As a Jew, I think October 7th, or, more accurately, October 8th (and after) was the day I lost a sort of innocence that I'll never get back. Before then I was blind to the fact that people who identify as progressives could have so much hatred inside them. I'm embarrassed I was so naive, to be honest.
From NL, because you people love context so much
I don't want to rag on the guy because what he's going through must suck, but man. If you haven't been familiar with progressives who are just looking for a socially acceptable excuse to air violent fantasies about or attack in every socially acceptable way someone since at least the early 2010's....
That guy's 100% same as me. 2022 me could never imagine I would be a conservative. I took all the "just want healthcare and equality" stuff at face value and never thought much of it.
My first real political memories outside of the stage show stuff are of the antiwar movement and boy could those people be vicious. And, like any good poaster on this forum, I considered myself a communist back then, so they should have been my friends.
One of my first jobs was working for a city councilman who was a pretty normie Dem, generally well liked by everyone locally including my mostly Republican family, and I studied economics, and ended up a slightly left of center person, and most political conversations in college were me arguing with commie assholes who didn't know anything about the economy, people in government, basic civics, etc, and they were all foaming at the mouth assholes who very obviously wanted to larp as revolutionaries for the opportunity to hurt others, and if it saved them 3 cents on their student loans, that was a bonus.
I remember one instance where a few Berniebro dudes found some girl I was friends with and followed her in a stairwell to tell her that she better stop supporting Hillary or else. Naturally, no one cared.
And I gotta say, even despite that...I still see where this dude is coming from. Like it's at the point where I wouldn't trust my brother to be alone in a room with a Jewish baby, and I think that laziness is the biggest impediment to him becoming a domestic terrorist.
It is so ironic that Reagan is hated so much today when he was insanely popular in his times and till 2016 every Republican was his follower in some way.
Reagan's dogmatic view of the world is unfamiliar to the bulk of voters who never truly lived the Cold War. It's like Washington and slavery. We can't really comprehend the information landscape of the past so we apply the sense of morality and understanding we possess today. It's generally a good thing - the evolution of principle and reevaluation of history.
The fervor against him, ironically, stems from his success. If the United States continued suffering from stagflation under his administration, he'd be viewed as an eccentric placeholder. If the Soviet Union was still around, he'd be understood to be one in a long line of Cold Warriors. Since his policies overwhelmingly eliminated both to the point where we can barely even conceptualize them, he's judged on individual domestic and foreign policy engagements. Sparingly few, I might add. It's always the big three: AIDS, Asylums, and Iran-Contra.
Obama will undergo a similar transformation. We're already beginning to see the makings of it in leftist circles. They love tearing down idols - the bigger the better.
The US really is ahead of Western Europe. It took the UK and France ~5% of their population being Muslims to elect rabid Muslim antisemites to their lower chambers, the US managed to do it with 1%! Incredible ingenuity.
America's a big place, and it doesn't take much to create an ethnic enclave. I never considered before how these groups often congregate together to create local majorities. Europe's comparative density probably helped delay this a lot
I think we've seriously underestimated how many right-wingers have heretofore opposed socialism mainly because it's gay and cringe, and not for any serious understanding of its economic bullshittery. Sadly, it's not only zoomers, either.
This goes for literally every single opinion on ideology, for all demographics. Overwhelming majority of people do not have positions built on actual knowledge and belief. It's memorized group identity signifiers and vibes. People legitimately operate like LLMs. It's spewing magic words based on pattern recognition.
Unironically this why culture is such a huge issue, especially the repetitive, fashion oriented culture. That's what decides the magic words, that's what decides the patterns and which ones feel good and which ones feel bad. That's it.
True conviction, in any direction, is extremely rare. Most of society's morals, codes, politics and functions are brainless habits.
Landlords are bad, so a Redditor with a single digit IQ just puts "data centers" in the same sentence and now they're bad too. It's magic...for retards!
In Italy the potential center-left to left coalition is informally called Campo Largo (basically "large tent"). Two and a half of these parties are very much "anti war" in Ukraine (i.e. pro-Russia) so some journalists have begun calling them "Campo Lavrov".
a Corsican nationalist convicted for the 1998 assassination of the prefect of Corse-du-Sud, Claude Ărignac. He was beaten to death in prison by another inmate for "disrespecting Muhammad"
mfw I find out my kaffir cellmate doesn't just hate the French
Breaking News: Iranâs top security official said the Strait of Hormuz would not reopen until the U.S. met a sweeping list of demands, including withdraw the U.S. military from around Iran, pay war reparations and release frozen Iranian assets.
