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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
argumate
quasi-normalcy

I mean, I wasn’t planning on cuckolding every white American man, but they just keep going on about it; I can see some logistical difficulties, but I think I can pull it off if I just manage to stay hydrated.

argumate

Quis cucket ipsos cuckers

mitigatedchaos

In which quasi-normalcy discovers they were an American White Man in a mask all along, making this goal logically impossible. Entering into a severe depression, quasi-normalcy takes on a trap tradwife and joins the Alt Right.

Source: quasi-normalcy shtpost politics
ranma-official

Anonymous asked:

One thing that pisses me off about the Chechnya camps is that people are so fucking self centered that the first thing they did when they saw what was happening they went "SEE!!! THIS IS WHAT TRUMP IS GONNA DO!!! I HAVE NO CONCERN WHATSOEVER FOR THE MEN BEING ROUNDED UP BUT I GOTTA SHOW THAT PERFORMATIVE OUTRAGE SOMEHOW GAIZ!!1!1!! #FUCKTRUMP" and it's just really bugging me ya feel? Like I'm no fan of Trump either but maybe people could pull their heads out of their americentric asses for once?

jewishmagpie answered:

Please someone tell me that this anon here isn’t right. Please say that there aren’t people that are so selfish that they’ve used this to attack Trump with, when it has zero to do with him.

I have to believe that you’re making this up. Please.

dedeka98

Nonie is talking about Joss Whedon I think. And yes that’s basically exactly what he said.

jewishmagpie

Right. Of course I can’t have nice things. Obviously.

ranma-official

“If you’re not careful, the evil man will do this to actual humans who matter!”

Why do they even bother

mitigatedchaos

If they acknowledge that ideology has played a role here, and which ideology it was, they’d have to dramatically rethink their politics.  Avoiding this requires pretending that 1950s America would have created anti-gay death squads, or that Trump is ten minutes away from executing Peter Thiel and only their brave corporate-sponsored resistance is postponing the death sentence.

This is how the Alt Right is able to grow and gain followers.  

Source: jewishmagpie politics
crazyeddieme
markoftheasphodel

This is my last political piece for a while ‘cause I can’t take anymore.

Some months back– during the heat of the primaries, I think– one of Slate’s soapbox columnists produced an liberal outrage-of-the-day piece on an issue so ephemeral it escapes me now but which drew unmitigated scorn from even the left-wing members of the comment section. One poor soul went so far as to post, “My God, please stop. This is what gets you Trump. Do you want Trump?”

Keep reading

crazyeddieme

We got way too little of “Trump has no idea what the fuck he’s doing and the bullshit he’s selling you is not going to fucking work” during this campaign.  That was the single most compelling issue, as far as I’m concerned… having someone who knows what the fuck they’re doing in the Oval Office.

And now we’re all in for it.

Maybe that wouldn’t have even worked.  Maybe 47% of the electorate simply don’t care if the system keeps working or not.  Maybe they’re just fine with bringing it all crashing down on our heads.  Because for them, it wasn’t working.

Now what?

mitigatedchaos

You sell them on a plan that will actually work.

Low minimum wage + direct-to-employee wage subsidies - creates massive jobs, cuts out a lot of anxiety for the lower classes, breaks the welfare trap.  Fix the trade balance.  Rebalance immigration and quit talking like it’s a plan to demographically replace them.

Unfortunately that won’t happen because both the party leadership and the party base are too ideological and clueless.  That’s why they failed to buy off the Rust Belt in the first place, even though doing so should have been hypothetically ideologically compatible if you aren’t Globalist.

And, of course, if they were competent, they would have fixed the welfare trap already.  But they aren’t competent.  F’in politics m8.

Or to put it another way, those Rust Belt voters don’t believe the party that professes to hate them has their best interests at heart, so something expensive will have to be sacrificed to signal that they’re willing to go to bat for them for real.  Obama was given a pass on hope and change.  It won’t work a second time.  It’s going to be tough.

Source: markoftheasphodel politics
argumate

Anonymous asked:

What would Trump have to do to get you to put that hat back on?

elementarynationalism answered:

A purge of the cucks.

argumate

he’s entertaining globalists while you watch on helplessly; who is the cuck in this situation, really.

mitigatedchaos

The nation.  The nation is getting cucked by this misbehavior, much like it was under President (N-1), President (N-2), …

Though I’ll call it fine if we don’t get more Syria War Action.

Source: elementarynationalism politics
bambamramfan
Jon Stewart, John Oliver…mostly enact the pure arrogance of the liberal intellectual elite: “Parodying Trump is at best a distraction from his real politics; at worst it converts the whole of politics into a gag. The process has nothing to do with the performers or the writers or their choices. Trump built his candidacy on performing as a comic heel—that has been his pop culture persona for decades. It is simply not possible to parody effectively a man who is a conscious self-parody, and who has become president of the United States on the basis of that performance.”
Zizek citing Stephen Marche
(via slavoj–zizek)
Source: slavoj--zizek politics trump
argumate
earnest-peer

@evolution-is-just-a-theorem about the strikes. Doesn’t sound exactly positive, but that narrative would have a much lower probability of nuclear war.

