I would never identify as an atheist because the people who operate under that label are generally so vile and cringe. I am more agnostic; lightly believe and hope that God exists, but can't bring myself to have genuine faith that He does.
But I'm conscious of the fact that my morals closely align with more traditional, non-cucked Christianity, so I am very sympathetic towards it as a whole. I think most normies cannot function well without a good religion; when they give it up, something terrible like the government or cucked social causes tend to fill that void. Seen it happen to my own brother.
Maybe one day I'll drum up enough faith to go to church again and be part of a good community (another positive facet of good religion in this increasingly isolating and atomizing culture), but as it stands now I cannot justify it because I would feel like an actor playing a part; nothing would be genuine.
Perhaps I am too worldy or materialistic too. A couple friends of mine have in recent years returned to the faith as very traditional catholics. Seems giga based from my perspective, but again I couldn't join in unless I felt a genuine faith within me. But also, they're going to various church functions like 3 to 4 times per week and I just couldn't imagine that with my current schedule of a full time job, classes on the side, social life, hobbies, etc.
In 2016 I started liking him because they would always have CNN on when my buddy and I would get lunch every Friday. I'm not a genius, but I could see through the constant negative BS they made up about him. Clearly there was something they were trying to stop. Flash forward to 2016 election night I was kind of rooting for him but didn't want to admit it yet. Even at that point if you asked me if I supported Trump I would have probably given a vague and non-committal answer.
Charlottesville was really the nail in the coffin for me. Saw a lot of friends freaking out on Facebook about how racist Trump is for what he said. Thought that this was finally the smoking gun I was waiting for that would prove Trump was the piece of crap everyone was saying he is. Watched the full speech and was absolutely floored by how divorced from reality everyone's screeching was. It was evident people were getting themselves into a frenzy over headlines and select snippets and not the full context.
From then on it has pretty much been a mad dash to the right for me. Orange man ain't perfect but he's the best we've had in my lifetime. Hope he's just the beginning of the pendulum swing.
Honestly I was ready to disagree but that doesn't sound particularly bad. I think it would be better if it could just be culturally ingrained that the behavior seen in the video is unacceptable and will be punished, but the situation you described is definitely an improvement over the current state of things.
The worry would be once you make a move like that, there's usually no going back.
More importantly, there was a tweet showing that relative to other areas, DC spiked much much higher. Wish I had it but I'm on my phone at the moment. Think it was from the Rasmussen dude.
I don't really come here to be caught up with absolutely every headline. I have other places for that. I come here because I like the crowd. There's a lot of shit but there's often some really intelligent and well articulated comments.
That dude is a legend. I held off on watching his content because from the sound of how people talked about it, I figured why bother since it seems like I already know most of what he says. And while that was true, his videos and explanations are so enjoyable that it's easily worth the ride.
If I ever need to redpill a normie on that topic, his videos will be one of the first vehicles I will consider.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine a world where there isn't a major stock market crash over the next year or two, completely irrespective of what Trump does. The economic situation is just so bad and stocks are just so overvalued.
The big problem is so many boomers have asserted for so long that stock market = economy when that just isn't the case. Despite the stock market soaring, no one could argue the economy was good under Biden when there was ZERO real wage growth over his tenure and housing has been more unaffordable than ever. Contrast that with Trump's presidency where we actually saw real wage growth.
Most people were able to actually see that the economy sucked despite the stock market, so I'm hoping they will be capable of seeing that it is recovering despite a crash. And honestly, who could look you in the eye and tell you that the housing market doesn't need a big crash to correct itself?
Tried? At this rate he will be elected governor next election. He's way ahead in the early polls and I have zero reason to believe anyone will surface who can beat him.
The school pizza that is nostalgic for me doesn't look like this. It was triangle in shape and had a stuffed crust. Would give a lot to be able to have a slice for the first time in 20 years. I can still remember the taste exactly.
as the latter seems to not be that much of a fallacy
It was never a fallacy in the way leftoids liked to claim in order to deflect. They would have you believe that long chains of cause and effect do not exist because it's inconvenient for them. The reason its an informal fallacy is because merely saying "A therefore Z" does nothing to prove why it is so.
The problem in the context of political discussions is those types of things are generally impossible to empirically prove. You either get it or you don't, so leftists either flat out don't understand or just feign ignorance.
I agree but if JD Vance is as legit as he projects himself to be (obviously not guaranteed by any means), they will need two assassinations and by that point the Deep State will have woken up way too many more people for their liking. There's a reason they had largely stopped doing very high profile assassinations.
I'm cautiously optimistic though. People bring up Pence as the obvious comparison but even at his "best" Pence never looked even 10% as good as Vance.
While the right talks about it a lot, I feel like I've never noted birthright citizenship getting national spotlight. So I'm not even sure what percentage of the population has been gaslit to support it. Maybe it's a cope but I feel like it'd be something even a solid chunk of democrat voters understand is bad.
Point being if SCOTUS decides to really fuck over the country I feel like it could be possible to gain momentum to get enough states to pass an ammendment about it. Anyone refusing to play ball could be put on blast over it nonstop.
Realistically SCOTUS is our best chance though, but a man can dream.
Yeah the fact that we've heard several specific instances of this within the first week is a good sign. It'd be more worrying if we heard nothing; we knew this was going to happen. Not under the impression absolutely everyone will get caught, but all you need is one person to send a tip for each case.
It's not going to be a replacement for the sane portions of the general population, but I agree that at this point it's highly unlikely it just fades away like other attempts at a competitor. If there's one thing leftoids are amazing at it is all acting as one hivemind in unison with religious fervor which is extremely conducive to giving an upstart platform like that off the ground and helping it stay around.
I took so much money from retards on Kalshi who insisted this wouldn't happen hahaha.
In Ohio we really can't squander this opportunity in 2026. In 2022, the establishment purposely split the vote with a spoiler candidate so that DeWine would win the primary. Well now he can't run again.
If a shit candidate wins in 2026, unfortunately enough people aren't smart enough to see through the tricks that will be played to ensure they win the primary in 2030 too. A primary with no incumbent advantage is our best hope here.
And I disagree with other posters here. The bad publicity Vivek got over him supporting Unlimited Jeet Works is not enough to make him lose the state in the absence of a very good alternative. Unless a much better job is done of injecting that as well as why his position is bad for America into the general public consciousness.
People seem confident he's toast and will lose, but as someone who lives in Ohio I'm not so certain.
The leverage could be as simple as the winds are shifting in his state and he knows he's toast in a few years if he acts like a standard radical dem. Can't let people be swayed by the act.
Many of them for sure, but I think a lot of well meaning retards are swept up in it, especially when it gets loud enough. Some people just need to take a deep breath and realize any and every new potentially bad headline isn't the end.
This comment should be pinned somewhere. It's gotten pretty damn ridiculous lately.
Like, I get it, the dude can be insufferable. But, and this goes go for just about anyone, I'm not going to ignore a helpful reply just because it comes from someone I may not be a fan of. People who do are retarded and might as well be trying to lose.
Okay. I don't like Cernovich either but his reply here is pretty good.
Based and appreciated.
Thanks, I'm on mobile so couldn't link myself. But I was actually referring to the one with screenshots of ChatGPT having an anti-white and anti-Christnan bias.
Glad he is putting them on blast but don't trust him for a second. Cernovich's reply is pretty perfect actually.
Stuff like this is very important and one of the many reasons why Vance is killing it right now. So many midwit normies would be taken in by the bullshit in the tweet he's responding to, but he systematically disassembled it in spectacular fashion. Now his response has way more views than the original tweet.