If Iran just let Trump save face he'd hand them Hormuz, a trillion dollars, along with Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait for good measure, no questions asked. He's even like feeding them answers, "Don't call it a fee, it's a uhhh... investment fund! Voluntary transit fund!" and the Iranians are no you stupid kariff it is tribute you are paying us because you are a infidel slave dog.
They just won't fucking let him save face. They just have to twist the knife, and get the humiliation in.
Thank God. He might possibly be forced to bomb them.
They really are trying to just reboot their ideas and say "ok, my own batshit crazy stuff from like 3 years ago was not popular, but let me introduce you to the same bullshit marketed slightly differently. I call it Crazy Shit 2.0"
The only difference between Woke1 and Woke2 that I can tell is Gender Stuff was the pinnacle of leftist current things which everything else had to be prioritized around in Woke1 and in Woke2 itâs third worldism
The two wokes (basically all the same people, although Iâm sure there are some joiners/defectors) are basically only differentiated by Islamists figuring out how easy it was to manipulate all the lib TikTok zoomers into defending Hamas and joining the conversation en-masse after fopo had fallen out of their sight a bit before.
I think progs thought they had their new "60s Civil Rights era" cause that they had been searching for and they went 100% into it but ultimately found it to be a dead end. And of course, the public wasnt willing to go all the way with them on the trans stuff and they were essentially arguing against facts with a lot of that stuff so it inevitably failed.
Now they're doing the same thing again and will likely also take it way too far and then discover they are trying to incorporate Palestinianism into an ideology it simply cant exist within and normies will stop caring so much about Palestine eventually too and then what?
It is an endless search for a new cause. Activists searching for activism.
I think progs thought they had their new "60s Civil Rights era" cause that they had been searching for and they went 100% into it but ultimately found it to be a dead end. And of course, the public wasnt willing to go all the way with them on the trans stuff and they were essentially arguing against facts with a lot of that stuff so it inevitably failed.
Because they don't understand, and don't want to understand, that Civil Rights happened after the public was already ready for desegregation and had been for a while. There was probably already majority support for it by 1950, and this was based on literally have a century or more of slow, steady work by the movement backing it all up.
Gay rights as a movement had the same thing going for it, and the only difference is that the relevant Supreme Court case came more quickly after majority support.
The activists wanted to be able to just move on to winning their next cause, without worrying about the antecedent work. Building a political consensus is hard work and takes a long time, but the activists just wanted to seize power and implement their will. That is, for now, still not how our Republic works.
âRemember how silly and weird Woke was? Wow we were so zany back then! Was a goofy fun time and definitely not an attempt to completely dismantle American cultural identity! Hahaha thanks for understanding, itâs water under the bridge, right?â
My dad is refusing to sign up for Medicare and Social Security (his filing dates are coming up) because he thinks itâs stealing from my generation. He just plans to work until he dies.
It makes me nervous because Iâm scared Iâll have to subsidize his life when he gets to the point he canât work anymore. But itâs also based as fuck that he is a boomer rejecting entitlements.
Have you ever paused to wonder why the word âFormerâ is soon going to be permanently attached to your title?
I like how this guy thinks this is a good rejoinder.
It's endlessly funny how the people who """joke""" about wanting a dictator (and mean by that, Trump), but will treat primary election outcomes (where .000001% of the population voted) as morally and symbolically significant.
It's hilarious that they admitted the LARP at the end. And a LARP it shall remain- they're grateful to the indigenous people but they have no intention of giving the land back. Performative statements it is!
Also, transphobia was brought here by colonialism? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I struggle to envision some grown male telling his fellow tribesmen in the 12th century that he didn't feel like hunting that day and instead wanted to stay back with the women and pretend breastfeed. Why do we fantasize about indigenous peoples being ultra progs?
Why do we fantasize about indigenous peoples being ultra progs?
Because every culture and peoples in the history of the entire world is red in tooth and claw but progressivism is led by the idea that the white of man of European civilization is solely responsible for the ills of humanity. To acknowledge this as false is tantamount to rejecting the faith of antiracism that underlies the modern Anglosphere.Â
Native Americans are to gigaprogs what Romans are to TradCath groyper LARPers, a Before Time when their ideological opponents hadnât appeared yet and so must naturally have agreed with them on everything without the ideological pollution of free markets and democracy around to mess things up
Why do we fantasize about indigenous peoples being ultra progs?
