One of the core philosophical tenets of globalism is hedonism. It's one of the ways they weaken and control the populace. Degenerate sex, porn, junk food, drugs, mindless entertainment, like TV, movies, and video games, all of it is pursuit of hollow pleasure devoid of meaning, an inversion of truth and higher purpose. Like every other aspect of globalism, it's meant to destroy, not create. Consume product and get excited for next product. However, it's easy to notice that most of those people have a huge hole in them, that they try to fill with meaningless and destructive pleasures, which they can never satiate, and if they're aware at all, they're perpetually unhappy.
No longer are people encouraged to improve themselves and their community, to do the right thing. Instead, we're encouraged to "do what feels right". This is why feminism, LGBTQ, and transgenderism are inseparable from globalism. It's literally feeling over truth. It follows along their false philosophical belief system.
Cohencidentally, it's also a core tenet of Satanism, which says "do what thou wilt".
Also notice the people in power demonize logic, traditional philosophy, and morality, and even call it "White supremacy". They try to twist it to support their perverted ideas and behaviors. To those paying attention, they couldn't be more overt in their intentions.
True, even in two and a half men they had a ftm troon played by a clear guy. House had a ton of woke crap. It was all far more subtle than today but just as intentional.
I can see it. The man and the dog outside while the lefty peers through a slit in their window, uncovered by them lifting the latest pride flag variant, surrounded by meaningless tchotchkes, room littered with trash.
It's more like the pot calling the kettle black. Every liberal I have ever met lived a life of constant, giddy, self-righteous moralizing to others, while navel-gazing their own spiritually and culturally void existence.
When I saw these retards all melting down on social media over the lockdowns it was hugely revealing to me how few hobbies these people really have. Normies did it as well where they were going apeshit because they couldn't go out and drink at weekends anymore and that's clearly all they did.
I think if you can find the interesting stuff and laugh at the funny stuff, you can have fun learning about politics no matter your viewpoint. I do, anyways.
we will withhold your payment ben-moshe until you specifically mention White women. the 0.03 shekel will transfer to your account afterwards, thank you for your service brave warrior
So odd, I guess all those studies showing Christians (Right leaning) are the happiest group in the world must be wrong because a poorly written comic says so.
Depends, I'm thinking of going the classical route, go to Europe, take over one of the MANY castles available and if anyone messes with my area, death by trebuchet!
As in you launch them from said artillery piece or you love huge chunks of masonry at them until you turn them into paste, both highly entertaining but only one can turned competitive
Flinging my enemies so high and watching with binoculars how far they fly
Saying that though Europe is culturally crippled right now, post society it's a GOLD MINE for setting up, the amount of abandoned, disused or vacant fortifications available is ridiculous! Hell large parts of the Maginot line still exists and can be easily used.
Regarding point 3, a fellow engineer buddy and I have come up with a way to monetize the deportation of the illegals. Imagine a reality TV show like Punkin Chunkin but using illegals for ammo.
Disney turned ESPN into a evangelizing left-progressive propaganda channel that nonstop talks about race and they seriously think this is a normal thing. Or how black players are using championships to make 'protests'.
Funny. I tried to avoid as many of those as possible, and I’m not a troon or in any way a pedo…
But then HR (or its equivalent) comes for you. You get “let go” because you weren’t booooosted enough. You get shut out by family and/or friends for “having opinions”. Reddit bans you. Maybe Facebook (or Facebook groups, at least), does, too…
And then the money starts to dry up. Things start to go wrong with your work life, or personally.
It really doesn’t take that much more to reach that final square bracket. 😔
I know this was meant to be funny, and I’m sorry for gettin’ all serious.
Just saying that this society can wear us all down, even those of us who… Don’t play the “liberal” conssooomer game…
There is a bit of obsession on both sides to hate shows and movies. More on the left side, but I can't help notice it happening on the right as well. Go see the movie, shows, and games you like and be happy.
But you don't know if you like the movie/show before you see it.
That's why I use IMDB and filter by 1-star reviews. They all have a point to them because you can hate something for one reason whereas higher reviews are muddled trying to explain the whole collection of things that have to go right for the show to be great.
Sometimes 1-stars are things like "has too much swearing" which I don't care about or not many people agreed with a comment, but if it's "full of woke political crap" with lots of upvotes for it then it's a hard pass.
I don't hate those shows and I might like some of them despite the crap parts, but they're just not worth my time to watch and find out.
Go see the movie, shows, and games you like and be happy.
This is the stance I have come around to as well. I dont really go out of my way to try and decide if something is "woke" or "based". If something catches my eye, I will take part in it. And both sides can fuck off.
Of course, that still usually means avoiding your typical Hollywood bullshit since they couldnt write an interesting story to save their lives.
Am I the only one who gets unreasonably irritated at people who don't capitalize the beginning of sentences or use periods at the end when they type? They never seem to be intelligent people.
