I tried posting this to KiA, but I never realized how many KiA Prime people are blue pilled thinking things will go back to normal after this.
Seeing how most of you here are far more aware of what's going on, I'm going to copy pasta what I posted on Prime before the dumb mods deleted it since most of you aren't rabid TDers but also understand the "bigger picture":
My original post below.
So all the things we warned about 6 years ago has more or less come to fruition, and the safeguards and actions we took to keep it from getting worse has more or less been removed or neutralized to allow unethical behavior, blatant biased news that denigrates gamers and other arbitrary groups is now everywhere. Every gaming urinalist and game development outlet has an Anita Sarkeesian type or 10 working for them. Reddit went from a place where disparate ideologies could bicker with each other to a site where small pockets of "The resistance" (moderates, conservatives) are allowed to stay quarantined in certain areas but the ideological moderation is rampant in other subs.
Youtube, Twitter, etc., the stuff the normies consume that aren't alt-tech have now openly abused Section 230 in open defiance of the current administration. The mask has come off, and we've run out of options at this point at any possible way to enforce full on freedom of expression and speech under the law.
Where do we go from here?
We have alt-tech, but as many of you have realized, alt-tech popularity undermined by the mainstream outlets that try to demonize them. We now have a giant ideological chasm between us moderate lefties and right wingers and the establishment "liberals". It's unrepairable, so where do we go from here?
All the things you "consoom" has been tainted by this stuff. You can only resort to removing yourself from that pool so much until it comes to a point where you are essentially isolating yourself from society, so where do we go from here? If everything has SocJus, if everything has TOSes that violate freedom of expression, then what is left to turn to?
What is practical that we can do tomorrow while continuing our everyday lives on this bucket of a planet we call Earth?
Yeah, I was on the Trump train. It looked like our best shot at it, but it derailed, badly.
The only thing however is that the seed and ideology of right-populism has spread itself to the people. Not to the people in power, but the people themselves now have learned what the tenets of a populist-nationalist ideology are.
While I get that hunkering down and escaping is one way to look at it, take a look at the discussions I had with u/truenationalist and u/lgbtqwtfbbq in your own thread. The genie of right-populism has been let out oftthe bottle. I wonder if those folks who had their voices silenced after the Capitol Hill debacle are going go off into the night, or if things are only going to get worse.
The Uk "Conservatives" somehow got Brexit through even though they're a bunch of bumbling globalists and boomers.
I think the problem is right-populist "awakened" conservatives are too busy living out their lives to participate in any sort of collectivized movement. The MAGA movement was the best shot. It's the libertarian problem, herding cats - everyone is too individualist and freedom-loving to turn into a collective group.
They may be forced to as the left consolidates power. If so, then the left will get the enemy they pretend they are fighting.
And that was because of fear, not support.
This problem fixes itself as the left tries to purge all conservatives from every aspect of life. Either they will submit or fight.
UK Tories have money and corps on their side.
US right populists are broke everyday people with no public support nor money nor political power. Practically a Bakumin shunned slave caste. Worse, they're rural or from city ghettos.
US left populists, commies, rioted for months to great appaluse. Kamala gave them bail money.
In other words, civil war. Because the deep state and globalists have their hands on the pulse of everything. There's nothing else left.
So did the British in their hayday, but the revolutionaries still won. And we did that mainly through the then-equivalent of guerilla warfare.
Worse. What advantages do the populists have? Nothing.
2 Trump supporters shot dead in the streets of Portland and Colorado, 1 unarmed woman shot dead at Capitol, nobody even gives a shit.
The leftists have Wall St, big tech, media, social media, public sympathy, President, House, Congress on their side.
If they're gonna pull a Holocaust I'd imagine it'd be fucking easy. Hell, I bet it'd be banned on reddit. Then KiA1's mods would be cucking it up and pre-censoring it to please the reddit admin overlords.
They do have guns but... damn. Would be a tragedy if it had to get to that part.
Why? We have repeatedly seen our government treat their citizens as cattle. Now almost half the country see the same. Abortion alone since the ruling of roe v wade has killed more than any war. The way we commit atrocities has changed, we may pretend we are more enlightened, but we have just shifted the window not expanded it.
