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Hope and optimism are the two things that propel life forward. Sometimes they lead to disaster, but often enough they lead to good results. Innovation, after all, is rooted in hope and optimism. If cynicism were the default for mankind, we would never have taken a shot on that new thing called the wheel. Risk taking requires a degree of foolish optimism and a hope that this time things will be different. On the other hand, too much optimism becomes escapism, a way to avoid reality.
If it were possible to measure hope and optimism, specifically misplaced hope and optimism, in a society, it would probably be a useful metric. A people unrealistically hopeful for the future are probably filled with dread, because their current situation is seemingly hopeless. Instead of grimly facing the reality of their situation, many choose to cast their hopes and aspirations onto someone or something. The popularity of wish-casting increases as the situation declines.
An example of this would be the Obama presidency. Few people talk about him these days, even though his term ended just five years ago. When he ran for office, however, his fans talked about him like he was Jesus. Despite his embarrassingly thin resume, they projected onto him the image of black Lincoln. There was little reason to think this man would do much of anything, given his nature and the people around him, but his fans were sure he was going to usher in the golden age.
It feels like a long time ago, but it was a very strange phenomenon. The people who had heralded Hillary Clinton as the new model woman suddenly treated her as the locus of evil in the world. Their new champion defeated her in the great contest and then he ascended the throne. Party stores had special Obama themed items produced so believers could have their Obama parties on inauguration day. For millions, it was the rapture, except it happened entirely in their imagination.
Something similar happened with Trump at the end of his term. Unlike Obama, he did not immediately develop a cult following. He won mostly because the alternative was so unpleasant that anything had to be better. It was during his term, as it became clear he was never going to do what he promised, that he developed a cult following. By the end, he was Trump the guy with a secret plan to win the election. When the shenanigans hit home, he became a superhero with a secret plan to overturn the result.
The Trump and Obama comparison offer an insight into how this wish-casting phenomenon works in liberal democracy. The people disappointed by Bill Clinton and then disaffected by Bush, turned to the escapism of Obama. The same sort of thing happened with Trump, except it required his victory in 2016 to trigger the process, as he was too much of a known quantity in 2016. Obama was a blank slate, while Trump’s slate needed a lot of scrubbing to clear some space for the wish-casting.
The Q-phenomenon is another good example. What started as an internet prank on the MAGA people became a weird fantasy cult. It combined the elements of conspiracy theory with the essentials of wish-casting. Every event was turned into proof that the prophesies would come true and the faithful would be rewarded. The size of the Q-cult was exaggerated by the media, of course, but a lot of people preferred that fantasy over the reality of the present, which says a lot about the age.
The crypto cult is looking a lot like the Q-cult all of a sudden. This one combines the silly promises of Austrian economics, the reality avoidance of libertarianism, with a form of techno-futurism. Bitcoin is going to usher in the anarcho-capitalist future, where the power of the state is broken and all of the bad things about the cultural war are rolled back to some happy place in the past. How this will happen does not matter, as what matters is the dream of a new reality, free of the present.
You can probably fit the insurrectionist fantasies of our political class into this phenomenon as well. Rather than face the reality of their situation, they focus on bizarre conspiracies about invisible white supremacists. Reality is we live in a tripartite system of corporate interests, radical cultural interests and the state. The result is a doddering old man as the face of a nation slowly tipping into crisis. Instead of facing that, they are obsessed with secret conspiracies about white people.
That last bit becomes more interesting when you put it in the context of the cult of Obama and how it ended. The lunacy that erupted on the Left when Trump won in 2016 was never about Trump. It was about the final end of the Obama fantasy. Not only was he not black Jesus, he was never the savior. The people who worshipped him and hated Hilary, had transferred their love for him onto Clinton and their hate for her onto Trump during the 2016 election, especially toward the end.
What all of this suggests is we are moving further into a collective psychological crisis as the cultural situation degrades. Rather than face the reality of a fading empire that should have been dismantled thirty years ago, people are escaping into these aspirational cults. Even the political class is embracing escapism. There is always a bit of irrational exuberance. Progress requires a degree of optimism. What we are experiencing today is closer to systemic mass delusion.
