Some people don’t believe me when I try to warn them about the content creator grift. I don’t care, I’m coming for all of them if they start spouting shit like this to their audience. They have a responsibility towards their viewers.
Second time I see him tweet shit like this.
At this point he should just stop pretending he’s any sort of leftist. His mental health will thank him.
archive link so he can’t scrub it off the internet: https://archive.ph/XWZD6 (still loading as of posting but should be ready eventually)
lead poisoning most likely. despite it being a global issue I’ve seen this take before, ie. the yanks are still working through the generations that had their brains stunted by lead. I don’t claim this take but I’ve seen it a lot in anti-US spaces, though I kind of thought it was a meme tbh.
That wouldn’t be specific to chuds, though. It’d affect people across the spectrum and probably would hit poor people the hardest.
Maybe he’s casting an incredibly wide net over yanks and including most of them as chuds? It wouldn’t be incorrect to describe demographics in general as far more rightward in the states. I’m just trying to make sense of the statement and just seeing what sticks. Yugopnik says some pretty unhinged things and this might just be an utterly underdeveloped, spiteful thought.
You’re giving him way too much credit. If there’s widespread lead poisoning that’s causing cognitive decline for millions of people, there will be communists among those millions of people. To think otherwise is wrong for 2 huge reasons:
It goes without saying that leftists need to believe that change is possible; that doesn’t mean being naive about how hard that’s gonna be for American fascists, or even to believe that redeeming every single one of them is necessary. But you at least need to believe that there’s nothing that’s baked into reactionaries that makes them reactionary, or else you’re halfway to accepting an aristocratic and austere worldview where you set out to give comfort only to the sensitive and noble people, and nothing but hard labor to the brutes. In other words, you may as well drop Marx and pick up Nietzsche.
I think its worth dismantling the take, but I think I’m not the person who needs to read this. Still a good write up for the thread.
lead poisoning may or may not explain why boomers are the way they are (and may explain other negatively perceived behaviors that may be considered less political), but something like microplastics could easily ruin the next 100 years.