centthird-way corpocrat trash
I’m so sick of that. Xenforo’s WYSIWYG editor has a bug with phone keyboards where when you insert a line break, it
undoes something. What the hell?
Used to be an anarchist as well, still am.
Hate modern "anarchists". I get called all sorts of things and even anarcho-pacifist has become a dirty word in todays context- and the thing is, I'm not even that, but once I point out "dude, chucking shit at cars, burning down your cities, etc, is fucking stupid" its screams of "pacifism never gets you anywhere, traitor, etc".
I participated in Occupy and found the thing to be a joke, ie, people literally voted on whether we should be democratic where I was- what the fuck? There was also a "free stuff, take one" booth, with a bunch of cds and other shit. You can guess what happened with that and these people's reactions.
Even then, Id say that, while naïve and misguided, these people at least had some of what the old left used to be about, were oriented around class politics, reasonable stuff like opposition to the exclusive bailout for bankers, etc
Now- while I disliked a lot of the lulzy parts of that, with the stuff thats happened over the past few years and especially with idpol, BLM, the troon issues, etc, its just gotten so much worse. Its no longer about anything reasonable, decentralizing power structures, gutting destructive policies, trying to organize food drives horizontally, etc. Its about screeching as loud as possible to pressure public bureaucrats to virtue signal to your crowd. Id argue with people that no, not all cops are bastards, people laughing when that UK cop was paralyzed from falling from her horse were retarded, you can't just try to burn down city hall in Portland and then go "but why da po-leece be arresting us" and get called all sorts of names.
I've just basically given up on the "left" at this point. I actually still do volunteer in a number of things, the main thing I do is help with a food bank for the homeless, but unless I'm talking with some old head who hasn't been infected with this shit, I tend to just completely ignore anyone who is a zoomer and into leftism. The other thing is, left wingers almost never, never, never actually organize anything other than protests where they can yell at people. What happened to filling in potholes and helping out your community? All modern leftists want to do is scream and march in the streets, not actually build anything or help people out.
One revelation that did come to me at the gym a few years back, was that really the stuff I liked doing the Christians often did themselves (organize food drives, charity walks to raise money, soup kitchens, money to send to Haiti, etc), didn't come with half the baggage of the modern left, shut the fuck up about political shite largely focused on the charity aspects (might have a quick prayer at the start), and seemed to keep it on the down low. Of course, there are still evangelicals, to a degree- but I don't think theyre as much the mainstream anymore as the regressive left seems to have taken over the left wing narrative. The Christian demographic, I have grown to appreciate, because while it is full of a lot of normie soccer moms or dads, etc- at least when they get together its somehow considerably much more constructive than a majority of what the left has to offer.
The rich injected racialism, gender issues, and sexuality into leftism, signal-boosting them as much as possible over the class struggle. Now, nobody sane wants to be associated with the left, which now consists of affluent college kids who suffer from white guilt and preach radical ideologies of no substance or practicality to ordinary working people. The threat to the upper classes is neutralized. Mission accomplished.
Follow the paper trail. Left-wing activism in the US is not organic. It’s controlled by NGOs and charities, and the levers of those NGOs and charities are held by extremely wealthy people. Leftism didn’t fade away. It was bought.
I really think a lot of the Woke Left's views and how they simp for the same corporations they claim to nominally oppose is because they're all still on some level rebelling against the old Religious Right of their childhoods, particularly its final form it took in the Bush years.
They still view the Right as theocrats, which are largely extinct outside of a few Boomer and early Gen X incumbents in the South and some of the edgelord "traditionalist" /pol/ fags like Nick Fuentes, The Distributist, Thomas777, Vox Day, and several forum members on here.
The thing is that the Yahwehists, as horrible as they may be, are largely defanged but the Woke Left is still acting as if they're still relevant, even if it's only on a subconscious level.
The traditionalists failed precisely because they did their damndest to conserve, but they sought to conserve all the wrong things and it ended up boomeranging on them. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If the Woke Left ever does experience a backlash, it'll be like that but on an even more intense scale.
The Woke Left are
exactly like nutty Evangelicals. Their chief business is finding books to burn and things to declare taboo. Instead of think of the poor impressionable children, it’s think of the poor sensitive thin-skinned rainbow-haired queers. It’s the exact same sentiment, only updated and repackaged for a new generation. Straight white men are the new Satan. Trauma triggers, the new bread of the Eucharist.
Remember when GWAR went up on stage, and Oderus had the Cuttlefish of Cthulhu hanging off his crotch, and they sang obscene metal anthems against the first Gulf War? That was the leftism I remember. There isn’t a trace of it left any longer. It’s dead. Anywhere dirtbag leftists may briefly congregate, the woke left will move in and dust everything with rainbow sprinkles and demand that you take down the titty posters on your locker doors and take that CD with offensive lyrics out of the disc changer.
The Right are the new counterculture. It’s crazy.
I know a lot of edgy tradcel retards say "hurr durr, the pendulum doesn't exist hurr durr muh enlightened centrist strawman" but the pendulum effect is a thing in American culture and history and it's been there since the mid-19th Century at the earliest and definitely has been a thing since the 20th Century.
