This is pretty legit. It's religious sounding practically, "Well, I've got compassion and mercy, that makes me good - but if you're going to exploit my goodness, well, I'll stop being those things."
But it's absolutely true. Through most facets of life too. Whether it's constantly having to cover for someone at work, someone who always needs a loan or to borrow money, all the way up to the manipulative types and so on. Compassion, empathy, understanding, mercy - they get taken advantage of on a daily basis. I just prefer to word it as "Hone your judgement, so you decide - don't be too harsh, but don't get taken advantage of either."
I doubt it'll happen, and I was a little kid last time Quebec tried to separate.
I think if anything happens in Canada, at some point, it'll really come out of the blue almost. Like it's been building up forever, always on the verge of a big chance happening but never does, so it all feels the same. Then one day something is going to snap and we're going to have very rapid change.
It's not that deep.
The same people who like politician's like Trudeau, Obama, Macron? They're also the people who buy things because they are flashy, even if they're made of shit, or believe in free shit.
I have no idea how to get this guy to lose an election. He's like a retarded low-key evil Dudley Do-Right. No matter how many scandals he has, no matter the proof you bring to people, it's just "Trudeau? Yeah he's pretty good, I don't know, but he's not bad." And it's like.. please.. use your brains. Use them just a little bit. But he keeps on winning lol. When asked why he wanted to make 50% of his cabinet women, he said "Because it's 2015?" Cheers! Cheers all around!
And it's like, no, no one ever wants their child to ever be discriminated against, or for, because of their gender. Merit. But hey, let's toss that out the window, toss out the best person for the job. It's how we get Chrystia Freeland as Finance Minister.
America, please, let Canadian's just move there. I swear I'm not crazy! :)
They don't know it.
You know that scene in Se7en, where Brad Pitt is talking to Kevin Spacey's character in the backseat of the car...
I've been wondering, and maybe you can shed some light on this for me. Do people know when they're insane? Like, here's what I mean... When you're in bed at night, and you're almost about to fall asleep, do you ever just stop and say to yourself, "Man, oh, man, am I ever nuts. It's interesting what a complete fucking fruitcake I am."
They don't know it. They really don't know it. Just like John Doe doesn't, and when Pitt's character tells him he killed innocent people, John Doe freaks the fuck out. That's what they're like. Except, John Doe was all about fucked up the seven deadly sins, once you called his murder victims innocent he lost his shit. Much more mild with the average CNN viewer (they're not quite John Doe), but just replace the seven deadly sins with intersectionality/SJWism/wokeism, and it's the same shit. You can see it with all the outlets calling that 17 year old a white supremacist - I haven't seen one iota of evidence for it, but in their whacky world, he's as guilty or more so than any of John Doe's victims.
This is a really good question! Always darkest before the dawn, blah blah blah. It's worth noting we're in the middle of some major, major political and ideological stuff. It would not shock me if CNN shrunk to nothing or closed it's doors - or ended up in someone else's hands, and changed. Or maybe they'll become even more of a laughing stock than they are now - it'll essentially be what lefties thought of FOX News in the past.
I'm more excited for the fact that there's a real opening right now for a major player that does basic fucking news. The people would be more than happy to fund that - just good 'ol normal news.
Not gonna lie: Dislike the art, don't dislike the style. I just don't think it's done very well, plus you know drawing Wonder Woman specifically so SJWs will clap like trained seals.
That style does give a bit of a nostalgia. Like, old comics and idk, album covers from the 80s looked cool as shit to a young kid in the 90s. This is just like... taking that kinda neat aesthetic and style and modernizing it to wonky-SJW formless art style.
I know people who have said this. They don't vote, but they're like "I wish I had voted for him!" They know nothing about what's going on, but "He seems pretty good" I have no idea when or how Trudeau will go, but it's about forever overdue.
Gad Saad has been mocking it relentlessly since it came out, on Twitter.
