Right, so in your version of this world, who is the fascist? Germany?

So for me it comes down to how long they stick to that narrative before admitting that maybe we weren’t exaggerating.

They usually never do. Just at some point they start declaring they always thought so, too.

They exist. They’re just not recognized as comedians by those not in the cult because normal people don’t see kicking down as humor.

Ain’t that right. Going through it with our first this week and I get it. Of course the little guy is ticked off. He’s feeling all of the confusion and tiredness we are without knowing or enjoying any of the benefits.

Yeah you just can’t be in a server room anymore without some dude trying to sell you on Office365 and Cortana, sigh.

It’s less uneducated thinking and more “here’s a thing I read online that I can parrot to show that I am more rational than others”.

That statistic could be entirely unfounded and people would still be repeating it because it serves their purposes. Internet nerds love gotchas.

That aside, fully agreed regarding the level of control. It’s a little like saying “people have - and therefore you have - an x% chance of getting lung cancer” while completing ignoring that a huge portion of that is a direct result of only some people’s behaviour, namely smoking.

The people driving defensively, sober and attentively are not likely to be the ones folding themselves around a roadside tree.

Not really. But you know, gotta find ways to feel smarter than other people so here we go.

Yeah just like the “bank run” on FTX wasn’t what caused it to go bankrupt, it was actually the owner’s hubris.

In much the same way that the fire didn’t burn the house down, it was the tenant buying matches four days earlier.

If you’re willing to go that many levels down to get to the root cause of an event you might as well say the nazis being humans is what caused the collapse.

And just like that we’re now all focused on the couple of (quite frankly) idiots that are burning consumers’ Teslas instead of the unsold ones at dealerships. Again. Just like every discussion of a protest is not about the tens of thousands of people protesting but about the 10 people looting.

Looks like the attempt to control the narrative is working as expected.