What else do you expect from Reddit liberals? They talk like parrots locked in a room with Big Bang Theory and NPR playing over each other.

I blame the phones.

Seriously, though, they've got their pefect world, their best of all possible worlds. A vote blue is in the white house, they're engaged in a righteous war against evil, the adults in the room are solving climate change, bidenomics is working. Life is good? Why seek beyond the veil? Why search for wisdom? Why question the false reality in pursuit of truth? The demiurge says life is good, covid is over, time for brunch! Why ruin that by pulling on threads and noticing the sick, the dead, and the poor?

If they're Reddit refugees, Reddit encourages a particular manner of dialogue that is receptive to karma. The whole faux politeness snark is exactly the sort of speech that gets upvotes in the default subs.

So, the hypothesis is that it's a Pavlovian response.

I noticed this in real life too. I had a political argument or debate or whatever with an old friend who is died blue Democrat, literally works in politics. He's a smart guy and obviously in tune with politics, but when we talked about China or foreign policy every single argument he made I had heard before and had counters to. Nothing was surprising. Liberals all kind of retread the same basic bullet points and change the topic if you have concrete ways to address those points.

When Virgil and Matt did Skullduggery, and then had a subsequent autopsy episode on their show, they noticed liberals have the same canned responses to criticisms of US foreign policy/capitalism that they had no counter to legitimate arguments.

It's ultimately low effort thinking, and substitution of dogma over critical analysis. The ruling class and the state is the only ones that do legitimate critical analysis and then learn all the wrong lessons, building institutions of control after the fact.

To be honest, I think the simple answer is that's what they were taught growing up. As a child who was not instantly born a commie but was a filthy lib for some years, I'm pretty sure it was school that taught me "commienism is when one person controls everything" or "some people are mooore equal than others ". It was also school where I learned to accept the news media absolutely unquestioningly, and that anyone who questioned it was stupid because it literally must be true, every lib-ism I hear to this day, including 'would you kindly', I've seen so many times from teachers, other kids, and the news, and I learned it as "the" way to deal with thought dissent.

Like it or not, these formulaic thoughts and speech patterns are simply ingrained in western teaching and culture. You have to push specific thoughts and phrases on to a population, because the only alternative is actually having people engage with the ideas.

Brainworms are strong, and I think it takes different things to make everyone share them. But I think the most important part is getting them curious and actually wanting to engage, however you tempt a given person to do that.

It’s because liberals have outsourced the entirety of their mental faculties to the likes of the NYT. It’s like a choose your own adventure book, there’s only so many lines they’re programmed to regurgitate propaganda in response to, so if you step even a tiny bit out of bounds from their narrow strait of intellectual bankruptcy and dishonesty, they short circuit and get stuck on repeating thought-terminating cliches like a broken record.

Ledditors are people who used third-party apps, got very very very mad when spez took away their third-party apps, and hopped on to a Reddit clone instead of just using a totally different social media site. They are completely addicted to Reddit and consequently have their brains melted by the Reddit algo.

Ledditor act more like Redditors than your average Redditor.

They must be State Department Bots. There is no other explanation, only such primitive LLM models would reflexively call their opponents tankies.

Though the struggle sessions can be exhausting, I do think it's healthy for a community to face fierce resistance to everything you fucking say, even from your allies. I appreciate the way that you tell me I'm wrong <3

We need to Voight-Kampf these mother fuckers, only way to be sure they're not the Replicants they accuse us of being

Edited for clarity