We're very nice and polite up here in my homeland of Snow Mexico. But yes, there are many of us who are basically banging our heads into the wall at this point - when Trudeau loses though, eventually, it'll probably come as a shock to the majority despite his monthly scandals, horrible political leadership, worse economic leadership and y'know, all of it really.
But his dad was a beloved Prime Minister and he's the wokest looking western society leader, both in appearance and act.
I think that's somewhat accurate, but somewhat too harsh as well. I don't think the damage women have been doing to themselves is irreversible. I also think it's unfair to paint them all as non-stop partying, whoring around, doing drugs, drinking followed by a decade of a career ladder. That type definitely exists, but it's not most women, nor is it even most leftist women. Plus, we can always take a look at Bridget Phetasy, who has had her fair share of problems, and is doing pretty OK right now. But you're correct that they lose out on that uber appeal they have due youth (on average), and finding a husband will be harder - but not at all impossible, look at the sheer number of single men out there. I also don't think it stops pair-bonding with an individual man - rather it enhances the process, because it forces an "Oh. I'm settling down now. There's shit I need to do, and I realize why I need to do it." It reminds me of the saying "There's no zealot like a convert." But she can't get that time back, and there's baggage because of it. I'd also hazard that among men, there's a somewhat similar phenemonon - it's just not tied to youth and appearance as much, in fact, at this point I'm like "Bring on my 40s! Shit, I get treated better by women, overall, the older I get."
I'm not as sure as you are on pair-bonding - because I see you're using it in a biological way, and I'm basically not familiar with that at all. But I see some of the things you mention as a positive - coming to the right conclusions in a long, poor, roundabout manner. I think the more conscientious women get in the situation we're discussing, the better it is. It's the same reason I have little patience for immature women regardless of any potential emotional attachment - they tend to remain immature, even throughout adulthood and have high expectations of others and very little expectations of themselves. Once they realize that they should have higher expectations for themselves and act moderately in accordance with that, they become a lot more attractive in general, at least to my thinking. Before that, they've basically got a huge penalty to their ability to be a girlfriend or spouse.
I think probably you have too negative a view overall of that specific type of woman - and for me, well, I probably have a bit too positive a view, so maybe in this case, the answer really is somewhere in the middle. Or potentially we're talking about different groups of women. I just haven't met or known many women, or women who had friends like that - and I live in a major city. But I've known more than enough who blindly parrot leftist talking points, believe deeply in leftist ideals that consistently let them off the hook for poor behavior, poor actions, and so on - they don't need to have taken 28 dicks by the time they're 25 for that to be the case. I see them more as the type who posts stuff on FB, or Twitter, look how happy, and successful they are - this Lauren Southern video comes to mind, except maybe 15-25% worse off than she implies.
The ones you're describing are really far off the rails - and maybe they'll come to it later or not, but I'm not so sure. The number of partners you describe, the drug use, and so on almost to me says "This isn't just leftism." Leftism can definitely lead you there, but there have been women like that on the right, or who at least would say they're on the right while not exactly being the most shining examples of the right. I only point this out to say that since things are so polarized, let's not overlook that there are things out there that contribute to this that aren't necessarily related to political ideology.
That said, if we can find more common ground rather than your examples of say, a 44 year old former feminist who had guys snorting coke off her ass since she was 16, and tone that down a bit to what I feel is more realistic, then I think there's plenty of people on the right, and men in general who will be there for them. I feel there are feminists, and there are DAMNED feminists. The latter always double downs. The prior is far less invested in it and more interested in the results - and when those results don't pan out, repeatedly, they look for something that does get them the results they want. But yeah, society is always going to have some outcasts, and after the outcasts, it's going to have those who made poor choices, then compounded them with even more poor choices. That type, regardless of gender, I don't think is going to find endings too happy.
