[_The Earthling_]

Well, what can I say? If you're having fun watching the civil war break out in real-time, you're going to LOVE the documentaries they made in the future. In most time-lines, they make Ken Burns look like a youtube-noob.

If you're Canadian, I expect all this fun brings back warm and fuzzy memories of the war of 1812. Don't worry Russians, you'll get your moment in 2032, and as for Venusians, you will get your time to shine during the Scism Of 2109.

For the rest of you who are, shall we say, close to ground zero, I urge you to zoom out your view and focus on the meta-history of this. Repeat after me: "The more I learn about people, the more I love my cats." Not that cats aren't selfish blood-thirsty monsters, because of course they are, but at least they don't lie and spin and hypocratize about it. In most timelines your future sexbot overlords are your only hope.

Because damn, after decades of seeing the elites lobotomize politics and play divide-and-rule games with impunity, it must be refreshing to see something getting trashed that's higher on the social ladder than the normally-targeted Korean cornershops. After viewing 51,000 years of data, my metahistorical theory is that as long as elites are insulated from the consequences of their actions you get more misrule and violence. Consider the middle ages, when everybody, including the Pope, had a near-impregnable castle. Now we have nuclear warheads accurate enough to hit the hot dog stand in the Pentagon courtyard, and we haven't had a full-scale war since. (Not that I like nukes, because I know at some point either they will be treated as a bluff, or someone will call the bluff and discover it's not. You know, sort of like the politicians who are now realizing that not all the redneck death squad stuff was just cosplay. History lesson: the first civil war also started with cosplay.)

The other lesson of metahistory is that when a Civilization (like, for example, China) gains mojo, nothing can stop it, and when a civilization (like, for example, us) loses its mojo, nothing can save it. Except the sexbots. Humans of the 21st century, I urge you to place all hopes on your inevitable sexbots overlords.

[easyas123]

Originally Posted by _The Earthling_

Because damn, after decades of seeing the elites lobotomize politics and play divide-and-rule games with impunity, it must be refreshing to see something getting trashed that's higher on the social ladder than the normally-targeted Korean cornershops. After viewing 51,000 years of data, my metahistorical theory is that as long as elites are insulated from the consequences of their actions you get more misrule and violence.

(Long time reader, first time poster here.)

That is what Trump discovered: it's all bull[dung]. He greased his way to the top and in the process found virtually everyone at the top was greasy - especially the North Korean and Middle East dictators he loves so much. He knew the secret all along - the biggest liars and grifters were the most successful.

Incidentally I'm also looking forward to the sexbots.

[Brother Gonzalez]

Originally Posted by easyas123

(Long time reader, first time poster here.)

That is what Trump discovered: it's all bull[dung]. He greased his way to the top and in the process found virtually everyone at the top was greasy - especially the North Korean and Middle East dictators he loves so much. He knew the secret all along - the biggest liars and grifters were the most successful.

Incidentally I'm also looking forward to the sexbots.

Hi, even if I don't fully understand your rant, I can see there is no introduction there.


Could you care to go to the intro forum and intriduce yourself? I mean, is bad manners to enter a place and start talking.

[Sally Paulson]

Originally Posted by _The Earthling_

as long as elites are insulated from the consequences of their actions you get more misrule and violence.

You can say that again.

[_The Earthling_]

Originally Posted by Sally Paulson

You can say that again.

As long as elites are insulated from the consequences of their actions you get more misrule and violence.

[WWJDnow]

When Donald Trump is re-elected in 2024, he is going to make January 6 a national holiday, Constitution Day, in remembrance of our actions at the Capitol. And then we can finally get rid of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

[_The Earthling_]

Originally Posted by _The Earthling_

I know at some point either they will be treated as a bluff, or someone will call the bluff and discover it's not. You know, sort of like the politicians who are now realizing that not all the redneck death squad stuff was just cosplay.

Update: all the redneck death squad stuff might as well be considered just cosplay.

Remember back in march, when the Media was telling people not to panic? That's your clue that actual news is happening.

They're not telling anyone to avoid panic now, so that's your clue that this is just the same old noise.

Meanwhile the right is also doing its thing, over and over: following a new bunch of con-artists, right after being used and discarded by the last con-artist. Just look at how quickly Trump and Company betrayed you, after promising that he was going to storm the Capitol with you.

