Morning Comrades.
A little reactionary I know but bear with me. The other day I had yet another terminally online “bro” - and yes, it is almost exclusively some bro usually from the US or Little US ( both England and/or Germany ) swamp one of my online accounts over on the social media wastelands trolling me to debate him - again, an assumption that said person was a “bro” and if I am wrong, I’ll happily stand corrected.
Some of you have been a part of my little online world for decades and know that I never do this, rarely ever have and if so only exclusively so if I know the person. I don’t debate shit online and never will- it is a waste of my time and rarely, if actually never achieves anything. Now, those that do know me personally know damn well that I do love a solid kitchen table discussion, hell, I’ll go as far as saying that a vast amount of my understanding of the world comes just from those. This is not a rant against debate and that never will happen either, but it is a massive shit on the “debate me bro” culture as a distillation of the dumb-stoner-college-drop-out idea of being a smart ass, from a Marxist point of view - mine - since that’s what we are here for. Culture Wars exist but those posture that the conflict as two sides of equal merit which will never be the case, in the larger context of our current culture wars- as knowledge, understanding and betterment are never on the table in the first place and the spectacle of the debate me bro culture certainly is anything but that. Yes, I have chose the ultimate idiot as the title, but to be clear, this applies to all people that “debate” in this culture. I don’t like you and this one’s for you.
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