This may not be entirely without precedent. Historians debate why the Athenians waged the Peloponnesian War as they did. The decision to attack Syracuse is a legendary blunder that defies reason. Perhaps it was the result of the same phenomenon that we are seeing today. A thoroughly democratized people, unable to face the reality of what that entails, indulges in wish-casting, placing all hope into a person or a plan. What lies at the other end is a shocking corrective that breaks the spell.
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Somehow reminds me of the character Sam Lowry in Brazil movie. His hopes and fantasies are a sort of cope to help deal with the totalitarian craziness he lives in.
In the end his mind is broken where he retreats totally into a fantasy world where all the joy he never had exists there now. I may do the same 🙂
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I think we’re getting to the point that happiness is going to be impossible as long as blacks and Gewes are around. I’m there already. I know I’m not alone. I know deep down most whites feel the same.
At some point we need to just start coming out and saying it. And I don’t think it’s going to be too far into the future when that becomes normalized. Is that a cope?
That or we retreat into imaginary worlds. Which is really just a form of pre-death. Might as well be in a coma. No, we have a fight on our hands. There’s no avoiding it now.
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Netflix, uber eats, amazon prime. Most whites already have retreated. Most do it subconsciously I think.
I like to go out and about, but I often don’t see a single white person at the shops or the mall (other than the liquor store and whole foods) despite my area being ~30% white.
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Yeah I hear ya. In fact one of my original takes living in Los Angeles that the only way all these foreigners and illegals could come in and upend if not destroy the place is because all the whites had retreated into their homes and computers and could shop and so forth online. They never had to go out and see the world changing around them. And I say, it’s been no coincidence that the massive change in demographics has coincided with the rise of the internet.
It’s crazy on St Patty’s Day (pre Covid) but you would think it’s 1950s America that is 90% white because they would all come out of the woodwork and hit the bars and pubs. So they’re out there, they just hide the other 364 nights of the year. Its strange looking at all these apartments around here, all those windows, knowing there are hundreds of thousands of whites in them who refuse to come out. What kind of life is that? I can’t imagine it.
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Hockey games are another one. Somehow there’s always a few thousand whites heading out to the local hockey rink to watch the junior leagues play. Baseball and football games are almost all white. The GO Train line through the Toronto area is ALL white people on Blue Jays game days. I’m assuming its the same in SoCal.
Dunno where they live. I don’t see them anywhere else. I guess on blocks where they’re the only white household, in condos sandwiched between nonwhites on top and below them.
At the rate we’re going this is no longer an escape anyways. You just go to a sports game to be lectured on BLM propaganda.
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Streaming services are a poor way to escape. They’re all intent on pumping woke diversity into your brain.
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Modern Historic Americans (pre-1924) are fighting out increasingly insane and irrelevant fights while the real world passes them by.
Whites fight between “right” and “left” on economics, gays, trannies, etc as if that has any relevance, or they even have any representation. QAnon theorists abound. White kids are still travelling and “finding themselves” as if they can just hop into the job market at any time like Boomers did. Blacks riot over BLM like its 1960. The media promotes white supremacist panic as if it were 1920 when the KKK was roaming the streets. The (((neocons))) promote war with Russia as if it’s 1980.
The country is filling up with Hispanics, Asians, and Indians who don’t care much about any of that (other than as a tool to promote their group interest). These people are taking over just about everything while whites, blacks, Jews keep arguing in circles. Neither whites, blacks, or Jews have a chance against the new “Americans” who are far more hungry and tribal (yes, even the J’s are feeling the heat these days from both Chinese and Indians).
Basically, we (Historic North Americans) all lose – whether old friends or enemies. China will be dominant in a few decades as most (if only due to America/Europe’s decline) and the American nation will descent rapidly into a Brazil scenario at best.
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Other than that, are you having a nice day today?
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I’m great. You?
I’m quite happy in general because I see reality clearly and have no confusion about what needs to be done. It’s kind of like being in the eye of the storm. It’s a weird feeling, I’m actually doing great in life but I’m watching other white people left and right fall to despair or Globohomo brainwashing. I do try and help but normally just get called a racist or transphobe.
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The West shot its future in the head with the way it has treated its youth during the Covid mess.
