Go underground, and bide our time while we don't lose touch with each other.
There are a LOT of people who seem to be throwing in the towel and wanting to declare it over. What does 'over' mean, exactly? The left just doesn't get power and then instantly it's game over, and the TV turns off.
They have power. That means they're The Man again, and they have a radicalized Marxist street movement that's hungry for change that's still out there and angry. The establishment democrats won, and they most likely are going to want to do a managed dispersal of token goodies to their base while they consolidate power, and go back to attempting to make money the Old Fashioned way like they did during Obama, during Clinton, etc.
Biden himself is weak, and the momentum for action is going to be coming from the people and structures around him. Without their own version of Trump to rally around, the left is going to be scattered and aimless. They'll cut at us, yes, but without a serious target to sink their teeth into? It won't take long for them to start tearing at each other.
This isn't over by a long shot. The left has to govern a country that is fundamentally different in mindset then my last super political low point, when Obama defeated Romney, and we had the IRS persecuting Tea Party groups, and both the weight of that and the establishment republican party crushed that movement. Things felt dark back that then, and it was terribly lonely being a political activist in California.
It's different this time. For better and for worse. There's a lot more people in the boat this go around.
We are simply in the next phase of whatever has to happen. The left has promised their supporters the world, and now they have to deliver. That alone is a terrible obstacle for them to confront, even with their control of information. They are greedy, manic, and scared. We have to outlast that, and I think we can.
The idea is not to run and hide, but to dig in. This was always going to be a siege.
Been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 here, with a goal of hitting Definitive Edition of Chronicles 1 after. I just wrapped up a stint of Super Mario Odyssey. On the computer front, I have a big soft spot for Stellaris and it's nice to chip away it in little chunks. I can't really buy anything new right now, but that's okay. The backlog is big.
It's too bad about SW Squadrons, but at least X-Wing is on Steam now. If you've never touched any of the old school X-Wing flight sims, Alliance might not be a bad place to start.
The media has been pushing it, and I've been hearing it from people in my life who have bought into this that the second wave is coming! Oh no!! Aren't those people in the southern states inbred hicks!? Look! There's people in the football stands not wearing masks! ITS ALL THEIR FAULT! OMG!!
I'm so fucking tired of it. For me, among the things that frustrates me the most is when covid fear-porn is used to justify total derision for people they don't like. I know it keeps getting brought up, but it's hard not to see it as a cult-like mindset. It's one thing to talk about it, its another to see it in person, and it's awful. I am really worried for the damage that is being done to our society.
It's also very cute they're hyping up the fear as we get closer to the election. I just hope sooner rather than later some of these folks realize they're getting played, but I'm also concerned too many of them like the excuse to be dramatic and horrible to others.
They want it to be true.
It doesn't matter if it makes them look like complete smug asses. Wanting to Believe takes precedent.
There was a moment back when Digg was still relevant, when I was trying to debate democrats and I had an epiphany that they weren't actually expressing remorse or concern that republicans felt the way they do. They outright wanted the Republicans they were debating to be awful, terrible people, and it made them excited when they thought it was true.
This was back in like, 2007. It's exploded since then to outrageous proportions.
They're proud of it. They're god damn proud of their ignorance and they can't wait to fling it out onto the stage for all to see.
Because this is 'owning' Trump and the trumptards, you see. They're so dumb, haha, we're the smart ones.
Holy hell I can't describe how sick I am of these people. No person claiming to be serious about the immigration debate, or even bystanders, can not know what 'coyotes' means. This has been part of the debate over the border since what, 2005? Probably earlier? This is not new!
Depends on how the regulations shake out. I think the social media corps want to be regulated, but in a way that favors them, so they get exceptions but all their competition is squashed. As is normal in so many sectors. They'll attempt to basically write the law and have their favored politicians pass them. They will only squeal if it winds up blowing up in their faces.
There is currently a civil war in the democrat party, and the politicians may attempt to blackmail the social media companies, so hard to say what actually will happen. I don't know if they will stick to the plan, or all attempt to backstab each other.
Their trend is to only push harder. Supposing Biden wins, they'll take it as validation that the tactic works and that there will be no reason to hold back. If they were disciplined, yes, I agree they would throw the bone to conservatives. But the past six months have made it more than clear - they've surrendered the momentum of the democrat party to the radical activists. It will be very hard for them to resist a further purity spiral on all fronts, including their own party. No democrat leader is calling for a stop to this stuff. In my eyes, that means they endorse it. They will get their unity by attempting to force it.
Very good point. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I think for a lot of them it's because they want it to be true. They want it to be true so badly they'll take even the flimsiest excuse to embrace that validation.
We've gone from phoning it in to twittering it in.
What useless garbage. This is just an excuse to have their hot Twitter Take get the trappings of the New Yorker masthead, now with less effort.
I think there is a real possibility we reconcile after an outburst of violence. I want us to be able to reconcile in a civil fashion, but this has been decades in the making and it's not the sort of thing that can be undone at a moment's notice.
Our social contract is being strained, and in some places outright shredded. We're losing the ability to trust one another as countrymen. Not everywhere, but too many places where the left is willing to take advantage of people's good natures. Many urban metro areas, for example. That sort of behavior comes with a price, and if we start losing the ability to rely on the police to enforce the law? It's going to get ugly.
