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We're not going to be thinking about any of this once aliens enslave the entire human race so don't worry about it.
Will things get better? - Will the shit show that is 2020 eventually end or is this a "new normal?"
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Just some perspective:
My state is currently still in "Phase I" of re-opening everything, and the local governments made sure to wag their fingers and issue statements about how we're not allowed to do fireworks, and how we shouldn't be having July 4th gatherings with friends and family.
Nobody followed this advice in the slightest from the looks of it. I visited my parents (and traffic there was much heavier than normal), and I saw a lot of my parents' neighbors having outdoor get-togethers as well. Two black families were having a great time with hanging out in their respective houses (I could see from my parents' back yard that they were grilling, chatting, and playing board games just like we were). Later in the night, they set off a TON of fireworks, and were all clapping and enjoying the show (my family was as well). In fact, fireworks in my parents' neighborhood came from all sides. We legit got a 360 view of fireworks from the back yard. Several houses in the neighborhood were doing fireworks. Never have I seen that many neighbors do that at the same time. Never.
I would just like to say that I mentioned the families' race because of what's going on in the country right now. This family seemed to be only focused on their quality time and celebrating the holiday, and not at all focused on "kill whitey" or "July 4th is a White Supremacist Holiday."
Social media is not real life. The vast majority of people celebrated July 4th, despite the media telling us we're horrible for doing so because of "muh racism" and "muh lockdowns." Public opinion is starting to make a hard turn against the BLM movement especially after the disgusting act of violence that happened in Atlanta (where an 8 year-old was murdered during one of those "peaceful protests"). BLM is losing its message fast, and I think the "silent majority" of people see it, especially the normies. I think that the amount of fireworks I heard over the past weekend tells me about how most people feel about this country.
Are things bad right now? Yes. Do I think it will pass? Eventually.
My state is currently still in "Phase I" of re-opening everything, and the local governments made sure to wag their fingers and issue statements about how we're not allowed to do fireworks, and how we shouldn't be having July 4th gatherings with friends and family.
Nobody followed this advice in the slightest from the looks of it. I visited my parents (and traffic there was much heavier than normal), and I saw a lot of my parents' neighbors having outdoor get-togethers as well. Two black families were having a great time with hanging out in their respective houses (I could see from my parents' back yard that they were grilling, chatting, and playing board games just like we were). Later in the night, they set off a TON of fireworks, and were all clapping and enjoying the show (my family was as well). In fact, fireworks in my parents' neighborhood came from all sides. We legit got a 360 view of fireworks from the back yard. Several houses in the neighborhood were doing fireworks. Never have I seen that many neighbors do that at the same time. Never.
I would just like to say that I mentioned the families' race because of what's going on in the country right now. This family seemed to be only focused on their quality time and celebrating the holiday, and not at all focused on "kill whitey" or "July 4th is a White Supremacist Holiday."
Social media is not real life. The vast majority of people celebrated July 4th, despite the media telling us we're horrible for doing so because of "muh racism" and "muh lockdowns." Public opinion is starting to make a hard turn against the BLM movement especially after the disgusting act of violence that happened in Atlanta (where an 8 year-old was murdered during one of those "peaceful protests"). BLM is losing its message fast, and I think the "silent majority" of people see it, especially the normies. I think that the amount of fireworks I heard over the past weekend tells me about how most people feel about this country.
Are things bad right now? Yes. Do I think it will pass? Eventually.
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I just want the current COVID thing to pass. 2016 Internet was rough, but you could go to the store, eat out at a restaurant, go to the park or the beach or some other vacation destination and try to forget about it, and now...you can't. It's all "wear the mask, citizen", and I refuse to have a maxipad stuck to my face, so I subvert authority by wearing my novelty horse mask. It's actually more breathable, plus I can entertain a few people while doing so.
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I see 3 possible paths:
1: Things keep getting worse. 2020 will look like a paradise.
2: Things get better, at least after some more insanity.
3: World ends - things get better because no more Clown World.
1: Things keep getting worse. 2020 will look like a paradise.
2: Things get better, at least after some more insanity.