An entirely non-competitive generation has been created through the various edicts that have suppressed the youth.
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perhaps it’s escapism on my part, but I just can’t see the current state of affairs going on for much longer because it defies reality, and reality must win in the end. Right? Something has to give.
But even so, I am hopeful that my dream one day comes true and a hurricane and flood wipes out DC or NYC. Do bureaucrats float?
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The smart (as in able to ignore globohomo) and / or poorly assimilated groups just ignore everything and continue living normally, and are taking over everything that remains of America’s corpse.
Unfortunately it doesn’t take much other than being a warm body, who’s not on drugs, to outcompete young white men these days.
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Someone once claimed that, among the nicknames for the Gulag, one translated into “the place of nonstop singing and dancing.” Yes, there were places where people were sensory-deprived or tortured, but apparently there were also spaces that were like psych ward dayrooms where the more broken just wandered around in circles, giggling and playing chess against each other in their minds, or capering about and dancing.
You can see and feel this vibe throughout America, especially in pop culture, and have been able to for awhile. Our entertainment is constant and it’s meant to drown out something horrible, like a guy turning up his TV to avoid hearing his neighbor beat his wife. What’s most interesting is that the societal rot is ruining even the escapist outlets that have kept normie whites pacified (i.e. basketball and football). The military has always been a way for white guys to killed and maimed for people who hate them, but now even the chivalrous fantasy is being ruined with the tranny stuff.
And now the clamping down on mocking the regime comes (even the Prussians understood that letting Cabaretists poke fun at the Kaiser acted as a release valve for societal tensions). Biden is easily the most clownish man to occupy the White House, so this is going to be impossible to keep up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgc7VBI-nS4
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South Park has an episode about when Obama became president, which I still find it unbearable to watch, but as I recall it about how it’s all behind the scenes collusion and all the parties are actually the same and corrupt with nefarious motives. It’s probably still not worth watching but it’s definitely a different take than everyone else had at the time.
The slave world that all our rulers are so keen on creating and so many of our friends and neighbors are happy to accept is mind-boggling.. We’re all going to be trying to escape to Africa pretty soon
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Move NORTH. Look at a map, find where your European ancestors came from and trace the lattitude line back to the US.
Yes, I know it is probably in or near Canada, but it is the environment that nurtured your ancestors for many generations. Leave Africa to the natives (“the horror, the horror”).
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To me it has become obvious, the more white people you have the heavier the Yoke in slave world. I’m not sure where that leaves the smaller and smaller monority that have not been absorbed into the borg. And the vaccine, I don’t know if it’s dangerous or not but I know that is being heavily and relentlessly promoted by evil people so that makes me think it’s evil.and to be avoided
It’s pretty logical that people’s fantasies expand in direct proportion to their despair.
The cycle ends when Thermodynamics intervene. Empty shelves, burning tires and other kinetic events interrupt the fantasies. Minneapolis is now (and will be) a great example of this. Some Progs had a “thought experiment” which will end in a hard Physics lesson.
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The wanks at The Babylon Bee had the best headline I have seen to date:
“Cities Brace For The Most Peaceful Protests Yet”
😂👍
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I have to admit, though I didn’t vote vote for him, I had hope the election of obomba would finally settle all the jogger accounts and racial harmony, at least to a better degree would ensue. Unfortunately, it only proved those accounts will never be settled.
With Trump, I had hope that all the dirty rotten scoundrels and their true nature on the left would be exposed and finally dealt with. Oh, they were for sure, but not a damn thing came of it, which has been profoundly disappointing.
Now the current insanity of wokeism, covidianism, White supremacy, black idolatry, money printing w/o end, just seems to be accelerating. We’re way past Rod’s “there’s a signpost just ahead.”
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Our only silver lining is the left is pushing every single direction like a kid with severe ADHD. They are pushing the front of White Supremacy, Covid Hysteria, sabre rattling with Russia and China, and Corporate Wokeism. Instead of focusing on a single issue, winning decisively, and moving on, they’re like a champion fighter past his prime swinging roundhouses in every direction trying to hit his enemies.
Eventually there’s going to be a smaller, younger opponent that’ll give him a bloody nose and show he isn’t invincible, nor even worthy of respect.