See this:
https://communities.win/p/11RhOwSuUE/x/c/4DtE7bZN0q1
The right are working class with a few rich folks sprinkled in - it doesn't have the same kind of power that the left has at this point.
I understand what you mean, but the only practical way we win the war is if we get some of THEM to come over to us to help us out, and we don't have that. Yet anyway.
The right is all soldiers and no generals, supply chain, or logistics.
Man, I only got to talk to you today and I can't get over the fact that underneath that silly and hilarious name I genuinely enjoy seeing the ideas and posts you have to offer.
I know it sounds like knobgobbling but I'm starting to like this place as I move away from Reddit.
It's so strange. 6 years ago I'd be thinking "oh it's those silly right wingers from KiA that got banned" but here I am, my ideology has honed itself and now you could say I'm quite... "woke" on this how nationalism/populism thing and now I get it.
We're all on a journey together, trying to figure things out. I had a different username on reddit, but I assure you that I said things back in 2017 I would now consider quite cringy. And I've been fortunate that there are a lot of people on the internet that say things that make sense to me, and I'm not afraid to reconsider past positions based on new evidence.
Originally I started commenting on reddit because this Trump guy just got elected, and when I heard him speak he didn't sound nearly as crazy or evil as the press made him out to be even though I considered myself a liberal at the time. And all of my friends hated him, so I couldn't speak freely about him. But I had to say it to someone just to make sure I wasn't crazy.
Certainly I didn't go into this journey expecting to be an anonymous right-wing dissident whose IRL acquaintances think is crazy. But you go where life leads you.
Same here. I got the impression initially Trump was evil, but after I started investigating all the claims MSM made I came to realize actually, this guy... is just a 90s Dem with nationalist underpinnings.
Once I made that realization it became a lot easier to understand why he operated the way he did. He was a flawed guy at the most perfect time. He was the best everyone had for the populist movement, and in the end his flaws did him and the MAGA folks in.
Samesies. I was basically a rah rah USA neocon in 2014. I didn't like liberals or libertarians. Now I realize commies and authoritarians are the true enemy.
You need a balance of it. If you want to maintain a peaceful state you need that balance. Yes, that includes the "Law and Order" Trump talked about, but obviously kept in check.
I had the foolish progressive view that having completely progressive govenrments and ideals would fix everything but my views have shifted to something that is more "refined" since the left/right spectrum isn't what matters, but a combination of the libertarian vs. authoritarian spectrum PLUS the nationalist vs globalist ideology.
Hah, yeah, I remember seeing you on HalfKIA for years, a long time ago. Reading this thread and seeing your nickname got me confused for a while, you used to sound a lot different IIRC, but I guess this comment explains it.
I was kinda like "ALL RIGHT WINGERS ARE BAD MMK" before I realized there's all these subsections of the right that don't agree with each other. Call me "bluepilled" but I still have some left leanings when it comes to race relations but I am 100% on board the populist/nationalist train because it's clear the "old way" of doing things does NOT work.
The GG "moderates" that said MUH ETHICS IN GAEMS JOURNALIZM never realized that you can only have ethical journalism period if you actually addressed the ROOT CAUSE of the unethical behavior. Ideology kills one's ability to be ethical - it poisons the mind and removes any form of logic and reason. It was clear many of these companies have people driven by ideology and it overrides any chances of having any kind of chance at a "moderate" country.
These people are brainwashed and blind to their ideology. It's sad..
The problem is that when the right goes it's going to be an off/on switch. There's very little in the middle there.
Plenty of us aren't going to the gulags. We remember the lessons we learned from this shit before.
Trump was always going to derail the train. The question was would it be enough to keep it from going off the cliff...and the answer was no it wasn't. Off the cliff we go. Things are going to get worse and rapidly.
At this point the only thing we have to look forward to is the moment the useful idiots have their turn on the chopping block, begging for help from those they previously oppressed.
