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I think some of them say stupid stuff as a weird power move - "yeah I said bullshit what are you going to do about it? Nothing. Because you're weak"
This is a factor in why fascists only really respond to power. It's all they understand, and even that understanding is limited.
I have brought up "cruelty signalling" and "vice signalling" a number of times as a conservative counterpart to "virtue signalling"...
But MAGA seems to have progressed it to "ignorance signalling", to show your allegiance to Dear Leader, you must project your idiocy in his likeness.
this is pretty close to the 1984 doublethink stuff
"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength."
They're expected to believe conflicting ideas and internalize that the State is right even when you're provided with two conflicting facts.
We are the greatest nation ever, and everyone wants to be us! ... But also the damn Democrats destroyed America, and that's why no one can afford groceries! Gas prices are lower than ever before! But they're not because Biden!
The point where literally 1984 IS literally 1984. That happened years ago though but we were called crazy. Well, guess who was right.
Technically it's still a form of virtue signalling since they really do consider ignorance a virtue.