That aside, the logic being employed here is mind numbingly retarded when you actually think about it. Oh, things you used to enjoy no longer align with your values? Well, the natural conclusion of course is to betray your values for some short term hedonistic pleasure, that definitely leads to fulfillment and happiness. The absolute state of normies' minds on leftism.
I’m sorry to hear that you’re in this boat, too. 😔
I’m genuinely not sure how much longer I can keep going. Realistically days, not weeks.
Last year was my “waiting”. I tried to “escape”, this year, but I just… Sometimes you can’t.
I hope you find what you need to keep going, though. Genuinely.
For me, though, I’ve given it my all. I really have. But at some point it just becomes all too much. For too long. And I’ve been there, in all that entails, for a very, very long time… 😔
I try to keep a somewhat realistic goal to look forward to, even if it's distant. Then just tune out the shit storm and rack up some smaller steps to help get me to the farther out goal. Just some days (months..) really beat you down. Find anything that can give you a spark of interest or passion.
Movies, TV, and sports, diversions that once were a comfort to working class men and women, have been co-opted by leftist political causes, making a day at the ballpark or a Saturday night movie at home or at the theater obnoxious. The badgering never stops!
On top of that, the working man has been priced out of ballgames, thanks to the stratospheric salaries demanded by players' agents and the resulting extortionist prices for tickets and concessions.
For the price of a case of shitty light beer, at the ballpark you can have one, maybe two pints of the same. For the price of two packs of hot-dogs, buns, and all the condiments you can get one cold, stale hot dog with nasty counter condiments.
But if you are well-to-do, you are accommodated with gourmet concessions, even restaurants where you can suck up your chardonnay and quiche while watching the game on the TV over the bar (or not) while the contest takes place on the field.
P.S.
Don't get me started on the goddamned "pitch clock" and the prospect of replacing home-plate umpires with cameras.
Don't get me started on the goddamned "pitch clock" and the prospect of replacing home-plate umpires with cameras.
I recently got back into baseball during the last World Series, and been watching way too many videos about the pitch clock thing, and well, the games themselves were getting longer because of batters doing all sorts of shenanigans at the plate, pitchers doing useless pick-off attempts so their managers can warm up their relievers on time, and other various nonsense, and the length of games is back to where it was in the 80s and 90s.
I'm lukewarm on the pitch clock; at the very least in my opinion it should be either relaxed or removed for the playoffs. The extra innings rule change becoming permanent is 100x more of an affront to the game than the pitch clock could ever be in my opinion.
It occurs to me that I am nostalgic for a kind of baseball that is extinct, which was prevalent when we were still a mostly agrarian country and our lives accommodated the harvest and the seasons.
Now that's boring. it doesn't even play well on contemporary TV with its hundreds of channels of shit. We're too impatient and distracted to just shut up, space out, relax, or get wired on stats/scorekeeping.
Minor league ball is where its at for me these days, at least when it comes to live games.
The Left and corporations dumbing niches down to pander to normies or try and attract entirely new demographics. Not understanding that the niche was what amassed their customers in the first place. When everything is homogenized, what's the point?
I don't want pronouns in 40k or feelings, there's modern Star Trek, and every other infiltrated brand for that. I want ridiculous space violence and heroism to stay that way.
Yes, let's discuss this supposed 'conservative culture'. Ignore any changes that has been happening to fandoms for the past twenty years or so. Ignore the people that have infiltrated the places you used to love and now openly espouse how much they hate you and want to see you gone and how much they're going to change what you love because fuck you. No, it's all the conversative's fault. Cause the comic says so.
Incredibly rich coming from the crowd that can't fart without hitting something they find "offensive," "problematic," and "istaphobic" in fiction and media, and that they then demand needs to be censored and changed to suit their narrow worldview, and if it isn't, they'll scream endlessly about it on Twitter before going outside to break windows, loot stores, and beat people's faces in for being "hateful."
I've been expanding my palette by trying to learn how to paint and getting around to checking out foreign books that have been on my radar as a New Year's resolution to improve myself as a person, there's more to life than staring at a box all day.
There's nothing wrong with improving yourself as a person, and reading certain foreign books can unlock new perspectives and understanding; just be careful not to conflate exotic ideologies, people and beliefs with automatic self "improvement". There's likely plenty of good books from places you are already a part of to read through, albeit some might be older rather than newer.
I've seen a lot of people jump on trends and follow people and authors who are quite questionable when you actually look at their lives, as opposed to people who make a lot more sense to look into. One such example of a person who trended for a while fairly recently was Yukio Mishima in certain conservative/right wing circles, and he was not someone worth following.
I still personally recommend reading the Bible as the most powerful and best way for improving one's life and hopefully saving one's soul if you decide to accept Jesus, as well as important objective truths. There's a reason it stands at the foundation of Western civilization, and many positive parts of other civilizations (i.e. Christians in other regions such as the East)
Critique his methods all you want, but Mishima is a certified chad that deserves admiration insomuch as he saw globalism taking root and took a stand against it. It's hard to look at the present state of Japan and think anything other than "yeah, he was largely right." That doesnt mean there aren't whack parts about his philosophy.
