• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The analysis of history for these people is judging a book by its cover.

      “The curtains were fucking blue” mentality and its consequences have been a disaster for political literacy.

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          When people say they want “adults back in the room” or even “common sense in government” they’re basically voting Blue Curtains 2024. If the position is so crudely universalist while lacking in actual subtext, it amounts to (paradoxically) vibes based voting under pretense of avoiding vibes.

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        Where is the blue curtain thing from? I’ve seen it mention ned a few times now.

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          Extreme short version is Redditors got so sick and tired of teachers in their classes possibly overreaching when it came to interpreting a passage of literature that they found a new dogma: nothing can be interpreted beyond its own most obvious meaning. If an author describes blue curtains, that is all that is being described. Paul Verhoeven wasn’t criticizing fascism in his Starship troopers movie, even if he directly said he was and that he was pissed off at so many of the actors in the movie missing the point while the movie was being made, according to blue curtain theory all that can be derived from the film is DUTY GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

          soypoint-1 bootlicker soypoint-2

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      lets remember this is a guy that advocates for a carnivore diet. we can’t expect a scientific conception of history from a guy advocating for unscientific diets.

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    The atrocity tale is a typical Ultra‐Rightist propaganda device. In its simplest terms, it consists of charging the Communists with atrocities of such astronomical proportions that the Nazi bestialities and mass extermination pale to insignificance. It is an oblique way of whitewashing Hitler and his associates.

    Morris Kominsky, 1970