Main Character Syndrome is a more malicious and fucked up state of mind than anything so-called "NPCs" are accused to being.

No. History started a month ago. Everyone protesting has never heard of Palestine until the twitter man said something

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One of the things that I took up as a thought habit was to invert the messages that advertising conveyed and nine times out of ten it works really well.

Sometimes it's just a simple reversal like "I'm loving it" -> "I'm hating it" (or to elaborate a little bit more, "Eating here is a hateful experience") but sometimes it's a legit inversion like "Because you're worth it" -> "Because we're entitled to your money".

When it comes to political insight from armchair experts like this, I think taking the same approach works really well.

for many of the NPC "protestors"... it's just a social thing

= "I can't understand why people would gather unless it's to socialise"

They just go along

= "My politics is an act of following"

There is no deep understanding about the issues they are marching for

= "I have no understanding about the issues they are marching for"

It is all just slogans

= "The one feature I have noticed about protest marches is that they have slogans"

Am I doing a reverse armchair expert analysis of their psychology? Without any doubt. But not all armchair expertise is identical and I think this gives some insight into what's going on for people like this. All of liberal politics is projection.

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It's all about dehumanisation, that's all it is. It's removing the humanity from their enemies so they can justify their own violent thoughts for what they want to do to "the enemy"

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"elitism" in American political discourse is almost entirely aesthetic imo. Anyone who's interacted with conservatives knows they're just as smug as liberals and share the same love for "I told you so" and "they just don't know any better'. We joke here about libs droning on about "the adults in the room" but conservatives actually do think that everyone that disagrees with them is a literal child.

The difference is that liberals watch TV shows with higher production values. They don't listen to country music. Right wingers in my area are putting chuck norris on their campaign posters.

I mean, obviously.

Nothing garners more social acceptance than openly being a communist and there isn't a single interest group which requires less study, less effort, and whose acceptance is more unconditional than a communist org.

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that most people in youth communist groups are there because they want to belong somewhere.

I don't know if that's the primary reason, but it's certainly valid to want to belong. It's why people join gangs, terrorist organizations, etc. Perhaps it also applies to commie groups, we shouldn't think of them as holy mystical orgs free from real life issues. I get that your friends have no idea what they are talking about, but I do think that people join orgs not solely for helping others, but also helping themselves ('it's better to be together with like-minded people than to suffer alone' king of thing).

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The Japanese call it Chunibyo.

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