Pendulum Swing Watch 2025

I can't be the only one who thinks this Pendulum Swing is a phase. I don't believe for a second that people are becoming more right wing. Sure, people don't like the current state of things, but I think is just encouraging their beliefs that capitalism isn't working. All this talk about right wing beliefs gaining traction feels unnatural to me.

I do want to hear arguments against my assumptions.
 
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Red flaming panda said:
I can't be the only one who thinks this Pendulum Swing is a phase. I don't believe for a second that people are becoming more right wing. Sure, people don't like the current state of things, but I think is just encouraging their beliefs that capitalism isn't working. All this talk about right wing beliefs gaining traction feels unnatural to me.

I do want to hear arguments against my assumptions.
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It's pretty fucking transparent that it's BS in places of power when you've got the same people that censored and smeared others as right wing while constantly saying trump is dumb and hitler 2 the last 9 fucking years are now acting like that never happened and are "supporting" him. I'm watching friends that were otherwise reasonable the last several years devolve into the same smug TDS types that fucked me over the last near decade as well. if anything I'm seeing less "right wing" shit and more either masking the same draconian shit under a different party label and people turning into skinwalkers constantly framing it like trump is gonna kill everyone and how we need to start killling people that are trump supporters in a non shitposty actual deranged level way.
I'm tired, man.
 
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The Lawgiver said:
It's pretty fucking transparent that it's BS in places of power when you've got the same people that censored and smeared others as right wing while constantly saying trump is dumb and hitler 2 the last 9 fucking years are now acting like that never happened and are "supporting" him. I'm watching friends that were otherwise reasonable the last several years devolve into the same smug TDS types that fucked me over the last near decade as well. if anything I'm seeing less "right wing" shit and more either masking the same draconian shit under a different party label and people turning into skinwalkers constantly framing it like trump is gonna kill everyone and how we need to start killling people that are trump supporters in a non shitposty actual deranged level way.
I'm tired, man.
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It dosen't help that a lot of "white nationalist" are spics, niggers, and coomers.
 
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Red flaming panda said:
I can't be the only one who thinks this Pendulum Swing is a phase. I don't believe for a second that people are becoming more right wing. Sure, people don't like the current state of things, but I think is just encouraging their beliefs that capitalism isn't working. All this talk about right wing beliefs gaining traction feels unnatural to me.

I do want to hear arguments against my assumptions.
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It's a change at the bottom of the pyramid of power, not the top, to be sure, but I do think it is still a change. It definitely feels a bit "forced from the top" to me too, mostly because of how sudden it is. I felt the same way about the rise of social justice/woke/far left/etc too, especially the humiliation rituals, forced apologies, etc, and back then it was much more how it was being pushed than what was being pushed that saw me grow to despise them (though I know better now). I'd have more faith in the far left era truly being over if it happened more gradually and with more tracks covering as people wake up and feel shame.

Think about it like this: The people with the power to decide what to push (or at least an influential set of them), have decided to push something different, so that is what we get. It would seem that anti-woke/anti-DEI stuff is their new power structure, and this is more akin to redecorating than an actual change to who holds the power in the world. The question to ask is: why did they choose to change things? This feels very different than 2016 in that Trump has been normalized, but it's also a much more centrist position than something comparably far right.

So it's possible things are only changing because they allowed it, but that normal people finally being fed up with their old disposable enforcer class is why they allowed it. They're hoping to use and discard right wingers the same way, of course, but that doesn't mean there won't be some bones thrown. Just because the top holds most of the power doesn't mean the rest is completely powerless, especially when factions at the top squabble, which may be happening here.

I do think the gender insanity is finally ending for good one way or another, even if it's just the bone we're being tossed.

I'm somewhat relieved, but I'm also worried. The porn bans (as currently envisioned) could easily be a path to establishing real identity online, which lots of interests would love, especially now that captchas are arguably obslete due to AI. The easiest way to eliminate illegals would be to amnesty them. And the far left has become more radicalized than ever, and still retains a stranglehold on academia and media even if we have seen some progress in industry. Let them stew for four years, then give them some power back and it's going to be hell on earth.