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The best thing to do for now is let them punch themselves out.
Look at Antifa’s attempt to burn down the ICE facility with agents inside in Portland going unopposed.
This makes it obvious that Antifa has sanction at the highest levels. Anyone foolish enough to act against them will be destroyed.
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“On the other hand, too much optimism becomes escapism, a way to avoid reality”
“What all of this suggests is we are moving further into a collective psychological crisis as the cultural situation degrades…people are escaping into these aspirational cults…What we are experiencing today is closer to systemic mass delusion.”
Something crucial to my “coming-of-age” awakening was the Positive Thinking Movement (the seminal work being Who Moved My Cheese?). It had utterly infected the elders of my demographic. I quickly realized if I wanted advice or guidance in life I had to seek it elsewhere, because their unrealistic optimism was as worthless as the two for 5 dollar cliches that it came with. Though at first this self-assuaging advice was merely annoying, I soon began to look at it as a critical danger to our society.
This escapism or “toxic positivity” is something I’ve kept an eye for a while. It was always palliative rather than curative. It is now dangerous. It numbs people into a false sense of confidence and negligent self-assuredness. The enemy is at the gates, the market is about to collapse, there is smoke billowing from the kitchen–but if you point these things out, you are called a negative person, who needs to be more “positive.”
The fields are on fire, but the lotus eaters are too busy navel gazing, and patting their own enlightened backs.
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You’re bang on. Particularly your second paragraph. This sort of over-the-top optimism, the idea that you can be anything, do anything is something that now seems to infuse all areas of life. I see it most regularly in the CEO of the company that I work for. I see it in the veganism/yoga/spiritual movement. I see it advertising for almost every service and product; and it’s sickening. It is also no surprise that these folk are also ‘about non-judgementalism’ which, as you allude to, is really a way of keeping their balls out of the fire. Of keeping people happy.
They’re a threat alright. It is best to avoid them if possible and ignore them if you cannot do the first. They will get theirs good and hard and will, I imagine, be among the ones who continue thinking everything is great right up until they have a boundary dispute with a black neighbour… and said neighbour reports them for racism. Actually, scratch that, even then they’ll never stop being positive.
Heh. The other day said CEO came in the office to speak to me. He was talking about some ‘theory of the mind’ that breaks the mind into a number of personality types. This seemed reasonable. He then proceeded to draw the most ridiculous graph and draw the most bizarre inferences. He was perfectly happy whilst doing it, too. This is because he was doing ‘the science’ and being ‘telligent, all in front of a captive audience.
The people who know that there are problems will be thinking deeply about the future, skilling up, networking, using sociopathic tendencies to get themselves and their people ahead, and also breeding.
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“I see it most regularly in the CEO of the company that I work for.”
That’s interesting, because the Positive Thinking Movement had its origins in the corporate sector. It was PR spin with a motivational/”life-coaching” flavor to it.
“Yes we may be downsizing, but you can either be a negative nelly, or look at this as an opportunity!”
“Sure, you will have to take a paycut, and you won’t be getting that bonus for Christmas, but this only allows you to get more creative with your spending!”
“When one door opens blah blah blahhhhh”
It was a way to force people to smile while they ate shit. Before, at least we all knew we were eating shit, and we all learned to grin and bare it. But nobody would dare force you to smile, or god forbid, talk about how delicious and healthy the shit was. Now, such behavior is expected, even assumed.
“Is that a corn chunk in there!? Mmm, soooo goood! And healthyyy!!!! :D”
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Yes, he’s always talking about things presenting an ‘opportunity’. To be honest, he’d probably still be the type to look on the bright side after being double-teamed by Tai’Quarius and Jameel and left for dead, with an obliterated anus…
…just try to see it as an opportunity.
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hahahaha
“This is just an opportunity to rock an adult diaper now!”
I suppose that Russia is Syracuse in that analogy, since our real overlords won’t allow the chattering heads to squawk when they finally reclaim Taiwan. Vaporizing the major population cities in the US may not be an entirely bad thing. God did rain glorious cleansing fire on S&G after all. I’d like a heads up since the fallout cloud of one of them is upwind from my homestead.