Ironically, I feel women need their own version of Jordan Peterson. As Eric Weinstein put it, he solves the world Uncle crisis: The older, mature family member who can tell you how it really is, unlike your parents (usually), because of the parental relationship. Gives you your first beer, instead of telling you that women are special and amazing individuals who should be praised he can warn you that they're just people, they've got their ups and downs and share some stories. Women have nothing like that. They've got fucking feminism, which is like the toxic opposite of that. I've seen younger women who've gotten advice from older women about their romantic relationships - and the gist is generally that the younger women don't know how good they have it, not just for reasons of youthful appearance. And of course, the occasional advice trying to shun them away from poor romantic choices (i.e: immature men, men who are not looking for relationships but think they are, and so on). Feminism man. Hell of a drug.
Fairly accurate, but way, way too negative. Maybe it's a pre-shockwave, but Western civilization isn't going to disappear anytime soon. If only because most women prefer masculine men - the preference is that strong.
Your analysis isn't wrong - it's just pessimistic, from my perspective anyways. Feminism definitely fucks anyone who touches it regardless of gender - ten years ago there weren't anti-feminists (not to the extent of these days). Or even five years ago. Or anti-SJW, and so on.
The key here is that women truly are more miserable today than they ever were. "When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers." springs to mind. What women essentially received was what feminism pushed for - and boy, is it not to their liking at all in almost any way when it comes down to it. It's more like a drug that makes you feel good and the supply never runs out - but it sure as fuck runs into reality and gets the shit kicked out of it. I could write paragraphs about how it does that, but that's essentially what happens.
Just like all the lefties currently realizing "Welp, what I thought was the left isn't what it is, I need to re-adjust and oh wow, these right-wingers ain't so bad. Some are even... good. I like them." Women are having that type of reaction too, albeit slower. And they are pissed when they figure it out. Not that they're dying to be tradwives or anything - but oh hey, those basic nuclear family quasi-traditional family shit, that stuff is really good.
We're essentially waiting for the waning of power over society created by feminism and it's useful idiots. Kinda like guys who've done jack shit and it suddenly clicks for them all that it takes to have a good amount of success in life is to just put the effort in (Nike didn't choose "Just Do It" as their slogan for no reason, just sayin') and you actually get results. Not perfect ones, but far better than before.
Oh I wouldn't have a clue what to comission lol. I like our original stuff, but new stuff from the same artist or w/e, I'd be willing to donate a few bucks to.
I did! But I assumed it was kind of not on the mark and a little too hopeful to reflect reality - I did like it a bunch tho!
Not sure if this is the right place, but, hey mods!
Any chance we can fancy up the place? Change the head, put regular art or change it up, y'know, customize in a cool way? I'd actually be happy to toss in a few bucks to commission an artist or something. I like this place :)
Much appreciated, that went into a lot more detail than I was expecting and lays it out pretty well. Congrats, you've earned the "Random guy on the Internet I'm going to think is correct." reward! I'll still look into it a bit more when I have some time, but this seems not-apocryphal!
Snowden was more before my time paying attention to politics, can someone give me a fair rundown on the situation at the time, or the general fair perspectives?
For me, I see it as a guy who definitely broke the law, leaked very important stuff - but is also kind of the example of the kind of leak that most people are in favor of. I can understand the need to want 0 leaks, and to constantly protect against such, but I can also understand if my government is doing very illegal shit that it leaking is more important maybe.
I have trouble giving that benefit of the doubt to the slew of leaking shitfucks who are trying to screw over Trump. But I don't have that feeling towards Snowden - he seems to be the real deal. Change my mind, I guess?
It's like people have watched Law & Order: SVU and take it for reality. The woman never lies, any male who wants due process is just looking to harm their victim and get away with it and that's the case 100% of the time - therefore, remove due process, #BelieveAllWoman, etc.
We just need to ignore the vast multitude of women who lie. They lie because they're stupid and young, they lie because they're immature, they lie because they lied at the time and don't want to say so, they lie to hide the truth, they lie because they don't want family and friends to know the truth, and about a hundred other reasons. In other words: they're human beings, with all the virtues and vices human beings are capable of.