The general lesson here is of course that, whenever Trump distracts you with some new outrageous shit, you check what was on the news just beforehand.

argumate

“military strikes just an expensive political stunt” is the default position, and definitely more reassuring than actual military action, at least to people who weren’t hit by the missiles in question.

earnest-peer

I get that, but there are multiple pieces of evidence given towards the default position, so I don’t think being the default position hurts it that much here. Also they did minimize the people hit, so…

argumate

“putin being able to respond sanely to provocation is the only reason we’re not in WWIII right now,” certainly sounds a little less reasonable when Trump asked for his permission before launching the strike.

mitigatedchaos

Left now alternates between thinking the Drunken Master is a Master vs just thinking he’s Really Really Drunk. Anyhow, a big Russian oil deal could reduce American reliance on the middle east, lowering the likelihood of getting into dumb wars there. Chew on that, haha.

Source: earnest-peer politics trump
bambamramfan
slatestarscratchpad

I follow dozens of people online ranging from centrists to communists to alt-right to libertarians, and I haven’t seen a single person who supports the latest strikes on Syria. But all of them have been posting articles about how worrying it is that “the mainstream” supports the strikes.

I’m really curious what I’m unintentionally selecting for here.

bambamramfan

Source: slatestarscratchpad politics fury the echoing tentacle
ranma-official
ranma-official:
“ valwinz:
“ WTF AM IM READING ?
Thats not how it works those missiles are part of the defense budget is not money that you can use on other things even if you wanted.
they were not created for the strike and pay for in the same...
valwinz

WTF AM IM READING ?

Thats not how it works those missiles are part of the defense budget  is not money that you can use on other things even if you wanted.

they were not created for the strike and pay for in the same day.

also can we stop with the whole Refuges are entitle to come here  because they are not.

People always find something to bitch about. Assad Gases his own people , people that could become refugess the US does something about it and is also bad.

There is no wining here

ranma-official

Concept: cannibalize the defence budget, spend money on things that help people

mitigatedchaos

Eschew both refugee resettlement (and thus truck attacks against natives) and unnecessary missile launches, let people with other ideologies sort out their own problems in their own countries rather than bringing them to our countries, spend some of the difference on sending rations and medical supplies and tents instead.

Alternatively, quit pretending all ideologies/religions are equal and selectively resettle refugees that won’t self-radicalize on the second generation for ideological/religious reasons.  Take some group that has a natural reason to align with the host country, such as one heavily oppressed in the original state.  (LGBT a good option for this.)

Source: fullpraxisnow politics
slatestarscratchpad
slatestarscratchpad

I follow dozens of people online ranging from centrists to communists to alt-right to libertarians, and I haven’t seen a single person who supports the latest strikes on Syria. But all of them have been posting articles about how worrying it is that “the mainstream” supports the strikes.

Who is this mainstream and what are they doing?

mitigatedchaos

Brian Williams waxing poetic about American destroyers launching missiles into Syria on national television. Hillary Clinton supporting airstrikes on Syrian airbases before they happened.

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nuclearspaceheater
earlgraytay

I understand that having your field constantly mocked for being arcane and boring is unpleasant, but can you please not do the same to other people? For the love of every fucking god ever to walk this blighted earth, you’d think it’d be obvious that the weirdoes need to stick together. 

but nooooooo, clearly anyone who can Do Maths is superior and anyone who says “art is very important to most people” in slightly imprecise terms is Wrong. 

Unless you want to live in a fucking stone cube with no decoration and eat soylent for every meal, art is fucking essential. 

nuclearspaceheater

@ me next time.

I have no problem with people who can’t do math. But I don’t feel bad about holding people to unreasonable standards of well-roundedness when they assert that their favorite corner of human experience is equivalent to humanity itself. I suppose a true polymath may indeed call me out on this, but I strongly doubt that any true polymath would be running around asserting the superior human-ness of a single specific field in the first place.

In any case, the original article isn’t even about “art”, in the sense of what most people would consider to be missing from a stone cube, and which does include, as pointed out, such diverse works as fashion, music, movies, video games, furniture design, international technical symbols, the patterns on shampoo bottles, cooking, typography, and hentai doujins. (And not just because many of the actual stone cubes we have today are entirely the fault of artists, and the governments and large institutions that backed brutalist architecture.) It’s about “the arts” and cutting the funding they get from the United States government.

While it should be obvious that there’s a pretty hard limit on just how subversive anything that gets funding from the United States government can actually be, the author doesn’t want to admit that it’s in service of a power-that-is that they happen to side with, and so equivocates the defunding of a government arts program with the active suppression of art (by, for example, mass executions) that people would otherwise create on their own, state funding or not.

And indeed, people do create a lot of art on their own, without state funding. Every form of art you mention to emphasis the importance of art only argues against the National Endowment for the Arts, because if people can create all of that without government funding, then how important can the NEA possibly be? Not important at all, unless you want to protect art from influence of the regime, in which case, getting government money out of the arts should be something you’re entirely on board with.

mitigatedchaos

Much of the “subversive” art is highly overrated, buying into existing boring narratives already approved by factions that have existed for a long time, and I’m beginning to wonder about an Alt Righter’s claim that modern art is actually some kind of tax avoidance scheme.

If the government is going to fund art, it should be art that people actually LIKE and as such benefit the nation, not deliberately insulting and confusing pretentiousness. The other suitable role is to preserve elements of our cultural heritage, such as historic buildings. This isn’t like materials science where pushing the cutting edge improves our standard of living.

In other words, government-funded art should be unironically pleasant.

Source: earlgraytay politics art meta nationalism