The publisher. Presumably judging from the context, the author is part of some kind of formal group or think tank, no idea what it could be though. Screencap isn't even mine, I found it online and shared it here as I thought there would be interest in the content.
Racial stereotyping. In one of the music scenes there's a siamese cat playing a piano with chopsticks and singing something like "Hong Kong ching chong fortune cookie wrong". Haven't seen it since I was a kid so that's probably not the exact wording.
Edit: found it on YouTube
Not really.
My current favorite is r/PoliticalCompassMemes, it is reasonably balanced and you can have real discussions without being downvoted.
r/Anime_titties is actually a reasonably neutral sub for international politics. Has a slight left bent sometimes but they base their stance in reality so it's nowhere as bad as r/politics.
I used to browse some of the cringe and meme subs that somewhat overlapped with the gaming subs, but the really good ones were banned in the big banwave last year. Cringetopia is alright but not as good as it used to be.
/r/coronaviruscirclejerk is a good one too, as is r/ChurchofCovid
I could see that being a possibility, but do you have any evidence or explanation to back that up?
I agree, but you're preaching to the choir on this board.
Yes. traps are gay. A feminized male is still a male. I'm convinced that people who like traps are just gay/bisexual but in denial.
Nobody else has mentioned this one, so I will: Neon Genesis Evangelion. Starts out as a stereotypical "teenager-in-giant-mech-fighting-monsters" anime but it gets really good both plot/character wise and in some philosophical concepts they touch on. Its a relatively short series too, only 25 or 26 episodes. And if you are at all into esoteric religious philosophy, you will appreciate the symbolism and references throughout the series. (even without any knowledge of that you can still enjoy the series for what it is)
Without spoiling anything, the original ending was controversial enough that they made a movie to rectify it, (End of Evangelion), and there are a few other sequel movies based on the series.
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I think hyper inflation is a real possibility given how much money has been printed in the last year alone.
More clampdowns on internet freedom
More normalization of trans/lgbt behavior, possibly including a push towards normalizing bestiality/paedo shit.
The Republicans and Democrat parties will both have party splits, if not officialy then at least in practice. Populists vs neolibs/neocons, basically.
The main divide will be over cultural issues and over the rights listed in the Constitution. Specifically the First and Second amendments. Economics will no longer be as much of a division since many of the populists on the right seem to be tacitly accepting unionism, tariffs, some form of government intervention in healthcare, and other typically leftist economics.
Republicans will keep following the social overton window without trying to push back to the right.
White nationalist sentiments will grow in popularity, particularly among younger males, but will be ferociously slandered and censored by the media. Whether white nationalists have a future in American politics remains to be seen.
Industrial Society and it's Future, by Ted Kacyzinski. It is a short critique of the political and social consequences of adopting advanced technology into our society. A little newer than the other suggestions I see here as it was written in 1996, but it is still extremely relevant to today's circumstances. It's not copyrighted so you can actually read free copies online.
Edited to add link for anyone who wants to read
http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Anarchism/Unabom/manifesto2.html
Just checked, it's still there. At the very least /pol/ will probably go eventually.
I would say it was with Andrew Jackson's push to remove property requirements for voting.
I used to think I was sexist and racist but now I realize I'm just classist.
An interesting way of looking at it- I would say what you described is more like meritocracy than classism. But then when you look at the groups that most consistently reach the top in a meritocratic system, it tends to somewhat validate the racism/sexism viewpoint. But then there's the argument that it would be wrong to disenfranchise a legitimately gifted individual from a group that was on average poor performing. I guess that's a really long winded way of saying that I mostly agree.
Depends on the issue. Generally, it has slowed its leftward swing and sometimes been stilled for a period of time, but has not swung right in a long time.
There was a right-leaning backlash in the 1980s that slowed the pendulum swing but ultimately went nowhere since Reagan and HW Bush were sellout neoliberals underneath their thin veneer of nationlist rhetoric.
Before that, maybe a few years post-WW2 from the late forties to mid fifties.
