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| 2018-04-11 |
| [AccordingToHoyt] Or worse, in this case, they get actions. Look, guys, this is not new, and it wouldn’t surprise many people in the past. It’s more that what we’re engaged in is a very weird revolutionary activity. It is a revolutionary activity, don’t make a mistake on that, just because I haven’t bared my boobs like the chick above, and I’m not charging forth with standard. Think back, those of you who are my age or close to it, to all the times when you were ‐ seemingly ‐ the only one who saw that "what everybody knew" was wrong, all the times when if you had said what you believed people wouldn’t necessarily oppose you: they’d just think you were crazy. It’s not that you didn’t think them: of course you thought them. And in the company of very trusted friends or family, you might even say something, but you had no way of reaching the public. Having blogs, commenting on blogs, working on internet diffusion of ideas that are contrary to the establishment ‐ and the establishment is wholly liberal now ‐ is a revolutionary activity. The founding fathers and their precursors did in fact engage in much the same activity, given their technology: handbills, political discussions, all of them were part of the revolution, or perhaps the ramping up to it. Thing is, the founding fathers, (and the few saneish French revolutionaries) EXPECTED the other side to have a say. Hanging was not off the table for all the revolutionaries. When they pledged their life, their liberty, their sacred honor, they expected to lose all three. The chances of success were infinitesimal. So, why are we shocked by the people who think we need to be put down and controlled? Why are we shocked by attacks on the amendments the founding fathers gave us? The other side gets a say. Look, for almost a hundred years now they’ve been at least as privileged as the French aristocracy. There are tangible benefits to lefty privilege. Why do you think people virtue-signal? Because virtue signaling translates into jobs, book deals, media appearances and applause. They had it all. Make the right noises, support the right causes, and you’ll be on top. Thing is most people aren’t even political. They are clever apes who identify what is best in their tribe and what will bring them rewards. We’re the weird ones. And the rewards have been on the left for almost a century. Yes, they managed the neat trick of pretending to be revolutionaries even as they controlled all of the establishment. The extent to which they controlled it is becoming very apparent in the civil war going on in our institutions. But they are still the establishment. Third generation now. And it has its privileges. No one on the right with Obama’s type of mind and experience could make it to president. (And no, Trump isn’t the same. He’s run businesses. Obama couldn’t run a lemonade stand. And oh, yeah, for the lurkers, this is not racial, it’s political. Red diaper kids rarely manage to comprehend economics. Their religion makes them believe a set of precepts that is at odds with the world.) No one on the right who was no smarter than most main stream pundits would have got anywhere. We’ve had to be faster, stronger, and insanely hard working to be heard, and evne then we were torpedoed at every turn. Then there was the net. And computers. And ways to communicate. You have to understand how deep 2016 cut. They spent all their money, they pushed all their celebrities, they controlled all the press. Everything said they were going to win. And then they lost. Is it any wonder they’ve gone nuts? This is like Marie Antoinette finding her palace full of not-at-all-respectful peasant women, demanding bread. (True.) And the guards being unable to clear them away. (Also true.) So yeah, unsavory rats like Zuckerberg are going to try to preemptively ban our opinions. Banks are going to try to refuse money to companies who make guns. Idiots like the Twitter Twit are going to call for us to be crushed. Did you expect to have a revolution, and the establishment didn’t fight back? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Like the way the White House Press corps hates, hates President Trump's Twitter account. The Press is being ignored! Sacrilege! Lèse-majesté!, and off with their heads! |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-04-11 14:22 |
| #2 I like it where it is. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-04-11 12:52 |
| #1 Ooops, sorry: should be in opinion/culture wars |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-11 12:35 |