It doesn’t matter how long you make them read Lenin and break rocks in the gulag, the second you let them out they’ll see an AI generated meme from a CIA holdout posting from a bunker somewhere and immediately revert to being a burgerbrained fash.

I think we need to just dump them on an island somewhere and put them under continuous naval blockade and internet blackout till they revert to a Hunter gather society.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      47·
      6 months ago

      You can re-educate but the process for doing so isn’t teaching them marx, it’s making them hate the constructed consumptive identity.

      You may be able to teach them marx later. But eliminating the constructed reality and inoculating them to falling back into it is a prerequisite beforehand.

      • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        23·
        6 months ago

        Yeah. I misread the title as

        I genuinely think American CHUDs are too stupid for self-reflection

        and clicked through with the intention of writing a whole thing about how its not a matter of intelligence, but that there’s just not much public examples of self-reflection in society. It’s a behavior you learn from seeing peers and parents do, and we’re (at least) several generations into a negative feedback loop.

    • Thallo [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      40·
      6 months ago

      its not about intelligence, its about subcultural narrative and the willful acceptance of a simulated reality that appeals to them on a fundamental level. their identity has been reconstructed around consumption of particular strains of media that appeal to their fantasy

      I keep trying to tell libs this when they keep bringing up how “stupid” maga people are and how the “education system has failed.”

      Very clearly, they have an ideological commitment to something they feel benefits them.

      • Sinisterium@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        By removing the source of the superbasis genesis, many of the more beging and salvageable chuds will cease clinging to such behaviors.

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      stupidity is the wrong word, but burgerbrained is right. The burger, fries, the Amerikkkan flag have all become fetishes not to a superstitious religious population, but to a population that has embraced religious superstition and anti-intellectualism on the grounds of consumptive identity.

      One must never forget, burger communion is ruinous