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The meme that the Left uses words as spells to produce useful outcomes has the most explanatory power.
They don’t care about meanings, they just want those outcomes.
Brotherhood @DiggingInTheDi1
Posted on X, January 21, 2026
I can believe that.
- Gun free zone.
- From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! *
- If there are no guns there will be no gun violence.
- Black lives matter.
- Believe women.
- Defund the police.
- Affordable housing. **
- Anything-phobic. **
- Bipartisan. **
- Climate change. **
- Common sense gun control. **
- Corporate greed. **
- Deincarceration. **
- Diversity. **
- Equity. **
- Existential threat to democracy. **
- …
- Reproductive freedom. **
- Security.
- Underrepresented. **
- Undocumented immigrant. **
- Workers’ rights. **
* From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs – Wikipedia
** The Progressive Left’s Glossary Of Terms, 2024 Edition – Scattered Shots
This dovetails nicely into the thread about many people being LLMs.
I’ve told many people on X, when they simply repeat the exact same wetf stupid mantra, that they seem to believe that if they keep repeating themselves, their words will act like some sort of magic spell (like Merlin’s ‘Spell of Making’ in the movie Excalibur)
Somalis built Minnesota.
Of course, this particular one comes under Goebbels and the Big Lie. If you tell a hugely obvious lie, people will pare it down in their minds and believe a smaller lie.
I cannot believe that you forgot the most puissant magic spell of them all: a sign proclaiming “gun free zone”.
That would be some serious mojo… if it ever worked.
One of my favorite cartoons shows a wolf, licking its chops. He’s surrounded by piles of bones, and is leaning against a sign saying “wolf free zone”.
I can’t believe it either.
Fixed.
Thank you.
“Big Lie,” attributed to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist. He stated that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
The left uses this exact method. But they have a twist they like to pull.
Vox Day pointed out that the first words out of their mouth is always a lie. And then they make you argue over the lie. While they equivocate, pretend, and double down on the lie.
Our problem is we magically enter the “word spell” by excepting their first premise. Instead of just calling it a lie. And saying there is no such premise.
My personal favorite is “assault weapon”. And shortly after them using that term we find ourselves repeating it for them.
When there never was such a thing. Or the fact that almost everything can be one should a human mind desire it, matters little.
They know it’s a lie. We know it’s a lie. They know, we know it’s a lie. And we know, they know, we know it’s a lie.
But here we all are using the term and arguing over this or that feature of the “assault weapon” lie.
Instead of just pointing out to the user what an ignorant and meaning less buzz word it is.
Then pointing out only a communist apparatchik, or an elitist Karen would use the term.
Our biggest problem is we don’t think we’re in a war. When we have been in one for 75 years or better.
With people dying and life’s being destroyed daily.
Global Warming*
Pay their fair share
Racist
Nazi
Toxic Masculinity
*yes, you already have Climate Change, but that’s the nature of their lies- they keep evolving the specific term as people starting realizing the old buzzword is a lie, but the NPCs think the new word for the same old lie is totally a New Hotness.
I”ve said any number of times that “climate change” has been around since the Earth acquired an atmosphere and will continue so long as it has one. Ask any dinosaur.
The left learned long ago that if you control the language you can control the society. Thus words…ANY words…mean only what they want them to mean at that particular moment. And the meaning can and often does change as their needs and wishes change. And they have been getting away with this for decades…because we let them.
In children’s fairy tales there is frequently a wizard, or a witch, who utters incantations possessing the power of Magic (TM) and POOF ! problems are overcome, fortunes made, and Everyone Lives Happily Ever After (also TM). Also, see:Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Great Pumpkin, the Wizard of Oz, et al)
There comes a point in the progression of human lives when reality overcomes fantasy and, gradually, children’s treasured beliefs are not totally discarded but relegated to the category of “pleasant childhood fantasy,” that delightful social lubricant of childhood that rounds the sharp corners of Growing Up.
In adolescence, and later, the departed Santa Claus and Easter Bunny are replaced with Chuck Norris, who always wins the fights with Bad Guys, Xena Warrior Princess (who also wins all the fights), Perry Mason (who never loses a case), Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs who exudes firmness and Always Finds The Criminal in 43 Minutes (17 minutes are extracted from the hour for commercials, 21 minutes on re-runs), and a host of Other Characters of Great Fame and Power.
All this Fantasy gets played out these days primarily on screens where stagecraft aided by good props, good writing and acceptable FX channels the experience into never ending success. Decades past the same fantasy content existed, but, first, only in oral histories then later in books, eventually in movie theaters where, interestingly, one had to go to a Special Place to view the fantasy, after which one passed through manually operated physical structures called “doors” which very obviously deleniated the Special Fantasy Place from The Real World.
I wonder how much of the brainless crap we’re suffering through with The Left is because they, either through inadequate, incomplete, or damaged, brain function are incapable of differentiating between fantasy – “Magic Chants” – and Reality. Way Back When, as is sometimes said, there were solid barriers between Fantasy and Reality, and the differences between those two poles were more obvious; there’s a big difference between “the moon is made of green cheese” and watching Armstrong (and others) leave footprints there. Perhaps there’s a threshold of “grandiosity in reality situations” that’s too complicated for some brain structures to properly categorize, and perhaps some brains can only simply default to the lesser stress of not differentiating, or just not being capable of differentiating, between fantasy and reality, it becomes just one very large “lived experience” with no partitions or boundaries.
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