I would recommend his Sea of Fertility to anyone who can read Japanese.
Being against globalism doesn't mean much, plenty of cuckservatives can profess the same but fail miserably otherwise. I view that as the "broken clock" part which baits people into him.
certified chad
No, he's not a certified chad; he was ultimately an uncharismatic, physically weak failure who died a dog's death and his final actions in a failed coup resulted in his very few friends' suicides, even when he begged them not to.
Judge a man by his actions and the way he lives his life, not by whatever beliefs he claims to profess, since words are cheap.
His philosophy was complete foolishness and other people's similar beliefs in such things (his so called "Japanese irrationalism", which included things like literal ritual suicide, banzai charges, and blindly following the emperor) was part of the reason why Japan lost the war so miserably, and even got into the war in the first place. Mishima was someone who did not value Japanese life, he just wanted people to do what he believed because he mistakenly thought he was right about his own shit, just because he knew something else obvious was wrong.
If you want a certified chad from Japan, look into someone like General Kuribayashi. That man thought differently from all the retards around him, and used his knowledge and understanding in an actual life or death conflict, had high morale for those under him, commanded respect, loyalty and admiration from actual soldiers, and unironically saved Japan from literal disaster and invasion while living around the same time period.
He was against Japanese foolishness, and encouraged adapting to situations while still never giving up his Japanese roots, conscience, or his duty. He was one of the only commanders, if not the only commander in the entire Japanese army worth a damn who actually understood how to fight the war and be an honorable man who values the lives of the Japanese people, and they treated him like comparative shit and didn't listen to him when they should've.
Being against globalism doesn't mean much, plenty of cuckservatives can profess the same but fail miserably
Today? Sure, maybe. In the 60's and 70's? While certainly not the only one, it absolutely puts him way ahead of the curve. And comparing him to cuckservatives is a bit excessive. Most cuckservatives are double agent backstabbers trying to pass themselves off as something they aren't. They fail because most don't even want what they claim to want.
There really isn't much for me to say other than that assessment is just unnecessarily harsh. The world would be a much better place today if Japan, and many other countries, maintained a modicum of respect for themselves and their own cultures.
His ideas aren't exactly the most applicable on a grand scale because they are very Japan-specific, so in that sense there really isn't all that much western conservatives have to gain from him, but the nationalism in a general sense in the face of a rapidly cucking society, and having the balls to put one's life on the line to send a message about it certainly earns my respect.
While certainly not the only one, it absolutely puts him way ahead of the curve. And comparing him to cuckservatives is a bit excessive. Most cuckservatives are double agent backstabbers trying to pass themselves off as something they aren't. They fail because most don't even want what they claim to want.
You don't get it. My point isn't that he is as bad as the cuckservatives, my point is that just because he can say "globalism bad" doesn't mean "Mishima good", just like anyone else who can say something you might agree with, but fuck you over otherwise. Mishima's life was literally a disastrous wreck and failure, and so is his ideology.
unnecessarily harsh
It is not unnecessarily harsh, it is quite literally looking at his actions and the life he led. Tell his friends' girlfriend that it was "unnecessarily harsh". Tell everyone who died in a banzai charge or committed unnecessary seppuku, or died in a kamikaze attack at the command of the Emperor "harsh". Tell it to Kuribayashi, who was sent on a suicide mission (and who was the hero who actually saved Japan) for opposing a foolish plan by Japan, harsh.
If you got your friends killed because of your actions, you don't think you would deserved to be judged harshly? You talk about these beliefs without looking at who these people actually are.
His ideas aren't exactly the most applicable on a grand scale because they are very Japan-specific, so in that sense there really isn't all that much western conservatives have to gain from him, but the nationalism in a general sense in the face of a rapidly cucking society, and having the balls to put one's life on the line to send a message about it certainly earns my respect.
No offense, but you are likely a misguided person, and I hope you realize this when you get some actual role models in your life to look up to. His ideas are generally inapplicable, period, they are even worse for the Japanese.
If you believe in him so strongly, I'd tell you to go follow his example and commit suicide, but then you might be offended that I'd tell you to follow this guy's actions rather than whatever abstract, naive, nice pie-in-the-sky sounding stuff he puts out in his literature.
I literally hand you a better figure on a plate, someone who contradicts Yukio's foolish ideas, and who did more for Japan as an actual soldier and war hero, than Mishima or 99.999999% of Japanese people in the last century ever did. Kuribayashi was literally above reproach by anyone with an actual brain, but the fools in Japan showed what happens when an entire nation's military buys into a retarded ideology like Yukio's.
Fuck's sake dude, you support someone who would be fine with the nation committing its own suicide if the emperor said as much, learn to get some perspective on what these people actually believe through their actions, not what people tell you online.
You are getting a little too worked up. It seems this is a bit of a tense topic for you. Never did I profess myself to be some big Mishima stan, and never once did I ever speak ill of, compare him to, or even mention General Kuribayashi (who I think is very admirable as well).
