we'd have to seal our borders and prevent the entry of low skilled foreign workers
Never forget that the US lost some billion dollars in food industry thanks to British Petroleum causing a spill in our waters causing tens of thousands of jobs to be lost instantly and a huge source of food gone for decades. And they got off with a fine that was 'promised' to go to those effected, but ended up being given to "Clean Water" programs and the Federal Government instead.
Which is why a huge amount of certain seafoods now are imported from farms in China to meet quotas, instead of bought directly from American families who are all still out of work.
Point is, its not just the low skill foreigners destroying American production.
Tumblr had an entire subculture of basic white girls who shoplifted, with entire lexicons, tutorials and culture about themselves. It was shockingly large for being an open criminal element, likely only allowed because of how little anyone took it seriously being a mix of women, who get off on all crimes, and them stealing mostly vanity goods.
"Thieves" as a fantasy concept has been preachy since at least the 20th century retellings of Robin Hood, where suddenly stealing was cool and heroic and awesome as long as you labelled them something vaguely evil like "the rich." Doesn't need to be about taxes or abusive royal powers, just "the rich bad, the poor good."
Which is directly how you create movements like the white women shoplifters who got started on tumblr, who think they are equal to him because they stole some makeup and tampons. And then circles back to shit like this, where its not "stealing" if it meets their made up criteria but they are still Badass Thieves anyway.
Wow, a few people there are actually posting honest responses.
It seems there is a lot more of a schism going on in the Left beyond the Israel/Palestine one.
This one seems to be less moral and more pragmatic though, as a growing swath of them seem to be becoming increasingly aware that they are losing ground and acknowledging what's causing it.
Not that they think its wrong to attack like that, only that its not helping them.
GW2 had its place as a game you could just "explore." As in, you wander around, get involved in some quest going on, or do some sort of wierd world puzzle. In that regard it was a refreshing pace in the "WoW clone" era, but had so little to do with GW1 that it might have hurt it to use the name considering the retarded decisions they made with the lore.
GW1 was a lot more of a planning game, where you had to know what you were doing and git gud to succeed, as the low level cap and lack of gearing meant skill was important.
I've been working on my "God walking among mortals" title for 20 years now, and I doubt I'll ever get it, but GW1 is one of the last pre-WoW mmos still around and its so amazing.
I mean, that was one of the original roots of TDS.
Trump skipped the media middleman and just tweeted his thoughts directly to the world, often unfiltered. Which not only made him look less "professional" (because they were used to presidential words having multiple proofreads and filters), but also forced them to listen to him instead of the media interpreting his words.
Which resulted in the legacy media losing their shit (and sowing the seeds for TDS endlessly in impotent rage) and him looking brutish and rough to everyone else.
Well they are a medical doctor trying to take on the role of Therapist, that's already a failure on their part from the top. A specialized doctor doesn't try to also be a primary care physician beyond a very basic level for a reason.
Its a problem with Psychiatrists in general, in that they feel like they are Super Therapists who can be both the "counselor" and the "pill fairy" approaching situations from all angles.
Its a problem of taking the correct course from one situation and then applying it wider without proper understanding of the complexities.
Like the children of addicts or the extreme abusive types (the ones that r/raisedbynarcissists all write fanfiction wishing about) should absolutely cut their family out. Both as a stop measure or a jolt to the relationship to help the other party start to respect boundaries correctly.
But those are extreme cases where the harm is notable and direct. However once that became a thing you could do, Therapists the world over started applying it far more loosely so as not to upset their Leftie patients who were so lost in politics they'd just drop and replace the Therapist if they said anything to the contrary.
Because that's what usually happens. People shop for a Therapist who agrees with their own belief about themselves to enable them, rather than go to one who will confront and help them through their issues. And people consider the ability to shop like that a good thing so much it appears in Ads for things like BetterHelp.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Remembering RBG – A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic
Gotta make sure to have all the names in there so nobody doesn't get their full attention and credit.
"Mourning a beloved figure"? Nah this is for attention with that as just the cover.
Story is shit. Writing is shit.
They literally pull one of the only beloved characters from DA2 to jam him into the opening, just to "kill him off" while his writing makes him increasingly faggier by the minute.
Things like that get lost in the woke storm, but even without all that nonsense it was still written by vindictive and imbecilic retards taking a dump on every part of the game's history.
Act 1 in all those types of games is always the most interesting part. You get to create your character, decide how to interact with quests, and meet and decide your party. Its got all the hooks and freshness.
Act 2 is usually always a slump because its just trudging through the choices you made hours ago while the plot has to take you forward in the necessary beats one way or another. While Act 3 has potential, it has to competently account for all the choices made along the way and very rarely do they put in that effort to have that much differentiation.
Mass Effect is a great example. First game has massive potential, second game is completely throw away, and the third tries to account for all the options but fails to do so.
Had asylums been run correctly there would be no left right now.
The Left was running the Asylums when they were open. John Money was doing his work while Asylums were open. Lobotomies were done while Tabula Rasa was being talking about. The entire Psychology field was held captive by the Left from the moment it became a thing over a century ago. The Left was doing just fine as getting its fingers in all of society without needing their most unhinged foot soldiers.