When the moment comes, instead of helping them I'm going to give them the finger and tell them that this is the future they chose. Because fuck being the bigger man, and fuck the burden of reconciliation being on us. We will never be anything but enemies.
Numbers mean nothing if they aren't able to communicate and consolidate. Those millions you're talking about? In short order they're going to be isolated and easy pickings for those who'd like them gone.
Alright, I'm not giving ground to communists and I'm not moderating surrender-monkies, even if one of you might be French or something.
Here's what we need to do, and yes I need your help.
I know plenty of you haven't done much in the way of video games, but we really are going to build our way out of all this. Yes, the Left is going to do stupid shit, but that stupid shit and oppression is only going to further blow-back. And we should take full advantage of that.
Their collapse must be our gain. The fight is not over, just like it wasn't 6 years ago. The fight is clearly far from over. Even in the event of a Civil War. There is not going to be any KIA2 RWDS. Our niche is video games and that is where we must work. and that's a good place to work.
Look, we know they're targeting children with misinformation, lies, and degeneracy (even if we all have disagreements on what that degeneracy is). The kids are clearly not gonna be alright, but they're also going to be rebellious (as we've already seen with some of the corporate BLM nonsense).
We need to effectively provide pro-American, pro-Western, masculinized spaces for young men, and at this point probably pro-feminimity spaces for young women to combat Feminist indoctrination. With the destruction subversion of previous socialization centers (like unions, churches, and sports teams) we must provide an alternative for anti-Leftist community orienting. We must help people re-moralize.
Since the enemy has seized institutions, we will parasitize them for our own objectives, and build anti-parallel institutions to work against the subversion.
However, to do this, you all need to also work on yourselves first. There's too many black-pills and doomers. Resentment is too common place. We must build our way forwards out of the inevitable collapse when it comes, because that will allow us to take advantage of the power vacuum with our own little moral rebellion against Leftism.
Forum growth is certainly part of this, but there needs to be a reason to stay, and more importantly: to stay moralized. This is not to do what T_D did and be hysterical about black pills, but we must cure them and use them to build our own institutions up. We don't need to put our faith in institutions outside of what we construct.
So, moralization.
I don't necessarily think we all need to have the exact same moral code, that would just be a purity spiral that ends in balkanization. But I think religion has some good ideas about maintaining moral orientation over time. Clearly traditions and repetition will work and promote discipline and focus on our moral orientation. I actually like a what I'm doing with the GOTY concept as one instance of that. Once a year is not enough to assert our values. We may need some kind of holiday. A mild requirement (not aggressively enforced) to re-state and re-orient ourselves morally and philosophically in explicitly positive terms. We can't simply define ourselves what we are not, even if we don't all agree. Our community is our little coalition of anti-Leftists, but it can't be to be at each other's throats, even with fervent disagreement. But I think the value in re-stating our moral frameworks regularly is a kind of moral maintenance and commitment that does not undermine our overall cohesiveness.
Community building:
Again, I think the GOTY concept has some value in this. You nominated electors and peers you trust at least tacitly. Perhaps we should continue something like that and tied with the holidays. I jokingly talked about the idea of ceremonial electoral titles like the "The Bararian Lord of eThot Destroyers". Perhaps a tradition on the holidays for nominated electors to engage in some ritual. Once again, a performative step designed to promote amicability among the community as well as re-enforcement of our moral systems. We already have symbolism that we can certainly use, along with cultural history, which is now past half a decade old. In the time span of the internet, we have become a kind of Old Guard. Some of the 15 year olds playing video games today simply have no reference point of things we have lived through without the poison of a Leftist interpretation.
I know it sounds like intense faggotry, but the purpose is the underlying promotion of social good will and inter-connectedness among the forum. If this promotes genuine social relationships that you take with you when you leave, all the better.