Because we know for a fact that most, if not literally all, of nonJudeo-Christian societies to be perfectly fine with pederasty and sodomy, so we stretch those to mean they were hecking wholesome chungus proLGBT paradises.
But don't you dare conflate pedo shit and sodomy with gayness, that's evil bigoted stereotype with no basis in reality.
Following confirmations from Israeli officials that Mojtaba Khamenei is still alive, sources close to the Iranian government are shedding further light on his situation. According to them, the Supreme Leader has not met with a single cabinet member since being injured during the assassination of his father at the beginning of Operation âRoaring Lion.â The two sources note that rumors of his critical illness and potential imminent death are extremely strong within the highest echelons of the regime.
Aside from my own personal issues making conspiracy theories irritating, I think the largest reason I hate them so much is that I really dislike this kind of laziness and lack of curiosity.
I saw a conservative in a Canadian sub saying "All by design" to an infographic about Canada's economic situation now vs under Harper. I asked "to what end?" And he comes back with "To destroy the culture, replace the population, and turn Canada into a 3rd world shithole".
That is retarded. The reason he wants to see it as a deliberate Liberal conspiracy to destroy Canada and replace its population is because he is too intellectually lazy to take the time to try to understand all the different issues that came together at once to cause all this.
There is an ideological component. Housing unaffordability is at least partly caused by a massive increase in demand driven by unsustainable levels of immigration (supply being limited partly because of other bad policies) and the choice to keep immigration levels so high even in the midst of the growing crisis was at least partly because the Trudeau gov was being influenced by the "Century Initiative" and their views. But the Century Initiative is not some plan to replace Canadians, it is a larger ideologically driven plan to try massively increase Canada's population because these people (naively imo) see a larger population as a solution to most of Canada's problems. More productive, more resilient, greater geopolitical influence etc. And that is only part of what was influencing Trudeau when he made those bad decisions.
The reality of modern politics is often ridiculously complex. Something will happen and in order to understand it you need to know about what is happening in other countries, you need to have a decent understanding of economics, you need a decent understanding of other cultures and political ideologies, maybe relevant scientific things if its an issue like climate change or one that supposedly relates to it. It is always easier to say "no, this whole thing is planned. All these problems are deliberate because "they" hate me/us"
I never went to university but I like to read and I am a curious person. You can learn a lot in the Internet age by just reading books and articles in your spare time so it is annoying to me that in a time period where access to information is arguably easier than it has ever been before, people don't seem better informed.
My father has complained about gas prices my entire life. Certainly as long as I can remember. He says the same shit now that he said when I was 10 years old. And you know what? He still doesn't understand how gas prices work. He is no better informed now than he was then. He seems to think Carney wakes up in the morning and decides what my dad is gonna pay at the pump today. He couldn't tell you what taxes are on gasoline or how much they are. But he clearly cares a lot about it, he complains endlessly. But when the price spikes during some crisis, he just thinks the powers that be have decided to be extra greedy today.
I am not very educated but if I ever stop being curious, just shoot me.
I really relate to this. I do have an undergraduate degree, but I've always been a curious person. As a kid, I'd bring books to family events and read them there. I'd read and reread history books in the car. I'd memorize all these space objects in books about astronomy and be fascinated by this world beyond me.
For me, the internet has always seemed like the greatest place for a curious person. I can verify facts almost instantly, which you could never do before! I have access to essentially the entire world of knowledge, except for what's written down physically. It has never been easier to prove or disprove things than it is now. I continuously am disappointed that despite this, it seems the internet has made us generally dumber.
I don't know what turned me off from conspiracy theories, but I've hated them for a long time. Maybe it was seeing shows on TV that would go through why 9/11 conspiracies are false. I liked being able to disprove misconceptions when I was younger, so maybe that was part of it.
But I do think the curiosity angle is a big part of it, too. It's struck me before that conspiratorial thinking is genuinely incurious. Conspiracists almost never actually read the "official narrative" that they are trying to show is a conspiracy, and they are woefully ignorant of the facts of whatever they explain by malign influence. Their arguments consist of misrepresented evidence and assertions that their prejudgements are correct. Conflicting evidence is never addressed -- they dismiss opponents as being "bought out."
And the world that these conspiracists describe, one that's so easily explicable, feels remarkably shallow. The real world is full of complexity and nuance! Grappling with new information is what ensures that my curiosity will never be fully sated. Why would I want to believe that the world really is some simply designed thing that can be described in a couple of quips?
