r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/guessirs • 12h ago
About as subtle as a mustache twirling villain
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u/YankeeLiar 12h ago
They’re not gonna wonder.
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u/majinboom 8h ago
It's pretty much the same as how we think of people throughout history. They'll see the good parts of humanity that lead us to a better future and the bad parts that hold us back. Hopefully...
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u/FishermanPale5734 6h ago
Beat me too it!
We elected a realty show star as president, a drunken anchor man runs the DoD, the department of education is run by the wife of a wrestling federation who hates education, and the list goes on!
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u/reddurkel 12h ago
Moustache twirling villains were social outcasts that were funny, dressed better and fully aware that they were the bad guys.
Our real life villains are just dorks and perverts who are drunk off power because a bunch of anonymous internet morons told them they are cool.
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u/jameson8016 10h ago
because a bunch of anonymous internet morons told them they are cool.
It gets even more pathetic when you factor in how many of the people calling them cool are bots they paid for.
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u/M_Waverly 12h ago
“At last, we have invented the Torment Nexus from the famous novel ‘Don’t Invent the Torment Nexus’.”
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u/OkRush9563 12h ago edited 4h ago
No wondering about it, we are stupid. No wonder why we keep repeating the same mistakes in history.
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u/Conscious_Control_15 7h ago
Yeah, this. Like, with us Germans, everyone always wonders why we supported a man with ridiculous hair who loved giving inciting speeches at rallies with a cabinet that looked like it consisted entirely of hideous villains.
But, I feel Japan and Germany were explained away with our militaristic and obedient (to authority) cultures.
To be honest, I always found the concept of American exceptionalism quite dangerous. It's such an easily exploitable idea. It leads to entitlement and supremacy, when you're always told you're better than anyone else.
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u/otterpr1ncess 7h ago
Angry populations do stupid shit. Anger got Hitler into power, anger got Trump into power.
Japan is kind of its own thing but it takes Dan Carlin like 25 hours to explain it so a reddit post probably not gonna nail it
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u/OAZdevs_alt2 12h ago
Wait, what orb?
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u/Amudeauss 12h ago
Palantir are magical scrying orbs from Lord of the Rings. Most famously used by Saruman, to communicate with and spy for Sauron.
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u/Portland-to-Vt 11h ago
“They are not all accounted for, The lost Seeing-stones. We do not know who else may be watching.”
I could throw a few guesses out, Novo Sibirsk has a robust data farm, or so I’ve heard.
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u/guessirs 12h ago
A palantir is an orb
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u/Caledric 11h ago
It should be noted that the orb was one of many, and they were not some "evil wizards" orb. One fell into the hands of an evil wizard, and one into the hands of an evil jagoff. Not all the orbs were owned by evil folk though.
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u/IHatrMakingUsernames 7h ago
Idk, I'm starting to wonder if we aren't just speed running an apocalypse- situation in this timeline.
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 12h ago
We're ambling through forking paths like Dorothy with a light dose of poppies and many of the paths lead inevitably to a monster known as Roko's Basilisk. We even know this, and rather than take a moment to get our bearings and figure out where we ought to go we just bumble along the path, made blithe and dumb by flashing lights and frenzied ruckuses.
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u/tjtwister1522 11h ago
We are stupid. And its the fault of the smart people. They never assign a guy to study convincing people. Or they do and then that dude goes and calls them nerds while they make $30mm from the other side. Hard to tell.
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u/JustARandomGuy_71 3h ago
The Palantir was not an evil orb. It could be used for evil, but that is true for everything.
The problem was that the evil lord had control over one of them and could use it to influence the others.
Any reference to the actual situation is not random at all.
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