A lot of these guys have the "reduce spending" mindset that buys 30$ boots that collapse in a few months instead of 100$ ones that last a few years.
Its all virtue signal, because they only apply this principle to other people's lives and government programs they don't personally like. For their property and investments/industries, its always kosher and not wasteful at all!
For the legit ones, I disagree. Our Keynsian monetary system is basically going to kill us. My problem, even from my lolbert leaning mind, is that if I get what I want; no deficit spending and mass deflation, it will also probably destroy the world.
Even then, I'm glad that cutting programs is a topic that's on the table for discussion, whether it's selfish or not.
And I don't think there are any legit ones, because they standard most of them espouse is an impossible one to live legitimately.
When you are dismantling and destroying any attempt at fixing simply because it doesn't fit your way and your view of ideal, you better be a shining example of that ideology not only only working but being lived to the fullest every single day and every way.
Which is wherein my problem is. Most lolberts and guys like them position themselves as hardline, no compromise when it means making a fucking problem (and thereby getting attention), but then are happy to live make concessions for their personal gain and life, with a dozen excuses why its okay for them but you (who'd benefit somewhat from what they crusade against) need to grit and suffer until we reach Andrew Ryan's Rapture.
My problem is that the world I want physically doesn't exist. It was destroyed and replaced with this one. Civil Society is no longer organized by family, local community, or even religion. It's organized by government and it's vassals. We live in a totalitarian democracy, under Socialist economic conditions that the people who I most ideologically align with... would have violently revolted against.
I'm not going to revolt (because mass graves are filled with people seeking liberty from tyranny as it is), but I am going to undermine this system, and build an anti-parallel system however I can. That requires me to practical more than ideological, which is one of the reasons I'm okay with this bill, and even the tariffs: it's doing more significant damage to the Fabian Socialist Order than anything else.
My problem is that the world I want physically doesn't exist
I think this is how we all feel, once we "wake up" as they used to say. My home and culture was violently destroyed by the federal government pushing numerous "progressive" or "economical" rulings, and we are now basically dead and treated as a living punchline by our entire country.
Almost all current "victory" conditions the people I am forced to align with, as they are the closest with any chance of enacting anything, fill me with disgust at how milquetoast and lacking in karma they are, yet I swallow that in hope that the future we are building is worth letting those compromises happen.
A lot of these guys have the "reduce spending" mindset that buys 30$ boots that collapse in a few months instead of 100$ ones that last a few years.
Its all virtue signal, because they only apply this principle to other people's lives and government programs they don't personally like. For their property and investments/industries, its always kosher and not wasteful at all!
For the legit ones, I disagree. Our Keynsian monetary system is basically going to kill us. My problem, even from my lolbert leaning mind, is that if I get what I want; no deficit spending and mass deflation, it will also probably destroy the world.
Even then, I'm glad that cutting programs is a topic that's on the table for discussion, whether it's selfish or not.
And I don't think there are any legit ones, because they standard most of them espouse is an impossible one to live legitimately.
When you are dismantling and destroying any attempt at fixing simply because it doesn't fit your way and your view of ideal, you better be a shining example of that ideology not only only working but being lived to the fullest every single day and every way.
Which is wherein my problem is. Most lolberts and guys like them position themselves as hardline, no compromise when it means making a fucking problem (and thereby getting attention), but then are happy to live make concessions for their personal gain and life, with a dozen excuses why its okay for them but you (who'd benefit somewhat from what they crusade against) need to grit and suffer until we reach Andrew Ryan's Rapture.
My problem is that the world I want physically doesn't exist. It was destroyed and replaced with this one. Civil Society is no longer organized by family, local community, or even religion. It's organized by government and it's vassals. We live in a totalitarian democracy, under Socialist economic conditions that the people who I most ideologically align with... would have violently revolted against.
I'm not going to revolt (because mass graves are filled with people seeking liberty from tyranny as it is), but I am going to undermine this system, and build an anti-parallel system however I can. That requires me to practical more than ideological, which is one of the reasons I'm okay with this bill, and even the tariffs: it's doing more significant damage to the Fabian Socialist Order than anything else.
I think this is how we all feel, once we "wake up" as they used to say. My home and culture was violently destroyed by the federal government pushing numerous "progressive" or "economical" rulings, and we are now basically dead and treated as a living punchline by our entire country.
Almost all current "victory" conditions the people I am forced to align with, as they are the closest with any chance of enacting anything, fill me with disgust at how milquetoast and lacking in karma they are, yet I swallow that in hope that the future we are building is worth letting those compromises happen.