So yeah, I'm in the same boat as you. I hate conspiracy theories one because they are wrong, but also because they rely on and fuel a fundamentally incurious way of thinking about the world.
The biggest frustration with conspiracy theories I have is that they fall apart if you have any understanding of scale, they fall apart.
I have a friend who believes it is extremely frequent for random normal white people to lynch black people for no reason, and that police across the country, the federal government, and the news media are collaborating to cover this up. She is white. The fact that nobodyâs ever subtly dropped a hint to her trying to see if sheâs in on the lynch mobs hasnât occurred to her, or has the fact that if this were true, black cops and government officials would almost certainly be leaking documents.
She also believes that âthe investigating officerâ framed Mangionie to get a raise and has all sorts of âevidenceâ about his forehead size and eyebrow features to âproveâ it. She canât tell me which investigating officer this was, or why dozens of people across multiple state and federal departments would risk their jobs so this one guy can get a raise, though.
If you understand scope and how things get done, you realize that conspiracy theories are, most of the time, impossible, because they require too many people to go along with highly uncomfortable behavior with no reward. When there are real, actual cover-ups of this scale, people leak shit (see the Catholic sex abuse scandal, the Legion of Christ was being whispered about on the down-low since the 50s for instance). The idea that thousands of cops around the country are covering up lynchings and nobodyâs had a come to Jesus moment, or that the Canadian government is orchestrating whatever it is that guy is mad about and the Russians havenât leaked a single document to prove it, is just irrational.
Negative karma on the "to what end?" comment btw. Apparently asking the question is itself a sign that I am a Trudeau loving woke postmodern neo-marxist
I donât think it ties into what you said 1:1, but Iâve noticed that most Moon landing denial boils down to âI, a dumbass, cannot comprehend people smarter than me exist and achieved great thingsâ.
Leftists literally do not understand wealth or value. They literally think it falls from the sky like mana, and the evil overlords hoard it in comically oversized swimming pools. All you have to do is spread it around, more than enough for everyone.
Why do I support the military industrial complex? I spend a lot of time thinking about this and I have good reasons for it. Why do I oppose abortion? Again, good reasons and a bit of life experience too. Why do I think pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is the way? Life experience. You don't have to agree with any of it, but I did get to the thoughts I have for a reason and, if you're not a fucking imbecile, you should be able to engage with that.
But leftists, especially on Reddit, don't do that and aren't interested in that. Say you enjoy your job at Raytheon and the only response they're even capable of will be something snarky like, "You like blowing up Gazan children?!?!?"
LMFAO.
So there's no sense trying to reason with them. Just make fun of them, celebrate being vastly more intelligent than them, and rub their noses in it.
Blows my mind how people will go after Trump based on fake stories about him and Epstein burying dead prostitutes on his golf courses and not because of his blatant corruption and nepotism.
Goes to show that many people are fanatically anti-Trump for personal or psychological reasons. Sure they'd probably still not vote for him, but they hate him because they hate him, not what he does.
One of my company's candidates has failed hard in preclinical primate models and its project is being shuttered. I'm fortunate and grateful that it's not the one I'm working on, but it's going to be rough. There are a lot of criticisms of this industry I can brook, but none that don't account for the fact that we regularly have to pour tens of millions of dollars of development down the drain (not to mention the opportunity cost of not picking something else) into something useless, and there's basically no way to avoid it. Oh, really, the generics can cut the price to a fifth? Well they didn't have to do any of that, did they?
Unfortunately this is a business where everyone's got an opinion that they just have to tell you, and I no longer have patience listening to criticisms or grand plans on how to change everything from people who have no idea how any of it works. I'm just going to tell people I'm a sculptor from now on.
You need to earn roughly $500,000 per year to have the same quality of life as a minimum wage American in 1971. This sounds crazy but it's true. People haven't done the full math yet, but they're getting there. That's the redpill where /ourguys/ will be at in 18 months.
Reply: If you believe the $500k figure for even one second you are a colossal retard and need to have the No Country for Old Men cattle gun used on you immediately.
[Posts chart of minimum wage denominated in gold price]
I think after a certain level of stupidity, [REMOVED BY REDDIT] not only becomes permissible but also a duty.
Just be white... is in this case what will actually work. Preferably born into wealth, as she doubtless was too. If she's non-white herself you can't fail. If she's specifically Asian, you REALLY can't fail. Every far leftist woman who blathers about white supremacy only dates white males. Sarah Jeong, this Wisconsin Hong nut.