I'm hoping and praying that cooler heads prevail and someone in the democrat party leadership, or an influential leftist populist, is able to grasp the reins of the party and steer it away, but it's probably not going to happen before there's a flaring. They've chosen to embrace their crazies and let them run wild, because they think it will give them power. I don't know how you oppose that, other than staying true to principals, setting a good example, and defending one's rights.
The left has successfully hollowed out many of the old pillars of society. They're going to crumble, and the country is going to need other pillars to hold everything up while we rebuild. I think the best thing we can do is try and be those pillars, and hope that reconciliation follows. Otherwise, I guess we have to play it by ear.
Only outdoors. He lives in a downtown metro area, so it's largely to avoid trouble from any authorities. The furthest I take it is having blue lives matter neck gaiters, which annoys him, but I figure it's fair. He's imposing on me in other ways.
There is someone in my personal life who still gets emotionally worked up whenever they see someone not wearing a mask. It's a visceral reaction and almost instinctive.
I've tried to talk it out, and remind them that even the experts they like admit it's not a perfect shield - the emotional reaction deepens. It's Bad when churches have outdoor assemblies, but it's Fine when the protestors are out in mass crowds, because they're totally all wearing masks. Doesn't matter what the churches do. Doesn't matter what anyone does if they're culturally offensive to the left.
It's an emotional release at this point, and an excuse to be horrible to people. I'm getting very tired of it, a lot of the people buying into this ought to know better but are hitting the easy button when it comes to critical thinking. This person describes themselves as a moderate and wears it as a badge of honor, but takes the default democrat position on almost everything.
We've more or less stopped talking about this stuff completely. There's no reason anymore.
"It's okay when we do it."
They can never help themselves.
This is early. If they were trying to be effective, they would have waited until the end of the month. Seems like they're giving in to the desire to rub it in people's faces and taunt them. The left is more scary when they're subtle and sneaky, and in the past they've been able to be disciplined in their tactics. I think that's all getting thrown out the window.
Gonna be a fun next several weeks!
While I want to speculate this is them being desperate, I think this is just indulgent flexing because they can. Why not? Who's going to stop them?
I think the left has decided that what other people think doesn't matter anymore, and there's no reason left to soften the blow. They're going all-in.
And then we get 'four dead in Ohio' and a thorough scrubbing of events in the history books.
I didn't learn about the protestor's tactics before Kent State, and in the moments leading up to the shooting, until about a year ago. I should not be surprised at this point, but when I look back on what I was taught compared to what the fuller story was of various incidents, the differences are astounding.
I will say I was lucky enough to have a great teacher cover the events of the Boston Massacre. The revolutionary war was essentially America's first civil war, so it is fair to examine it to see what kinds of instigations were happening back then.
What the hell was that woman doing striding up to charging police with guns drawn??
This is worse than LARPing. The inhumanity we see makes me sick. A guy is fucking killed just feet away, and she wants to get right in the thick of things? It's like the reaction to violence is to 'push'. Advance blindly when a fire starts. Looks like the same attitude when groups of Antifa instigate confrontations with vehicles - when the driver finally flees, maybe bonks one or two of them, and then they chase the damn car.
It's moments like this that really make me question where we're going. I want to think that this is just theatre on their part, that they're taking posturing for the cameras and social media way too far, but some of them fucking believe it. Some of them are stone cold serious, and they want to be seen.
This is not going to a good place. I don't want it to happen, but people like this are shoving us along with no regard for their countrymen. It's messed up.
This wasn't happening already?
I want to make fun of this and belittle their approach, because this looks like the usual double or triple or quadruple down on what they already do - Virtue Signaling. But I think things are escalating. It's not enough to let their inner freak flag fly in the institutions and companies they've infested - they want more of a justification and foundation to purge the evildoers. Not just within, but without.
There isn't a logical world where it makes sense to directly attack your target demographic, or what it should be, but we are not in the logical world anymore.
I think it's worse, they are doing battlespace prep to justify packing the supreme court. Kamala's answer in the debate pretty much gave it away - since those evil republicans obviously are doing dastardly deeds, that means us noble folk must do the right thing to restore 'balance'.
It's delicious. They're in this predicament because they got both greedy and lazy. Greedy, because RBG was probably holding out on her retirement to grant Hillary a supreme court pick. How poetic it would be to allow the first woman president a chance to replace a woman justice! Lazy, because Obama couldn't be bothered to go through the political effort to fill all those federal judicial vacancies, since that would mean finding compromise with the republican senate.
Serves them right. They deserve everything they're getting, and their reflex to change the rules in response to difficulty is all too typical.
"It's okay when we do it"
Repeat ad infinitum.
I am so sick of these people. They don't know how to lose. They keep changing the rules and trying to be 'clever' through deceit or gaming what rules do exist.
More winning please!
One of the other old lines of attack on Pence is that he's a religious extremist. Since we've had the dumb, tired handmaiden's tale stuff get revived with the impending supreme court nomination, I have a feeling it will at least be mentioned.
It's just too obvious of an angle for Kamala to take, but there's so many stupid arguments they're pulling right now they might not have enough time to hit them all. I guess it will depend on what segment of their base they feel they need to rile up and excite the most.
'Boomers and X are so committed to ignoring hard conversations until they explode, which is exactly how we got here.'
'hard conversations'
I mean. There's a lot of things I could say, but the fact he seriously wrote that is both hilarious and depressing. Self diagnosing, much?
I like the way you're thinking, and these ideas have merit. Community is so damn important, and it feels like the battlefield so to speak is ripe for an opportunity like this. I've always liked leading by example and it's a matter of organizing to do so more effectively.
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