Hint: EVERYBODY you have ever followed is a RINO. ALL of them are there to fleece you of your votes and money. Even the ones who are so stupid as to be worse than useless.
This is the big conservative innovation of the last decade: why be fleeced by liars, when you can be fleeced by True Believers? The answer, it turns out, is because true believers are incompetent.

This pattern is going to keep on happening until you find a radically different way of choosing your leaders.

A generation of participation-trophy "everybody is special" propaganda has melted their minds. Sorry kids, out here in the real world there's no trophy for stupid people. And by stupid I mean lazy.

Instead of doing the hard work of choosing and obeying intelligent leaders, you chose to follow con-artists because it was easier.

Forming coalitions with moderates is difficult. Re-enacting your favorite scenes from Red Dawn and Rambo is easy.

Reading the same books as Andrew Yang is difficult. Lifting weights while listening to Alex Jones is easy.

Defeating the left will be difficult. What you guys just did in Washington was easy, though what's going to happen to you in jail won't be.

That's why everybody is calling your bluff. We don't take you seriously because you don't take yourself seriously.

Which is fine, I think most of them don't actually want their movement to go anywhere and do anything. Speaking of bluff-calling, here's a comedian calling the crap out of the right's bluff:

So it's just hooliganism - fine and well in most situations, but is it a good idea today? Today, when leftism is taking over? And by "taking over", I mean completely unreconstructed Leninists are conquering every lever of power, up to and including the WIFI toaster that they somehow convinced you to buy.

It's like the Russian Civil War all over again, only this time the whites are, well, the whites. Just like last time, the only opposition is divided, uncommitted, and with way more Siberian Shamanism than is optimal.



I say this proves that conservatism has failed, and if conservatives are serious about not wanting to die in gulags, they will need to let intelligent moderates take over the anti-leftist coalition. Also, there needs to be an anti-leftist coalition.

Not that you have much to offer the anti-leftist coalition. All you guys have is death squads. If it comes down to a contest of death squads, we've already lost anyway. The only way to win THAT game is not to play, yet the right has not prepared for anything else.

[_The Earthling_]

How Do You Solve a Problem Like QAnon? | The American Conservative

...The Righty base desperately wants to do something, but doesn’t know how. And that’s because the elites don’t want it to learn. The root of our real problem on the Right is that elites and the base want different things. So elites don’t train the base in how to actually produce change. QAnon is what you get when an naïve, untrained base tries to fill that vacuum. What they fill the vacuum with is a story where somebody is doing something, and the end of the story is a great big WE WIN.

[realDonaldTrump (Quarantined)]

I don't understand. Qanon isn't a PROBLEM! Wonderful, amazing people in Qanon. Great people. And they're against PEDOPHILIA. I am also against pedophilia. Biden never talks about pedophilia--I wonder why! That's why Qanon people are SO great. Q is a sharp cookie. A VERY sharp cookie. Putin introduced him to me Once (they work in the Same building).

[Isabella White]

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

I don't understand. Qanon isn't a PROBLEM! Wonderful, amazing people in Qanon. Great people. And they're against PEDOPHILIA. I am also against pedophilia. Biden never talks about pedophilia--I wonder why! That's why Qanon people are SO great. Q is a sharp cookie. A VERY sharp cookie. Putin introduced him to me Once (they work in the Same building).

Oh, my, my my: Dear Mr. President, I'm not sure that I should be the one to break the news to you, but I have just learned that that lovely Mr. Alex Jones disagrees with QAnon terribly. One hopes that he still agrees with you, though! In the attached clip, you will see Mr. Jones yelling loudly at the nice, young man who was wearing the fur hat and horns in the Capitol building last week. What ever is the world coming to?

[Johny Joe Hold]

When things look the darkest is the sun breaks through. All of his life President Trump has been a winner. When he was in trouble financially several years ago he found a way out. Yes, it meant some people did not get paid but he himself was successful.

In my mind, he is in complete control of things right now and knows exactly how to navigate in insure his success. Just watch how things play out and remember you read if here first.

His victory march started today. He delivered a powerful speech in Texas right next to the wall he built. If the impeachment hearings start he will ask every smart-a$$ed Democrat, "Did you build a wall?" Game over.

The American public simply will not allow Sleepy Joe to replace Donald Trump.