Well, here’s today’s vid.
I feel a little bad about saying that it’s not a trick, because it totally is a trick. I’m trying to trick Republicans into remember their real values, the things they have always held to be true and that they have always thought they believed in.
It’s my shock treatment for severe cases of Fox News poisoning. Part of how the Trump cult works is that it keeps its adherents too busy performing mental gymnastics as they desperately dodge the truth of Trump’s horribleness for them to remember what they truly believe or apply any actual tests of truth to what Trump says and does.
So I want to wake them up to their real, core beliefs. These people are not monsters. For the most part, they are good people whose one moral weakness is that they are followers by nature and do not have it in them to reject their shepherd outright.
Until the shepherd rapes their wooly little butts personally, or those of their family. Then suddenly they are all shocked and offended and surprised because suddenly, politics is real and not just something on the TV or Reddit and what they espouse and believe has actual, real consequences to them, personally, and not just “other people”.
I honestly believe that this phenomenon explains why it has to hurt them personally before they see it as a problem. Until then, politics aren’t real. They’re just a place where you can dump all your negative emotions and express all the rage and frustration that you can’t express at the real source of your problems, like your boss, and you don’t have to restrain yourself or worry about the consequences because it’s not really real anyhow so you might as well let loose.
I came to the conclusion in my late teens that people, for the most part, believe what they need to believe. This is especially true in the arena of politics because its abstract nature makes it a perfect place to imagine things are however you need them to be.
The only place more effective for that is religion. And unfortunately, one of the the ways in which the USA lags behind the rest of the world is that they still allow politics and religion to merge and mix.
The rest of the world shut that shit down ages ago. Just try to claim you’re God’s chosen one here in Canada.
People will blast you with disapproval from all angles because that is not merely blasphemous, it’s indiscreet. You are baring in public that which should be private.
And in a reserved culture like ours, that’s just plain NOT DONE.
Anyhow. My point is that we need to reach out to the Trumpers of the world and see them as the tragically flawed but otherwise good people they are and do the one thing we can do to lead them out of the terrible trap they are in :
Become a superior shepherd.
Be willing to, gently but firmly, lead them away from the vileness in which they find themselves enmeshed and into the pure green pastures where they can thrive.
To do so will require being very understanding of who they are and how they think because what works for them might well seem patronizing or even insulting to liberal intellectual types like ourselves.
Like direct emotional appeals. We can’t be afraid to go directly for the gut. Accept that these people cannot be reached via logic and evidence because their beliefs were not the product of reason, they were formed to meet a need.
Find that need, and fill it better than the current coterie of fucktards.
It shouldn’t be all that hard.
More after the break.
Last of the month
Hit the end of the government cheque month today, the 19th of March, which is exactly two months before my 52nd birthday.
That doesn’t mean anything, I just thought it was neat
Checked my VISA card and found I had $50 left on it. After hemming and hawing and agonizing over what I “should” do with it, I said fuck it and ordered in.
So I looked over some options on DoorDash. But most of them seemed way too expensive for my budget.
Or, in the case of one place, the burger had brie on it. Plus it was expensive.
I’m not paying you $25 for a burger and fries no matter how “bistro” it is.
So I gave up and went to our old friends at Donair Dude. I am currently in cholesterol heaven as I eat lamb donair meat on a bed of fries.
That plus a big veggie samosa was $30. Still not cheap compared to when Julian is nice enough to get me McD’s, but it makes me happy.
I love lamb so damn much.
That leaves $20 on the card, which I will just put onto my Steam account, raising the current balance there to around $60.
I am getting to the point where I am going to take the plunge and actually buy a new game. I don’t know why I am so hesitant – if I don’t like it I can just return it.
I just have a nervous and fretful temperament, I guess. I suppose that’s yet another thing I need to learn to accept about myself.
Science says that temperament is permanent. You come out of the womb a nervous baby, you’re gonna be basically nervous for your entire life.
It doesn’t have to make you miserable, though. Not if you stop trying to fight it.
I feel like for my whole life, I have been trying, unprompted, to force myself to be the person I want to be or feel I am supposed to be, and it’s taken this long in my life t figure out how self-destructive and futile that is
One of the most important determinations in any person’s life is, as the cliché goes, who you really are. And that includes figuring out what parts of your personality are permanent and thus something you’re just going to have to deal with.
I’m a shy, nervous, silly, and not very sensible or practical dude.
But I am also incredibly intelligent, with enormous creative energy and talent, and unique and powerful insights into how things, and people, work.
And I am starting to think that all of that comes from the exact same place.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.