TWOT

Woke is a term that many of us have come to hear and understand but have any of you heard of the term TWOT? It’s the new term for people who lack Critical Thinking skills to evaluate information, preferring to subscribe to a narrative that is not based on any facts, but one that is convenient to their beliefs of conspiracy and often a deep state.

TWOT describes as a person who will not approach subjects on social issues, economics or politics with an open mind and whose arguments are lacking in fact but long on fiction. These individuals are literally a total waste of time (TWOT) to change their minds on certain subjects, holding onto beliefs of a narrative based on convenience rather than truth.

Here is the beauty of TWOT, it applies to everyone, not too Conservatives, or Socialists; Catholics or Jews, Wealthy or Poor, Male or Female it does not matter. To be a TWOT, means you have a narrow focus, you are bigoted about other opinions and literally would rather burn in hell than admit your views were wrong or change your stance on a subject.

I joined a U.S. political discussion website because honestly, Canadian politics is so boring. The Canadian media gets hung up on issues like the WE charity last year and PM Photo OP and his Finance Minister Morneau, getting caught up in a scandal that amounted to a few hundred thousand dollars. Really? In the U.S. you have Trump, Rudy, BLM, Fox News, the big lie, two impeachments and an insurrection amongst all kinds of other issues. US Politics is truly the mother lode of dysfunctional reality entertainment and a cornucopia of people who truly are a TWOT.

One person on this political website, Dave, and I spar with all the time as he is very pro-Trump. His discussions revolve around how Biden and democrats stole the election, the left are socialists to bring and end to our way of life, America will never be the same, Hilary Clinton is the devil…okay we have agreement there, but you see where he goes. So of course I challenge him because that is what I enjoy, a lively debate. The unfortunate thing is Dave never presents any evidence, much like the entire Trump camp. I have brought forth evidence, legal cases, DOJ, Intelligence community etc, because I do practice doing my research before I speak. Dave’s response is always either a deflection or anecdotal in nature from someone else’s facebook account, never does it have any of what I would call hard evidence. Even today as I write this Dave has responded to my facts about the steal, courts and other evidence with the Russia Hoax, Hilary’s emails and the poster boy of why you should never do drugs, my pillow founder Mike Lindell and how he is under attack. Yes to the tune of $1.6 billion by Dominion Voting machines for defamation of the company from his totally unsubstantiated claims of election fraud through these machines. Lindell just hosted a cyber security conference about the fraud and his own cyber experts at the end called his evidence nothing but a Turd, yet Lindell still promotes the steal and Donald Trump will be anointed President. Mike Lindell, you are a TWOT!

Dave’s narrative has been going on for months. Be it the capital riots and his claim there were no weapons, to the steal and over to socialism. Every discussion ends the same, Dave will not ever show me any proof. He cannot point me to a stat, article or document that clearly proves his position. At best I get exaggeration and conjecture that is soon replaced with deflection and gas lighting; he is the definition of a TWOT when it comes to issues political in nature.

Dave is not the only person I engage with that is a TWOT, anti-Vaxxers often are the same. Even when given the mathematical reality that they have about a 1000 times greater chance of dying from Covid than to the Vaccines, they still will not change their minds. It is truly becoming a pandemic in itself in our overall society, that people even when faced with the truth will chose the narrative they like rather than take an open minded approach. It is like they believe it is a sign of weakness to change ones stance or opinion but I think it really shows growth in an individual, a positive virtue and one of strength.

In America being a TWOT has become more common place as people argue about masks for instance as a violation of their rights and that the scientists keep changing their minds. Well throughout North America, we have car seat belt laws to protect everyone in the car, is this not a violation of one’s right to be hurled out the windshield of their automobile in an accident and to die or be left with permanent injuries? A person’s individual rights to do something end when it will have adverse affects on the lives and freedoms of others. Those leaders and influencers on the right that call out conspiracy and hoax, reiterating the narrative based on ‘alternative facts” are not only a group of TWOTs, but are dangerous in their misinformation.

Now this is not too say that Canada has not got it’s fair share of people who are a TWOT on subjects. I have run into those who have a belief that Vaccinations from Covid will change their DNA, Covid is a hoax, Antifa was behind the Capital insurrection, 911 was an inside job and the list goes on. A lot of conspiracy and anti sentiment that comes into Canada filters up from the U.S. and we lap it up, because it fits also the narrative of many Canadians and what they want to believe goes on in Canada.

There just comes a time where I don’t have the patience for those who define what a TWOT is by their lack of logical or Critical Thinking on subjects that are socially and economically important in nature. I will always try, when I come across someone who listens to hyperbole and takes it as gospel, to to get them to just look at the facts and data, but when it becomes exhaustive and apparent that even if god himself told them they are missing the forest through the trees, then I just call it like I see it, the person is a TWOT.