They literally thought they had won. Hillary was gonna win and complete their ascension to complete and forever dominance. They had been building towards that for decades, and they thought they had a slam dunk against the meme Reality Show candidate the GOP put in front of her.
So in 2015 they didn't think they had to hold back anymore, they could just let loose and be as wild as they wanted in all forms. Whether it was politics or media or anywhere else they had buried their tentacles. And when they lost, they didn't have enough control over those golems to pull it back, which is why the Woke nonsense felt so unfettered for years since.
I think this type of thinking has one delineation. Stealthable characteristics and not.
In your example, someone can be gay and us not know it until they announce it, and its the same with quite a few characteristics, though most of them are so linked with politics and ideology I think its inevitable. But someone could simply live thier life doing their best as one of those and no one could be the wiser.
Whereas being a woman or a jeet is always going to be open and out no matter what you do. You can't just be a quiet one, your only hope of being "accepted" is to be open and vehemently against your own kind in a manner that could harm you if people held it universally, but you do so because its principled or morally right. Thomas Sowell is probably the most accepted example of this, as no one cares he is black because he has shown himself to be above such.
I think guys like Kirk and many other less-RINO'd conservatives are looking at things in a practicality mindset, in that "X demographics exist and vote, so we need to get them on our side and not drive them into the arms of the enemy." This is why I believe Trump keeps working for these groups, its not truly pandering and more attempting to do "the right thing" either morally or in the "we need to win to help anyone" sense.
Whereas most of us are in a far more radical camp simply because we are willing to entertain if not support ideas like complete removal of X demographic from the country, removal of their voting rights, and other more extreme measures. This is more Conservative in the ideological sense and overall the better option in general, but its unpalatable to a large amount of people to a point where the very idea of it simply doesn't come into their mind. So they fit the problem into their more limited ideology and make it work, which is how you get the problem you are describing.
Who wouldn't pay an extra 100 a month to cut the term by 20 years?
The same people who aren't paying an extra 100~ a month right now to cut 3-7 off their 30 year mortgage. Or cutting their car loan in half by doing so, and so on.
Like, I get the problem. Money is tight all around and the barest minimum is all a lot of people can manage while still "owning" something. But many of them are flying too close to the sun to do so, and are just kicking their own can down the road by accepting short sighted deals.
Yet people want to own, and they are completely in the right to want it. And seeing 2200 instead of 2400 could seem like a hugely deciding factor for someone who has a monthly take home of 3000$ even if it costs them 200k more in interest. Heck they could even convince themselves it means their kids will benefit because it'll only be 10 years on a low mortgage for them! It'll be easy to talk people in to, even if its only going to screw them.
And that's why the parable of "still having wet feet" is important. Because people will kneecap themselves for short term lower pay while setting themselves up for a terrible long term. Heck, that's how a lot of "first time" or even "Vet" home loans screw people. The basically 0 down they lure people in with seems appealing and then saddles them with a higher payment anyway.
Again, if the difference is what makes or breaks you then you are living too close to the edge for you to be getting into this to begin with. And that does preclude way too many Americans from home ownership, which is the bigger problem. But they still need to be responsible enough to not screw themselves along the way.
You're right, I hadn't even considered the equity angle. That does make it considerably worse.
But yes I do think most people are too dumb to think about this, though not because of their own retardation but because it has gotten so complicated (by design) that the common man couldn't realistically be expected to understand it all.
I honestly have got to thank Vivek and Musk for their crashout last Christmas.
Before that, the jeet problem was mostly a backseat issue. Sure plenty of people talked and discussed it, but mostly as a secondary to things like border hoppers. It hadn't breached mainstream discussion.
But they made such a stink of it that it became a major talking point and never stopped. Bit by bit it has become one of the biggest political issues of the year, and because Indians are just so unlikeable and awful in every way its basically had zero resistance among the common populace. To the point where videos like this can be made and it seems the only people trying to stop it are the Indians themselves.
And because Indians are such subhuman trash, literally any amount of light shone upon them makes them look worse.
Any that hasn't just hasn't had enough time to slip up.
From being a "minority" to a woman to a gay to any form of non-Christian (and many terrible forms of Christian), they will always default in some amount back to that identity as their core one if pushed.
They might be useful allies in the moment, but one should never stop being wary of them or think them anything more than temporary.
Honestly in the current housing market as it exists, this is a good symptom of how fucked it all is.
Ignoring all the generational debt and absurd prices, something everyone already has spoken about at length, most people don't make it to the end of their mortgage anyway. So the 30 or 50 is meaningless to the common person, one is just a smaller number than the other and they'll be selling in about a decade anyway.
Why is that such a common thing to sell when you are 1/3 to almost halfway done with your mortgage, just to restart it way later in life guaranteeing you cannot have it paid before possible retirement? I think the answer to that is much more important to "fixing" this than people give credit for.
Basically nothing. The difference between the 30 and 50 is small enough that if it is making the difference for you between owning and not, then you are living too close to the edge of your means for it to matter anyway.
But, as someone who recently bought a home, it will absolutely work in practice. People are completely obsessed with "lower monthly payments" to the eclipse of all else, including paying way more in every other way, and everyone involved in the process of buying a home will put it in front of you. I've watched people refinance for barely 100$ difference.