Colonization of Gaming Spaces
This one might be a bit tougher. We will have to act more cohesively, and even potentially give our money to people that don't like us. Gizortnik's been ranting about literally colonizing planets on Elite Dangerous, but the idea might not be as silly as it sounds. If we can establish foot-holds in popular games, it will promote growth of the forum generally, but it also allow for the expansion of our moral focii into the vast degenerate nihilistic wastes of gaming. If we have already built up good social connections here, and we move that out into particular games (whether as factions, team, clans, or whatever), this could inspire fans of those games to latch onto both the forum and our moralization efforts, which they will likely be craving from the incessant abuse of Leftist nihilism that is exposed to children and teens. I would warn against hash gatekeeping because expansion and independent moralization must be the objective of these groups. We must effectively replace the social institutions that the boomers lost, and that we have yet to form. That way, the Zoomers can replace us, and take the fight going forward.
Even if we don't like some of the games, some games will be so popular that it might be valuable to contribute a community to them anyway. Pulling people out of shitty games & shitty companies, and re-directing them towards (once again) our moral support network and better games anyway.
Decentralized inter-locking support systems
Once we've got external spaces, then these spaces will be able to co-operate and mutually support one another. The Left understands this "intersectionality". A pact of mutual assistance between aggressive Leftist tribes that respond to calls for aggression and momentum to overwhelm a static target. However, if our forces can support each other in defense of Leftist aggression (which is inevitable no matter where we go), especially if our social support systems reach beyond single points of contact here in the forum, and extending to specific individuals trusted in the community; it would be very hard for leftists to break the defense network even if they took down this very site.
Okay, yes. Bad things can still happen. But let's not kid ourselves: we are only capable of certain things, and our niche is video games. We are not going to upset the entire establishment by shit-posting them to death. Let us hold the line on video-games, here. Who but us could even try this? Even the kids being targeted by Leftists in video games today will not do this because they do not understand the greater conflict they are inadvertently embroiled in.
Let us come here and center ourselves, build ourselves, and then help others build themselves. If the left exists to promote and support bio-lennism, we must counter that by building strength, first in ourselves, then helping others to build it in them.
That's the plan I'd like to try.
I like the way you're thinking, and these ideas have merit. Community is so damn important, and it feels like the battlefield so to speak is ripe for an opportunity like this. I've always liked leading by example and it's a matter of organizing to do so more effectively.
Tell us more!
but my hands hurt...
If you like leading by example, then that will be great. Start building an institution and lets try to support that initiative.
Thanks DoM. This is why I asked. I'm not a fan of the "head in the sands" mentality but it really does sound like we need to regroup.
This is why I asked on KiA Prime but all I got were "just do the same things we were always doing", but all that did was just slow down where we're at.
I just had a conversation with a friend of mine on this. He's 25. He hates the Corona lockdowns, but he's absolutely baffled that the people AROUND him are blue pilled and stuck in the matrix. He just released himself from the Matrix. They just repeat MSM talking points and refuse to see the damage the lockdowns has caused. He realized there was no hope for his peers.
So what is he deciding to do? He knows a lot of kids in a video game he plays and he's talking and chilling with them, and also sliding in a little bit of that pro-nationalist rhetoric. He actually thinks much like you - the kids he's hanging with are 10-16 years old, and he figured if he can't save the idiots around him, the ones younger than him could listen, and he's making progress.
That is basically what I'm going for.
That point on not being demoralized is spot on and I was at least trying to say that without saying it in one of my comments. If we allow ourselves to not have the correct positive outlets and get totally demoralized, they win and it's over. That's what they want.
I like the thought about being focused (on games in this instance) where at least perhaps you can do something. I've not been around this community long, but I'd definitely be down to join in on online games and such, the only reason I ever quit is my friends got out of it and the general community was horrible. General caveats, I have none of this "skill" so if there's a grand dream of being elite competitive uh yeah you won't get that with me, and no I will not play yet another battle royale game.
I've piddled around with making a throwback website celebrating games I loved growing up and encouraging checking out older games and things that still hold up. Maybe I need to revisit that, I've got a lot of content worked out but crap if I didn't figure how quickly how many layers of rust there were on my website building skills.
Edit: if you see this, I forgot, how is the GOTY going? Still happening? I'd been reading the post for electors only and forcing myself to not start spouting opinions but it's gotten buried or I can't find it.
See, but this is why I think this is totally good, though.
