Canada

And yet my aunt does, in fact, exist. Blows my mind every time I see her. Her beliefs are so stupid I'm fairly certain she lowers the collective intelligence of any room she's in.

No, they mentioned "grooming and indoctrination".

Oh wait...

I feel like many of these people are at that point where they're trying to make themselves into a hero to shore up all of the other fundamental deficits they have in their character.

One thing that I realized when I was going through mental health issues of my own was that a lot of the core of my issues centered around wanting to be someone who was important, a hero, someone that saved other people and for me that boiled down to acting like I already was the hero and doing things that I thought of hero would do like pointlessly sacrificing my opportunities for other people who did not appreciate me or attach any meaning to it.

I realized that once you're smart enough to start meta-analyzing your own life, there is a trap for you and that trap is your internal need for importance.

When you base all of your thinking around that, making yourself into the hero of your own life, then that thinking will cause you and more importantly , the people around you, so much grief.

My only saving grace was that I couldn't convince other people to go along with my self-appointed hero worship. I imagine if I had I might have ended up just like them so really it was my own lack of charisma that was my salvation I guess.

I've always found it funny that the reason why science fiction and fantasy villains are almost always such lackluster characters is because science fiction and fantasy writers have to stick within the realm of plausibility whereas real life villains are not hampered by such trivialities.

Your sci-fi villain has to have a tragic backstory where he's using the power of the universe killing machine to bring back his dead girlfriend or something.

In contrast, your real life villain is organizing a civil war militia to protect himself from enemies that he imagines existing somewhere even though he has no proof whatsoever, and all over the Western world people are proudly following these nut bags and even buying the merch.

It's how they justify the unjustifiable. God and The Children have the same utility in the minds of monsters: anything you do is okay if you're doing it for them.

It doesn't add up?

Math requires logical thinking.

They're against that.

Maybe the 'math agenda' is forcing kids to keep doing math after grade 6 or something like that :P

I've looked up "bat-shit math conspiracies for those that sniff glue" online; here is what I found:

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/12/queer-math-camp-without-the-math-n550283

The "Math Agenda" boils down to the idea that every subject is in is supposedly being used to push the LGBT agenda.

This is what they are freaking out about:
https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/outreach-initatives/camp-of-mathematical-queeries

And this is them freaking out about it:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/12/queer-math-camp-without-the-math-n550283

Had to share a work van with one of these sort for work. I would get an hour of details on how math is just "a trick to make people believe certain things"

Also "Jews are from Saturn"

And "the chemtrails are full of microchips"

There is literally nothing you can do to sway any of their beliefs, because basic reason and logic are the enemy.

Rather, maybe we need to subvert their base instincts in a way they can turn them towards logic despite their preconceptions and inability to process basic information. Kind of like the mobile game market or unethical media companies which have free reign to influence these people for malicious self gain.

The issue is that ethical people are too upstanding to use such subversive means, which means they will ultimately lose out in our current socio-economic ecosystem

I think smart people need to fight evil with the same tools used by evil, until such tools are invalidated.