Just a heads up about the biblically accurate angels meme, the word for eyes also translates to lights. It's more fun to pretend that it's eyes but they were just describing their DBZ auras.

Not to be that guy, but I want the Cyclops one to be real more. That elephant just looks goofy

The sad part is they know the giants and UFOs are fake but talk about this stuff to avoid talking about gutting medicare, tax cuts for the rich, and how they're currently covering up the epstein files.

It's because of the wealth. You don't have to be smart to have money.

It's all just distraction. Keeps your mind off the fact that the billionaire class are destroying the world and enslaving us all.

How the fuck is the left losing to literal insane people and morons.

The left usually doesn't get to run. The center keeps losing to literal insane people and morons.

How the fuck is the left losing to literal insane people and morons.

The size and scale of media available to the Silicon Valley tech sector has afforded them enormous leverage over modern Americans and their view of the world. "The Giant of Kandahar" is one example of a mythology that helps explain why Americans lost in Afghanistan, without ceding that our whole 23 year occupation was a mix of waste and incompetence. It's one part engagement-bait, one part conspiracy theory, and one part evangelical propaganda (the Giant is further embellished as a Nephilim, thus proving we were fighting a Holy War overseas and not just engaged in an opium-laced land grab).

I fucking hate these people, but I really hate all of the mother fucking morons and degenerates that helped put them into these positions more. And that includes all of you dumbasses that just didnt vote for Kamala

The claim that Kamala Harris lost because she was stabbed in the back by far-left, transgender, pro-Putin antisemites is its own brand of BlueMAGA mythology and serves much the same purpose as the dogmatic superstition on the right.

You did this and now we all suffer because of it.

The folks leading the charge are the billionaires profiting off the exploitation. They aren't suffering. They're getting sucked off at orgies full of sex trafficking victims imported from countries - like Israel and El Salvador and Japan and German - where we've built up a large military presence for the purpose of exploitation.

Everyone else is told that they either need to throw their support behind this rapist pig wanna-be Mussolini or the AIPAC-aligned insurance company ghoul, because failing to support My Team means you deserve whatever misery is inflicted by Their Team.

Somehow, the pain we all end up experiencing from outside the corporate walled garden is always either Fake News (when My Team is Winning) or Your Own Stupid Fault (when Their Team is Winning).

I will tell you the answer but you aren't going to like it:

The VAST majority of people do not operate rationally. What I mean by this is that they do not evaluate their mental responses to see if they align with rational values. Note I do not just say repugnicans. Nearly everyone is like this

They operate by post-hoc justification.

This is why cheetolini won, he tells people "You've been screwed over and I'm here to help, all the fancy elites ignore you but I won't"

He's lying, of course, but it's what the people want to hear.

Dems shout facts 'The economy is better here than almost anywhere else in the world right now', and 'lowest inflation in 10 years', but people don't FEEL like they are doing well so they say "Oh those dems always spouting bullshit, not like Drumpf who KNOWS what's on my mind"

And that's how he won, through lies and a self-satisfied justification seeking voterbase.

Many people have extremely low literacy levels and have difficulties with media criticism. In the US, this is largely driven by the Right’s attack on education in response to Brown v Board of Ed - if black children get to go to school, they don’t want them to receive a good education. The higher echelons of the Right can afford to send their children to private schools anyway. Many schools in the US also spent the past decade not teaching phonics (using a “whole reading” model that was tested and proven to be ineffective in the 1970’s) and school English curriculums have deprioritized reading entire novels in favor of the passages that show up on standardized tests. Subjects like history and science have also gotten the shrift in favor of more time on math and reading in the decontextualized format they use on these tests.

We live in an era of violent anti intellectualism. It is trivially easy to make shit up, and the internet provides a constant stream of slop. This was bad before AI, AI has accelerated it. And with a distrust in institutions and the idea of an “expert” in general - people will not believe anyone that goes against their pet ideas. It makes them feel smarter, that they know something that the experts don’t. Those latte drinking elitists think they know things, but I know better! There’s the double edged sword of they “know” that you can’t believe everything online, but what that ends up doing is allowing them to pick and choose what they believe. You can provide a Wikipedia article demonstrating that what they are claiming is a 1000 year old Incan carving is a modern art project, but they’ll just claim Wikipedia isn’t a valid source - while uncritically believing “Amazing Facts Channel.”

It’s an attack on the idea of knowledge itself, the world of “alternative facts.” You can pick and choose what to believe - to live in a world of make believe where you are The Chosen One because you know all of these things that the “experts” are too dumb to see.

It kind of reminds me of my ex husband, when I tried to explain how to solve quadratic equations to him. “But what if you could just take the square root of the whole thing and pretend x is that? Isn’t all of math made up anyway?” He had deep insecurities because he had been raised to believe he was a genius, and couldn’t stand being wrong about anything. He’d be furious when I looked up basic facts he was incorrect about because he would constantly belittle my intelligence.

I don’t know if the problem is fixable. Maybe if the internet dies, maybe if we lose Facebook and AI and everything else in some sort of Carrington event and have to go back to books. I don’t know.

They're Christo-Fascists, so the obvious answer is "to deny God." That's what it all boils down to. That's the only possible end it could ever serve and their base will devour it.

They're pointing at the Nephilim, the angel/human hybrids that were walking around smashing everyone's stuff before Noah's Flood.

Yeah, I don't think these people should be allowed near the power of government, either.

The Show-Me State. "Show me you're not hiding giant bones."

The Giant of Kandahar is modern US military folklore.

Part of how we explain away why Americans with cutting edge technology couldn't successfully grind down the Afghan resistance over 23 years.