I pay attention to my replies. And it getting buried is part of the reason I'm okay with it. Give the electors a little bit of privacy to make the decision. I think we've got 6 of the 12 responding now. We'll see about how the weekend goes.
We're going to honestly have to merge into those to be honest. If a Civil War kicks off, we'll have no way to secure internet territory without doing the underground routine.
If you aren't left enough, you're thrown out of society and isolated. That's the point.
Biden's apparently making a new domestic terror law
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11RhOuCwzh/
Vox thinks Gamergate did the Capitol domestic terrorism.
https://archive.vn/apRuJ
Sounds normal.
Just consume as little as possible, particularly entertainment, which isn't good for much anyway. That does not solve the problem, as it continues to poison the minds of entire generations.
Can't consoom anymore. The golden age of "oh if I don't give a fuck the government and the public won't crucify me for the dumbest reasons" is over.
Someone in the comments on KiA Prime took offense at me saying "consoom". Seriously? I was making a point - EVERYTHING YOU ENJOY has been tainted by the idiocy. It cannot be escaped and it has only gotten worse. The same tactics are not working, so what is the alternative to all this where we'd actually get some progress in a short amount of time?
One of the biggest things I can see is the education and health of children. If you can clearly display the truth to a generation or two of children and have them raised well enough to be prepared for the world they have entered, things can go well. Many kids are not indoctrinated enough to reject ideas simply because they are thoughtcrime.
I'm not particularly affected if things I see are poisoned by this ideology, because I can "see the matrix" and identify exactly where it's pushing the narrative. Children and regular people can't on the other hand, and that's where "normalization" actually does play a large part in terms of changing people's values.
I've put bits and pieces of my views in various threads, but I'll try to put them in one place here.
None of this is fool-proof; all of this is based on thinking in terms of risk, which is analyzed based on probability of occurrence and severity of harm. Given a risk, you attempt to reduce either or both of those things until the risk becomes tolerable. But you will never eliminate it. Maybe one day the King's men will enter your village and demand tribute or burn it to the ground, and there's nothing you can do about that. Treat that the same way you would treat a tornado or hurricane: an Act of God that at best you can prepare for to minimize the harm.
We are in a post-republic nation, and voting per se no longer matters. What matters is avoiding systems of power that will oppress you and finding/forming systems of power that won't.
The United States is massive and largely undeveloped outside of large population centers. It is not possible for the government to police all of its laws everywhere it wants to. While you can't escape it, as you move away from those large population centers you reduce the probability that you will ever see a government official let alone interact with one.
Adopt a setter's mindset: you are a stranger in a strange land whose native population doesn't share your values. Find or form communities with like-minded people who share your values. Form these communities in locations where the native population is less hostile. Be weary and distrustful of outsiders. If possible make gentleman's agreements with the local sheriff to "police your own" if there are problems, and then do so. Form your own institutions (schools, sporting and social clubs, etc...) and use them to strengthen your community's values. Try to make it so that your community is as self-sufficient as it can be for basic necessities like food. Adopting decentralized sources of energy (eg. wind, solar) and water can also be beneficial since anything you do yourself is something that can't be used against you.
Pay your taxes. Don't bring unwanted attention to yourself or your community. Don't modify weapons for strangers. This reduces the odds that you will draw hostile attention to yourself.
If the Right Wing Dance Squad is ever invited to the Civil Dance Contest, make sure your dancing shoes are in good repair, and you're in good enough shape to dance.
Amen reverend.
I got out of the market back in November for most things. I never thought I'd be one of those anti-market people but after having one of my best % years ever I'm totally flabbergasted by the state of it right now. It's so ridiculously damn high.
I've got to learn about the whole precious metals thing more. It just seems odd, am I just supposed to click "order here" on some website? Uh yeah I'll take 300 silver coins and I hope the post office doesn't lose them.
I've always bought pre-65 "junk silver" coins from the bank and metal dealers in the past. Came in a burlap sack.
