I found this link on a post over on the Army subreddit. Reading the comments, I think that these comments actually show why patriotism is so low. On one hand, all of the leftist grievance mongering has made the leftists hate the U.S. That shouldn't surprise anyone. Then on the other hand, the right can't stand the left and there's a general sentiment that its not worth sacrificing for someone you hate and hates you. Then there's the more general comments like how the U.S. is a gerontocracy by and for the baby boomers and boomers are content to screw over all of the other generations as long as they get theirs. Plus, we have discussed at length our own ideas here like how American politicians are bought and paid for by international finance.
That's a pretty good summary of the situation, and I thinks it hints at the crux of the problem. The real issue is that the people benefiting from society aren't the ones keeping it running, and the latter group are starting to wake up. As this continues the wheels start coming off the clown show and things start breaking down. If you wonder why we're starting to see signs of a societal collapse, this is why.
There's something very ironic about the fact that those benefiting from society the most, who have the most to lose from societal collapse, are the ones tearing it all down right now.
First the left-wing was demoralized/disillusioned thanks to commie subversion tactics (effectively creating "The American Left"), then the right-wing was demoralized with the final and complete takeover of all institutions by the left. Now all that remains is managed decline. When all the wealth has been looted and the gerontocracy - the only group keeping up the illusion of being patriotic "Americans" - is gone, the real fun begins.
the right can't stand the left and there's a general sentiment that its not worth sacrificing for someone you hate and hates you.
I'm not willing to fight for the Left, but half the country is the Right, and that's worth fighting for. I think probably 60-70% of the country is redeemable & capable of being led back to reason over time. The rest should be walled up in their blue cities to live in shit.
So completely off topic, but I was curious about what trade the guy with the flags was (I'm assuming signals), so I opened the image in a new tab hoping the filename would clue me in. Instead, the image is just a big tall stack of all the icons.
I'm not a software guy, but does Reddit seriously load in this massive image file for every user with an icon, then just crop it to the desired one? Is that not just a massive fuck you to bandwidth optimization?
Yes, that's a common method of inserting tiny icons on web pages. CSS is used to select the correct icon. The total image you're talking about is "only" 65k, so relatively speaking not too much of a hit on bandwidth. It's assumed that users are going to see many of the icons anyway, and there's a small overhead for every individual request, so sending the whole icon sheet at once might actually use less data.
For this reason I fully believe it will be protected speech to burn a pride flag within five years. All over the world you can't see an American flag at one of our embassies without also seeing the fag rag next to it, they are converging into synonymity.
I found this link on a post over on the Army subreddit. Reading the comments, I think that these comments actually show why patriotism is so low. On one hand, all of the leftist grievance mongering has made the leftists hate the U.S. That shouldn't surprise anyone. Then on the other hand, the right can't stand the left and there's a general sentiment that its not worth sacrificing for someone you hate and hates you. Then there's the more general comments like how the U.S. is a gerontocracy by and for the baby boomers and boomers are content to screw over all of the other generations as long as they get theirs. Plus, we have discussed at length our own ideas here like how American politicians are bought and paid for by international finance.
That's a pretty good summary of the situation, and I thinks it hints at the crux of the problem. The real issue is that the people benefiting from society aren't the ones keeping it running, and the latter group are starting to wake up. As this continues the wheels start coming off the clown show and things start breaking down. If you wonder why we're starting to see signs of a societal collapse, this is why.
There's something very ironic about the fact that those benefiting from society the most, who have the most to lose from societal collapse, are the ones tearing it all down right now.
First the left-wing was demoralized/disillusioned thanks to commie subversion tactics (effectively creating "The American Left"), then the right-wing was demoralized with the final and complete takeover of all institutions by the left. Now all that remains is managed decline. When all the wealth has been looted and the gerontocracy - the only group keeping up the illusion of being patriotic "Americans" - is gone, the real fun begins.
I'm not willing to fight for the Left, but half the country is the Right, and that's worth fighting for. I think probably 60-70% of the country is redeemable & capable of being led back to reason over time. The rest should be walled up in their blue cities to live in shit.
Half? All of those are must dos.
So completely off topic, but I was curious about what trade the guy with the flags was (I'm assuming signals), so I opened the image in a new tab hoping the filename would clue me in. Instead, the image is just a big tall stack of all the icons.
I'm not a software guy, but does Reddit seriously load in this massive image file for every user with an icon, then just crop it to the desired one? Is that not just a massive fuck you to bandwidth optimization?
Yes, that's a common method of inserting tiny icons on web pages. CSS is used to select the correct icon. The total image you're talking about is "only" 65k, so relatively speaking not too much of a hit on bandwidth. It's assumed that users are going to see many of the icons anyway, and there's a small overhead for every individual request, so sending the whole icon sheet at once might actually use less data.
A nation and a country are not the same thing. The American nation is gone, destroyed by demographics.
i really like this meme i saw on twitter a couple weeks ago
fag flag: this is the state
us flag: this is the nation
For this reason I fully believe it will be protected speech to burn a pride flag within five years. All over the world you can't see an American flag at one of our embassies without also seeing the fag rag next to it, they are converging into synonymity.
Yup. This is the sentiment I correct myself with anytime I think to myself how much I hate the current state of the US.