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A people unrealistically hopeful for the future are probably filled with dread, because their current situation is seemingly hopeless. Instead of grimly facing the reality of their situation, many choose to cast their hopes and aspirations onto someone or something. The popularity of wish-casting increases as the situation declines.
Gotta disagree here.
In the US , unrealistic faith in the future was the general zeitgeist from the early 1920s to the mid 1960s. Peaking in the lat couple decades of that run. That wasn’t an era of grim hopelessness and misery.
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> It was about the final end of the Obama fantasy. Not only was he not black Jesus, he was never the savior. The people who worshipped him and hated Hilary, had transferred their love for him onto Clinton and their hate for her onto Trump during the 2016 election, especially toward the end.
In 2008 and 2012, Obama had tens of thousands of people going to his rallies, with throngs of people in absolute adoration for his vision.
In 2020, he was left talking to a crowd of a couple dozen to hype up a doddering old fool. You could just tell from his facial expression how much he hated Biden, and his understanding most everyone consider his presidency a vast nothingburger. At least he still has basketball.
The left seems to realize now that they aren’t electing a person, but the machine propping up the person, and all the talk about democracy is just performative moralizing.
The right still hasn’t come to the realization that electing a man will not destroy the machine that runs everything. Almost hoping the republican presidential hopefuls are so pathetic that the right checks out of the drama and absolves themselves of even pretending the charade in D.C has any form of legitimacy.
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Well, the idea that some Savior will appear and set things right, or at least lead us into battle appears to be one of the fundamental weaknesses of the right.
Meanwhile the left always has someone, somewhere grinding forward, millimeter by millimeter, to advance their cause. That appears to be one of their fundamental strengths.
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The left always has some entity to pay the mercenaries/true believers to continue the grind. The right has to support its family. That’s the real difference in disparity of outcome.
I still contend the only reason Obama picked Biden for VP was that he knew Joe was a fool who couldn’t upstage him. Biden understood how Congress worked, but was otherwise a dunce. This allowed Obama to spend most of his time playing golf, watching SportsCenter and HBO without having to worry his VP would in essence take over his administration the way Cheyney wielded power in the Bush years or even worse.
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In 2020, he was left talking to a crowd of a couple dozen to hype up a doddering old fool. You could just tell from his facial expression how much he hated Biden, and his understanding most everyone consider his presidency a vast nothingburger. At least he still has basketball.
“Puppet Show and Barack Obama”
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I wonder if that shocking corrective would be a brawl with Russia in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. US has given Ukraine their full support, which looks to me like the Polish guarantee that the UK gave back in the day – our 2nd worst foreign policy decision ever. UK Foreign Sec Dominic Raab tweeted full support to Ukraine over the weekend also.
Can’t help but notice the common denominator between Anthony Blinken, Volodymyr Zelensky, Dominic Raab and Jens Stoltenberg (Nato Sec Gen).
I wonder if they will fast track Ukraine in and then use Article 5 to take on the Bear and try a regime change. I personally think that will backfire spectacularly.
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I’ll be quietly rooting for Putin and Co.
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Our President, not only can he NOT walk and chew gum at the same time, he can’t even use that term properly.
https://twitter.com/Izzy_B911/status/1372353887492005888?s=20
Compare with Putin’s cogent, eloquent and layered response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySix1puDlCQ
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People could go through their whole lives, voting and being disappointed.
Either by ‘losing’ or let down by ‘our guy’.
Pavlov’s dogs spring to mind but inverted for humans.
No matter how many times they do the ‘good thing’ and vote they get shat on.
Is humanity truly too dumb to know a rigged game when it bites them on the arse every 4 or 5 years?
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IMO that’s why the politicians and media hold us in contempt
Because they keep lying to our faces and shitting on us we keep coming back for more. That’s not the kind of people anyone is going have lots of respect for. Think about it.
The 2022 midterms will be a good test in my mind. I want to see how many people give the middle finger to the system and we get people voted in with only 10% turnout. The whole world will be laughing at our government. And that’s good. Shoe on the other foot.
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An example of this would be the Obama presidency. Few people talk about him these days, even though his term ended just five years ago. When he ran for office, however, his fans talked about him like he was Jesus. Despite his embarrassingly thin resume, they projected onto him the image of black Lincoln. There was little reason to think this man would do much of anything, given his nature and the people around him, but his fans were sure he was going to usher in the golden age.