All I expressed is he "deserves admiration" for "taking a stand," and that the world would in general be a better place if more people took up the general attitude of wanting to maintain one's culture and protect it from external threats. I even qualified my statement, even before all of your sperging, that "this doesn't mean there aren't whack parts about his philosophy." Somehow this made me his biggest fan?
Yet you still can't help but ree about banzai charges and his friends who died with him (of their own volition). I don't subscribe to the typical leftist all or nothing mentality of judging people. Literary contributions aside, he had many views that were based as fuck and some that are pants on head retarded. I am fully capable of respecting the former without it meaning I endorse the latter. I am perfectly capable of respecting and admiring both Mishima and Kuribayashi despite their ideas often being at odds, and there is no hypocrisy or contradiction born of speaking of both of them in a positive light.
People are fully capable of doing their own research and picking and choosing the ideas and actions they agree and disagree with, so I feel no misgivings about speaking positively about Mishima if the situation warrants it. No need to get so worked up and emotional about it. It is no different than me being able to point to plenty of things I like in Uncle Ted's writings while also being able to acknowledge that he did and believed some fucked up things. This doesn't mean I "believe him so strongly" or "support him" which are the grand conclusions you somehow drew from my couple statements of vague praise of Mishima.
Yes, it is a tense topic for me because Mishima's "contributions" are a clear grift to anyone with basic critical thinking skills, and I'm tired of seeing people who don't even bother to think about the clear and obvious problems with his life and ideology, accept it without so much as a complaint.
You called him a "certified chad" despite his actions and his life speaking for itself. He was a writer who wished he was something more, and he wasn't.
Kuribayashi actually deserves admiration, he was essentially the complete opposite of Mishima in literally every way, but I've seen nobody talk about him in all this Mishima bullshit trends as of late.
"Taking a stand" doesn't mean much. Leftists take stands for their beliefs all the times with their protests and rabble-rousing, but they are literally doing it on behalf of an evil ideology.
You have not pointed to a single thing Mishima actually did that was positive, all you did was state that he had a political position that you agreed with, without considering the context for his own belief system.
Yet you still can't help but ree about banzai charges and his friends who died with him (of their own volition).
Yep, you're someone who spends far too much time on the internet it seems. Apparently complaining about pointless and evil loss of life means nothing, its fine if you lose the war but say "globalism bad".
You say I'm sperging but I can see the downvote next to my post, get over yourself and actually realize why Mishima's ideology is incompatible to those who actually care about Japan's future.
Human life apparently means nothing to a guy on the internet with an admiration boner for someone who happens to agree with one of his political viewpoints. You still conveniently avoid discussing his actual actions, and you actively dismiss his friends' pointless suicides as "of their own volition".
I'll stick by what I said: You're misguided, and hopefully you find better people to follow and realize how little it means to agree with someone on a single political issue, relative to their actual life and actions.
Let me list all the things I do before watching any television whatsoever:
Everything Else That I Enjoy Doing.
Right now it's cooking, I love to cook. A bone-in prime rib roast, with asparagus, twice-baked potatoes, homemade dinner rolls, a nice Malbec, and peach cobbler for dessert. Having my father and my second oldest son and his family over for dinner.
I also cheat as I don't own a television that works. It died twenty years ago and I miss it not at all. Best money I never spent.
I don't think you're ever above the programming if you never come to the conclusion that you are not entitled to entertainment. It's all bread and circuses.
Imagine having such a shallow existence that you think shallow mass-produced entertainment is all the enjoyment there is to the world.
"TV is literally the only good thing," says the comic accusing conservatives of having a limited pool of interests
It's so lacking in self awareness it almost feels like a parody of Twitter leftism. But somehow, it's not. It's just that dumb.
This is why comedy isn't a thing anymore, absurdity just can't beat reality.
There's a reason NotTheBee has taken off
"How could be happy if you aren't consuming product and getting excited for next product?"
One of the core philosophical tenets of globalism is hedonism. It's one of the ways they weaken and control the populace. Degenerate sex, porn, junk food, drugs, mindless entertainment, like TV, movies, and video games, all of it is pursuit of hollow pleasure devoid of meaning, an inversion of truth and higher purpose. Like every other aspect of globalism, it's meant to destroy, not create. Consume product and get excited for next product. However, it's easy to notice that most of those people have a huge hole in them, that they try to fill with meaningless and destructive pleasures, which they can never satiate, and if they're aware at all, they're perpetually unhappy.
No longer are people encouraged to improve themselves and their community, to do the right thing. Instead, we're encouraged to "do what feels right". This is why feminism, LGBTQ, and transgenderism are inseparable from globalism. It's literally feeling over truth. It follows along their false philosophical belief system. Cohencidentally, it's also a core tenet of Satanism, which says "do what thou wilt".
And the only sin is telling someone "No I don't think you should do that; it's bad for you".
Also notice the people in power demonize logic, traditional philosophy, and morality, and even call it "White supremacy". They try to twist it to support their perverted ideas and behaviors. To those paying attention, they couldn't be more overt in their intentions.
