It's amazing how no one has drawn the cognitively-available stark connection between these two phenomena yet.
The most important topic that can be discussed right now is philosophy for children. You won't find that being discussed on Twitter.
Let's set aside the Trump phenomenon for now - I'm not interested in the slightest in leftist-loser and Democrat whataboutism at the moment - and look at perhaps the single most intellectually-destructive and therefore toxic figure on social media right now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I know that twitterized memories may be short, but let's look back within the past month for the level of idiocy AOC is capable of, and rewarded with "likes" on social media for:
(This tweet was in the wake of incoming Demon Rat congresscritter Rashida Tlaib saying that they would "impeach the motherfucker!")
I'll reproduce what I said earlier in this blog, and to which there is no reasonable counter that I can remotely fathom:
In the twisted cognitive world of [AOC] & Co., such gender-baiting is now the norm even when it is illogical and gratuitous. To anyone with common sense - this excludes today's unhinged leftists - the gender of the person using foul language toward Trump is entirely irrelevant.
But even more damning of [AOC]'s cognitive "skills": anyone who knows how to read and parse language properly knows that Trump was not admitting to sexual assault. He said that he grabbed women "by the pussy" and that they welcomed it. ("You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything....Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.")
Perhaps the demonic Democrats have managed to bastardize the meaning of "sexual assault" as well?
This is not the only time AOC has spread her blatantly toxic (intellectually inferior) garbage on social media. Let's try this one out:
Ryan Saavedra provides video in which AOC says: "If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — Uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House." Saavedra adds: "The 3 branches of government: executive, legislative, judicial."
How does AOC respond to Saavedra's correction? Watch:
Maybe instead of Republicans drooling over every minute of footage of me in slow-mo, waiting to chop up word slips that I correct in real-tomd, they actually step up enough to make the argument they want to make:
that they don’t believe people deserve a right to healthcare.
Let's set aside for the moment the issue of a 'right to healthcare' (an issue AOC would be too ignorant to discuss non-toxically). [ * - see appended note]
Here is what AOC considers to be a real-time correction:
"If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — Uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House."
It is simply rationally unacceptable for an elected member of Congress to get away with saying that she made a correction here. Do I need to spell it out?
(See also: Dunning-Kruger effect, observed in those whose overestimate their own cognitive abilities and don't know it.)
(See also: Dunning-Kruger effect, observed in those whose overestimate their own cognitive abilities and don't know it.)
In just the past few days, AOC took to more flat-out intellectual laziness/dishonesty, by smearing a source based on its supposed funding source. (Only when she was called out on her obvious scummery did she back down.) She doesn't really care about doing her homework before making her claims. Nothing about AOC's MO is progressive.
[Edit: Does AOC's following have the cognitive characteristics of an apocalyptic cult? Cult leaders are well-known for their charisma but otherwise generally reviled as toxic.]
[Edit #2: In the "You can't make this shit up" department, AOC said, "I think it’s wrong that a vast majority of the country doesn’t make a living wage." How can someone possessing such a superior moral compass be so intellectually lazy?]
[Edit #3: The real problem with AOC? Her enablers.]
If we want to really crack down on social media (and especially twitter) toxicity, we should home on in its biggest offenders ASAFP.
Next up: More on philosophy for children.
[*] - The global GDP right now is roughly $75 Trillion, or about $10K for every inhabitant of the planet. How much would it cost to fund this so-called right for all people who putatively have this right? Why are the so-called rights of which AOC and her "progressive" ilk speak so expensive? This is a separate issue from whether a decent people, through some institutional arrangement or other, statist or private, help to ensure people's needs are met. This is about what kinds of enforceable claims we can make on the lives, minds, and efforts of others. [The claim of a right not to be killed is enforceable, but doesn't really make any demands on the lives, minds, and efforts of others, now does it. Anyway, the point of having a government isn't to generate desirable outcomes but to secure freedom.] Even Ayn Rand says in her Galt speech that helping others as a spiritual payment for their virtue is a selfish necessity, but not a matter of duty as such. This is even assuming people would need help in a society where its members live with maximum rationality, able (e.g.) to compose blogs that meet high philosophical standards. It's easy to make happen. Plus, healthcare costs can be drastically reduced for just about anyone who does his lifestyle homework. The Democrats and Republicans are fighting over CRUMBS right now.