The power of Asylums isn't inherently evil. But the actual reality of them is that the power was squarely in the hands of the Left for well over a century before their closure, and we would need to purge Psychology as an entire industry, including decades of "scientific work" tainted by Leftist ideology, before we could dream of opening Asylums as anything but death camps.
Like all weapons, you can't just use it thinking you are now stronger and thereby the winner. You have to account for its misuse in all forms, including how your enemy will use it once they get access to it. And right now all forms of Asylum are completely in their hands to use as they see fit against us if we even dream of opening them, long before it would damage their own kind.
That kind of paranoia leans way more schizophrenic than guilt. All of the feared possibilities listed are very stereotypical and movie like, which is a pretty common thing paranoid schizos do.
Normally, its someone extremely religious who becomes that kind of person seeing witches and Satan in everything in their schizo psychosis, but if someone had a break from their Faith in the past then I can see it manifesting as a deep seated terror of being the apostate under threat like that.
This guy had a long list of mental health incidents prior, and seemed to have normal functioning enough just a few weeks ago to happily celebrate his anniversary. A guilt mind growing increasingly afraid wouldn't do that.
Such is why its a very good thing how toothless they are. At the moment they need you to willingly submit to them to do anything to you.
But if granted the ability for something like a family member to put you in their care for "being a Trumper" then I think a lot of people with TDS relatives would be locked up quick.
I am terrified of religious zealots
This is why I think the election might have been the catalyst, despite the lack of evidence otherwise.
One of the common TDS meltdowns I've seen is people being legitimately terrified that some sort of squad is going to come and get them now, round them up and kill them in camps for being XYZ. Like, well beyond hysteria and into paranoid schizophrenic levels.
So someone who was already afraid of something like that gets hit by the TDS wave that just swept the nation, and its easy to see his fragile mind finally just breaking entirely.
People really fail to grasp how if asylums still existed and "involuntary holds" weren't so strictly restricted how easily the Left would have weaponized them against us. It would take them minutes to define "bigotry" as a maladaptive behavior that is a danger to yourself/society and thereby you need to be held until its cured.
The entire Psychology field is built and run by the Extremists that think up the ideas that trickle down through the rest of the Left. Giving them the power to literally lock you up is madness.
when it was really just that men aren't interested in participating in a society that actively hates them simply for existing
The original "incel" boards were never this kind of MGTOW pseudo-positive thinking. They were cesspits of misery and depression endlessly repeating from completely broken shutins and losers that would drop everything from a crumb of affection let alone pussy.
That's what made the stereotype of them so ridiculous. Simply looking at any of them and you would find a specimen so pathetic that you couldn't be afraid of him. Think Randy Stair, who even after a shooting is still considered a sad joke. The only "threat" they posed was that they were so crushed down by lack of womanly attention that they couldn't be manipulated by it anymore due to sheer despair.
Because that's where the hate truly came from. Women saw groups of men that were below even the beta bux, who could truly provide nothing to them. And the hate they felt for those guys was so unwarranted that they had to invent a monster caricature instead to justify it to the masses.
People are not necessarily good at judging policy
Nor should they really be. Policy requires an extreme understanding of a plethora of industries, human psychology, and international trade among many other factors. Not only that, but also how they will interact with other policies, law, and bureaucracy already on the books. Its an absurd ask of people.
That's the point of representatives in government. You elect someone whose entire job is to know that and then they make decisions on it for you with their expertise. And that bullshit detector is how you decide which representative will act in your interest instead of their own.
Where that system failed was in the power of the media controlled narratives, as well as the increasing globalization leading to people becoming disconnected from both their community and reality.
That and the overweighted power of the Federal Government compared to the State and Local, which is so far removed from an individual's life that neither you nor they can properly vet each other. But you know, at least Lincoln "freed" the slaves so totally worth it there.
Of course, and that is them telling you exactly what you need to change to improve. If you still come across as "faking it" then you haven't actually begun to exhibit what they like, you are merely wearing the trappings of it like a coat.
It still amuses me greatly how something as low effort and 'non-presidential' as sitting and doing a podcast has had effect on this election.
Like, of all things, the podcasting tours did the best comparison between the two that wasn't behind a veil of media and obsfucation. Trump/Vance showed up on highly popular podcasts everyone knows and just shot the shit like normal people (massively undermining their Nazi labels), while Harris went on a bunch of wierd niche shows with awkward names and came across as unlikable and stupid as always.
This just further shows how much they knew that was the case, and wanted to desperately control it.
Things can be unacceptable but still needing to be tolerated.
Someone's baby crying at an inopportune moment for example. You have a low chance of stopping it, and most actions taken will only make the situation worse for no gain. You don't tolerate the behavior of the parent, because they are in the wrong for not removing the baby from the situation, you tolerate the situation for your own sake.
Letting them control language and how words are used is just ceding ground to them endlessly. Needing to remove all nuance from how you speak to nail every single word and concept down to pure black and white nonsense is just admitting they have won and destroyed our ability to just understand something without spelling it out for a debate team.