"Just let people enjoy things!"
"I enjoy racism"
"No you can't enjoy that" proceeds to show you that stupid Karl Popper comic.
"ha, conservatives don't enjoy life," says the liberal on his eighth hour of scrolling tiktoks.
“Can’t watch tv cause it’s too gay, guess I’ll go outside with my dog”
“He must be so full of hatred”
I go back to older stuff and see the seeds being planted. TV has always been a cultural propaganda tool.
True, even in two and a half men they had a ftm troon played by a clear guy. House had a ton of woke crap. It was all far more subtle than today but just as intentional.
Pick a decade and you'll see elements of whatever the "social change" agenda of the day was. 60s, 70s, 80s, etc.
Yep. Cheers, MASH, All In The Family, it all has leftist faggotry sprinkled on top once you start noticing it.
I can see it. The man and the dog outside while the lefty peers through a slit in their window, uncovered by them lifting the latest pride flag variant, surrounded by meaningless tchotchkes, room littered with trash.
Man, I gotta start using this word more, that pretty much encapsulates funkopops and any number of useless 'memoribilia'
Funkopops are exactly what I imagined. Mass produced, soulless and generally ugly.
And who's probably on at least two antidepressants.
It's more like the pot calling the kettle black. Every liberal I have ever met lived a life of constant, giddy, self-righteous moralizing to others, while navel-gazing their own spiritually and culturally void existence.
Wokeism is used by leftists to fill the faith shaped hole in their souls.
When I saw these retards all melting down on social media over the lockdowns it was hugely revealing to me how few hobbies these people really have. Normies did it as well where they were going apeshit because they couldn't go out and drink at weekends anymore and that's clearly all they did.
Their "hobbies" are consoooooooooming and critiquing.
I think if you can find the interesting stuff and laugh at the funny stuff, you can have fun learning about politics no matter your viewpoint. I do, anyways.
I'm sorry, who has the highest suicide and depression rates again?
Trannies, then young married men, then young unmarried men, then divorced men. IIRC.
So men, then men, then men again, and finally men?
Yes, it is the truest proof that women's society needs to be dismantled.
we will withhold your payment ben-moshe until you specifically mention White women. the 0.03 shekel will transfer to your account afterwards, thank you for your service brave warrior
he sure beat up that straw man
So odd, I guess all those studies showing Christians (Right leaning) are the happiest group in the world must be wrong because a poorly written comic says so.
Old physical media (books, games etc), nature, planning my ascension as warlord when this everything collapses and cooking when I get the free time.
I hope you aren't in my area, fren, because I will be warlord of my region. The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla.
Depends, I'm thinking of going the classical route, go to Europe, take over one of the MANY castles available and if anyone messes with my area, death by trebuchet!
As in you launch them from said artillery piece or you love huge chunks of masonry at them until you turn them into paste, both highly entertaining but only one can turned competitive
It mixes 3 things I want in life:
Saying that though Europe is culturally crippled right now, post society it's a GOLD MINE for setting up, the amount of abandoned, disused or vacant fortifications available is ridiculous! Hell large parts of the Maginot line still exists and can be easily used.
Regarding point 3, a fellow engineer buddy and I have come up with a way to monetize the deportation of the illegals. Imagine a reality TV show like Punkin Chunkin but using illegals for ammo.
I'm gonna be the warlord of Mississippi if I have any say in it
Notice how the only thing they can point to for enjoyment is television / movies?
Bugman meme is real.
Books.
Doom WADs.
Lifting.
Comic lacks imagination.
Several studies have shown that conservatives tend to be happier than "liberals".
especially women iirc
Can't help but notice the leftoid can't think of any source of enjoyment that doesn't come from a talking electric jew box.
Disney turned ESPN into a evangelizing left-progressive propaganda channel that nonstop talks about race and they seriously think this is a normal thing. Or how black players are using championships to make 'protests'.
These are the same people who keep a “representation checklist” for every show they watch
wtf is that?
People who can’t enjoy a show that doesn’t have specific races in it
Funny. I tried to avoid as many of those as possible, and I’m not a troon or in any way a pedo…
But then HR (or its equivalent) comes for you. You get “let go” because you weren’t booooosted enough. You get shut out by family and/or friends for “having opinions”. Reddit bans you. Maybe Facebook (or Facebook groups, at least), does, too…
And then the money starts to dry up. Things start to go wrong with your work life, or personally.
It really doesn’t take that much more to reach that final square bracket. 😔
I know this was meant to be funny, and I’m sorry for gettin’ all serious.
Just saying that this society can wear us all down, even those of us who… Don’t play the “liberal” conssooomer game…
I'm sure the life of some subhuman liberal who's life orients around shitty no effort drawings on twitter leads a life full of joy.
Even huffpo calls BS
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/conservatives-happier-liberal-countries_n_5797938
Then ask them what they think of the Joker.
There is a bit of obsession on both sides to hate shows and movies. More on the left side, but I can't help notice it happening on the right as well. Go see the movie, shows, and games you like and be happy.