3: World ends - things get better because no more Clown World.
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Just do what I started doing this week:
I took a Sharpie to my cloth mask from Etsy, and wrote "PLACEBO" on it. Went to the grocery store earlier today wearing it, too. Got some thumbs up.
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The right wing wing is slowly abandoning the neoliberalism that has destroyed the country. The left seems to be embracing it though.
There is a chance of things improving.
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No, things won't get better, you're looking at 60 years of Ameritards who thought their system was sustainable.
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Ideological paradigms always shift. The religious right basically fell apart after being exposed as massive hypocrites and over-reaching. Moderate Republicans were purged for extremists and then that fell apart as well. The Tea Party is literally equivalent to the Squad. Tea Party Republicans primaried and removed moderate Republicans. It wound up being a complete and total disaster eventually as the coalition collapsed. To the chargin of leftists, there's very few extreme Republicans left in Congress and the Senate. Most of them are pretty milquetoast and mainline.
The left is going through the same shift the right went 20 years ago. We're seeing it right now. Moderates being purged, extremists are being voted in. The reason pop-culture is getting hit harder now is that pop culture was always to the left. So it is going with the flow of politics. When the right was the zeitgeist, pop-culture resisted and was rebellious. But since its politics align, it has no choice. The problem is most people aren't extreme, so the push-back and failure of progressive art is highly visible.
The COVID lock-down and riots are the unknowns really, but the riots emerged from extreme Democrats not wanting to upset their wealthy, white voter base and the 'black vote'. The problem is the collapse can be very sudden. The Republican collapse was largely internal and kind of meh. I think the progressive collapse will be a lot more explosive, with social media, media itself and pop culture being highly visible entities. You also didn't have Republicans tearing down history like we do now. The thing is, the more explosive this becomes, the more explosive the push-back. That's the problem. These movements are like physics. You will have an equal, and opposite reaction. With the intensity of things, I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Many people are like 'this is the new normal'. There's no such thing. The pendulum always swings. You can only stop it by state-sponsored violence. Shitty little riots aren't going to do it.
There's also globalization of media, the extreme distrust in journalists as well. These things counteract progressive messaging. Americans, essentially, want to be left alone. The question is what is the limit? Nobody I know believes in 'peaceful protesters' anymore. People are tired of woke media, as we can see by its failure. So, the question is, what will be the opposite reaction?
You also have the financial industry obstinately regulating speech, and the desire for a sanitized internet, with the possibility to create a parallel internet itself. I'd say we're looking towards November to see what is up. If Biden gets elected, I have no doubt things will get even more insane.
The left is going through the same shift the right went 20 years ago. We're seeing it right now. Moderates being purged, extremists are being voted in. The reason pop-culture is getting hit harder now is that pop culture was always to the left. So it is going with the flow of politics. When the right was the zeitgeist, pop-culture resisted and was rebellious. But since its politics align, it has no choice. The problem is most people aren't extreme, so the push-back and failure of progressive art is highly visible.
The COVID lock-down and riots are the unknowns really, but the riots emerged from extreme Democrats not wanting to upset their wealthy, white voter base and the 'black vote'. The problem is the collapse can be very sudden. The Republican collapse was largely internal and kind of meh. I think the progressive collapse will be a lot more explosive, with social media, media itself and pop culture being highly visible entities. You also didn't have Republicans tearing down history like we do now. The thing is, the more explosive this becomes, the more explosive the push-back. That's the problem. These movements are like physics. You will have an equal, and opposite reaction. With the intensity of things, I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Many people are like 'this is the new normal'. There's no such thing. The pendulum always swings. You can only stop it by state-sponsored violence. Shitty little riots aren't going to do it.
There's also globalization of media, the extreme distrust in journalists as well. These things counteract progressive messaging. Americans, essentially, want to be left alone. The question is what is the limit? Nobody I know believes in 'peaceful protesters' anymore. People are tired of woke media, as we can see by its failure. So, the question is, what will be the opposite reaction?
You also have the financial industry obstinately regulating speech, and the desire for a sanitized internet, with the possibility to create a parallel internet itself. I'd say we're looking towards November to see what is up. If Biden gets elected, I have no doubt things will get even more insane.