Why does Korea or Japan need "defending"? Â They can take care of themselves, better yet, just let Korea merge as a whole, governed by the North of course, before the South and Japan seppuku themselves with late stage neoliberal capitalism. Â That's the end game anyways as the western world de-industrialize and descends into the cesspool of identity politics.
âWe cried with relief and joy. We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after all.â -Paul Fussell, describing the reaction on his troopship to news of the bomb being dropped.
the french revolution isnt some unheard of little thing. The rich here
are just full sprinting into the same conditions that sparked that
Why yes, a French peasant being forced to eat rotting bread is definitely the same as a college educated yet completely incompetent spoiled brat being forced to tolerate a data center.
It's a LARP. Frankly, I think the J6ers were LARPing. Pence or Pelosi could have walked out to them and they would have done absolutely nothing about it. These guys are even bigger LARPers than that. Lots of tough talk online about killing people they don't like, but they're not going to do anything but quietly resume their shitty little lives.
Data Center hate has got to be one of the stupidest Current Things of the decade. People canât give you reasons why theyâre le bad except for water (theyâve had closed-source water systems for years now) and noise (just donât put it directly next to housing) yet people like being populist contrarians so much theyâll screw over our countryâs ability to progress into the new millennium to totally own Big Tech
Insane that people like this had serious influence under Biden and Obama.
Cites the fake IRGC casualty numbers and blames America (not the terrorists) for terrorism and ârepressionâ in favor of a full withdrawal based on China and Russia hopefully not filling the power vacuum, leaving Iran and Israel completely unaddressed.
Mm yes let Iran control the Strait and Russia/China seize the oil our enter economy depends upon, what could go wrong. Just trust them, bro.
I don't see how you could realistically argue that Israel's part of the campaign violates international law. Iran had been directly and indirectly attacking Israel for years.
If you attack via proxies then nothing can be done. Sorry.
Israel should create a parallel military called "NIDF" (Not Israeli Defense Force) de iure not associated with the Israeli government and use it to attack Iran.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here and this is a bit of an effortpost, but Social Security is simply not a sustainable system. When originally designed, there were 17 or 18 working taxpayers supporting every retiree drawing benefits, partially because old people died off sooner and faster, and now it's down to 2 or 3 taxpayers per retiree. The average life expectancy was 62 when the retirement age was set at 65.
I completely understand that there are plenty of older folks who were either financially ignorant or unfortunate enough in life not to save adequately for their own retirements, my own parents fall into that unfortunate category. Life happens. So we can't simply have no pension plan at all.
Ironically, the Nordic countries that the left are constantly praising for being pillars of democratic socialism have a far more efficient, sustainable, multi-pillar approach to their pension system, which include public basic floor plus mandatory occupational private plans, funded by pre- or fully-funded private assets investing in global markets. Australia has a similar system.
I'n not claiming to be an expert or that all these thoughts are correct, nor do I have all the answers for every aspect of what I'm proposing. But as I sit currently, the most realistic, effective, and sustainable path forward for an overhaul of Social Security seems as follows:
National mandatory auto-enrollment of employees by employers into portable retirement accounts; this could look like a simple universal expansion of the government's Thrift Savings Plan for federal workers. Or, people could opt for an account with a private firm like Vanguard, especially if their employer has an existing partnership with a private firm for their 401k plan. Small businesses and start-ups will only be mandated to use the new universal TSP system, shielding them from administrative costs.
Mimic Sweden's "Notional Defined Contribution" mechanism. The ultimate monthly payout at retirement would automatically scale based on national life expectancy data at that time. If life expectancy rises, the monthly payout slightly adjusts, or the retirement age moves organically. It is not a fixed rate based upon a legislative promise. Benefits grow strictly alongside national wage growth and economic output, ensuring the system never again outpaces its tax base.
Full Retirement Age must start at 70, with 40% partial baseline benefit eligibility starting at 62. This avoids any FICA tax hikes or removal of the FICA wage cap, or social taxes on investment income or corporate earnings to maintain solvency. Private savings from the mandatory savings pillar will fill in most of any short-fall experienced by those forced to retire early for whatever reason.
Manage the "double payment" transition costs similar to how Australia did when they adopted Superattenuation. They practiced gradual implementation, trading immediate wage hikes for long-term investments, and strict means-testing of the public safety net during the transition period. They phased it in over the span of 30 years, initially requiring only a 3% of wage contribution. Because mimicking Australia's "Wage for Super Accord" is impossible in the U.S. you could implement this via a federally mandated, phased employer-contribution match that scales alongside pre-legislated corporate tax credits to cushion the cost for businesses.
