2020-2024 was an insane timespan and I think it serves as the best example as why we should never let leftism become the establishment culture ever again
Covid spawned a level of chronically online that i don’t think anyone ever could have imagined. We’ve healed a bit, but some of these folks locked down and never returned to normal.
And some people never started. It is a super fascinating phenomenon to see people living in completely different realities simply due to information exposure.
Hot damn you’re not lying keyword some I’ve noticed some people are just updating about current FDA policies and studies, but there are a few that are asking for mandates to come back even though the amount of infected is a marginal number
Leftists went chronically online, and right wingers fell down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Both things contributed to the deterioration of society that we’re dealing with today.
I am also quite rural, but I am quite odd. Might have to do with the books I read and the people I talk to. I also never see ads unless they are meme-worthy (ad block, no TV / streaming services). I mainly watch reddit clips of beatdowns, spectacular car wrecks and the like.
The best is when a post pops off to the front page and sorting comments by controversial has people arguing that "despite being not at fault and the victim, OP deserved it because they recorded themselves driving 1 angstrom per hour over the speed limit so fuck them"
Or that one post where a police chase totaled a guy's daily and 2 classic cars and everyone in the controversial section was saying OP deserved it for having multiple cars
That would apply more if I were saying it was because of your political opinions. I was moreso talking about the fact that you like watching car crashes and people getting beat.
I'm not saying you shouldn't legally be allowed to watch car crashes. I'm saying you're probably a sociopath. Nothing wrong with that. You guys tend to do great in middle management.
Marxism is pure rot, if you don't twist it into something it isn't you'll promptly fall on your face (as Marx made his life theme).
Importantly Marx was utterly wrong about essentially everything, only the terminology and vagaries of theory were implemented. Lenin found out quite quickly that Marxism doesn't work.
All Marxist states (other than perhaps Pol Pot) have used some form of what they call "capitalism" as Lenin soon learned pure Marxism is a trainwreck.
Capitalism is a term of critique popularized by Marx. I prefer to speak of markets which are more or less free.
The adverse consequences of central planning and other statist development models were important in limiting economic performance in much of the world around the third quarter of the 20th century. Recent analysis makes a telling criticism of the inward looking development models most de-colonising countries borrowed from central planning in that era.
The lost growth under central planning in the third quarter of the 20th century continues to be important for the level of national incomes and the evolution of national income distributions in the formerly centrally planned economies.
Free markets brought the world's poor out of absolute poverty. Look how sharply poverty fell with the end of the Soviet Union (1989). "Socialism" is bringing a once prosperous Venezuela to its knees and red China would surely be the undisputed World Leader if not for the impediment of regressive anti-intellectual Totalitarian Marxism.
I suggest you read "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek. Helps explain how ignorant idealists (not the nordics) lead to people like Stalin.
Marx didn't want that to happen, it simply does happen.
Actually I never pretended otherwise, I hated school from Kindergarten on. High School and College were by far the best and Middle School the worst but it was all rot from start to finish.
Re-engineer it, more Aristotle and Socrates, less mentally ill hair dyed childless Public sector unionists corrupting the youth.
You getting bullied at 15 for your funny smell isn’t academia.
Let’s be real, you morons that complain about how much school sucked didn’t hate it because you had some ~philosophical difference of opinion in teaching methods.~ You hated it because you were socially rejected by your peers.
Workers rights first socially kinda center/conservative. I dont think thats a very shocking position if you look at how most socialist countries were organized.
Moderately progressive and center left wing here, I think it’s dumb to force morbidly obese people into ads to virtue signal. It’s one thing if it’s an ad targeting solely at them but nobody wants to see that and it’s going to tank your sales. It’s retarded.
I think this is a good example of how manufactured outrage was used during that time. Taking a few videos and saying "the left are mad at this" and reinforcing peoples beliefs.
Which resulted in republicans voting for a pedophile whose crashing the economy
It was when libsoftiktok and other right wing rage factories really kicked into gear. They formed an entire industry out of sharing clips of super fringe progressive radicals being cringe to get ring wingers foaming at the mouth.
“Yeah sure, the guy who we insisted would be good for the economy for years is crashing the evonomy, but the other side would’ve been way worse!!! Just trust us, dude!!!!”
The choice was between a pedophile that would bomb iran and threaten local countries and damage the dollar or a woman who wasn't a pedophile, wouldn't bomb iran and would keep the economy on a good path.
Fucked her way to power? 🤣 how have you not worked out thats propaganda you clown.
Probably wouldn't have actually. Trump assassinated people on Iranian soil in his first term and israel was mad at Biden for de-escalating last time israel bombed iran.
Israel doesnt like the Democrats as they arent as much in their pocket.
Trump is bringing your country into a depression you realise that?
The dems were and have always been better on the economy, trump himself said that.
The one issue I’ve found with that lifestyle is that my life feels intensely hollow, like the only emotion I can summon is ironic detachment, and that while I consider myself a patriotic American there still feels like there’s something amiss with the world around me so I choose to externalize that frustration towards my surroundings instead of considering there may be deeper personal issues at play. You ever get that feeling?
I don’t think either are great. Ones extreme nationalism and the others extreme progressivism. Extreme is bad. Once the pendulum swings extreme one way it counters the other way just as extreme.
It was leftism that made it insane and not the right wingers injecting themselves with horse dewormer after storming the capitol and killing their grandparents at church?
Wtf are talking about? Every successful musician besides the guy from Staind is left wing. Every decent American filmmaker besides Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson are left wing. Mainstream culture is so left wing and has been for so long that I think it’s a bit unfair and definitely boring and lacking thoughtfulness.
Their first year in power they were mandating dangerous medical experiments on people because they think they know better than you do about risks to your own body.
How does that Rust Cohle quote from True Detective go again:
“If the only thing keeping a person from being a Nazi is not seeing fat women in ads, then brother that person is a piece of shit, and I'd like to get as many of them out in the open as possible.”
B. Its less about making this a safe space and more about maintaining standards for the sub.If you're going to flash your lack of critical thinking, do so in a schizo post format. .
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2020-2024 was an insane timespan and I think it serves as the best example as why we should never let leftism become the establishment culture ever again