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Of course things will get better, this is just like the 50s when uppity coons caused a ruckus on the radio but in real life nothing happened and now you can look outside and still see segregated water fountains
OH WAIT YOU CANT BECAUSE DESPITE WHAT DIPSHITS IN THIS VERY THREAD SAID SHIT CHANGED
Thats what i hate about this whole "everyone just wants to grill' and why im glad the most annoying parts of the left are ruining and co-opting the shit out of it. Shit gets bad for the people that dont care, theyre slaves to those that do.
Just like alinsky said almost a century ago, it takes a very small population to make change. Only 4% of the fucking country had any problem with jim crow laws yet all it took is good social organization and boom everyone has to learn about heroes like MLK and Malcolm X, when most people back then had the same feelings towards them as we do about DSP.
You have to accept the fact that shit will get worse, we're at 1919 Germany levels of "shit is bad but it will get better because we all just want to grill" levels of denial
Also im keeping track of every fucker here that said "no big deal bro" so that you all can tell @Null to shut the fuck up about section 230 or the EARN IT bill and anything else that he spergs about. Because he's pretty great at being stoic so for him to sperg that means shit is hitting the fan.
Also we're like 3 weeks away from section 230 being changed but somehow we're all supposed to deal with that despite it being pretty clear this site wont be around soon after.
Also do you know how i know pulling an ostrich and grilling is something only wastes of good organs do? Because spics do it.
Spics have been getting killed at the same rate as they were 500 years ago by conquistadors and they just shrugged and said "things will get better"
and it didnt, hell even before that they were just ok with being sacrificed to the sun god, hoping things would get better. And it turns out no it didnt.
The best shot spics had of a better life the last 500 years is literally letting some dumb white guy shoot his load into them, so that the euro DNA would give them the intelligence and motivation to change things.
Thats right in a world of "i just want to grill, ill not do anything while the world destroys itself and me too" the BEST OPTION is to be Barb Chandler.
And thats the society we're heading into, Chris-chan and his family went from being a laughingstock 10 years ago to being an ideal to strive towards 10 years from now.
You have Bob " i just want to grill" chandler. Barb "find some dumb rich guy to leech off of" chandler and Chris "proud autistic trans woman with anti-police sympathies" chandler. And thats basically the model family to deal with the 20s now according to the pro-BLM/pro-CHOP people in the US right now.
(Sorry about the sperging, I'm high)
OH WAIT YOU CANT BECAUSE DESPITE WHAT DIPSHITS IN THIS VERY THREAD SAID SHIT CHANGED
Thats what i hate about this whole "everyone just wants to grill' and why im glad the most annoying parts of the left are ruining and co-opting the shit out of it. Shit gets bad for the people that dont care, theyre slaves to those that do.
Just like alinsky said almost a century ago, it takes a very small population to make change. Only 4% of the fucking country had any problem with jim crow laws yet all it took is good social organization and boom everyone has to learn about heroes like MLK and Malcolm X, when most people back then had the same feelings towards them as we do about DSP.
You have to accept the fact that shit will get worse, we're at 1919 Germany levels of "shit is bad but it will get better because we all just want to grill" levels of denial
Also im keeping track of every fucker here that said "no big deal bro" so that you all can tell @Null to shut the fuck up about section 230 or the EARN IT bill and anything else that he spergs about. Because he's pretty great at being stoic so for him to sperg that means shit is hitting the fan.
Also we're like 3 weeks away from section 230 being changed but somehow we're all supposed to deal with that despite it being pretty clear this site wont be around soon after.
Also do you know how i know pulling an ostrich and grilling is something only wastes of good organs do? Because spics do it.
Spics have been getting killed at the same rate as they were 500 years ago by conquistadors and they just shrugged and said "things will get better"
and it didnt, hell even before that they were just ok with being sacrificed to the sun god, hoping things would get better. And it turns out no it didnt.
The best shot spics had of a better life the last 500 years is literally letting some dumb white guy shoot his load into them, so that the euro DNA would give them the intelligence and motivation to change things.