The last true "rightswing" of the pendulum on a national scale would probably be somewhere around the time of the Second Great Awakening, and even then that was mainly on social issues, not neccesarily policy or economic issues.
I think after we "won the west" in the 1890s, was when the leftward shift really began. They replaced Manifest Destiny rhetoric with economic and social rhetoric that had a leftward slant.
That too. The press conference scene where they kept misinterpreting people's words was spot on.
"Predators" vs "Prey" dynamic. Predators were violent savages in the past, but learned to be civilized. Many Prey discriminate against them because they still believe that predators are inherently violent.
The carnivores were presented as 'historically savage', and the prey presented as "historically civilized". And the underlying assumption made by all the characters is that it's 'it's in their nature', clearly a reference to social darwinism. At one point it turns out that the mayor of the city is running a concentration camp/experiment lab that kidnaps predators, and runs experiments on them to figure out why they're violent.
And the city depicted in the movie appears to idealize a literal segregated society, in the Jim Crow sense. Sure, no group is put at an obvious disadvantage, but each group/culture lives in its own neighborhood, works a specific set of jobs, etc, and overall everyone seems to casually accept (and be very happy with) self-segregation.
The message is supposed to be "predators are normal people and shouldn't be treated differently from prey" and "all cultures should be respected", but the way it's presented is "we should do that by ignoring the biological traits and historical interactions of the groups" which is unintentionally really racist.
Ok, ok, the riots are happening, and it's not white supremacists. Black people are doing it, but it's justified because riots are a natural response to oppression and also because reparations
What exactly do you think they're trying to hide by ommiting the person's gender?
What kind of shitpost fanfics did/would you write? Just basic stuff like blatant self-inserts, purposeful cringe, nonsense plots, etc? Like Sonichu or My Immortal?
or actually writing anti-sjw stuff like racism, sexism, etc into the story?
Both could provoke very entertaining reactions if done well. This is a good idea, I might give it a hand.
They don't have a nominee yet. Trump needs to nominate someone, then they need to do Senate hearings to confirm the nominee, then the Senate has to actually vote them into the court. The nomination and the actual vote will happen quickly. The hearings are what will take a long time, both because of established procedures and because the Democrats will try to drag out the process.
I got the idea from seeing the old Clinton-Gore 1992 badges. https://tuskerdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Clinton-Gore-Confederate-flag-pin-and-Sons-Of-The-New-South-button.jpg
I think this has potential but wanted to hear thoughts from others.
Longcat will live on in our hearts.
That's a sick car poster in the first pic btw
lame
Both of your concerns stem from a (quite reasonable) fear of marrying a woman who turns out to be crazy in some aspect. Make sure, first and foremost, that the woman you like, likes you more than you like her. This matters, because to use an analogy, the male nature is like a strong steady rock, and the female nature is like moss or tree-root that molds itself around the rock.
As sexist as it might sound, women's opinions and views tend to be most strongly influenced by the dominant male figure in their life. (As an aside, this is why women with no father or weak fathers often turn out badly) So assuming she isn't totally brainwashed, if she genuinely likes you then she will come around to your way of thinking, and not screw you over down the road. This will only happen however if you are firm in your views and she likes you enough to tolerate initial disagreements. If you try to shift position to appeal to her, the rock/tree root effect will not work and she will not change.
She doesn't have to be redpilled from the start, as long as she is a) not a flaming leftist/doesn't have some extremely strong pre existing conviction, and b) genuinely invested in you, then it will work out as she will gradually come around to your point of view. This will not happen instantly, it will take at minimun year or two, but it will happen.
With regard to the raising family part, if you're worried about schools having an indoctrination effect on children, homeschool or find a good non-cucked private school. Don't be overbearing or overly sheltering, it will cause your kids to rebel, but do try to push them in the right direction, i.e. screen out obviously biased children's media.
Alternately, just make sure that as teenagers they find /pol/, and let them redpill themselves.