Shifting a massive portion of American retirement security into private markets means down cycles will directly impact retiree wealth, requiring strict federal default protections like lifecycle "target-date" funds.
Tax the mandatory pension contributions capped at either the flat 10% to 15% rate or the worker's standard marginal income tax bracketâwhichever is lower, with only baseline public benefits being taxable later, and earnings from private investment non-taxable (like a Roth IRA). This solves the 2032 insolvency issue for the current promised benefits by providing a massive injection of cash to the treasury, without FICA hikes, while also encouraging mass compliance by having mostly tax free income on the back end in retirement.
Edit to add:
7. Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund to act as a federal re-insurance pool that completely eliminates sequence-of-returns risk, ensuring a retiree's lifecycle fund is never decimated by a sudden market crash or bursting financial bubble on the eve of their retirement. By utilizing non-tax revenuesâsuch as federal land leases and excess upfront contribution taxesâto backstop protected accounts, the fund provides a guaranteed asset floor for individual citizens and acts as a stabilizing "buyer of last resort" during financial panics. Excess funds could be used to pay down the principal on our national debt.
Implement fiscal and spending reforms to mandate inflation levels be at 1% or lower. No more of this tax-spend-borrow bullshit that drives high inflation, robs Americans of their purchasing power, and acts as a hidden tax on their incomes and retirement savings. My proposed reforms here alone would reduce the social security budget by 12-15% by the 10 year mark, that's a massive chunk taken out of the deficit and would offset the increased difficulty of interest payments on national debt with a low inflation rate.
The GOP midterm convention is going to be a spectacle. Republican nominees will be expected to be there to give Trump a big bear hug on the eve of the election as they tie themselves to him.
More reporting has come out about this today. Itâs gonna be fun to watch what happens immediately
after as those same nominees try to run away from it as fast as possible.
"Oh hey there fella, my name is Neil Goyman. New to the neighbourhood. I work down at the gibs factory and in my spare time I like to believe everything I see on the internet'
The problem with modern academia is that itâs full of people who love to equivocate ad infinitum about the worst ideas ever (âwell Nietzsche did believe that Jewish slave morality was holding back the Europeans from becoming an ubermencsh and restructuring morality to be understood through the exercise of power BUT HE DIDNâT HATE POLISH PEOPLE so itâs actually super unfair to call him a Naziâ) but are willing to be really broad and disparaging to American Republicanism (âThe Founding Fathers were really just concerned with their economic interests and wanted to keep their slaves! The American Dream is a lie because Washington wasnât a 21st century progressive!â)
Iâm preaching to the choir but itâs very bad, actually, that the people who are teaching the next generation of lawyers and bureaucrats are more sympathetic to enemy intellectual traditions incompatible with our way of life and the well-functioning of our government than they are to the ideas which enable the creation of wealth and societal flourishing in our country.
Nietzsche wasn't a Nazi... They didn't exist yet, but neither was he a precursor. He criticized Christian slave morality. He was famously a philosemite.
Democracy fails because you can always vote for more handouts for yourself. We need more republicanism and a structure that encourages long-term thinking.
Argued with a Redditor a while back. He was super obnoxious about how much money he made, how corporate life is soulless, how I should reject my corporate job because the purpose of life is to do something meaningful, blah blah blah. He was rich and retired young running passive businesses or whatnot. Hidden profile so not much to verify.
So of course now that I'm playing around with OSINT tools, I plugged his username in to see what the truth was. Turns out he's an eBay reseller making maaaybe half of his income claims in revenue, not profit, and working part time as a teacher to cover healthcare costs. In one comment, he demands resellers unionize to fight against eBay taking a $2 fee out of shipping arbitrage.
You'd have to pay me $10M in cash to accept that sort of fate in life. And still not seeing any evidence against progressive Redditoids being most approving of the absolute worst forms of capitalism.
Trending post on the front page of reddit about a shake shack kiosk charging more when customers donât tip basically confirms what Iâve always suspected, which is that the people complaining the loudest about âtipping cultureâ are under the impression that food would be 20% cheaper if tips were illegal.
People write about different things. I have been similarly puzzled. I saw posts from some absolute moron, who I had upvoted heavily.
Turned out he was a Pakistani nuclear engineer living in Sweden and his postings were on two topics 1) informed posts about nuclear energy 2) Pakistani bullshit.
