell you anything you couldn’t think of on your own.
This gets especially frustrating with ADHD where doctors try to force you to take therapy as a prerequisite for receiving medication. Sorry, but I can think of ways to deal with my problems myself without needing some dipshit listening to me. What I can’t do on my own however is fix the chemical imbalance in my brain, without having access to the prescription meds that allow this.