With hindsight, the Obama cult was a symptom of the general milieu that is driving wokism. It’s a post Christian religious revival. Obama could have become a central point of focus if he had died early in his term. Instead, the movement has moved passed him.
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“What lies at the other end” is probably a brutal tyranny or the break-up of the states into their natural areas of self-interest and ethnic cohesiveness. Where I live, it’s interesting to watch the Judeo-Puritans retreat into the fantasy world of their churches as they wait for the rapture. Many simply cling to some bizarre hope that God will make everything calm down if they simply pray hard enough. I have no idea what the Presbyterians are thinking. I have never known. Probably trying to figure out where to bury their gold.
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The Rapture will save us – Christians
Putin will save us – WNs
Trump will save us – Alt right, 2016
QAnon will save us – Trumpers
Obama will save us – normie libs, 2008
Hispanics (natural conservatives) will save us – most conservatives
Stop white supremacy will save us (??) – every normie white person 2020.
It’s about time white people stop expecting a saviour and actually fight in *reality*. As I mentioned below the people who are taking over are hispanics and asians, they don’t care about any of these delusions.
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Presbyterian USA churches are still locked-down and the members are finding other places to worship. Their wishful thinking is that those members will ever come back.
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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving organization!
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Our (soon to be former) church’s website has a banner saying “All Are Welcome”. Underneath is a long list of people not welcome – anyone without a mask, 2 different AA groups, NA, Boy Scouts, and several other community organizations that were using the church meeting spaces.
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Take a look at this one: https://united-church.ca/
From over 1 million members in the 1960s to ~100,000 attendees today, mostly old people. The front page seems to feature an inter racial lesbian couple, and underneath is a story promoting Universal basical Income.
Last i checked inter racial lesbians were not a large church-going demographic group. but of course going broke is actually a feature of Globohomo not a problem for them.
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The Trump and Obama comparison offer an insight into how this wish-casting phenomenon works in liberal democracy.…
The Q-phenomenon is another good example. What started as an internet prank on the MAGA people became a weird fantasy cult. It combined the elements of conspiracy theory with the essentials of wish-casting. Every event was turned into proof that the prophesies would come true and the faithful would be rewarded…
The crypto cult is looking a lot like the Q-cult all of a sudden.
Alternatively, all of these examples are driven by people groping for answers and meaning that were previously provided by religious belief.
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“Rather than face the reality of a fading empire that should have been dismantled thirty years ago, people are escaping into these aspirational cults.”
I visited Beijing, China for New Year’s in 1999/2000. The air made your eyes burn, men sold packets of coal in the street, the “Flying Pigeon” iron bike was the main method of commuting and the population lived in mud neighborhoods called “Hutongs”. Communal gravity toilets were still used to collect waste. The Chinese exchange students I had at my multinational firm did not have HEAT in their office building in Shanghai.
…but there were cranes EVERYWHERE.
Ten years later, a colleague of mine visited. She saw NONE of that (except the air still made your lungs burn).
Now? The Chinese economy is at least twice the size of the US. My guess is quadruple, assuming you want an economy that actually makes STUFF (clothing? buttons? fasteners? wire?) vs. the product I produce every day (fyi: I helped produce just shy of a billion dollars in US denominated debt at my job last week).
Tell you what: let’s fight a war with these people. I’ll bring my finance / legal experience, my sons, my collection of small arms, and a few thousand rounds of ammo.
We are making the Polish calvary battling the German armored battalions look sane.
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It’s amazing how quickly the US forgot the value of having a productive economy.
We proved this during WW2 and the post-war boom.
Then, at some point in the early to mid-70s we thought giving this enormously value system away was a great idea.
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“It’s amazing how quickly the US forgot the value of having a productive economy.”
Why would a tribe parasite wanna pay a white man’s salary?
Wouldn’t it be better if a white man pays welfare to his ex wife and to as many nonproductive non-whites as possible?