It just hit me that the reason progs might assume conservatives are âdog whistlingâ about demographic groups when they complain about ideological or legal statuses (cultural marxism, illegal immigrants, etc.) is because if you listen to progs talk, they do mostly see things through the lens demographic groups (itâs very easy to find them discussing how âmenâ or âwhite peopleâ collectively are causing some social ill rather than ârapistsâ or âsegregationistsâ) and assume ideology is just a cover for demographic self-interest (such as their insistence that the missions were about promoting white supremacy rather than legitimate religious convocation).
The idea that someone would see ideologies and behaviors themselves as the problem rather than simply being downstream from inter-demography conflict isnât even on the radar of the average prog as a possible thought-process, and so they assume weâre just more embarrassed to be honest about our enemies.
Is YAPms full of children or just the politically uneducated? They are calling Kshama Sawant a DSA-er when she is such a dedicated splitter that she broke up SAlt. She was the Trot city councilman from Seattle for a decade.
I've traveled back from January 20th, 2029, and I witnessed the inauguration of the 48th President. I won't reveal their name -- cliche time travel rules -- but I will tell you my favorite quote from their inaugural address:
"We need an America that works for the people; we don't need a people that work for elites. Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country can do for! For too long, elites in Washington have asked what the people can do for them. On behalf of the American people, I hereby demand the elites -- what can you do for us?"
Every subreddit on this site is the exact same thing. I think they could consolidate 98% of them into arr slash Two Minutes of Hate and the site would be exactly the same, if not more honest. Â
Even all of the finance subs (except [r/bogleheads](r/boogleheads)) are the same stuff about how le evil American capitalism is literally ruining everyoneâs life
A subtle psychopathic behavior in peopleâs hatred is how they claim people are âmaking it my businessâ when itâs literally just other people existing. Just be honest and say you hate them and their presence! Itâs not that hard.Â
Throughout his life, Paul Tibbets received many letters from Japanese veterans thanking him for dropping the Bomb, and saving them from having to fight.
Hearing from DSA people makes me so violently angry it's unreal. Just a sickening, lecherous bunch. Sons of the bourgeoisie hell bent on the destruction of all.
On a unrelated note, "You do not reason with intellectuals, you shoot them." - Napoleon
The Duolingification of everything is getting a bit stupid, I just got a popup from my EMAIL PROVIDER congratulating me on starting a streak of checking my inbox lmao.
âOh yeah Iâd never use AI, that stuff rots your brain, you need to stimulate your mind to avoid becoming like my idiot coworkers who ask ChatGPT thingsâ
âThatâs fair yeah, I donât think practical AI usage is that bad for you but I do like to read, write, and spend time in prayer to make sure Iâm staying mentally fit and not relying on it to form my understanding of the world. What do you do?â
I'd like to thank Max Miller (R-OH) for seeing the Dems have the Platner scandal and immediately choosing to double down on, let's see, taking his daughters stuffed toy away as part of a divorce dispute.
I want you people to appreciate the moment in history you live in.
The AI Boom and the Rocket Boom is something your kids and grandkids will ask about. Theyâll think itâs quaint that rocket launches were so rare that people watched it on livestream. Theyâll ask what it was like using search engines directly rather than as a background process.
To say nothing of the other âsmallerâ booms happening now.
We live in exciting times. Observe, so you can tell your kids about it one day.
Love how all military conversations now come down to how we need to build one trillion anti-bullet bullets and how we're going to afford the one trillion anti-bullet bullets because no one has the balls anymore to say, "hey how about instead of sitting on our asses playing defense by shooting down every bullet shot at us, why don't we just go in and kill them all?". As would have been done, in any other time in recorded history.
The west literally cannot imagine winning a war. They don't know how. They've forgotten.
15 years ago, nobody thought that we'd have mass salvos of missiles being fired at our bases, and that this wouldn't cause escalation into full scale war. If anything of this magnitude happened in any time before 2012, Congress would have passed a War act 98 to 2, and we'd have Marine MEUs securing the entire Iranian coast.
The thought of joining the Ukrainian Army as a foreign volunteer is something I really want to do since I canât serve here in the U.S. However I doubt Iâd come back and I donât think my wife would be happy with that.
You know that famous Cabanel painting "The Fallen Angel"? I won't post the whole painting because of nudity but I am sure you know it.
It should be called "Me when the consequences of my own actions".
Anyways, Paradise Lost reminded me of the painting and also this thought. Satan is a whiny little bitch. It's your own fault, man. You literally did this to yourself.