That's one of the reasons why I post a link list.
But you don't know if you like the movie/show before you see it.
That's why I use IMDB and filter by 1-star reviews. They all have a point to them because you can hate something for one reason whereas higher reviews are muddled trying to explain the whole collection of things that have to go right for the show to be great.
Sometimes 1-stars are things like "has too much swearing" which I don't care about or not many people agreed with a comment, but if it's "full of woke political crap" with lots of upvotes for it then it's a hard pass.
I don't hate those shows and I might like some of them despite the crap parts, but they're just not worth my time to watch and find out.
This is the stance I have come around to as well. I dont really go out of my way to try and decide if something is "woke" or "based". If something catches my eye, I will take part in it. And both sides can fuck off.
Of course, that still usually means avoiding your typical Hollywood bullshit since they couldnt write an interesting story to save their lives.
Am I the only one who gets unreasonably irritated at people who don't capitalize the beginning of sentences or use periods at the end when they type? They never seem to be intelligent people.
That aside, the logic being employed here is mind numbingly retarded when you actually think about it. Oh, things you used to enjoy no longer align with your values? Well, the natural conclusion of course is to betray your values for some short term hedonistic pleasure, that definitely leads to fulfillment and happiness. The absolute state of normies' minds on leftism.
Ah yes, I'm depressed because TV and movies (and sportsball) are shit. That makes logical sense...
There is a life outside consoooooming. It is just getting harder and harder to live that life. Unfortunately...
On this note: I’m so battered by life right now, that I just…
I’m really struggling.
I couldn’t give less of a shit about “pop culture”, though. That was never the problem.
But I’m so… Done.
Woke shit is the least of my worries. 😔
I'm in the same boat. I just go into labor camp mode and look for an opportunity to wait it out or escape.
Yeah…
I’m sorry to hear that you’re in this boat, too. 😔
I’m genuinely not sure how much longer I can keep going. Realistically days, not weeks.
Last year was my “waiting”. I tried to “escape”, this year, but I just… Sometimes you can’t.
I hope you find what you need to keep going, though. Genuinely.
For me, though, I’ve given it my all. I really have. But at some point it just becomes all too much. For too long. And I’ve been there, in all that entails, for a very, very long time… 😔
I try to keep a somewhat realistic goal to look forward to, even if it's distant. Then just tune out the shit storm and rack up some smaller steps to help get me to the farther out goal. Just some days (months..) really beat you down. Find anything that can give you a spark of interest or passion.
Based and Henry Ford pilled
Movies, TV, and sports, diversions that once were a comfort to working class men and women, have been co-opted by leftist political causes, making a day at the ballpark or a Saturday night movie at home or at the theater obnoxious. The badgering never stops!
On top of that, the working man has been priced out of ballgames, thanks to the stratospheric salaries demanded by players' agents and the resulting extortionist prices for tickets and concessions.
For the price of a case of shitty light beer, at the ballpark you can have one, maybe two pints of the same. For the price of two packs of hot-dogs, buns, and all the condiments you can get one cold, stale hot dog with nasty counter condiments.
But if you are well-to-do, you are accommodated with gourmet concessions, even restaurants where you can suck up your chardonnay and quiche while watching the game on the TV over the bar (or not) while the contest takes place on the field.
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Don't get me started on the goddamned "pitch clock" and the prospect of replacing home-plate umpires with cameras.
I recently got back into baseball during the last World Series, and been watching way too many videos about the pitch clock thing, and well, the games themselves were getting longer because of batters doing all sorts of shenanigans at the plate, pitchers doing useless pick-off attempts so their managers can warm up their relievers on time, and other various nonsense, and the length of games is back to where it was in the 80s and 90s.
I'm lukewarm on the pitch clock; at the very least in my opinion it should be either relaxed or removed for the playoffs. The extra innings rule change becoming permanent is 100x more of an affront to the game than the pitch clock could ever be in my opinion.
It occurs to me that I am nostalgic for a kind of baseball that is extinct, which was prevalent when we were still a mostly agrarian country and our lives accommodated the harvest and the seasons.
Now that's boring. it doesn't even play well on contemporary TV with its hundreds of channels of shit. We're too impatient and distracted to just shut up, space out, relax, or get wired on stats/scorekeeping.
Minor league ball is where its at for me these days, at least when it comes to live games.
Why would anyone smoke weed when they could just mow a lawn?
It's related to having standards and leftoids find that to be completely incomprehensible.
While I hate what they did to most of my hobbies, it made me a better person to not be a consoomer.
The left infects and kills the media you like, replacing it with a hollow empty husk of what it was.
That might have something to do with it.
The Left and corporations dumbing niches down to pander to normies or try and attract entirely new demographics. Not understanding that the niche was what amassed their customers in the first place. When everything is homogenized, what's the point?
I don't want pronouns in 40k or feelings, there's modern Star Trek, and every other infiltrated brand for that. I want ridiculous space violence and heroism to stay that way.