The people at places like Vox said that GG led to the 6th. In a way it's correct but it's only part of a small microcosm. In reality GG was just gamers waking up to the fact that games journalism had been lying to them for a while and they rebelled against the system. This happened in parallel with not just games, but media, tech, politics, and everyone began to "wake up" to all the big journo types that fed us absolute bullshit and large enough portion of the population said enough. This at least culminated in the election of Donal Trump in the US. This went against the narrative, but big media and big tech doubled down on their bullshit for 4 years and everything got more woke and brave. They're trying to finally capitalize on it now after 10 months of the coof lockdown and an election that looks iffy to most of the country. Only thing is this has left people poor and somewhat desperate. The 6th showed one thing, that the politicians in power are scared and now they're striking back hard, which will make people even more angry and desperate. 2021 is gonna be a wild ride. To be cheesy and quote the Old Republic:
"While you rested in your cradle of power, believing your people were safe... and protected. You were trusted to lead the Republic. You assumed no force could challenge you...and now...finally...we have returned"
Go underground, and bide our time while we don't lose touch with each other.
There are a LOT of people who seem to be throwing in the towel and wanting to declare it over. What does 'over' mean, exactly? The left just doesn't get power and then instantly it's game over, and the TV turns off.
They have power. That means they're The Man again, and they have a radicalized Marxist street movement that's hungry for change that's still out there and angry. The establishment democrats won, and they most likely are going to want to do a managed dispersal of token goodies to their base while they consolidate power, and go back to attempting to make money the Old Fashioned way like they did during Obama, during Clinton, etc.
Biden himself is weak, and the momentum for action is going to be coming from the people and structures around him. Without their own version of Trump to rally around, the left is going to be scattered and aimless. They'll cut at us, yes, but without a serious target to sink their teeth into? It won't take long for them to start tearing at each other.
This isn't over by a long shot. The left has to govern a country that is fundamentally different in mindset then my last super political low point, when Obama defeated Romney, and we had the IRS persecuting Tea Party groups, and both the weight of that and the establishment republican party crushed that movement. Things felt dark back that then, and it was terribly lonely being a political activist in California.
It's different this time. For better and for worse. There's a lot more people in the boat this go around.
We are simply in the next phase of whatever has to happen. The left has promised their supporters the world, and now they have to deliver. That alone is a terrible obstacle for them to confront, even with their control of information. They are greedy, manic, and scared. We have to outlast that, and I think we can.
The idea is not to run and hide, but to dig in. This was always going to be a siege.
With everything going on right now -- the doom and gloom, the blackpills being swallowed by the truckload, the Left gloating and sharpening their metaphorical knives for the metaphorical (for now) slaughter of their ideological opponents -- no one is bringing up the Left's own internal schism.
The one where the establishment and moderate Dems are at odds with the new hard-Left socialist bloc of the party. The one that further emboldened the populist right, and cost the Dems House seats when they planned for gains.
And now that they don't have Trump to focus their animosity on, and they're unpersoning every other potential scapegoat they can from the mainstream, that wound is just going to open further up and cause a lot of internal hell for the Dems.
I'm basically just rehashing your own post, but I'm personally kinda eager to see an angry, betrayed mob of Marxists start clobbering Dem cities again, but this time without institutional support.
Well, I dunno about you, but...
EVE.
That's how I plan to spend the next few years.
How is it for new players?
It... depends.
EVE is a bit like Elite:Dangerous in that you're pretty terrible at the start and unless you're willing to drop cash money to get some skill boosters you kinda just have to muscle through it.
Frankly if you've watched Log Horizon, it's a bit like that but in space. Player groups like EVE University exist and they will teach players how to be self sufficient and work in teams. The large alliances have programs to get new players up and running as well. Ultimately it's down to whether or not you become mentally invested in being part of it, and accepting that it's gonna take a while to get to where you feel good at what you're doing and comfortable with what you can fly and lose and replace.
If you stick with it long enough, and find a community you fit into, then there's literally nothing else like it in gaming. If you're playing EVE right, you'll make friends in EVE; people you will genuinely enjoy talking with and flying with.
You should try it if you haven't before. Just make sure to join a nullcorp.
I worked for Vile Rat.
