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?
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..