There was a post titled 'Stop saying it must get worse before it gets better' posted a bit less than two weeks ago.
The intent of this... I guess you'd call it a bit of a rebuttal, isn't to discredit or belittle the OP of that post -- I sympathize with their message; however as was pointed out in the threads of that earlier post to various degrees, it kinda does have to get worse before enough people will be spurred to do anything.
Clownfish TV -- a married couple of center-left creatives with prior ties directly with Disney who comment on the greater happenings in pop culture and entertainment (I'm sure many of us are familiar) -- posted a video today exposing further overreaches in Cancel Culture, titled 'Kevin Sorbo Facebook NUKED! Anime Con BANNED by Stripe Over Vic Mignogna?!'.
In short, nuking Cara Dune for accurately pointing out that the Left is effectively acting like Nazis by dehumanize their detractors isn't enough. Now, were seeing more actors, more entertainers getting shafted.
A payment processor has gone so far as to lock out an entire con's ability to use their services, just because they had the gall to invite a guest star that is effectively persona non grata in the eyes of Leftist entertainment.
Now, this is old news to many of us; even if the events are fresh, cancelling people socially, professionally, and financially is old hat for the Left by this point.
However, these overreaches have to continue to get more people to notice, more people to clamor for a counter to this madness.
I've stated before that you don't need the moderate collective to enact change since they just tend to follow the aggregate, as we're painfully seeing with the Left's shift into totalitarianism under the guise of equality. "You only need 3.5% of a population to force change..."
While I stand by that, with every act of callousness by the greater Left, it forces a response from more and more people, and could potentially lead to it taking years rather than decades to effectively counter their efforts, which leads to this:
The Left is parasitically tied to our industry, to our governance, to our finance, and increasingly to our defense (this one is super scary), to the point where the only two options are to drive them out of the current system, or build parallel systems so that their reach is effectively neutered.
The later is probably the only option we really have, because of how dug in they are to the current system. So, welcome the spurned, build up your communities, and support secession in all but name by gradually turning towns to counties to whole states into effective anti-Fed zones.
It will always get worse before it gets better because to us, every new transgression makes things worse.
An entertainer being fired for not toeing the line is hardly new, after all.
It’s just incredible how the dignity of Americans has been stripped from them by corporations, enabled by the most corrupt government in American History. There will come a time when the country falls, and all of those illegal immigrants that came here from their failing countries will flee to other countries... But where will US citizens go? I suspect it will become a blood house, where minorities will try to conquer the land for their own interest, while white Americans will be too afraid to fight back. Eventually, it will simply be a constant war between Hispanic and Black-controlled territories. They already hate each other now.
At this point, America is occupied by a hostile illegitimate government leading a full-blown demographic invasion.
OY VEY HOW ANTISEMITIC
Wrong. Once it becomes clear the system has felled, and the veneer of polite society strips away, the non-cucked class of whites will fight; brutally, too, I'd reckon.
There's a reason I spent the last three years learning to fight.
At what point can we stop blaming "the corporations" or "the state" - and just be honest about a bunch of issues. And I'm NOT talking along party lines here.
The people suck. We've become fat, lazy, spineless and quick to blame others for our faults while taking credit for grandiose things we can't even formulate properly. Half this country is so God damn retarded we can't even remember the topic of the commercial we've just finished watching. But hey, ever since 9/11 we've started blindly worshipping "duty" uber alles, that's got to count for something right?
American consumer culture sucks. We are more invested in Kim Kardashian's rear end and some favorite sportsball team than in our children's education. We read headlines at best and form our opinions about the world based on 280 character snippets - and for those we have to pause mid-way through because two to three consecutive sentences are about the limit of our average attention span.
And of course we can't help but notice this, which is why we've become a sad, unhappy, frightened and mentally unstable people - and we're solving the problem in the most American way we can imagine: by not addressing the root causes and instead drowning the symptoms in alcohol, Fentanyl and Xanax.
Who in the fuck is your 'we'?
The american population of course.
Extends to the whole of western society really. Though you could argue "the corporations" and "the state" have social engineered us into this mess, I still like the point you make.
Yes, things are going to get "worse" before they get better.
The Left and establishment forces are going to use increasingly desperate and violent measures in order to operate as a "force multiplier" for the actual lack of force they can properly project on a population that is slowly rejecting them en masse.
Yes, this means they will strip you of your wealth, they will strip you of your job, and they will strip you of your health & safety.
And you will be better off.
The Killing Fields of Cambodia are filled with party loyalists. Be glad you're outside of that system when it all comes down on everyone's heads.
And yes, you'll be hurt initially, but it is survivable and will make you anti-fragile.
What's missing is The Martyr. But that's just a matter of time, and the scattershot approach to hit the right/wrong person.
Things will get worse because there is no organization or leadership acting as a brake on the behavioral excesses of the left. Anyone who tries gets attacked, even if they hail from the left.
The right will not be able to act as this brake as the far left rejects anyone to their right as a matter of course. Plus, as much as this sucks to say, but the right is nowhere near organized enough to act as this brake anyway.
No, it is going to have to spiral all the way down, as left wing purity spirals do.
The big unknown is how much longer the right is going to let that purity spiral go on until the light switch gets flipped to "kill fucking everyone."
I am watching the anti-gun schenanigans of the Biden admin closely, as that is the most likely friction point to produce the spark that sets it all off.
Can I ask why? He looks goofy to me, subs>dubs always and forever, but other than that...?
It sounds weird to me that there are "plenty" but also it's not allowed to talk about it. How can be there plenty of people if we can't know?
I'm not saying it never happened or that I want you to share it.
(Then again, I am not saying I believe something I heard from someone who heard from someone who may or may not have seen it themselves. That's playing telephone.)
What I'm saying it is you try to make it sound like something a bunch believe and it's common knowledge and all, but it's a secret. That is dangerously close to trying to make us take your word for having issues with someone by making it sound believeable through "but a bunch of conservatives know this" without actual information.
Plus, without knowing details (which I do not ask for, again) I can't make up my mind if I would even be bothered by it. I have heard about him cheating on his wife/gf/significant ladaaaay at a convention. Which would be a scummy thing, but also not that ominous. I also don't consider celebrities sleeping with adult fans who willingly slept with them (no, I don't think they are victims, if you fall on famous dick because UWU celeb then you still willingly did it).
If he did something criminal then your friends are shit for not reporting to the police. An anime voice actor is not Vladimir Putin. He is not some super influential mafia boss, just a goofy celeb in a niche hobby.