How someone interprets the line “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” tells you a lot about them
tells me I associate this quote with Isaac Asimov
Imagine someone so competent at convincing others, they convinced Hitler to give up on the war and try again at art school.
given the white supremacist line of protecting a “future for white children” this is.. chilling
people in the tags: no, this is not “bad optics.”
it’s called a dog whistle, and one made by a guild of lawyers that exploit plausible deniability for a living.
gothhabiba is right. they didn’t put up a visual depiction of the 14 words with the nazi’s discursive shield of “free speech” on an aryan-looking child on accident.
go look at their tweet and see who’s upset (stupid liberals), who’s not surprised or expressing suspicion (the left) and who’s rejoicing (the nazis).
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/900459882989600768
Fuck the ACLU
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The kid’s wearing a shirt that says “free speech” on it. I’m trying to estimate the odds that y'all were baited.
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this is bad but you don’t see the read another book people saying it’s bad
Maybe it’s because on the log scale of supervillainy, Trump doesn’t even break a 2.2, and doesn’t even have any supernatural or other enhanced abilities.
I know you’ll dispute this, but simply - Trump isn’t causing the meme wave, he’s just riding it. So that doesn’t count as a supernatural ability, either.
I was in a crowded place when a fire alarm started going off. There was the typical beeping and flashing, complete with the tinny voice on the intercom saying “there is a fire emergency, please evacuate, avoid using elevators” in between beeps. It probably wasn’t a big deal but I got up to leave the building because that’s what you do and then I noticed everyone else was staying where they were. They were eating and chatting like everything was normal, people were even entering the building unfazed and continuing on to their destination. So I stuck around for a few minutes just to see if anyone else would act like there’s a fire alarm on and nobody did.
We have fire drills regularly at work and the way they ended up having to do it is that every floor has two People Who Get In Trouble If The Fire Drill Doesn’t Go Right, and those people have to run around hassling everyone into obeying the actual rules because if not they’ll get in trouble.
This works pretty well, but even when it goes flawlessly, nobody really evacuates in order to drill in proper procedure, or out of fear of dying in a fire – they just don’t want to get into an argument with the designated fire drill busybodies. I feel like this probably has implications for social policy more generally, but I haven’t figured out exactly what yet.
I just read the newest of the recurring Bleeding Hearts Libertarian “Say, it is really awkward that so many neo-confederates and Nazis are connected to the libertarian movement, isn’t it?“ article.
These articles are almost always really bad, the poster doesn’t even approach the connection, saying the standard “libertarians believe in cosmopolitanism“ line. I can see that some of them in the comments
(Protip: never read the comments) think the connection is the free speech thing, I will say that the free speech thing can annoy some leftists and there’s always a suspicion of hypocrisy there but it’s not the core connection leftists see between libertarians and fascists.
The best short version of that core reason is expressed ,“Libertarians become Alt-Right at the moment they realize that maintaining present property relations in the future will require genocide.” (And some shit about being able to exclude races/sexualities you don’t like) I can see people dance around it in the comments with the usual Charles Murray shit and implying that libertarianism is dead once the US becomes truly multiracial.
What bugs me is that him and so many of the bigwigs can’t even approach the refutation of the real connection, he says some “oh we’re not the same” shit but he totally fails to distance himself from the actual problem. It gets to the point that I’m not even sure they can conceive of it. If I was an asshole, I would say that this is why he’s not alt-right yet.
I would say that’s roughly the relation, although Libertarianism/Anarcho-Capitalism aren’t really the current property relations - they aspire to become the property relations.
And they don’t actually require genocide, but they would require closed borders or separatism. Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism fundamentally require sufficient cultural belief or social power mass in order to be implemented.
Forbidden racepol writers have analyzed how long it takes immigrant groups to go from wanting higher state intervention than the local mean to wanting something closer to the local mean in America, and from what I recall, we’re talking generations. (Cultural, not genetic.)
So the hard economic rightist has two options - create or modify a state such that the population is majority economic rightist and stays majority economic rightist (strict borders), or abandon democracy.
Of course, I’m not a Leftist so I don’t see it in some of the same collective intergenerational ethnic justice terms about the evils of Capitalism. Collective intergenerational ethnic justice, after all, is the basis of many an “ethnic tension” random violence feud.
Fortunately I’m not a Libertarian, either. I want better government intervention.
if red pill ideology is all about taking an honest look at human behavioural characteristics driven by evolution and leveraging those drives to achieve happiness then you would expect that by symmetry “red pill women” would be all about how to maximize female reproductive fitness at the expense of men-
haha no it’s focused on how to suppress feminine nature and “minimize negative characteristics like sexual manipulation” in order to be a better wife
The thing you describe as “red pill women” already exists and is called feminism. “Red pill” is most accurately modeled as the inverse of feminism, which reverses feminism’s prescriptions for men and for women, giving us exactly what you observe above.
I just find it hilarious how we’ve circled back to a point where feminism is considered to be the purest expression of the essential nature of womanhood and traditionalism is a strange modern invention to subvert the natural order.
Dude clearly tried to stop the confrontation and get his buddy to leave, still deserved to get punched, apparently.
Do you guys want more cars driving into crowds? Because crowding a car, attacking the passengers and hitting the vehicle is exactly how you get that.
They’re lucky no one got hit when that truck backed up. The driver may have done that over worries his dude was going to be pulled from the back of the truck and beaten.
like there’s critique of capitalism in nazism but it’s self-contradictory and does not mesh with the whole ‘the weak need to fear the strong’ thing, so they skip over it and go “but the problem really is the jews”, hello false consciousness
Honestly, reading one of Hitler’s speeches, it seemed the “weak need to fear the strong” thing was a bit weirder than that.
Which, you know, what the fuck. It’s very nation-as-organism in one of the worst ways possible, and so weak fearing the strong is also in those terms.
What gets me is that if you’re going to be an evil eugenicist, you have a lot more options that don’t require endless invasions and expansions.
By the way, I’ve tried telling Republicans that calling everything they don’t like “Socialist” is probably partially responsible for the rise in positive associations with the word “Socialist” in Millennials.
This isn’t really a left-wing limited phenomena. It’s probably a kind of collective action problem in which individuals and individual uses of the word can accrue benefit, even though long-term it wears out the meaning.
So Millennials are associating “Socialism” with high-functioning welfare capitalist states, rather than say, the Soviet Union, or less dramatically, Venezeula.
So I get to be cassandra.png to multiple groups.
