Thursday, June 17, 2021

Yeah, that must be it.

 


Sure ... discrimination and bigotry ... I mean, it's not like those religious lunatics are, you know, breaking the fucking law or anything!!!!!

Just fucking kill me.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Rebel previously claimed the crackdown was aimed as destroying the restaurant industry, then that it was targeted at health club operators, and then it was a vast conspiracy to imprison generic dissidents in concentration camps. I guess the Rebel has made a business decision to ignore those other "victim" sectors and pretend this is religious persecution. Probably a good idea; these seem like pretty primitive cults and simple minded congregations, and they're used to send money off on request with no return or accountability.

8:07 AM
Purple library guy said...

I've noticed this basic difference between the hard right and hard left when it comes to conspiracy theories. Right wingers start from the idea that something nefarious is being done, pick their favourite group to be behind it, and generally leave the motivation as a sort of implicit "Well, the people we don't like are bad so they want to do bad things". Like for instance, why would anyone want to destroy the restaurant industry? What is the point supposed to be?

Left wingers look at something happening in the political realm and wonder who can make a buck from that, which is hardly a stretch in an economic system where everyone is supposed to be driven by greed and indeed the CEOS trumpet from the rooftops that everything they do is to get shareholders more money. And then after they turn over a rock or two, it very often turns out that go figure, somebody is making a buck from that, and that somebody bribed the politicos or drafted the legislation so they'd arrange for it to be easy for them to make that buck. Much of the time this is happening more or less in public, so not so much conspiracy theories as conspiracy facts, but the point is that left wing ideas about what's happening that's nefarious rely almost entirely on a motivation that everyone, on the left or right, agrees is almost universal. They ask "cui bono?"

Right winger conspiracy theories by contrast always seem to look like those joke business plans of
1) Do X
2) Do Y
. . .
. . .
Profit!

I guess it's because if they asked the simple obvious questions about greed and profit, the answers they got would not look right wing, so they have to avoid doing it.

5:49 PM

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