See, this is the problem with these people. If they want to live in the pods and eat the bugs, I don't care. But that's not enough. They need to drag us with them. THAT is what is breeding fascism. Tell me what scares you and I'll tell you what I want to be.
1. I see no issue with a woman staying in the home if that's what she and her husband want to do. My mom stayed home with us until we went to school and it was a wonderful childhood...in a suburb....where I rode my bike literally everywhere in our mid-sized Ohio town.
2. If this person's logic holds, THANK GOD the suburbs and owning ones home keeps people from becoming communists
This person makes a lot of weird horribly disjointed connections between general situations and what he/she/frogself seems to think of as trans-hate. The part where he talks about women's fear of being abducted in parking lots and the popularity of true crime genre as somehow being another symptom of right-wing suburban ideology is puzzling at best. As a woman (and a somewhat petite one at that) I've always been keenly aware of the risks of being in certain situations because that's the truth of the world and always has been, not because it's some weird right-wing side effect. I like true crime because people and human behavior is crazy and interesting.
Also the idea that small town suburban America doesn't have town squares for people to gather or protest is ridiculous....has this person never visited other suburban towns in the country? He sounds very sheltered and coddled.
"What is a life of living in a surveilled and amenity-filled high-rise and ordering all your food and objects from the Internet to your door if not a suburban life?" Actually this sounds a lot like the hell of downtown city living to me...high-rises and highly surveiled? Gross. I'll take my small rural-suburban town any day thanks.
I could keep going but I'll stop for now and try to go find something actually intelligent to read, ugh
Oh agreed! The person is probably highly educated from a traditional higher Ed perspective. However their ability to build an argument by framing contentions and solid reasoning to connect those contentions is either maliciously vague or poorly thought through
Sorry for the 'whataboutism', but these things tickle my funny bone...
52% live in the 'burbs - wait I thought democracy was the god these things worshipped? 52% is the majority; seems like people voted with their feet...later on it brings up the demographic change; isn't 'diversity' and unmitigated good? Further, if the groups this thing is speaking for are choosing to live in suburbs isn't that another indicator that they are escaping cities for some reason?
But enough of that. Whataboutism only illustrates the point that leftists do not argue in good faith, will use any statistic relevant or not, and have nothing backing up their goals other than force and religious belief.
To your opening Pete, it's merely anchoring and narrative building to further their goals. The later attack on private property and individual rights belies the author's stated goal of protecting trannies and freaks and shows their intent to force everyone to agree with them.
The thing people miss about "Democracy" is that by it's definition it is "Power of the people." While you may read that as "51% rule" what it *really* means is that "the will of the people" will be done. And the ruling regime will always choose that whatever their agenda is is "truly the will of the people." By utilizing the principles of manufacturing of consent, they legitimize their agenda and spread its popularity. They pump up the volume of their allies while silencing opposition, also legitimizing their position.
This is why the Italian fascists claimed they were the most true Democracy. It's also why North Korea claims to be a democracy. Both truly are. That's why it's frightening.
Watch TIKhistory's YT video on What is Fascism if you get a chance. Very enlightening.
My mom is a boomercon who strives to be better. She tries to understand some of the shit I talk about. She's been overdoing it on political rage porn lately and her and I talked about.
I had to tell her that our "solutions" were either retreat to a rural area filled with decent people or some miraculous situation where a bunch of fedposts occur and our friends start doing some pretty rough things to our enemies. I was bummed out saying it.
In the end I just told her that the focus had to be off politics and on my two kids. Raising them right and having fun family time. Let the rest of the world enjoy their Moloch worship and genital mutilation all they want, ya just don't have to watch them do it.
Victimhood as virtue has been in vogue for years now, but it's interesting how this left/prog ideology now explicitly demonizes any form of self-reliance or stability.
One interesting thing that I noted from this article was a distaste for excessive surveillance. Finally, something rational! How do we exploit it? How do we steer them to turn this grain of sand into a wrench in the machine of the looming technocratic hell-scape? Ultimately, we're not fighting them, we're fighting those who control them.
It seems to me that these people are just, currently, the best "useful idiots" the "puppet masters" have found to destabilize western culture/society. For the most part, I don't think they are aware of their programming and that they really think they are the heroes of the story. They (obviously) tend to be pretty easy to control and direct, but little bits of humanity/free-will, like this anti-surveillance tendency, inevitably shines through. Can we take advantage of this and nudge the conversations in productive directions to gum up the works?
And, to be clear, I'm suggesting this as an additional tactic, not an exclusive strategy.
Yes. If desiring a true nation, and being ok with paying for my neighbor’s surgery when he’s down on his luck makes one a National socialist then yeah I guess so.
One thing I haven't seen anyone comment on is the observation that, if the red part of the rainbow is the top and the purple one is the bottom, then the two American flags beside the demonic rainbow flag are actually positioned upside down, in relation.
See, this is the problem with these people. If they want to live in the pods and eat the bugs, I don't care. But that's not enough. They need to drag us with them. THAT is what is breeding fascism. Tell me what scares you and I'll tell you what I want to be.