I think the problem is that while there is certainly a lot of circumstantial evidence, its still basing it all on "they both walk funny in the same manner" which isn't the type of CSI level groundbreaking proof people jump all over.
It also spends a chunk of the article treating Kyle Seraphin as their big quote machine. A "White Jew" (his own words) who calls criticism of him just like the Holocaust. His only big claim after being a totally badass FBI whistleblower was defending 764, the extremely horrific pedo cult that cropped up online in recent years, earlier this year with increasingly bizarre fervor and contradictions. Like, in a manner where it seemed panicked instead of principled but emotional. Which led to a bunch of guys who use the term "Woke Right" to take up his crusade after he ran away from it, including actual Federal Informant Enrique Tarrio running defense for him.
Which to anyone terminally online enough puts the entire credibility of the article to the test.
I can still completely believe that this dyke they are accusing was the bomber, as this article has brought a lot of other random facts out that keep putting together a picture that is quite damning. But in any other scenario most people here would be screaming about the Jew they are propping up in their big article, if they only knew what he was.
I have never heard of this charity before (other than the jingle I assumed was a joke being used in the recent AMV Hell) and just looking at its Wikipedia it says that its by and for Jews like a dozen times.
Granted, it says they were outright fined for not properly disclosing that fact back in 2009, so perhaps its changed in the recent years but I find it very hard to feel bad for someone who donates to a charity without even reading something as basic as the fucking Wikipedia page on it. Ignorantly feeding evil is its own sin after a point.
Though it did contain the most Jewish thing I think I've heard of anyone doing:
In Oregon, the attorney general added that Kars4Kids failed to disclose that its offer of a "free vacation" for vehicle donors was designed to recruit people to attend timeshare presentations
Most of these lines are fine in proper context. The issue with them in media is them being used to deflate tension instantly from a scene, sum up an entire character in a single line, or create cheap emotional resonance out of nothing.
All of that it necessary for daily function at times, because your life isn't trying to "tell a complete and impactful story."
Taxation for basic infrastructure and services makes perfect sense
Most things make perfect sense until the government gets involved, and they find ways to pull failure from simplicity.
One of my personal anti-tax pet peeves is how much I do not believe road workers deserve human rights, let alone my money, for the service they provide.
It was a big talking point in the "manosphere" over a decade ago that the "bachelor tax" was inevitable. Especially after the "incel" menace got big, this was always the inevitable end goal of that dehumanization.
Its especially guaranteed because one of the few groups who are "thriving" in this economy are adult men with no families and their autism (the cause of said singledom) means they have awkwardly large amounts of money from like an IT job. Often the degenerate beasts who spend all day gooning in VRchat as an anime girl, or commissioning furry art, and other hedonism.
Women will see this ick factory of a man who dares be wealthy without paying the pussy tax, and it will infuriate them. They want his resources, like all women do, but cannot put the ick aside enough to beta bux him. So instead they run to daddy, like all women do, government and demand he fixes this injustice.
They knew how popular that kind of pseudo intellectual drivel can be, and as books like The Secret proved still are. Its a great bait to get people in and let them do their little mind games.
I think they really only stopped because "Scientology" became a household name instead of a bomb they could drop on you, so the bait stopped being effective.
Its sad because I bought the D.Va funko way back in like 2016 when they were still a novelty, and its insanely detailed. Like rivals ones that are in the easy three figures. The only thing "funko" about it is the tiny D.Va inside is in their standard style, with the mech looking nothing like it.
Meaning they absolutely could do some quality stuff, and instead went with "cheap, quick and easy" as their market developed.
What's ironic is that their low price was what got them their initial foot into the market. 10-20$ for a little figure of your favorite character back in the day was a steal compared to the 50$ for a "bargain" one or the 100$+ for a proper.
Like most markets, once people get involved to "invest" and treat it as a collectors thing they intend to flip the price just jumps into the point where it becomes meaningless to anyone else. Its what Pokemon cards or retro games are suffering from right now.
From what I remember when I lazily thumbed through one it was thoroughly unimpressive. Not hilariously bad like the movie, but generic and boring sci-fi without anything to really set it apart from the crowd.
The most unique parts are the barely concealed political/ideological stuff that would be repurposed into Scientology doctrine anyway.
There is a reason why even his cult doesn't use his books are a soft sell recruiting tool, because they aren't interesting enough to bait anyone. Instead they use the nonsense babble like Dianetics which can use pure confusion and "just thinking about it" to reel idiots instead.
I've conceded nothing, I've merely wasted your time with zero intention of engaging with you beyond mockery as I said initially.
But I'll give you credit, you are so boring even that barely brings any joy. You truly are the epitome of meaningless and, once again, you should kill yourself.
No measurable metric whatsoever has changed as a result of his actions
Funny you claim I am not god (lower case g notable), and then make proclamations as if you merely saying them makes them true as if you yourself are God.
Not like you've provided any proof of anything, you just repeat the same lines. Like a bore.
Acknowledging genetics as a positive thing about white people is blaspheme to the Left. Once you allow that line of thinking in whatsoever they are terrified people will recognize that certain genes are in fact "superior" by all objective measures that cannot be denied.
And once people can say "pretty skinny white girls are more attractive than Lizzo sized black shebeasts" then all their media control starts to crumble.
Word on the street is the entire movie is a metaphor for "parental trauma," aka "I hate you dad," so it might be cheating to do so.