Some things are incorruptible by their very nature...woodworking, resin casting, writing, hunting, photography, etc.
In their mind they're bragging that they invaded and destroyed everything you enjoyed.
"Look how we destroyed any joy for all these people
Yes, let's discuss this supposed 'conservative culture'. Ignore any changes that has been happening to fandoms for the past twenty years or so. Ignore the people that have infiltrated the places you used to love and now openly espouse how much they hate you and want to see you gone and how much they're going to change what you love because fuck you. No, it's all the conversative's fault. Cause the comic says so.
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I hate these people so fucking much.
So they ruined our games and movies then gloat about it.
Incredibly rich coming from the crowd that can't fart without hitting something they find "offensive," "problematic," and "istaphobic" in fiction and media, and that they then demand needs to be censored and changed to suit their narrow worldview, and if it isn't, they'll scream endlessly about it on Twitter before going outside to break windows, loot stores, and beat people's faces in for being "hateful."
I've been expanding my palette by trying to learn how to paint and getting around to checking out foreign books that have been on my radar as a New Year's resolution to improve myself as a person, there's more to life than staring at a box all day.
There's nothing wrong with improving yourself as a person, and reading certain foreign books can unlock new perspectives and understanding; just be careful not to conflate exotic ideologies, people and beliefs with automatic self "improvement". There's likely plenty of good books from places you are already a part of to read through, albeit some might be older rather than newer.
I've seen a lot of people jump on trends and follow people and authors who are quite questionable when you actually look at their lives, as opposed to people who make a lot more sense to look into. One such example of a person who trended for a while fairly recently was Yukio Mishima in certain conservative/right wing circles, and he was not someone worth following.
I still personally recommend reading the Bible as the most powerful and best way for improving one's life and hopefully saving one's soul if you decide to accept Jesus, as well as important objective truths. There's a reason it stands at the foundation of Western civilization, and many positive parts of other civilizations (i.e. Christians in other regions such as the East)
Critique his methods all you want, but Mishima is a certified chad that deserves admiration insomuch as he saw globalism taking root and took a stand against it. It's hard to look at the present state of Japan and think anything other than "yeah, he was largely right." That doesnt mean there aren't whack parts about his philosophy.
I would recommend his Sea of Fertility to anyone who can read Japanese.
Being against globalism doesn't mean much, plenty of cuckservatives can profess the same but fail miserably otherwise. I view that as the "broken clock" part which baits people into him.
No, he's not a certified chad; he was ultimately an uncharismatic, physically weak failure who died a dog's death and his final actions in a failed coup resulted in his very few friends' suicides, even when he begged them not to.
Judge a man by his actions and the way he lives his life, not by whatever beliefs he claims to profess, since words are cheap.
His philosophy was complete foolishness and other people's similar beliefs in such things (his so called "Japanese irrationalism", which included things like literal ritual suicide, banzai charges, and blindly following the emperor) was part of the reason why Japan lost the war so miserably, and even got into the war in the first place. Mishima was someone who did not value Japanese life, he just wanted people to do what he believed because he mistakenly thought he was right about his own shit, just because he knew something else obvious was wrong.
If you want a certified chad from Japan, look into someone like General Kuribayashi. That man thought differently from all the retards around him, and used his knowledge and understanding in an actual life or death conflict, had high morale for those under him, commanded respect, loyalty and admiration from actual soldiers, and unironically saved Japan from literal disaster and invasion while living around the same time period.
He was against Japanese foolishness, and encouraged adapting to situations while still never giving up his Japanese roots, conscience, or his duty. He was one of the only commanders, if not the only commander in the entire Japanese army worth a damn who actually understood how to fight the war and be an honorable man who values the lives of the Japanese people, and they treated him like comparative shit and didn't listen to him when they should've.
Today? Sure, maybe. In the 60's and 70's? While certainly not the only one, it absolutely puts him way ahead of the curve. And comparing him to cuckservatives is a bit excessive. Most cuckservatives are double agent backstabbers trying to pass themselves off as something they aren't. They fail because most don't even want what they claim to want.
There really isn't much for me to say other than that assessment is just unnecessarily harsh. The world would be a much better place today if Japan, and many other countries, maintained a modicum of respect for themselves and their own cultures.
His ideas aren't exactly the most applicable on a grand scale because they are very Japan-specific, so in that sense there really isn't all that much western conservatives have to gain from him, but the nationalism in a general sense in the face of a rapidly cucking society, and having the balls to put one's life on the line to send a message about it certainly earns my respect.
You don't get it. My point isn't that he is as bad as the cuckservatives, my point is that just because he can say "globalism bad" doesn't mean "Mishima good", just like anyone else who can say something you might agree with, but fuck you over otherwise. Mishima's life was literally a disastrous wreck and failure, and so is his ideology.
It is not unnecessarily harsh, it is quite literally looking at his actions and the life he led. Tell his friends' girlfriend that it was "unnecessarily harsh". Tell everyone who died in a banzai charge or committed unnecessary seppuku, or died in a kamikaze attack at the command of the Emperor "harsh". Tell it to Kuribayashi, who was sent on a suicide mission (and who was the hero who actually saved Japan) for opposing a foolish plan by Japan, harsh.