Most would happily take fascism over whatever the hell it is we have now.
1. I see no issue with a woman staying in the home if that's what she and her husband want to do. My mom stayed home with us until we went to school and it was a wonderful childhood...in a suburb....where I rode my bike literally everywhere in our mid-sized Ohio town.
2. If this person's logic holds, THANK GOD the suburbs and owning ones home keeps people from becoming communists
This person makes a lot of weird horribly disjointed connections between general situations and what he/she/frogself seems to think of as trans-hate. The part where he talks about women's fear of being abducted in parking lots and the popularity of true crime genre as somehow being another symptom of right-wing suburban ideology is puzzling at best. As a woman (and a somewhat petite one at that) I've always been keenly aware of the risks of being in certain situations because that's the truth of the world and always has been, not because it's some weird right-wing side effect. I like true crime because people and human behavior is crazy and interesting.
Also the idea that small town suburban America doesn't have town squares for people to gather or protest is ridiculous....has this person never visited other suburban towns in the country? He sounds very sheltered and coddled.
"What is a life of living in a surveilled and amenity-filled high-rise and ordering all your food and objects from the Internet to your door if not a suburban life?" Actually this sounds a lot like the hell of downtown city living to me...high-rises and highly surveiled? Gross. I'll take my small rural-suburban town any day thanks.
I could keep going but I'll stop for now and try to go find something actually intelligent to read, ugh
I honestly believe this person has a high IQ but also serious mental issues.
Oh agreed! The person is probably highly educated from a traditional higher Ed perspective. However their ability to build an argument by framing contentions and solid reasoning to connect those contentions is either maliciously vague or poorly thought through
Clinically, "serious mental issues" is probably understating the case for most people of zer community. It's pathognomonic, really.
I read this when you posted it on social media, but thanks Pete for publishing it here too (excerpts) on your substack.
Sorry for the 'whataboutism', but these things tickle my funny bone...
52% live in the 'burbs - wait I thought democracy was the god these things worshipped? 52% is the majority; seems like people voted with their feet...later on it brings up the demographic change; isn't 'diversity' and unmitigated good? Further, if the groups this thing is speaking for are choosing to live in suburbs isn't that another indicator that they are escaping cities for some reason?
But enough of that. Whataboutism only illustrates the point that leftists do not argue in good faith, will use any statistic relevant or not, and have nothing backing up their goals other than force and religious belief.
To your opening Pete, it's merely anchoring and narrative building to further their goals. The later attack on private property and individual rights belies the author's stated goal of protecting trannies and freaks and shows their intent to force everyone to agree with them.
The thing people miss about "Democracy" is that by it's definition it is "Power of the people." While you may read that as "51% rule" what it *really* means is that "the will of the people" will be done. And the ruling regime will always choose that whatever their agenda is is "truly the will of the people." By utilizing the principles of manufacturing of consent, they legitimize their agenda and spread its popularity. They pump up the volume of their allies while silencing opposition, also legitimizing their position.
This is why the Italian fascists claimed they were the most true Democracy. It's also why North Korea claims to be a democracy. Both truly are. That's why it's frightening.
Watch TIKhistory's YT video on What is Fascism if you get a chance. Very enlightening.
My mom is a boomercon who strives to be better. She tries to understand some of the shit I talk about. She's been overdoing it on political rage porn lately and her and I talked about.
I had to tell her that our "solutions" were either retreat to a rural area filled with decent people or some miraculous situation where a bunch of fedposts occur and our friends start doing some pretty rough things to our enemies. I was bummed out saying it.
In the end I just told her that the focus had to be off politics and on my two kids. Raising them right and having fun family time. Let the rest of the world enjoy their Moloch worship and genital mutilation all they want, ya just don't have to watch them do it.
(((Moskowitz)))
Victimhood as virtue has been in vogue for years now, but it's interesting how this left/prog ideology now explicitly demonizes any form of self-reliance or stability.
One interesting thing that I noted from this article was a distaste for excessive surveillance. Finally, something rational! How do we exploit it? How do we steer them to turn this grain of sand into a wrench in the machine of the looming technocratic hell-scape? Ultimately, we're not fighting them, we're fighting those who control them.
It seems to me that these people are just, currently, the best "useful idiots" the "puppet masters" have found to destabilize western culture/society. For the most part, I don't think they are aware of their programming and that they really think they are the heroes of the story. They (obviously) tend to be pretty easy to control and direct, but little bits of humanity/free-will, like this anti-surveillance tendency, inevitably shines through. Can we take advantage of this and nudge the conversations in productive directions to gum up the works?
And, to be clear, I'm suggesting this as an additional tactic, not an exclusive strategy.
Yes. If desiring a true nation, and being ok with paying for my neighbor’s surgery when he’s down on his luck makes one a National socialist then yeah I guess so.
One thing I haven't seen anyone comment on is the observation that, if the red part of the rainbow is the top and the purple one is the bottom, then the two American flags beside the demonic rainbow flag are actually positioned upside down, in relation.
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