I hear this a lot. Mostly from corrupt politicians, regardless of stripe, while they are railroading something through against wishes of the local public…
Then the media repeats the lie. And then idiot NPCs all chime in to back it up, usually either because they have a vested interest, or alternatively no skin in the game, and so lose nothing as a result of the decision being made (my parents do this all the time, too, which is frustrating)…
“Progress” can be anything the politician/bureaucrat/developer//corporation wants it to be.
Drag story time is “inclusion”, so it is “progress”. Destroying a forest for a wind farm is “progress”. Or alternatively, knocking down a whole row of houses using “eminent domain” can be “progress”, if you can somehow argue that replacing them with high density tower blocks, to fill with immigrants, is “good”, and should not be questioned… Because it’s “progress”…
Of course, progress in reality is not linear. It is not about endless growth. And just because you claim to be “progressive” doesn’t mean you have a monopoly on fucking human “progress”…
Progress used to be about going to the moon, or scientific achievement, or fucking inventing something useful. Now it’s “free abortion clinics” on one side, and a completely useless new highway bypass (with the associated eminent domain destruction of housing, *of course) on the other…
It’s all “progress” to someone, and of course most of the public just laps it up. Because the media tells them to, naturally…
As someone posted earlier, a large proportion (but still a minority, thankfully) of Americans support drag queen events for kiddos now…
How the fuck did we “progress” to that point, hey?
Modern “society”. Woo-fucking-hoo.
Hah, waaay back, on half kia, some tranny showed up. Started out all "uwu, just a cute nerdy girl with a feminine dick, like me". He was obviously fishing for attention.
I don't think I was a total cunt, but I asked him questions and basically didn't buy into that weird animu gurl persona.
He got more an more angry. Which resulted in him writing this weird ass response about how men in knee high socks are actually the next step in human evolution, basically. According to him, women stand in the way of progress, so we need to basically step back, die out, so then men can learn to love trannies and figure that out.
Then I started being a cunt and he deleted his account, lol.
So yeah, progress is being forced to fuck crotch holes.
So you're saying you bullied Imp off halfkia.
Only for them to turn around and become one of its mods
Was that “theDeviant1” or something like that? Faggot was annoying, starting basically every comment with “as a trans girl” or some shit.
I don't know, it was all one, maybe two days, not a long thing.
Meowsticgoesnya?
He got bounced pretty quickly. Called in to a Sargon stream as well and clearly desperately wanted to be the center of attention.
Nah, it was a one time person. Hard to differentiate, as trannies are attention whores, but no, not him
No no, you have to take all of his ideas. Enjoy fucking the amhole.
Progress is not necessarily good, it just means moving forward. Communism/ Socialism was progress and yet it ended up killing millions.
Progress in most cases is directly harmful, that’s why we have such things as risk assessment.
This.
And the harm coupled with the positive connotation of the word reveals it for what it is:
Doublespeak.
progress is just a word that essentially means movement from one state to another. much like hope, change, and even "make America great again", it means whatever the audience or reader wants it to mean.
when they say "You stand in the way of progress", they allow the audience to project whatever they want onto what progress is towards. by saying it in an accusatory manner, the audience will project whatever the good thing is on top of progress.
it's just another way for politicians and grifters to say nothing at all, and have an audience think they mean anything.
Is just as empty as "on the right side of history" or "trust the science"
"let us progress to break the bonds of morality and reason God has enslaved us with"
(trannies, synthetic over natural, feminism corrupting the natural order of the man being the head of the family, etc)
Pride, idolatry, secular humanism (aka Satanism, man is now his own god, do as thou wilt).
Even better: sometimes they scream that people are afraid of CHAAANGE.
They're wholly incapable of thinking.
The liberal view of the world is a constant march from barbarism to enlightenment.
Anything old is bad and anything "modern" is good. Furthermore, anything that constrains human behavior is to be opposed (even if the behavior that's being constrained is completely evil) and anything that allows people to be "free" (degenerate) is to be commended.
Anything novel is good.
Sexual perversity and castration are as old as time, but they love them all the same. Because they are novel now, if not exactly new.
Not just their existance, but the rise of perversity among the elites and pushed by freaks in unis in a formerly great but now comfortable and rotting society, the whole process is a tale as old as time.
We have been here before. Or rather, weinmar germany and rome have.
Also Constantinople, Bourbon France and Genoa, or hell, the Kingdom of Romania stands out, too...
Or Austria-Hungary and the pre-WW1 German Empire...
There's a lot of examples...
It’s funny, it really feels like we’re becoming more “corporate”, with a few big corporations controlling every aspect of our lives, yet at the same time, government control is becoming incredibly intrusive…
There’s also an extreme “break with the past” mentality - in the last five years, in my home state, a ridiculously large number of community institutions that existed in some form or other for over 100 years have “gone under” and closed down - usually as a result of deliberate government funding decisions…
In some cases (I can think of two massive ones, locally, in the past year) this leaves entire communities without places to go, without resources, and will lead to worse health outcomes, all because of bureaucratic bullshit and poor decision-making…
At the same time, we’re told to hate our own history, and repeat a narrative that is totally anathema to a cohesive society, or indeed to the nations our forebears built.
We are a conquered, cowed people (and that goes for most white-majority countries, not just Aus) destroying our own countries from the inside.
This does not end well.
We're getting eaten alive by liberal ideology and economics. We have to turn away from them before it's too late.
You know what else progresses? Cancer.
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Depends on your definition of 'progress' as of we are talking scientific, technological, social, cultural progress, yes the GOVERNMENT has been stifling this progress from it just existing.
The only progress the government has made is getting more of us to take a dirt nap early.
About as effective as the NPCs saying This is the Way
It's not. Don't mistake idiots repeating the slogans with which the ruling classes filled their empty heads for "them believing something". They have no agency, no autonomy. Their function in life is to repeat what they are told.
"You're standing in the way of progress!" said the plantation owner to his slave. "We are going to progress our fields to feed an entire community, and you want to stand in the way of that progress?!"
I'm making progress in the direction I want to go in.
Every person who does something will at the same time be going against and with progress because progress doesn't mean shit with defining what you are going towards.
A person moving towards slavery would can make progress towards it while going against the progress of anti slavery.
This is just another case of people using vague bullshit to trick people into thinking that something meaningful was said.
Or in other cases diluting the meaning of a word like when they say "X rights are human rights" and you have to remind people that human rights apply to all humans and so X rights are by their very definition not human rights. But that is a another can of worms.
Anyone making the progress argument reminds me of Picard talking to Q, and frankly Q's answer is the one you should take:
"You wanna review your 'rapid progress'?"
or:
Data: "Objection, your honor. In the year 2036 the New United Nations declared that no Earth citizen could be made to answer for the crimes of his race or forebearers."
Q: "Objection Denied! This is a court of the year 2079, by which time more 'rapid progress' had caused all United Earth nonsense to be abolished."
Yes, it is a classic 'begging the question' fallacy
Might as well throw in the 19th while you're at it.