TL;DR it's all fake, but it may or may not be all gay. History seldom goes the way you would think it would by extrapolating current trends forward. As much as I hate the way people just take the absolute truth of Hegelian dialectic for granted, it does help explain this.
 
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Red flaming panda said:
It dosen't help that a lot of "white nationalist" are spics, niggers, and coomers.
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That's how it's been for at least 20 years now lmao. The fucking memes from nearly a decade or so back now (GOD IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE THAT LONG) where you had pitch black racial caricatures saying shit like "hello my fellow white person" still live in my mind lmao.
 
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The judicial branch does. As often demonstrated during Trump's first term, any random federal judge can shutdown anything the president tries on a whim.
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It's supposed to be a back and forth, legislature enacts law, judiciary interprets law, legislature changes law if not happy with interpretation, but now passing laws is such a harduous measure that everyone's trying to bypass each other (executive orders and stacking the courts).
 
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It's supposed to be a back and forth, legislature enacts law, judiciary interprets law, legislature changes law if not happy with interpretation, but now passing laws is such a harduous measure that everyone's trying to bypass each other (executive orders and stacking the courts).
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While there could be in theory, in practice there's functionally no checks against the judiciary. Even if there were, being appointed for life gives them a huge political advantage for shaping policy, and their decision alone has gotten a lot of unpopular legislation passed. Ideally the courts would be stacked with autistic originalists, and not have any Jewish lesbians.
 
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The question to ask is: why did they choose to change things? This feels very different than 2016 in that Trump has been normalized, but it's also a much more centrist position than something comparably far right.
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Maybe it's because the left is now more openly anti-Jew than the right. Or maybe they realized Trump is a symptom of a deeply dissatisfied populace rather than a cause. Maybe a little bit of both.

Either way if Trump had gotten shafted out of this election I'd have bet good money that we'd have seen real, actual far-right politicians gain serious ground in the immediate future. I think we'll eventually get them again in America, though likely not in our lifetimes.
Trump winning was a big pressure release valve being opened to stop a catastrophic explosion.
 
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I've noticed, after the long silence since the election, the new strategy of the Zurdos going forth. It started with the lesbian witch at the NaTiOnAl pRaYeR sErViCe.

They've realised that the Right has adapted to the Snarky Atheist aggressive tactic. They're retreating to the ¡¡¿WhY aRe CoNsErVaTiVeS sO MeAn?!! tactic.

I'm seeing it on social media. Single moms, grandmas, teachers, normies, re-posting the crossdressing priestess as aN hOly ExAmPlE oF hOw tO bE nIcE, jUsT lIkE JeSuS. This is what you need to re-adapt to, now, Rightoids.

You're going to be painted into the corner as the big meanies, just as you were painted into the corner as the sweater vest softies when the HoRsEmEn oF tHe nEw AtHiEsT ApOCaLyPsE were being the meanies.

I'm sure some of you have seen this develop. Probably the best response is to take no emotionally manipulative bait, remaining calm, and kindly explaining how without justice first then mercy is meaningless; I don't know how to express that in the nice and sweet way that mommies and grannies understand, but that's what you need to learn to do.

One can't ask for mercy until one confesses that one was bad, otherwise that's just the other's surrender, that's just conquest with a manipulative face of weakness on it.

Start thinking about it.
 
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Red flaming panda said:
I can't be the only one who thinks this Pendulum Swing is a phase. I don't believe for a second that people are becoming more right wing. Sure, people don't like the current state of things, but I think is just encouraging their beliefs that capitalism isn't working. All this talk about right wing beliefs gaining traction feels unnatural to me.

I do want to hear arguments against my assumptions.
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I agree.
I also laugh every time someone writes off the losing political party as "done" because of the last election. The Dems were "done" in 2016 and then the gop was "done" in 2020.
The pendulum is just the "current thing". I'm old enough to remember the bush years when the "thing" was terrorism and everything revolved around that and "security and our freedom". The last 10-15 years were about "woke". Now people are over that because it's not cool or edgy anymore. Who knows what the "thing" will be in 4 years, maybe all the zoomer shits will start going to church and doing tiktok dances to ave maria.
 
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