Sheldon Croukamp retweetledi
There’s something seriously off about how people think right now.
We are living in an age of unreason. Truth doesn’t matter. Context doesn’t matter. What matters is who is louder, meaner, more self righteous, and more “right.”
“I don’t like the West” has turned into “I hate the West,” and half of you didn’t even arrive there through actual thinking. It’s just the trend. You question the West, you’re informed. You hate it, suddenly you’re morally superior.
Groundbreaking.
And now we’ve reached peak clown behaviour. People hate America and Trump so much that they’ll swing all the way to the other extreme and start defending regimes like the IRGC as if that’s some kind of moral stance.
I’m sorry… what?
I genuinely don’t know how some of you have the energy to hate people you’ve never met this much. Are you not tired? Do you not have actual lives to live?
And the self hate? Even worse. People tearing down their own societies like it’s a personality trait, without thinking for two seconds about what replaces it.
Let’s be real.
You can criticise the US. You can dislike Trump. You can question Western foreign policy. None of that requires you to defend regimes that have brutally suppressed their own people, killed thousands, and silenced basic freedoms.
Calling yourself pro human rights while doing that is not principled. It’s performative.
This whole “if you don’t support one side, you must support the other” mentality is one of the dumbest things to come out of modern discourse. Not everything is a team sport. Sometimes both sides deserve criticism. Sometimes multiple things are true at once.
There is a third option. It’s called thinking for yourself.
And here’s the uncomfortable truth people don’t want to admit. A lot of you shouting about how evil the West are doing so while benefiting from the very systems built on Western ideals. Freedom of speech. Individual rights. Rule of law. Without those, you don’t get women’s rights as we know them today. You don’t get to openly criticise governments. You don’t get to sit online and post these takes without consequences.
The West is not perfect. It has made serious mistakes. It should be criticised.
But this blind, bandwagon hatred is not critical thinking. It’s noise.
And then you look at politics and it’s just embarrassing. How is any country supposed to function when both sides refuse to meet in the middle? It’s constant sabotage, constant outrage, constant point scoring. It honestly looks like South Africa. Too busy fighting for power and votes, not enough actually fixing anything.
Modern politics is disgusting.
I used to hate Trump too. Not because I had properly looked into anything, but because I listened to what everyone else said and let that shape how I thought.
That’s the reality for a lot of people.
I don’t like him. I don’t know him. He’s not my president. But he’s not the worst America has had. If anything, he’s one of the only ones in the last 20 years who actually has some backbone. He doesn’t bow to elites, he’s unpredictable, and while everyone else is busy shouting, he’s playing a different game.
What happens in the US creates a ripple effect globally, so yes, it matters.
But this level of division doesn’t feel organic anymore. It feels manufactured. When you work in systems, you start to see patterns. The outrage cycles. The constant division. It keeps people distracted, angry, and easy to control.
And it’s working.
There is so much hate from both sides now that truth doesn’t even matter anymore.
At some point, citizens in their own countries need to wake up. Nothing works without unity. Nothing changes without unity. You don’t have to agree on everything, but you need to be able to sit down, debate, and actually solve problems.
We are supposed to be adults, but we act like children.
Debate, don’t argue.
To the left, stop talking in circles and bending reality to fit a narrative.
To the right, stop obsessing over optics and trying to win people over like it’s a game. Some of you were on the right track, but even that is slipping into your own version of performative nonsense.
And then there’s Israel. The level of blind hatred doesn’t even make sense half the time. Again, no nuance, no context, just another situation turned into a team sport where people pick a side and run with it regardless of facts.
The world is not black and white.
You don’t have to worship the West. You don’t have to support Trump. You don’t have to blindly back any country or regime.
But acting like everything Western is evil while excusing or defending objectively worse systems just to spite it is not intelligence. It’s not compassion. It’s not progress.
It’s regression dressed up as moral superiority.
Human race, wake up before it’s too late.
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