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For people who have a firm grasp of reality, when blacks riot, it’s confirmation that their behavior is different than Whites and Asians. With big corporations, their media, and the people in charge, the response was “we need to do more” and an embrace of the BLM program and a casting of Whites as the villain. Racial differences will always persist and their solution is to attack Whitey until the differences go away, which they never will.
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The differences will go away when whitey goes away. That’s the end game of all of this. “systemic racism” will always exist as long as whites exist. We need to get rid of systemic racism. you do the math.
If you haven’t noticed this is already happening across the formerly white formerly western world through mass immigration. I suspect more “coercive” action will be taken soon since some whites are a little more stubborn than others.
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That whole replacement thing is just a bunch of malarkey!
C’mon man!
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If you accept the assumptions (silly, I know, but they do) of the Left/Progressives, the logical endgame always has been either the elimination of Whites or their enslavement. It sound fantastical, but when you think about it, there’s no other outcome.
Follow the logic:
1. Racism is the worst evil on the planet, destroying lives and even killing people
2. Racism is caused by Whites, either knowingly or unconsciously (systemic racism, White privilege, etc.)
3. So long as there are racial disparities between Whites and other groups, racism still exist. (Naturally, the disparities will continue to exist because groups are different.)
4. Ever more stringent punishments must be applied to Whites to stop them from being racist.
5. Every new punishment will fail, so rinse and repeat until you either kill White people or make them so enslaved that they don’t outperform other groups.
There’s no other option in this world. I don’t think Whites understand this. The anti-White measures will get worse and worse until Whites are bred out of existence, killed or enslaved.
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Historians debate why the Athenians waged the Peloponnesian War as they did. The decision to attack Syracuse is a legendary blunder that defies reason. Perhaps it was the result of the same phenomenon that we are seeing today. A thoroughly democratized people, unable to face the reality of what that entails, indulges in wish-casting, placing all hope into a person or a plan. What lies at the other end is a shocking corrective that breaks the spell.
My preferred analogy is to the transition of the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. That process played out over more than a century and the autocracy that came out the other end retained a number of Republican elements that were its ultimate flaw.
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A similar thing may have happened here in 1865.
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“Bitcoin is going to usher in the anarcho-capitalist future, where the power of the state is broken and all of the bad things about the cultural war are rolled back to some happy place in the past.”
Sounds like religious poppycock, apparently man does make idols out of everything, including computer files.
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The thing I struggle with is how these crypto currencies are going to maintain widespread usage in a politically balkanized world with degraded information networks.
Crypto needs an omnipresent, highly functional, global information network to retain its utility.
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Tulips are starting to bloom here.
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simple, Crypto will heal and uplift the degraded societies, peace be upon it.
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The turd term of Fundamental Transformation with the historic high heels czar the Kamal as preezy of the steezy will cement the legendary status of Sobama.
The faculty lounge fifth column will succeed in burning it all down by any means necessary this time.
Russia and China tremble in fear of Chicago Jesus, She-Ra and the mighty high heeled rump ranger troops of doom.
Sprechen sie Austrian?
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The recent talks and actions of the Grumpy Walter administration regarding China and Russia are a sad indicator of how delusional our empire has become. This isn’t the America of 1960 or even 2000. The influence and capabilities are illusionary now as other factions have begun to rise on the world stage.
Sadder still is to hear Veterans and active duty declare how eager they are to fight the Red Bear or Chinese to preserve freedom and democracy. The brain washing continues unabated…
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“Grumpy Walter,” heh, heh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idPv9zAkL48
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Instead of gathering outside of the Capital in DC, dissidents should be holding mass-gatherings outside major military bases encouraging their children to dessert. They could hold up banners saying “Don’t die in Syria for a country that hates you!” or “We will protect and hide you from the MPs, the state can’t arrest all of you!”
Why any white male with two brain cells to rub together would risk his life to preserve an empire that hates him is beyond comprehension.
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I’m almost 60 and for the first time I hope my country loses every encounter from here on.
The dictionary defines “nation” as a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
We are no longer a nation if indeed we ever were. We are a high-fructose corn syrup empire of faggotry.
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After 20 years of small wars, I don’t think our military is mentally or physically prepared to duke it out with a first-world power, much less two.
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What’s even sadder is those veterans, the ones who are White, are now seen as a problem in the USA circa 2020’s.