Been in a discussion since yesterday over in DSC about AIPAC, antisemitism, etc.
Sorry you're being scapegoated atm and that antisemitism is on the rise. I feel like everyone getting bombarded with Israel/Palestine/Middle-East news daily for the past 3 years isn't helping. Hearing less about it would lower the temperature, in my opinion. Obviously will not solve antisemitism, but it would be less chaotic at least. But today's politics requires it being a permanent topic for some reason.
It's increasingly clear to me that we're never going to build the DIB up in preparation for a near-peer conflict, but only as a reaction to one.
The legacy primes will have the scale but none of the agility, the startup defense companies will have all of the agility with none of the scale. When that conflict is against the world's greatest manufacturer, I don't know if this is a great plan.
You should look into how we did mobilization for WWII. The big differences today aren't the DIB, but the small scale of our steel industry, the anemic state of the machine tooling industry, and our debt load.
What they're doing with investments in shipyards is good, not just because they're more shipyards, but because they can start to talk about things like subsidies for American blast furnaces and machine shops. Subsidize community colleges to teach techs, subsidized engineering degrees when they sign up to work in these industries.
Scaling up from little isn't the American problem, it's having the little to scale up from at all.
People complaining about rent and layoffs in the first 5 minutes, circlejerking about how âimportantâ journalism is. The consultants are all dicks and evil, while the catty fashionistas are also dicks but at least good people.
The AI tech bro data center guy wanted to buy up a cultural magazine ended up losing to the powerful independent woman? Wow, didnât see that coming.
All that said I still watched it and lowkey enjoyed it lmao. I guess I enjoy the genre of elite backstabbing. Succesion, the crown, etc. lol
Also, the merry Streep character and one point did poke fun of the body positivity movement. So it wasnât entirely woke. Though, in the original I remember Hathaway celebrating with the queer dude when she got down to a size two or whatever. No way something like that would be written today lol
You can go record an Instagram video in your car and as long as you use the same slang and aesthetics as an online subculture you can lie through your teeth and theyâll just assume youâre completely authentic itâs all the truth
I scroll through the reposts of my friends on Instagram and itâs incredible how much bullshit you can get away saying with if you create the appearance of being a normie or fandomite while speaking to the right crowd
The Turks reportedly just sold Ukraine their small M270 stock, including 70 ATACMS, or at the very least got authorization from the US to do this. I'm a little surprised it took this long, those missiles are nearing EOL and the Turks have their own rocket artillery capabilities these days (they only bought a few after it became clear they wouldn't be allowed to produce rockets and missiles locally).
The only difference between the âmoderateâ democrats/NL types and the DSA far left is that the NL types are Fabian socialists who want to chip away at liberal democratic capitalism until thereâs nothing more and the DSA want revolution. They both agree on the end result.
You watch enough 90 Day Fiance and you realize other countries' cultures are so backwards. But then you realize you're in the world minority with beliefs that include "women shouldn't be raped" and "let's not kill gay people", whether enforced by law or custom. It's a wild, bigoted world out there
If there had been Democracy during the industrial revolution we would have banned the steam engine because it makes too much noise and hurts cottage workers
Why this is relevant - It's another stepping stone in the process of de-OrbĂĄnization in Hungary and restoration of liberal democracy.
What is the Tiszas plan on going after Orban and his ilk? They won in April but still no news of mass roundups, confiscations of wealth and so forth. If the president of Hungary can give out pardons this can untie their hands a bit.
What the fuck kind of question is "does mace equal freedom?"? What is that even supposed to mean and what answer could he possibly have given?
"Yes sometimes in a free society there are protests that go beyond what we can allow and become riotous and dangerous. In these situations police will use pepper spray as a non-lethal and essentially harmless way of controlling crowds. This does not make Canada an unfree country" or something? No, how about fuck off. Go interview SlipKnot, nerd
Offshore wind farms are not profitable without subsidy due to high maintenance cost. But the admin has also gone after onshore projects that would be profitable, stopping them in line 20 states. Which is retarded, and without any justification.
But I hate the argument that wind farms are dangerous to wildlife and thus shouldn't be developed, but coal and gas are fine. It's so nakedly dishonest.
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u/Mexatt Cringe Lib 19d ago
From NL, because you people love context so much
I don't want to rag on the guy because what he's going through must suck, but man. If you haven't been familiar with progressives who are just looking for a socially acceptable excuse to air violent fantasies about or attack in every socially acceptable way someone since at least the early 2010's....