The Woke Left became more powerful than ever in 2020 solely due to the grace of the corporations that actually run this country. If the corporations no longer view the Woke Left as useful, they will throw them to the dirt just like they did to the fundies in the mid-2000's.
I don't know if the corporations will stop viewing the Woke Left as useful in our lifetimes, but the real issue is the corporations. BLM, Antifa, and the Woke Left as a whole are merely their unwitting attack dogs and shock troops.
Contrary to what the Woke Left and the traditionalists will tell you, America was never a Christian theocracy outside of colonial New England's Puritans or the de facto regional theocracy in Appalachia.
We're a nation founded as a social experiment by educated liberals and libertines.
Unfortunately, the corporations destroyed this country decades ago
The current "culture war" is all due to corporations exploiting two broken generations and trying to preserve the old "Left vs. Right" dynamic.
The corporations know that if they let the left and right unite into a single Nazbol bloc over labor and class issues, we will crush them.
America’s history throughout the 20th and early 21st century is one long string of bullshit military interventions that did nothing to make Americans safer and more secure and served realpolitik goals. Panama, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria? Complete shitshows. The second Gulf War killed over 100,000 Iraqi civilians and made millions more homeless, permanently making Iraq poorer and more susceptible to the rise of ISIS. The US and French intervention in Libya destroyed crucial civilian infrastructure and turned Libya into a hellhole with open-air slave markets. The CIA funneling thousands of tons of weapons into Syria and stoking the flames of the civil war there ended up making millions upon millions of Syrians into refugees.
They staged false flag attacks on civilians. The White Helmets were a fake propaganda psyop; they caught them staging “rescues” on tape for propaganda value, and many of their members were Islamic radicals who were also caught on camera beheading people and toting their severed heads around. The so-called gas attacks in Douma in 2018 were completely staged. The OPCW falsified their reports, and even tried quashing a contradictory report, as revealed by Wikileaks. The concentration of chlorine they discovered was in the parts per billion. That’s not a gas attack. That’s the amount of chlorine you’d find in someone’s house from them using bleach on their laundry. Bashar al-Assad didn’t do a fucking thing wrong.
American livelihoods are vanishing beneath the crushing mass of neoliberal corporatism, which insists on making us work longer days doing soul-destroying tasks while paying people peanuts for it, or, alternately, on hiring us on a contractual basis for minutes at a time and not giving us any benefits at all. Thanks to globalization, American workers now have to compete with actual fucking slave labor. Chinese factory workers spend about two years working in prison-like conditions before they’re completely used up and burnt out and replaced by fresh young blood. They stick feet on computer mice for sixteen hours a day and fall asleep on an assembly line halfway through their shift, and when they’re done and have to go back to their cockroach-infested dormitories, they have a sponge bath with a bucket before going to bed.
Thanks to the end of the Bretton-Woods system and the rise of the neolib corpocrats, we have to compete with people who live like human fucking livestock. If we protest, we’re told that we’re racist for complaining about their newfound prosperity. We are expected to hold multiple contradictory opinions. We are told that excessive economic growth is destroying the environment, but also that it’s good for poor rice-picking Chinese to make more money in sweatshops instead of picking rice. The word sweatshop has actually fallen into disuse among the left because it now has a racist connotation. PRC propagandists step up on the stage doing TED talks about how wonderful and liberating it is to be treated like human livestock and be paid fifty cents an hour to stick feet on computer mice for sixteen hours a day, and braindead neolibs in the audience wave their sweatshop-made iPhones in the air and eat it up.
“You’re arrogant and parochial to think it’s about you and your habits as a consoomer. We wanted this for ourselves. We’re masochist insectoid people and will do anything for money. Many of us would bend in the middle and straight suck a dick for a Franklin. That’s like a year’s pay.”
And meanwhile, the American dream of a nuclear family and a three-bedroom house with a garage on a single-earner income has fucking vanished, replaced with debt, debt, and more debt. I find myself agreeing with the Right more and more. Instead of colonizing space and preserving the future of the species, we give welfare to the undeserving and favors to the unappreciative.
“Fuck NASA. Going to space? That’s white honkey stuff, like mountain climbing. Gimme more gibs.”
We used to do cutting-edge aerospace and engineering shit here in America. We’re allowing our STEM know-how to dissolve into nothing. When kids unearth one of the Rocketdyne F-1s that sent us to the Moon, they cannot conceive of how it was built, because they can’t imagine making all those welds by hand. They’d get carpal tunnel and then they’d have to go to a wellness center and do Yoga for hours under the watchful eye of a fat lesbian with Troll doll hair if they had to do even a quarter of that work. Everyone wants to learn the humanities, and everyone wants to be some variety of dick-puffer. We have a glut of unnecessary journalists, lawyers, managers, and bureaucrats who are wastes of space and really should not even be alive. Any time someone like Elon Musk tries to revive some vestige of the old America, some useless dick-puffers in government whine that he’s not hiring enough illegals and metrosexuals to build rockets, as if that has any relevance at all to their performance at the task.
If you say any of this to a woke leftist or the average liberal, you will be given a blank stare of non-recognition at the least, or be accused of peddling conspiracy theories and vile bigotry at the worst. Frankness and obscenity are the domain of the Right. Comforting delusions are courted by the new Left.
