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hey um so uh politics ever make you tired you ever just feel like why do i gotta talk about this why do i have to weigh in on this argument where one side is saying something entirely uncontroversial something self-evident and rational and the other side just makes up some reason to be mad about it based on nothing and we have to take them seriously like it's so clear when they're just constructing a nonsense narrative and every aching bone in your body is telling you not to engage that that engaging it just feeds it it always somehow still builds to a point where you just can't ignore it like you know it's pointless you know this is what your opponent wants they want to waste your time on the most tedious bullshit they can cook up but you know that it's dangerous to just let it stand like if nobody just steps in and says oh don't listen to that that's a that's a dangerous thing to believe then people will get hurt and over and over again you get pulled into some of the silliest arguments you've ever heard of and you just can't stop because your opponent is so dedicated to proving you wrong that they'll say or do or believe anything to make that seem true so here we are in the middle of covet 19 and people have made the idea of wearing masks into a battle in the culture war wearing masks is virtue signaling something that lefties and progressives do to prove that they're superior to everyone else and just that's clearly not what's happening here like the people who say that have to know this right it's common fucking sense that if there's an infectious disease that is spread through water droplets in your breath blocking those droplets from spraying all over town is gonna help make you less contagious right like that's common sense if you're willing to acknowledge the germs exist which surely they do and i know what's going on here don't bother i get it i know i saw it happen in real time the president and his manservant made a big hullabaloo about masks being unnecessary your second question was i couldn't hear you can you take it off because i cannot hear you i'll just speak louder sir okay good you want to be politically correct go ahead no sir i just want to wear them and all that garbage and a bunch of people who tied their entire self-identity to agreeing with the president had to agree with this point or else face the reality that the emperor has no clothes and then it kind of became its own thing because people who don't tie their identity to the president but are in the orbit of people who do pick that up and it spread like some sort of um like it spread like an butter i get it it's frustrating but that's just the way things are now we've been living in this post-truth world for so long that we've all kind of become numb to it anytime something newsworthy happens anytime the response to a tragedy or danger is made clear to us there's always this group of bad actors who come around and confuse the issue they jump in and create a narrative that what we see in front of our eyes is a lie or a trick and a bunch of people willfully choose to believe it there's no standard of evidence anymore there's nothing that we can agree on you can watch a murder happen on videotape you can have eyewitnesses corroborate the story something can happen in broad daylight around hundreds of people and none of it matters people just pick and choose what they believe based on whatever version of events matches their preconceived ideas and how do you even have a conversation with someone like that how do you find common ground with someone like that and why must everything fall along these lines how did we get to a point where ideologically inert things like dying your hair or what difficulty setting you use in a video game or what fucking cartoons you watch become politicized and you ever just step back and realize that so much of what we call politics it's just a huge waste of time and i don't mean it because it's a waste of time to stand up for yourselves to fight back against the insidious bigotry of the way these ding-a-lings dog-whistle their hatred of queer people by pretending it's just about estrogen and soy or how shrill a person's voice is or whether or not giving a woman wide shoulders in a cartoon is somehow indoctrinating our kids indoctrinating them to what do you think it's okay for women to not be sex dolls because i'm pretty okay with that actually that's not what the show's gonna be about it's gonna be about sending a good message to children oh okay like how they turned spinorella into a fat chick whose superpower is farting please someone think of the children and the negative message they're getting that women can be fat i'm not blaming us for wasting our time we have to waste our time we're being made to waste our time the fact that these arguments are bone-headed is the entire purpose of them to keep us chasing our tails debating the same ignorant bullshit over and over because if we moved past it we'd start to question things which those in power would prefer we did not call attention to let me give you an example of how this works you got a guy like the quartering one of the most repulsive figures of the online sheta sphere he'll make some video about how the new shera cartoon having a gay kiss in it is brainwashing kids or forcing an agenda onto them i don't know if he said that i'm not trying to imply he did um intellectual giants on the far left who already knew that shira was