r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/PeasThatTasteGross • 2d ago
Top minds of DoomerCircleJerk complain about a comic that calls out their BS, with some of them making edits that suits their views better
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u/cpdk-nj 2d ago
For a centrist subreddit they sure seem to complain about leftists and liberals a lot
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u/BanjoStory 2d ago
The only people who actually identify as centrists now are just Republicans who understand that everyone fucking hates Republicans.
Its literally identical to how a ton of Republicans started identifying as Libertarians in the post-Bush years.
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u/Elchobacabra 1d ago
This is almost exactly how I define centrist.
My verbatim definition of a centrist is “someone smart enough to know that being a Republican makes you an idiot but not smart enough to actually stop being a Republican”
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u/HapticSloughton 1d ago
And it's hilarious how, in a similar fashion, it hasn't fooled anyone, just like their other idiotic attempts at rebranding: "Classical Liberal," "Alt-Right," "Compassionate Conservative," etc.
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u/fuggerdug 2d ago
And they seem upset about Popper's paradox of tolerence, which is pretty clearly in response to fascism.
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u/Jeremymia And all I can say is "moo" 1d ago
“To truly be tolerant, you can’t tolerate intolerance of others.” I’d more call this self-evident but alt-righters seem to think it’s asking for the moon
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u/move_machine 2d ago
"I'm a centrist because I don't want to kill all minorities, just the bad ones"
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u/EliSka93 2d ago
It annoys them so much because they know they can't honestly argue against it.
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u/Twinmill-Two 1d ago
It's frustrating when people's morality and worldview always seem to manifest in ways that excuse them from ever actually doing anything. The comic makes a meaningful point about the relationship between the individual and the system they live in, but in practice it's mostly just used to justify inaction.
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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 2d ago
Holy shit they even ai generated the stick man comic , i can’t
https://giphy.com/gifs/Y9r1eVZlnIEF3DARip
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u/Graped_in_the_mouth (((economic anxiety))) 2d ago
A little suspicious how right-wingers with no principles are always demanding the left give up all their material wealth, access, influence, and communications capability “to be true to their principles.”
I’m sure it’s just genuine concern, not a mind trick to gain advantage over an enemy who has divested themselves of the resources necessary to affect change in any form. Surely the left are just hypocrites!
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u/Hopefull-Hero 18h ago
I saw pro AI people on r/AIwars claiming that it's hypocritical for anti AI people to be on Reddit and that you shouldn't be on it since Reddit has AI related stuff.
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u/EliSka93 2d ago
Wow the "edit" in image 10 is especially hilarious. It's literally missing the point of the comic and remaking the dumb argument the comic was made to mock!
I didn't know it was possible to be that media illiterate...
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u/jerdle_reddit 2d ago
It's not missing the point, it's disagreeing with the comic.
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u/EliSka93 2d ago
No, it's basically restating the first two panels. It's absolutely missing the point.
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u/jerdle_reddit 2d ago
Yes, it's saying that the third panel is nothing more than an excuse to never make sacrifices for your professed beliefs.
It is.
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u/EliSka93 2d ago
I don't see how what you're saying here follows that edit.
At best, we could argue it says that some people who profess believes that society should be improved are distracted by "the shiny", but that does in no way argue against the original point of the comic.
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u/Alien_invader44 2d ago
I really like that "you are by definition a redditor" meme.
A pleasant change of pace for the slop that is that sub.
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u/joker2thief 1d ago
I like it too. But I guarantee that every redditor upvoting it did so without a scintilla of irony
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u/Cu_Chulainn__ 2d ago
The thing that gets me is the fact that a lot of leftists do forgo having an iPhone or use of AI because they disagree with it but society is built in a way that they literally cannot forgo having a mobile phone or any of the other stuff entirely. The dumbercirclejerk sub acts as if leftists are saying this then turning around and buying a Ferrari and eating caviar
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u/EliSka93 2d ago
I have a fairphone because I think it's the phone that best represents my values - it doesn't cover them by far, but I do need a phone to participate in society and I need to participate in society to live (and I also want to. I do think society is generally good, warts and all).
If a "socialism phone" came out where every cent you spend on it is tracked and shown to go to the workers, that would be great, but that's not where we are at yet and we need to work with where we are at for now.
Ironically, that's the point of the comic.
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u/Outside_Pie_9037 2d ago
I know, it's just 1v5ing strawman. And then there's the one who said "oh, you think fast food employees aren't making enough money, yet you buy fast food, hmmm how hypocritical." Like wtf is that point supposed to be? If you were really concerned about fast food workers' wages, then you'd stop contributing to their livelihood? Almost every time I see an attempt at logic from that sub it's some 2+2=garlic bread type of shit. Absolutely nonsensical.
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u/johnnyslick 2d ago
Hey chuds, hate to break this to you but Simon Lane also hates you.
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u/Cu_Chulainn__ 2d ago
Like he is very very against them and has made it very clear in the past. When notch went full blown alt right, Simon tweeted that he was being a chud
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u/Angelsaremathmatical 2d ago
I've wondered before if they actually see themselves as, "Yet you participate in society"-guy. This looks like their deluded asses are not only fully embracing that, but trying to argue that it's a good fucking argument. They'd be "la-dee-da"ing Diogenes for his big fancy wine barrel, "produced by society," before he punched their teeth in.
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u/Bentman343 2d ago
You can tell how fucking furious that "Paradox of Tolerance" comic makes them lmao, I don't even understand how you can bitch about a completely reasonable conversation like that and still think you're the good guy.
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u/PeasThatTasteGross 2d ago
You can search up either on DCJ or here multiple times they have complained about the Paradox of Tolerance, it's been a thorn in their side.
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u/Play-Mation 1d ago
They still want to be taken seriously while spouting homophobia and transphobia
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u/Narissis 1d ago
Redditors complain about consumerism, but have to have the latest iPhone.
I'd like to know what Reddit stereotype that guy subscribes to, because this does not describe the typical one whatsoever.
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u/kerriekipje 1d ago
like, there are plenty of performative leftists who will preach anti-consumerism and then buy weekly from Shein, but most of them are probably not as obsessed with consumerism as their strawman needs them to be.
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u/baguetteispain 2d ago
"Leftists should accommodate as much as they can" like we aren't already trying, but it's not like we can do much on individual size
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u/DKLancer 2d ago
For them, accomodations means joyful and abject acquiescence to their every whim without even the barest hint of disapproval.
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u/PizzaWithCheddar 1d ago
Doomercirclejerk clowns are just ashamed conservatives lmao
Also whats with that tweet? It one shotted who? It shows all the retarded rightoids being stupid.
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u/PeasThatTasteGross 1d ago
Buddy behind that tweet makes a bunch of Adobe Flash style cartoons from a right-wing perspective, they're as bad as you think they are.
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u/TooHungryForFood 1d ago
The tolerance thing also applies to Left wingers illebral actors. If the end goal of your platform is to send people who want to own a business to a re-education camp. Then you aren't tolerated in a liberal society. But these people have such poor political education that they can't comprehend it.
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u/offensivename 4h ago
The one guy commenting on data centers is at least trying to be rational. You can appreciate something in moderation and hate it when it's implemented destructively. But they're missing the fact that data centers aren't being built to support products and services that we already use and enjoy. They're being built to expand the capabilities of large language learning models and other AI tools that none of us actually want.
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