I can understand the desire of those who advocate against this kind of thing though. The same applies to men. If you're a guy, and you're guilty of what you're accused of, I bet most of them would use any legal trick in the book the get off the hook - no matter how slimy and dirty and awful it is. No one wants to go to jail, even if they're fully aware they committed a crime.
The best answer we have is still due process. I wonder what the advocates citing possible trauma would say if we removed all the advantages women had in divorce proceedings if men argued that they would incur too much trauma from the proceedings and imbalanced system where they're seen as perpetrators and walking wallets to be drained for decades? Certainly men have committed suicide over this, how callous can they be, etc. etc.
You can make all kinds of appeals to emotion, for both genders, in every situation - but only if you see both of them as y'know, individual human beings and not representatives of their sex in a tribal war.
Wait, wait. I mean, Liberal Sherpa, I get your point here. But let's not hold anything against her for fawning over Jesse Lee Peterson, that man is pretty AMAZIN' as far as things go. :)
And, I'm torn between believing she's just doing it for self-serving reasons or self-serving reasons + she really believes it no matter how removed from reality her belief is.
I think the issue can be fixed in some ways. I think Yuri Bezmenov was pretty spot on with his predictions - but he underestimated capitalism's effect on delaying thing, essentially getting the time frame wrong. The other thing he couldn't predict was the Internet and the iPhone - propaganda can spread at crazy speeds. That makes things go faster, but at the same time the Internet and the iPhone also allow for red pilling, and there's been a lot of red pilling over the past four years, lot of people only seeing the conservative message for the first time without insane disdain. Election will tell.
Tl;dr: James Lindsay of the grievance studies hoax wrote this, to help explain what he called the origin myth of intersectionality/SJWism/whatever you want to call it. Written in a more professional style, it essentially points out that the emperor has no clothes by accurately describing what "Decolonizing the Curriculum" means.
Par for the course. The person you know is in the grips of something, you can't really change it, forgiveness when times comes. I've known too many mid to late twenty somethings who have virtually no experience at life outside "I have my phone and a computer / console and I watched a lot of good stuff." who are ready to take over the world and tell us it should be just how they want. "UBI is good, it'll let people stop working bad jobs and go to university to really educate themselves." They see only the shiny, "Oooh! Stop working a frustrating job, go to University and get a degree that'll pay out a lot more and doesn't cost a dime and just makes society better." Talk to them about campus life, the uselessness of a great many degrees and the levels of indoctrination, full on with proof, stats, etc... Nope, they disagree, it's the best way they say, as they play on the 1200$ iPhone their parents bought them. Not 17 or 21, but like 29 or 30 years old. It's frightening.
Same place as you, maybe an interesting story.
I went to the store to pick up a physical copy of Murray's The Madness of Crowds, and while looking for it I see a guy flagging down an employee to ask where a specific book is - all I overheard was "Shapiro" haha. I see where they walked, and sure enough the guy was buying Shapiro's last book - Murray's was in the same area and the only copy.
There was a couple of spare copies of The Right Side of History in softcover, so I bought one for a friend I knew would likely read it. When I got in line, I ended up in front of the guy who had asked for help. No conversation, but definitely noticed we both had his book lol. And this was in Canadia. Small little bright side to my day :)
Sargon didn't have to go back - he's been there for years, monumentally ahead of the curve. It's the rest of the people that are catching up. Can't wait for his own site, moving ahead nicely last he talked about it.
He's the stupidest person's intellectual. Which isn't very good, because he's quite mentally weak. Maybe he can form logic, but his LOVE of communism makes him say stupid stupid stupid things, over and over and over - even when various people run circles around him, try and teach him... he will not learn. Even when the stress is all over his face, he knows he's totally in the wrong, he will keep going. Ego and stupidity. His value to most is that we get to watch others dunk on him, both in terms of funny and terms of "Oh. So this is what one of those "real communism's never been tried." people are like"