He would have gotten a good laugh out of hearing Glenn Beck insist that Goonswarm is the CIA.
With respect to online, pretty much as others said as underground as necessary. I threw out big social media totally at different points of 2020 and I don't regret it. All it served for was irritation. I will continue to follow groups like this that I enjoy and that contributes to my own understanding if it ends up being me running an IRC server on a TOR node in my closet. I am wary of things becoming too much of an echo chamber, but I think discussion about the world amongst people with critical thinking skills is still valuable if anything just for mental health.
Offline, books, games, TV shows, I've always liked physical media and I already have a lot of my favorites in my hands. OId American sitcoms is one thing I figure they will go after eventually and I have a lot of that gathered up that I watch all the time and it's good for an actual laugh, because it's actually funny. I was also just chatting with someone in person about disconnecting from any media so just piddling around working with my hands whether it's doing something to my cars or building something, whatever. That and getting out a lot for some good fresh air and sunshine. If it's going to get as rough as a lot of us think, there will be a huge effort to demoralize the remaining resistors, and at least in my opinion having ways to keep a clear and happy mind will be a big deal.
I'm starting to collect physical media (books, VHS/DVDs, etc) that might end up on the pyre soon.
I've been buying up old TV shows a lot lately. Particularly the old sitcoms I mention never came on anything newer than DVD but they can be had at thrift stores and used video places for cheap. I rip them for my media server then sit them aside as a backup. Also record a lot off OTA TV but it's generally worse quality.
It's pretty much my own streaming service as I grow things. I already had a lot of movies on Blu-ray. I've just always liked physical media over streams
We've been doing the same. Found a giant old dictionary when cleaning out my Dad's place when he moved into a sr. living center. It would have been something I would have thrown out, but given what is going on decided to keep it. Regretting having thrown out the old world book set from circa 1987 now.
If Texas secedes, FOLLOW THEM. Get other states to follow them above all, then as many counties as you can convince to break off from their states (because face it, it's impossible to get all of Illinois). With the moves they've just made, it is now going to be DANGEROUS to live in the United States as a responsible, independent citizen, and especially as a local business owner.
I think it's basically over.
Congress now has to use gender neutral language. Imagine the impact that's going to have on discussion and policy there. They're basically making conservative thought an offense.
We can kiss any hope of reigning in big tech goodbye, and by 2024 I honestly think it will be impossible to even suggest such a thing without being labelled a nazi.
I've expounded on this before, no need to repeat myself, but to summarize: read history, especially American history with a focus on elections. This isn't unprecedented and the tide has been turned back. Sometimes quickly, sometimes over generations. In all cases, giving up is the worst option.
I don't agree with people itt who are saying that the Trump/MAGA train is dead. The media, Big Tech and swamp politicians are massively over reacting to what happened on the 6th and they want you to think it's dead, but it isn't their call.
The Republican party might be dead, but not MAGA.
Things were always going to get worse before they get better and let's not forget how fractured the Democrats are.
Obviously we're not in a great spot atm, but I'm surprised to see people around here allowing the media and swamp politicians to influence their thoughts about Trump and the movement he sparked. (It's also possible that I'm misinterpreting what people are saying.
Does anyone have a signal group I could join? I need social support before the end of the world, plus this site is going down soon, from the looks of it.
Where we go is we build our own communities & infrastructure.
Game developers, comics-writers, and other people that are actively anti-Left deserve our patronage and support. Developers like Top Hat Studios or KVLT games and other small teams that support freedom and oppose totalitarianism.
A lot of us have already been living this life for awhile. Avoid patronising businesses that promote hatred of white people, hatred of men, hatred of normal sexuality. But this was always a fringe, because most people weren't aware of what was happening. Now the mask is coming off, and a lot more people are waking up that this isn't just politics-as-usual, it's a fight for freedom and self-determination or death.
To the gulag or the mass grave
u/MagnumRabbits has a few good write-ups on possible solutions. If the black-pills are real and not just placebos, it's going to be a long slog to break the Puritan Left's power grip and keep it broken.
Secession or civil war. I'm ready for either. Bring it on.