gonna be some sort of lgbtq uh propaganda piece it's just the type of garbage he does say it's a hypothetical because in reality he doesn't have the courage to say that out loud he just has to imply it in a way that gives him plausible deniability like how in this video he keeps implying that the cartoon is obsessed with who shira is sleeping with i don't ever remember wondering who gi joe was sleeping with i don't ever remember uh wondering uh who he-man got down with after he was done defeating skeletor but the idea that eight-year-olds are really worried about uh who's going to bed with who is absurd the show is with a younger target demographic and perspective in a particularly concerned with shiraz appearance nor should it be but they should be concerned with who she sleeps with now to me whether or not a character is good-looking being a bad thing while obsessing over who they're sleeping with as being more important for a children's cartoon is i don't know a little spicy an agenda exists here and it isn't and it is obvious okay if it if you're going to tell me this is a children's cartoon well then you open yourself up into the people that i under i could understand how they think this way that you know why why is it important in a children's cartoon who care which characters are sleeping with the other characters and like nah dude it's a children's cartoon two people kissed batman kissed catwoman in the cartoons i watched as a kid that didn't cause a moral panic nobody said the show is obsessed with who batman is sleeping with nobody thought there was anything sexual to it at all when you say that there's an agenda to that there's a very clear history of people using that exact phrase to suggest that gay people are pedophiles and whether or not you say those words out loud that is the message you're sending and it's just so fucking clear to everybody and holy shit here i am in a discussion about how these num nuts waste your time with bullshit and i can't help but get sucked in so let's say you work in media let's say you're uh bread tuber hello darkness my old friend i've come well maybe you're a commentator or hell you're just somebody with a lot of twitter followers you're left with a choice right i mean clearly this is not worth engaging because it's just giving him the discourse he wants it's giving him the attention you're not going to convince him you probably won't convince people in his audience either because they don't really believe it they just want to say it because it makes you mad and a bunch of people in your audience are going to be bummed out by being exposed to this kind of bullshit but you can't really let it sit either you can't let something like that go unchallenged because the more often people say things like that and aren't challenged the more normalized that type of rhetoric becomes someone has to argue with him if for no other reason than to show that people will argue with him to demonstrate that there are queer people and allies of queer people who won't just take that kind of toxicity without a fight and so he could just devour your time and energy more more you can spend whole days pushing back against the idea that two women kissing in a cartoon is some insidious propaganda explaining that two women kissing is actually like super normal like a completely regular thing that happens all the time and even within our extremely cis-heteronormative society we've all agreed with that fact for decades we're well past this i walk down the street i see two women two men or a couple with all sorts of genders kissing i don't think twice about it it never occurs to me that they're just doing it to trick me or my kids we shouldn't any longer have to argue that point it's settled and he knows that he has no chance of changing that so long as we're willing to waste our time shutting him down the thing is time is finite and if they keep wasting our time eventually there are fights we don't have time to show up for and they win by default that's why arguments online feel like a zerg rush of the shittiest most self-evidently wrong ideas because the goal isn't to convince you the goal isn't to change your mind it's to exhaust you it's to make you say well fuck this and just go play animal crossing and folks we're the online left all we do is argue this should be our domain we should be able to waste their time way better than they waste hours look go into their menchies and just have a discussion about whether or not karl marx made a distinction between communism and socialism have that incredibly long and boring tweet thread with them instead of us waste their time with it you're gonna do it anyway [Music] hello and welcome back to the eyeball zone last week you thought you eluded us you thought you hid but the eyeballs see all you weren't hiding from us you were hiding from yourself from the truth that this world of flesh and bone your towers of glass and steel shape form and color all of it all of it mediated to you by your eyeballs have you ever heard weird racists shooting off their mouth about muslim grooming gangs i sure have and boy wouldn't it be nice to have a video that completely and utterly destroyed that narrative that demonstrates beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt that it was never true behold muslim grooming gangs a response featuring sargon of akkad by loner box this is a sean skull level debunking and i don't ever want to see people 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