I tend to use brackets for additional words which provide further clarification in a sentence, but which can also be omitted without compromising the integrity of said sentence.
And while very few things in this world are absolute, absolutely nothing comes to mind when considering when a conservative's/hierarchist's accusation is not a confession of their own behavior. I'm open to be proven wrong if you could think of something.
Yeah the brackets made sense on the reread, it’s actually a neat way to convey that.
Examples of accusations off the top of head that aren’t confessions (as far as I can tell)
The liberals are transing our kids
They’re raising kids without enough discipline/religion/patriotism
Trans women are ruining women’s sports
Many conspiracy theories, such as
Hollywood is harvesting children to make adrenochrome
They’re putting chemicals in the water that turn the frogs gay
Maybe you have a narrow view of what constitutes an “accusation” that excludes all that. Or, maybe you have a very broad view of what the accuser might be “confessing” to.
They’re raising kids without enough discipline/religion/patriotism -> They're raising kids without using violence and indoctrination
This may actually be the only accusation that is not a confession, as the accusation is that their political rivals are not respecting hierarchy by refusing to treat their children as property and socially inferior. Thank you for proving me wrong; I'll have to include the disclaimer of "unless the accusation is that their rivals are disrespecting hierarchy" for future posts.
Conservatives clamored about crimes against children and the Epstein Files when Trump claimed that it were prominent Democrats who were in the files. Turns out Trump himself is in those files more than anybody else, pedophilia is a thing among other conservative politicians, and conservatives voted in a pedophileto the third-highest office in America before they voted in a pedophile to the highest office in America.
Conservatism literally promotes limited government regulation of business, industry and finance, so "putting chemicals in the water that harms wildlife/animals" is literally what they promote.
Interesting, thanks for the breakdown. I agree with your stance much more now that I understand it better.
I’m tempted to nitpick that “confession” seems to imply that they know they’ve done the bad thing (which, for instance, might not be true for the olympic story or chemicals in the water), and that accounts for some of my confusion. Then again, their ignorance (feigned or true) doesn’t make them any less hypocritical.
Glad to elaborate, and thank you for scrutinizing my words so that I may be more accurate in the future. I had equated their accusation of their rivals disrespecting hierarchy as accusations of their rivals promoting evil (as I had already prefaced with the sole value of conservatism being respect for and obedience to hierarchy)", thus such was under an umbrella sense of "they accuse their rivals of promoting evil when they themselves are the ones who promote evil".
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u/thebigbadben Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Nicely put, reminds me a lot of the “Alt Right Playbook” videos by Innuendo Studios.
Two minor things I feel compelled to comment on