The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops

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Borrowed Observation #1 - David Roberts mentions the "card says moops" scene in Seinfeld while explaining postmodern conservatism: grist.org/politics/david-robe...
Borrowed Observation #2 - Jay Allen describes chan culture: / 540095841948553217
Borrowed Observation #3 - Schrodinger's Douchebag defined by Sally Strange (not sure who first originated the term): imgur.com/gallery/wEhXGrr
Borrowed Observation #4 - "We are what we pretend to be," from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Mother Night: / we-are-what-we-pretend...
This essay was deeply-informed by Harry Frankfurt's essay On Bullshit: www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12...
The Daily Stormer's handbook on how to radicalize people using (among other things) performative irony: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...
Reactionary KZfaqr kills his dad for calling him a Nazi: www.thedailybeast.com/youtube...

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@squaddegenerate5000 3 жыл бұрын

Someone in my high school ethics class offered “hate speech isn’t real” as a debate topic, the whole class pretended he didn’t even exist.

@TF_Tony 4 жыл бұрын

Also fits Ben Shapiro's "I'm not an expert, but...". It's Schrodinger's expert. If people call them out on made-up facts and severe misunderstandings, they can just back up to a position where whatever they said was a mere insincere thought-experiment. But to anyone who doesn't do the research, it is presented as sincere and genuine science.

@quadpad_music 3 жыл бұрын

Edgy 13 year old me is in this video he and doesn't like it.

@Cal6009 2 жыл бұрын

I've stopped a few arguments by asking "Do you actually care if your position is true or are you only concerned with winning the argument?"

@bookbook9495 3 жыл бұрын

I love the heavy sigh before he goes “it also means Jews”. He’s so annoyed

@moviemaestro800 Жыл бұрын

"The most recent gay nightclub shooting wasn't an anti-queer hate crime, because the person guilty claims to be non-binary." Newest and trendiest incarnation of this unfortunately common argument tactic, just to give this comment section another time capsule.

@ihaveasecret9539 5 жыл бұрын

I take offense to the term "Mayonnaise Boy". The politically correct term is "Hellmann-Americans".

@Silverwind87 4 жыл бұрын

"Oh, this isn't an Iron Cross, it's a Gregorian cross!"

@couchpotato2222 2 жыл бұрын

just here to say that the phrase The Card says Moops" has honestly saved me a lot of energy. Everytime on Twitter I see a guy in the comments of a progressive tweet trying to feed their animal brains, I just thinks about the cards and move on. If I do respond, I simply say "Card says Moops" and move on; That's how powerful this saying is to me

@Evolvedpants 4 жыл бұрын

I honestly feel like this channel needs to be automatically included in a starter pack for new leftists. Really, really, really good content

@MrThankeesai 3 жыл бұрын

Republicans: We are the party of Lincoln

@ryanmorfei6325 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah when I’m arguing with a conservative and they pull the “women don’t really deserve rights” or the “people’s lives don’t really matter” there’s nothing left to say. I can’t convince someone that people matter and I usually just leave. I would hate to think these people take that as them winning the argument and champion their disdain for humanity elsewhere

@giveadont 2 жыл бұрын

What you generally describe here in this video is what I have dubbed "Fat-free Fascism."

@ShieldAre 5 жыл бұрын

See also: Kettle logic. Holding multiple arguments that are contradictory. Named after Freud's story about a neighbour who had borrowed a kettle, and returned it damaged. Confronted about this, the neighbour claimed, simultaneously, that he had returned the kettle undamaged, that the kettle was already damaged when he borrowed it, and that he had never borrowed the kettle in the first place.

@mike0rr 5 жыл бұрын

"He believes he believes it" is a really interesting statement. I know 2 very conservative people that will come to the middle or even the left sometimes when you follow them down the rabbit hole of some conservative stance they take. But as soon as they go back to normal and especially when they get around their conservative groups, the last conversation is erased from memory and they are back to their far right stance again.

@Jaspertine 5 жыл бұрын

As someone who used to be an edgelord that specifically enjoyed shocking and triggering conservatives, I can offer a little bit of insight here.

@heartsteme8329 Жыл бұрын

Oh my god I just today played a game of "The card says Moops" with a Terf. she contradicted herself in every sentence, pretended not to understand things she clearly mentioned in other replies and all in all had decided what I was going to say before she even engaged and then just pretended I said what she had anticipated despite me explaining the opposite multiple times. Frustrating as fuck

@LyricalDJ 3 жыл бұрын

This is also why I hate trolls (or people who are claiming they are trolling) with a passion. Because, barring some exceptions, they undermine communities by trying to rile people up. It erodes the trust required that people will be acting in good faith and care about a certain issue. They're like a noxious gas in a space station's air supply.