The hilarious part of that is Zuby being the first one to comment, predicting exactly what happened.The biggest recent example is probably Ana Kasparian from the Young Turks, who used to be at the tip of the progress spear, getting cancelled all simply because of this tweet.
I haven't trawled too far since I don't like twitter's format, but now that I look at it, there's a few other gems to note.predicting exactly what happened.
Ana: They have the right to speak their piece, as do I.(In response to Zuby)
Some random twitter activist: Since you claim to "support the trans community", why haven't you said anything about the hundreds of anti-trans bills being passed all over the country? Did someone remove your right to speak on that, too?
He's iffy on predicting the future, but even then his observations are usually pretty on point. I don't think anyone here is arguing that his points are wrong when dealing with the present, but there are so many variables in the future that it makes it unpredictable.WhatifAlthist is always a hit or miss, but I think he's very apt here.
I mean, we literally have examples of it on this sub. Pre-2020 a fair few users here were Classical Liberals of a stripe, but after the Covid shit show they are now up to the gills in Black Pills and bitterly angry with the current state of things.
All that’s needed for a lot of very angry young men with no hope for the future, is a leader. After that things get nasty.
He's iffy on predicting the future, but even then his observations are usually pretty on point. I don't think anyone here is arguing that his points are wrong when dealing with the present, but there are so many variables in the future that it makes it unpredictable.
If we went to war with China and there was a draft, how would that affect national sentiment among the young men? If a post-scarcity AI nanny-state comes into being, then will that make young men more or less pissed off?
There seems to be this weird cult of youth in western politics at the moment. Trotting out someone who looks young and fresh-faced shows that "this is a problem that the leaders of the future care about" or something like that. It's really weird. A trend like this could mean that the "coming leader of the far right" might be some 19 year old, which would scare the piss out of me.
Most people aren't automatically skeptical of anyone who says that they have all the answers. Hell, they're actively looking for someone to tell them the answers to all their problems. That kind of leader has "an answer" to sell, and usually sells it quite well. Fear and anger are some of the easiest ways to rise to power, some of the most powerful political emotions, along with envy and disgust.More seriously, though, I'm fairly sure that soon after World War II disappears from living memory, the angry youths in question will look to someone scarily akin to a certain mustachioed Austrian from back in the day and be more than happy to unleash death camps, genocide, and total war anew.
Most people aren't automatically skeptical of anyone who says that they have all the answers. Hell, they're actively looking for someone to tell them the answers to all their problems. That kind of leader has "an answer" to sell, and usually sells it quite well. Fear and anger are some of the easiest ways to rise to power, some of the most powerful political emotions, along with envy and disgust.
Maybe sooner. I watched "Inside Man" from 2006 last night. It was like watching something from a foreign country. A banker with a guilty conscience for having helped the Nazis dispose of stolen wealth, plus anti-Muslim racism. A movie like that could not be made today, no one would take it seriously.once World War II has faded out of living memory and the survivors' Boomer children have gone virtually extinct, expect the residual trauma and guilt to die with them
Maybe sooner. I watched "Inside Man" from 2006 last night. It was like watching something from a foreign country. A banker with a guilty conscience for having helped the Nazis dispose of stolen wealth, plus anti-Muslim racism. A movie like that could not be made today, no one would take it seriously.
It used to be common in media for anyone who helped the Nazis in any way to either be villains or deeply remorseful. It never shows up in media today because people would not understand the sentiment.Not sure I follow?
Exactly. And the more the term "nazi" or the comparison "this is just like the nazis" or "basically Hitler" get thrown around the faster they fade.though I suppose the problem with that is the stigma surrounding him and the Holocaust is fading fast
It used to be common in media for anyone who helped the Nazis in any way to either be villains or deeply remorseful. It never shows up in media today because people would not understand the sentiment.
Exactly. And the more the term "nazi" or the comparison "this is just like the nazis" or "basically Hitler" get thrown around the faster they fade.
Wasn't there some leftist move a year or two ago to stop teaching any history that was "sad"? That could screw up some stuff too.though the fact all the "crying wolf" in the decades before may give actual Nazis (or likeminded extremists) the cover they need to bewitch the masses and carry out their own slew of genocides only makes things worse.
Wasn't there some leftist move a year or two ago to stop teaching any history that was "sad"? That could screw up some stuff too.
You know, this probably just my personal bias and my own state of religious confusion, but I do notice gnosticism is becoming more overt and popular in conspiracy theories and pop-culture."Neo-Gnostic
You know, this probably just my personal bias and my own state of religious confusion, but I do notice gnosticism is becoming more overt and popular in conspiracy theories and pop-culture.
The constant Matrix references and hell, even the fact we use blackpilled and redpilled so commonly in discussions like, is indicative.
In a post-modernist world where everything is relativized and people are constantly brow beaten by fleshy materialism and the nonexistence of meaning and essence, its easy to see why when the elite insist on roleplaying as Archons.
Discussing the future religions of the world though is probably deserving of its own thread.
I think that the economy and the coverups and the censorship need to get a bit worse for that to happen, but I think it will happen at some point.I mean, we literally have examples of it on this sub. Pre-2020 a fair few users here were Classical Liberals of a stripe, but after the Covid shit show they are now up to the gills in Black Pills and bitterly angry with the current state of things.
All that’s needed for a lot of very angry young men with no hope for the future, is a leader. After that things get nasty.