life hack: you can get a bunch of minions to further your evil plans simply by compensating them at market rates.
What’s the going price for a Revolutionary these days?
[sees a long, long history of prima facie good ideas from the sociopolitical extremes having amazingly brutal consequences and blowback even on the rare occasions when they’re adopted after tons of consideration and study]
“Heh, stupid centrists.”
Centrists: *Sees unnecessary death being normalized in the 21st century despite being easily preventable*
Centrists: Um things could be worse??? Both extremes are equally bad?? I don’t know anything about history except events in a vacuum?????
Actually yes, things could be way, way worse. Despite Tumblr complaints, Bland Centrism, like Bland Liberalism, is better than most currently existing political ideologies at the edges, which normalize pointless deaths even more. What surpasses Bland Centrism is likely going to be new, exotic, different, because we tried a lot of the other ones and it sucked. Anyone still talking about workers’ councils isn’t fighting the battles of the 21st century.
Also, there is substantial disagreement on where to depart from Bland Centrism. I don’t think you and I would see eye to eye on how culture-blind immigration policies are normalizing death in Europe right now, for instance.
>Don’t trust the President
>Don’t trust Congress
>Sure as fuck don’t trust the press
>Don’t trust the opinion polls
So apparently elections, courts, and the intelligence community are the only three entities that the public is willing to trust
jesus fucking christ this world makes less and less sense every day
Sliding towards a low-trust society?
I have ideas on how this could be dealt with but, ah, the only people who think they’re cool are rattumb/adjs and the like.
Oh Em Gee! Trump tweets a stupid edited gif that could have even been slightly funny on reddit or tumblr (but not exactly endorse- or reblog-worty) and every newspaper and TV station on the planet makes a story out of it.
Trump showed poor judgement, but somehow we make a still bigger deal out of this than we probably should.
If I were Trump, I would get a cat and tweet cat pictures once a week, and the occasional cocktail recipe, just to keep people on their toes.
Confusion Politics at work.
He could probably use this to bury an executive order or firing of a staffer or something
That appears to be what’s happening in the general case of Trump Says Something Outrageous. It’s wild to watch.
There’s this massive pool of outrage to be drilled and tapped because the dumber parts of the Left and Liberal political groups have been using offense as a weapon and configured themselves for high offendability and heavy tribal signalling.
I’m hoping our Shitposter in Chief is going to exhaust some of the supply.
Actually, have other people noticed that taking ideologies to weird extremes is a Thing among thirteen to fifteen-year-olds? Because that’s definitely something I’ve noticed. Like, I once new a thirteen-year-old girl who claimed to be uncomfortable watching two women dance together because it “promotes lesbianism,” which is…not something most Catholics believe, I’m pretty sure? (They weren’t even, like, slow-dancing, it was some kind of Scandinavian Traditional Cultural Dance that only women did).
Has anyone else observed this among The Youths?
I think age tends to make ideas more nuanced, because you get more experience and the real world is complicated.
13-15 is when people develop something like an adult political consciousness, and you know what they say about new converts being the most fervent believers.
Heck, I totally did that in my youth. I boycotted LL Bean for promoting lesbianism and objected to CCM for having a beat when I was 13 or so *embarrassed emoji*
I got better, in some cases pretty quickly, but that was my nadir.
Haha, I never had ideological extreme phase, and was contrarian against arbitrary non-conformist teenage rebellion aesthetic as a teenager.
I’m probably at my most ideologically extreme right now, even though it’s orthogonal to the existing factions.
has anyone ever been sober. makes u think
in a drunk world, perhaps it’s only the drunk one who is truly sober
I see you, too, have been following the presidency of Donald Trump.
Knife bans are pretty ridiculous. Let people carry around full-sized swords, I say.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a badder guy with a gun.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a bad guy with a bigger gun.
The only thing that can stop a nice guy with a gun is the friend zone, apparently.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is agents of the state monopoly on legitimate violence, who have legitimate-violence-guns.
If guns are outlawed by the state asserting a monopoly on the use of force, then only outlaws and agents of the state whose sworn duty is to oppose outlaws will have guns.
If states are outlawed, only outlaws will have states
You’re memeing, but, like, Anarchism.
There is a vulnerability (yet another one anyway) in the wokeosphere open for a troll to exploit: simply running around claiming people are white.
Because in practical terms standpoint theory means your race determines your speaking value in the progressive stack, and because bad SJ types will be more likely to believe this kind of accusation, it would be quite dangerous to one’s social standing. I won’t go into further details because I don’t want to encourage it, but defense on this would not be easy.
For my part I see this kind of vulnerability as an indictment of the system itself. Its axioms and patterns make it essentially unsolveable without either tight restriction of access or changing to something else.
The irony that the opposite probably wouldn’t work on White Nationalists isn’t lost on me.
The irony that the opposite probably wouldn’t work on White Nationalists isn’t lost on me.
It does not work to call certain hard leftists, especially Antifa, cuckolds. It literally does nothing (I think I wrote about this before). Fatherhood is a social construct anyway, and if you think paternity tests matter, then you are a MRA. So on some level, it makes sense and cancels out.
Some people also don’t take bourgeois as an insult. Some people don’t mind being called plebes.
It’s almost an inverted shibboleth. Those their enemies would want to insult most with it are most likely to remain unfazed by a word.
That they don’t see anything wrong with being “a cuck” and don’t see fatherhood as real - by Alt Right standards, it’s the most damning indictment of all. I don’t think they call them cucks because the insult has the most teeth. Most people don’t even know what it means. I think they call them cucks because it expresses just how lowly they are (in Alt Right terms).
I’m not of a pure liberal mind myself. I can see the value in a man raising another man’s child, but I worry what it might do to the gene pool.
I’m reading National Review’s What Has Conservatism Ever Done For Us, and in trying to list an ever-growing list of amazing achievements (directly aping the scene from Life of Brian) they accidentally say “made a whole bunch of people suffer actually”
yikes this is a bit of an own-goal, isn’t it
decent healthcare! free college! shift from illegal to legal immigration! tackling climate change! stricter gun ownership! taxing the rich!
these are only some of the nightmares that you have been spared
Okay, but
I was going to end with saying that large government deficit spending eats investment capital from other sectors of the economy, but the Republicans with their tax cut obsession might actually be worse.
No one in charge actually knows what they’re doing in the most powerful nation on Earth. At least, that’s the charitable reading of American politics during my lifetime.
