Politics In 2020

@Verkano, not to make assumptions about your relationship, but there is a difference between those who are true believers, and those who have these opinions because they’re the beliefs they think they should have. The former are a lost cause, but the latter can be coaxed out of the ideology. Because they’re so mainstream, there is an enormous social pressure to maintain these beliefs in order to find a sense of belonging, making it all the more difficult to be a dissident.

People are lead into the ideology because it feels good. It’s like a drug: It makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside, at first, but later feel hollow and empty because you never actually achieved anything of value. But it’s addictive: You keep having to stick up for those poor, oppressed minorities against those evil Republicans in order to briefly experience those feelings again, “I sure showed those racists/sexists/transphobes!” Rinse and repeat. No wonder depression rates are soaring.

But just as they’re lead into it, they can be lead back out. But it requires time, patience, and, at the risk of sounding a little Leftist, kindness and empathy (your behavior can go a long way, trust me). You have to take things one step at a time.

Anyway, I can’t really give any proper advice as it’s a case-by-case basis that depends on the individual, and I think you’re wise to make plans to get out in case things go south. But people who go down this path aren’t always lost forever. It’s a matter of them learning information they might not have known before, but, ultimately, they have to make the choice for themselves.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by FallenOmegaStar.

Cambridge Analytica and Roger Stone. Wonder how he’ll do it this time around.

Not that I have any doubts, I predicted he’d be a two-term president the day after his election.

Trump has done more than the last 3 Presidents combined.  In fact, he had the lowest unemployment rate in the HISTORY OF AMERICA.  That was all his doing.  Until the pandemic.

It doesn’t help that the USA were built on such a fatal flaw as slavery and racism.

I keep seeing this take and it always irritates me. Every country in the world has been founded on piles of corpses. I can’t think of a group of people that carved a space out of the world for themselves without first having to conquer other groups. Even if they somehow did, they didn’t last very long before they got conquered themselves. The native Americans were stealing land and killing each other long before any colonizers came along. The latter was the same thing, just on a larger scale. The Brits were simply better at it.

What makes America exceptional is when the colonies fought the British Empire for independence and won, and then wrote the Constitution: A pretty incredible document, in my view, as there were things the Founding Fathers knew they couldn’t accomplish in their lifetime and left it open to amendment for future generations. A number of them found slavery distasteful, despite owning several slaves themselves (I believe Jefferson inherited his from his family?). Slavery was just a normal commodity back then, and suddenly declaring it illegal and demanding everyone must free their slaves would’ve been akin to a government mandate to give up your private property.

One might say their racial attitudes were pretty hardcore, but these views were held by everyone else, too, at the time. In fact, racial views on ethno-nationalism have endured for centuries, and still persist in many parts of the world over. The West is perhaps the only exception which changed its views on race recently, only a handful of decades ago, thanks to the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s. What we’re living in now is an experiment, and what some on the Authoritarian Right think is demonstrably failing at thanks to racial divisions constantly being stoked at.

TL;DR – It’s all well and good to pursue racial harmony, but racism and slavery is hardly unique to America. The ancient Egyptians did it. The Chinese Empire did it. Even Africa did it (and still practices it).

You mean the fake, overblown scare-mongering that Democrats and the deep state instigated? The reason I can’t find a damn job? With the silver lining that it gave me the incentive to start a channel? That pandemic?

Fuck these assholes messing with peoples’ lives.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/510008-colorado-to-declare-racism-a-public-health-crisis

As if 2020 couldn’t get any crazier, Colorado has declared racism as a public health crisis. And Austin. And Minneapolis. And Louisville. So yeah. I guess I’m gonna have to quarantine in my house now. Don’t wanna catch racism!

https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/9-11-tribute-in-light-memorial-canceled-amid-covid-19-concerns/

The Tribute in Light 9/11 memorial has been cancelled. So riots in NYC are ok but a tribute to the most devastating terrorist attack in the history in the world isn’t? Absolutely despicable