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Does anyone here think there is some sort of internal awareness among "freedom" obsessed chuds about how much they hate the freedoms of others? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I ask because I truly don't know. Are they aware of the contradictions?

Don't you dare tell them to wear a mask and socially distance during a pandemic! :frothingfash:

Your front yard better look like fuzzy green concrete and be absent of any meaningful ecosystem or they'll harass you and get the city and even the police involved if they can. :grillman:

They think kids these days are too easily offended by their edgy jokes that haven't changed since the 90s. :frothingfash:

You better not insult their boys in blue (who never wear blue anymore and in fact try to LARP as soldiers as often as possible) and you better not insult their brave troops in harm's way (who were put there by their fellow :grillman: war profiteers) and you better not make fun of :lmayo: or call them :lmayo: and you better stand for the flag salute with sufficient tears in your eyes or else. :grillman:

They believe cancel culture is out of control and has gone too far! :frothingfash:

They've been blacklisting and shunning anyone too "uppity" for them forever. See how quickly Sinead O'Connor's career vanished after insulting the Pope. Or the Dixie Chicks after they didn't praise the latest profiteer war with sufficient zeal. "GamerGate" itself was about trying to cancel anyone making games that weren't about grizzled white men killing otherfied monsters to avenge their fridged wives and/or to protect their sexually objectified teenage stepchildren. :stupidpol:

They only want the freedom to deny freedom to others. Full stop.

Are they conscious of this? At all? I truly can't tell. :thinking-about-it:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Are they conscious of this? At all?

My money is on a big hell no. These are literally the stupidest people in the world were talking about here, they have no self awareness at all. Their inner life is completely silent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No, I don't think it enters their selfish heads at all. A good point of analysis is the suburb: everyone in their tiny little castle in their tiny little fiefdom of grass. They only care about the appearance of their neighbor's lawns and homes because it can appreciate or depreciate the value of their home. Hence, the Home Owner's Association circus. It's like if you took the concept of a community and atomized it completely.

If you have that mindset and you apply the concept of "freedoms" it will be completely individualized. It's always about "my freedoms" not "our freedoms" even if they use the word "our." It's a shorthand for themselves.