This is true anywhere and always, but it has gotten worse. Most of the time when people argue with some point I’ve made I typically don’t engage because I realize they have not understood in the least and don’t even know what half the words mean.

Why get in the middle of that? Whatever is going on there has naught to do with me.

I’ve observed this utterly bizarre constellation of beliefs in the wild before, too. Although calling any of it “beliefs” is really stretching the term far too thin as there is no cogent thought or value structure behind it.

People really can — and do! — believe that every country in the world has sovereign right to enforce immigration laws except the United States. And then act affronted or confused when you tell them that is it hypocritical to believe that.

The really strange thing about it all is they often completely cannot recognize that this is a contradictory set of opinions. Even if you point it out. Repeatedly. I have no idea what is going on cognitively there but is such an odd things to observe. And it’s fairly common in lefty types, perhaps even dominant.

My MIL has sent literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to “Elon Musk” and wants to send more.

Goddamn my ethics.

I would be incredibly good at scamming. And these people are such chumps. It’s unfair.

Canada becoming more dependent on China. In some ways, we pushed them that direction.

But they really think that’s gonna work out well for them? Of course it won’t. They’ll be played with, chewed up, then spit out out like a lion finding a vole running around in its enclosure. That is, if they don’t just become a satrapy fully under Chinese control — which is also likely.

Of course, a lot of the idiot leftists would cheer for that. Not as much as if it were under an Islamic theocracy, but still. They would like it.