If you got your friends killed because of your actions, you don't think you would deserved to be judged harshly? You talk about these beliefs without looking at who these people actually are.
No offense, but you are likely a misguided person, and I hope you realize this when you get some actual role models in your life to look up to. His ideas are generally inapplicable, period, they are even worse for the Japanese.
If you believe in him so strongly, I'd tell you to go follow his example and commit suicide, but then you might be offended that I'd tell you to follow this guy's actions rather than whatever abstract, naive, nice pie-in-the-sky sounding stuff he puts out in his literature.
I literally hand you a better figure on a plate, someone who contradicts Yukio's foolish ideas, and who did more for Japan as an actual soldier and war hero, than Mishima or 99.999999% of Japanese people in the last century ever did. Kuribayashi was literally above reproach by anyone with an actual brain, but the fools in Japan showed what happens when an entire nation's military buys into a retarded ideology like Yukio's.
Fuck's sake dude, you support someone who would be fine with the nation committing its own suicide if the emperor said as much, learn to get some perspective on what these people actually believe through their actions, not what people tell you online.
You are getting a little too worked up. It seems this is a bit of a tense topic for you. Never did I profess myself to be some big Mishima stan, and never once did I ever speak ill of, compare him to, or even mention General Kuribayashi (who I think is very admirable as well).
All I expressed is he "deserves admiration" for "taking a stand," and that the world would in general be a better place if more people took up the general attitude of wanting to maintain one's culture and protect it from external threats. I even qualified my statement, even before all of your sperging, that "this doesn't mean there aren't whack parts about his philosophy." Somehow this made me his biggest fan?
Yet you still can't help but ree about banzai charges and his friends who died with him (of their own volition). I don't subscribe to the typical leftist all or nothing mentality of judging people. Literary contributions aside, he had many views that were based as fuck and some that are pants on head retarded. I am fully capable of respecting the former without it meaning I endorse the latter. I am perfectly capable of respecting and admiring both Mishima and Kuribayashi despite their ideas often being at odds, and there is no hypocrisy or contradiction born of speaking of both of them in a positive light.
People are fully capable of doing their own research and picking and choosing the ideas and actions they agree and disagree with, so I feel no misgivings about speaking positively about Mishima if the situation warrants it. No need to get so worked up and emotional about it. It is no different than me being able to point to plenty of things I like in Uncle Ted's writings while also being able to acknowledge that he did and believed some fucked up things. This doesn't mean I "believe him so strongly" or "support him" which are the grand conclusions you somehow drew from my couple statements of vague praise of Mishima.
Yes, it is a tense topic for me because Mishima's "contributions" are a clear grift to anyone with basic critical thinking skills, and I'm tired of seeing people who don't even bother to think about the clear and obvious problems with his life and ideology, accept it without so much as a complaint.
You called him a "certified chad" despite his actions and his life speaking for itself. He was a writer who wished he was something more, and he wasn't.
Kuribayashi actually deserves admiration, he was essentially the complete opposite of Mishima in literally every way, but I've seen nobody talk about him in all this Mishima bullshit trends as of late.
"Taking a stand" doesn't mean much. Leftists take stands for their beliefs all the times with their protests and rabble-rousing, but they are literally doing it on behalf of an evil ideology.
You have not pointed to a single thing Mishima actually did that was positive, all you did was state that he had a political position that you agreed with, without considering the context for his own belief system.
Yep, you're someone who spends far too much time on the internet it seems. Apparently complaining about pointless and evil loss of life means nothing, its fine if you lose the war but say "globalism bad".
You say I'm sperging but I can see the downvote next to my post, get over yourself and actually realize why Mishima's ideology is incompatible to those who actually care about Japan's future.
Human life apparently means nothing to a guy on the internet with an admiration boner for someone who happens to agree with one of his political viewpoints. You still conveniently avoid discussing his actual actions, and you actively dismiss his friends' pointless suicides as "of their own volition".
I'll stick by what I said: You're misguided, and hopefully you find better people to follow and realize how little it means to agree with someone on a single political issue, relative to their actual life and actions.
I enjoy my anime, indie games, and hobbies. It seems leftists don't know how to enjoy anything that isn't sanitized corporate slop.
Let me list all the things I do before watching any television whatsoever:
Right now it's cooking, I love to cook. A bone-in prime rib roast, with asparagus, twice-baked potatoes, homemade dinner rolls, a nice Malbec, and peach cobbler for dessert. Having my father and my second oldest son and his family over for dinner.
I cooked a little the other day too, it was very enjoyable
Leftists often mistake blind consoomerism with happiness and cannot comprehend anything else.
I don't think you're ever above the programming if you never come to the conclusion that you are not entitled to entertainment. It's all bread and circuses.
I actually had a lefty get confused when I described entertainment as a luxury. I was a bit confused that anyone could actually find that confusing.