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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 22, 2025

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More like most of us don't have political brainrot.

I've heard that one before, but it makes no sense given the shape of the world we're in right now. Forget Kirk's murder, how do you explain the long stream of MeToo, BLM, lockdowns, TransWomenAreWomen (to the point of putting rapists in women's prisons). I'm sorry, but either the majority of the Blue Tribe wholeheartedly support it, don't care either way - which is political brainrot. The only way it's not is, like I said above, if you're just too terrified of going against your own side.

We don't post on social media

Are you posting from the 00's? The entire Boomer part of my family is online and on SocMeds, most of society is.

We touch grass, talk to our friends, coworkers, and communities and otherwise live out our lives not terminally online.

We have posters here recounting stories of their families, friends, and coworkers making fun of the murder.

Your algorithm isn't going to push our content because there isn't any.

Ok let's say it's my algorithm, link a mainstream left-wing forum, where the news broke, and everybody's aghast at what happened. Note: threads that happened days after the fact, when people had the chance to think about their messaging, don't count. Immediate reacts only.

Wasn't it Scott that said 90% of posts online are from insane people?

I see no reason to take Scott seriously, especially when he says something like this.

link a mainstream left-wing forum, where the news broke, and everybody's aghast at what happened

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1ndmpmj/charlie_kirk_shot_at_utah_event/

https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1ndpw16/charlie_kirk_has_died/?sort=top

Almost every top comment is some form of "oh shit this is gonna get worse" and "this is bad"

Maybe if you scroll hard enough you'll find people crowing about it, but all the top comments I saw were unhappy he was shot.

Stupidpol is not a mainstream left-wing forum, it's a forum of left-wing rejects that are routinely called fascist, who were preparing for offsite emigration themselves at one point. I used to post there myself.

It's the only other place on the internet (aside from here) I regularly interact with as the users don't immediately make me want to scream.

Best I got lol

Stupidpol is neither mainstream nor left

It's Left but not in like standard Idpol way.

Quite literally the old school definition of left but I admit at this point "left" means "shitlib" and not "Marxist" despite the old dictionary definition

I think you're using the term "political brainrot" to mean "has dumb political ideas" while YoungAchamian is using it to mean "spends a lot of mental energy on politics".

Not quite. Rent control is a dumb political idea, or affirmative action. I'm talking about causes that are supportable only if you whip yourself up into a fevered frenzy, I don't see how this could be doable without "spending a lot of mental energy on politics". I suppose it's possible to sleep through "your state put a rapist in a woman's prison", but I find it a bit harder to believe one did it for BLM or the Kavanaugh hearings, let alone the COVID mania.

I don't see how this could be doable without "spending a lot of mental energy on politics"

Easy, just say the same words the people around you are saying in approximately the same order they do.

Okay... while that does not meet his definition (or your interpretation of it), surely mindlessly chanting insane political slogans has to qualify as some form of "brain rot"?

Unsolicited yeah. Imitating the people around you on politics on demand as people ask for your opinion doesn't particularly require political brain rot, just political apathy.

I think political apathy is probably the right choice for most people, including many of the people who post here (realistically, including me as well. Let it not be said that I make good decisions).

Well then, it's scarcely any consolation that his social circle didn't erupt into cheers as at Kirk's death, is it? It would just mean the contagion didn't penetrate deep enough to affect them, rather than it being beyond the pale for them.

It's pretty obnoxious to come onto a political forum and argue that your opponents are wrong and insane because they spend too much mental energy on politics.

I forgot where it states this forum was an explicitly political forum.

Or where screaming, insane people on twitter constitute the “mainstream”.

Putting lots of mental energy into politics is blatantly unhealthy behavior and a sign of an overly neurotic personality. Especially when you do it predominantly online.

Politics is the mind killer

I think "touch grass" is sometimes a useful thing to say to people who are in a doomscrolling spiral. Obnoxious, but useful.

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