Thats right in a world of "i just want to grill, ill not do anything while the world destroys itself and me too" the BEST OPTION is to be Barb Chandler.
And thats the society we're heading into, Chris-chan and his family went from being a laughingstock 10 years ago to being an ideal to strive towards 10 years from now.
You have Bob " i just want to grill" chandler. Barb "find some dumb rich guy to leech off of" chandler and Chris "proud autistic trans woman with anti-police sympathies" chandler. And thats basically the model family to deal with the 20s now according to the pro-BLM/pro-CHOP people in the US right now.
(Sorry about the sperging, I'm high)
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Anyone who didn't fall for the "DEMOCRACY YEAH" meme already knows that. The masses don't matter, the elites do.
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Not even "the elites" literally just any small group. Look at what 4chan did with a mountain dew poll and realize how much power people have when they work together
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I do think things will probably get better, and depending on how the election plays out, 2020 might end up being the year of the Woke Left's final stand.
The elites that back all this woke shit are either Chinese commissars or they're wealthy neoliberal corporate bigwigs, and the second group have very much a "Not In My Backyard" mentality and will cut the line on the SJW true believers once they are too much of a liability for the elites.
The neocon corporate elites did the exact same thing to the Religious Right near the end of Bush's second term. The neolibs will do the same thing if the SJW's become too much of a liability financially and politically, and they already are shaping up to be that way now that the bigwigs are losing control of Antifa and BLM.
The elites that back all this woke shit are either Chinese commissars or they're wealthy neoliberal corporate bigwigs, and the second group have very much a "Not In My Backyard" mentality and will cut the line on the SJW true believers once they are too much of a liability for the elites.
The neocon corporate elites did the exact same thing to the Religious Right near the end of Bush's second term. The neolibs will do the same thing if the SJW's become too much of a liability financially and politically, and they already are shaping up to be that way now that the bigwigs are losing control of Antifa and BLM.
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Nothing will really change until fathers stay with their families (a lot of police brutality begins with fatherlessness in the home as that increases crime), Hollywood is purged of the creeps, and we fuck the whole idea of one race being better than the other and see each other as just another person with a slightly different culture.
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For the (((elites)))? Yes. For you, me, plus John and Jane Doe? Hell no.
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I am normally called a pessimist in my circle, but I do have hope that things will get better, or at least I hope that they do. The one thing to consider is whether or not you’re experiencing mean world syndrome, a term coined back in the 1970s, where if you’re over exposed to media that shows violence, your perception of reality is going to be biased. I think we all experience this every now and then; I know I do when I see this insanity. How this comes out politically, I can’t give my two cents due to how volatile it can be. For social media, you’ll have more in common with some average Joe than whatever nutcase you find online, especially when you consider that places like Twitter? Yeah, only a small percentage of adults in the US use it, and a smaller percentage makes around 90% of the political tweets.
In the mean time, just enjoy the moment. Have hope, practice mindfulness, and don’t let the media make you into a total wreck.
In the mean time, just enjoy the moment. Have hope, practice mindfulness, and don’t let the media make you into a total wreck.
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Unless you happen to have insider information that 2020 is the End of Days, I find this scenario unlikely. As the Good Lord said in His parable,
The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then the tares appeared also.So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didn't you sow good seed in thy field? from where did the tares come out from?He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
— Matthew 13:24-30
Wheat: the righteous
Tares: the wicked (the Woke Left)
Enemy: Lucifer
The woke left are with us until the end of time.
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Better? Dunno, I can sure say it will be different. We still have something huge coming down the pipeline. I don't know what, why or when. I just know there was a lot of extremely shady things getting done with no question which are going to have very severe implications. There are too many laws on the books which can be subverted to fit a purpose outside original intent, and the spooks can find them no matter the nuance. So I can't honestly tell you anything will get better knowing that there are a lot of cogs moving in different directions but in very purposeful ways.
I'll reexamine my thought after the country gets nukkake'd with whatever all this subversion is working toward.
I'll reexamine my thought after the country gets nukkake'd with whatever all this subversion is working toward.
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