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How does AMC entertainment theaters raise over 900 million from investors since December. Nobody is going and this is obviously being propped up. Hmmm
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Yeah, I don’t buy that a bunch of reddit autists trading on stimmy checks in mom’s basement are propping AMC and GME up this long.
Those guys are being used as cover for obscure, big money on the other side of those shorts.
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It is plausible, though. Commodity spot prices are function of marginal demand, not essential demand.
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Both sides are realizing that there’s no escape from our situation, at least not as a single country.
Jews, Progressive Whites and their POC mercenaries are not going to just make 70% of Whites disappear or submit. Colorblind CivNats are never going to get the other side to stop hating Whites.
Obama was the Left’s hope that they could someone win over the country peacefully through his magnificence, i.e. the Deplorables would realize that they were wrong. Trump was the colorblind CivNats’ great hope, i.e. he would drain the swamp, make America great again and get the Left to give up identity politics in favor just being “American.”
Both failed miserably. Now, they’re left wondering where this goes next, which, of course, is nowhere. So, they retreat into fantasies.
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In a country that is increasingly non-white, the white vs. white bickering is increasingly irrelevant. Basically, both sides are losing at once.
I’ve described the 30% white area before. The non whites have no interest in the leftist fag/BLM marches. They’re basically whites virtue signalling to each other while the brown masses continue with their day. They have no interest in bicycles or other idiotic goodwhite urban planning measures.
They also don’t care about “freedom”. They don’t care if there’s a lockdown, they’re used to corruption and just ignore all the rules anyways. They don’t care whether abortion is legal and don’t see it the same way we do (either strictly good or strictly bad). They don’t care about the greater society, only their ethnic community.
Basically this results in both white factions shouting at the clouds, feeling like they’re losing ground while more of the non-whites keep pouring into the country every year. Whites are unwilling or incapable to change, ceding more and more ground in the workplace and in politics every year. Naive whites hire the best man for the job; when that “best man for the job” Pajeet becomes a manager suddenly the M.O. changes to “my cousins and caste for the job”.
Unless whites are able to accept tribalism and see other tribes as competitors (not even enemies, necessarily) and differences between groups of people, we are largely finished in this modern world. you and I have no problem with it, but most seem to just not have that mindset in them.
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Yeah, you about sum it up. It is inevitable that whites will take their own side and tribalize as conditions deteriorate. The sooner the better. That is why south Africa is such a bitter black pill. The Afrikaners should be stomping ass up to the Sahara by my thinking. At the very least, not one white liberal should exist in SA.
Or: Prosperity has ruined us.
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Yep
I was just driving around and saw a homeless person. I was thinking, take away his hardship and his daily struggle in life and he’d die
I think this is why the church, for example, tried to keep us from becoming too prosperous and why it stigmatized money and wealth. It was for our own good and survival.
And isn’t that counterintuitive? You would think prosperity would be good for us. But it makes the guys who preach the glories of prosperity and capitalism, say Liimbaugh or Tony Robbins or even Olsteen, out to be the real monsters and true villains.
To flesh out some ideas, if civilization is the artificial world men create within the natural world to ease the physical and material pain of life, and if this is often established through bloodshed— a process of domestication— which is maintained through civic and religious indoctrination…
The physical, material pain doesn’t go away. It’s simply transmuted into psychic and spiritual pain. It progresses as society progresses until the people are fully mad and pathetic, fully unable to face and contend with reality. And then nature overcomes nurture and takes its course, the cycle repeats, etc.
It’s not a pleasant place to be, but at least we get to witness something few people live through.
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Point well taken
By the same token, the death we have avoided though peaceful civilization and technological progress reasserts itself through death by cars, overdoses, accidents with machines, etc.
We can’t escape death. It comes after us if we push it far enough off to the margins.
Strange but actually quite beautiful how it all works.
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Most cults fragment into a core of true believers who go down with the ship and those who leave in the dead of night trying to get out without their peers knowing. Both parties are cults at this point. I’ve always seen this country as a big Jim Jones compound. The next civil war will be just a really big version of an airstrip shootout with a dead politician followed by half the country drinking a Dixie cup full of KoolAid. And of course it will also involve a large amount of easily controlled black people.