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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
Trump wrote a book on the tactic and has spent 50 years living by the motto of "Make an insane starting demand and then allow them to talk you back to merely what you originally wanted". Unfortunately, that doesn't scratch the Orange man dumb dumb poopy head itch for people who can't model other minds.
Hence, the idiotic TACO meme.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
10d ago
Everything dooms the Republicans in the midterms.
That's not analysis. It's barely even sarcastic. I feel like every month there's 1-2 things that DOOM REPUBLICANS IN THE MIDTERMS and then the actual polling needle barely budges.
Maybe everything is just fully too stupid for mere "events" to make anyone update.
There's not really way to ask this without sounding condescending, but are you old enough to remember the Obama administration?
Because if you want to talk about not getting that Russia is THE ENEMY, then the conversation has to begin with Mitt Romney calling Russia our biggest foe, and Obama's turn-it-around re-election zinger specifically making fun of him for it.
Helpfully, I already linked the video.
Part of that was driven by the Russian Reset, a showy, futile, embarrassingly stupid effort at rapprochement made by the Obama administration towards Russia (much like their efforts towards Iran). Team Obama thought it was cringe and old-fashioned to still be mad at Russia just for being a genocidal communist tyranny. And Hilary let them personally enrich her to the tune of tens of millions donated to the Clinton Foundation and generous speaking fees to Bill, while she signed off on the things like the Russian purchase of a major uranium company.
In 2014 the idea that "Russia hates the US, the west, and democracy" was considered laughable neocon boomer anti-communist retard shit.
The reason Democrats hate Russia with the fire of a thousand suns is because they needed a scapegoat for Hilary losing in 2016, even if the efforts to blame Russia were idiotic and laughable. Putin obviously wanted Hilary to win, because he'd already bought her and knew how to fold her like a cheap table. Meanwhile, Trump occasionally says nice things, and also threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin invades Ukraine.
Didn't realize they were the current president and were cozying up to Putin right now.
It's about consistency. Do you actually think the Russians are the villains of the era? Then please, show your homework essay on how insane and evil it was that Trump's predecessor and rivals were so cozy with Putin.
Russia is an enemy nation that hates the US, the west, and democracy. They have been our opposition for decades and decades.
The 1980's called. They want their foreign policy back.
Sorry, Cat, but table stakes for this conversation is the kind of scathing, molten ranting at Obama and Hilary Clinton that'll get you fired, bankrupted and jailed when Democrats retake control and implement Project 2029.
Sans the ante up, this is just TDS from the peanut gallery.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
I think you're heavily overselling the spread. I actually do live in a small town, and with travel sports I see a bunch of the others in the area. A mom having a tattoo or three is no longer outrageous, sure, but not the default, they're in reasonably concealable locations, and she mostly doesn't have any facial piercings. The vast, vast majority have no visible "cultural degeneracy" markers at all.
Arm tats on dads are a bit more common.
I've never had a diner waitress who looked like a leftist. I mean, they exist, but it's like the white girl with dreads at the smoke shop. The attendants at one particular amusement park were very disproportionately gender-ambiguous they/thems.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
13d ago
At no point in his entire life did he for a second thing about " A man is a provider. A man is skilled at hard things. A man ...",
I would suspect that to the extent this is true, it's because it was so utterly self-evident that talking about it would seem silly. Those old guys absolutely had strong beliefs about what makes a man a good man, or a woman a good woman, and they definitely knew and believed that those were separate categories. What they didn't have was a bunch of autistic or naval-gazing Discourse about it.
None of these men would be considered particularly manly by the degenerates in the manosphere,
This is because the manosphere types are operating outside the paradigm of a community, so they have to hyperfocus on visually obvious elements. I've raised the topic before, and it seems relatively rare for the posters here to have opportunities to be helpful in their communities. Many are atomized, isolated.
Bluntly, if the girls never get to see you carrying 8 chairs at a time back to storage after church, then you might need to signal strength extra super hard by shallower metrics.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
Have you considered staring at a screen all weekend to keep consistent?
More seriously, have you played around with lighting types, e.g. blue light filter?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
"Man" is a useful Schelling point for mentally organizing virtuous traits linked to systematizing and testosterone. Plenty of them would still be useful (critical even!) on a desert island.
I have seen the claim that anyone in the sphere with a shred of sense or self-respect refused the offer to interview.
Not entirely sure who such people might be, tbh.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
This creates an inherently muddled message to men. "DON'T listen to the siren song of red pill grifters, DON'T give in to misogyny, DON'T become a parody of masculinity. That's VERY BAD."
"Okay okay, but what should I do instead?"
"Fuck you, figure it out yourself or die alone."
The more common case is deliberately bad advice as a form of sabotage.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
No, nobody in America ever likes any policy whatsoever if you phrase it negatively and prompt them with only the downsides.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Empire was part of the broader Belt and Road Initiative, which was basically corporatist colonialism without any noblisse oblige. I namedropped it because I figured people might be more familiar with it. It's just a prompt.
Let's say the US massively pulls back from it's efforts stabilizing the world. What do you think fills the void, and why would it be better?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
I mean... during my lifetime, no one had a more destabilizing effect on the world in general, and the Middle East in particular than the United States.
During your lifetime, the US has also been the glue that holds the world together. We "destabilize" within the paradigm that we are the source of all stability.
But ok, I have some sympathy with the notion that the rest of the world doesn't deserve the effort. How do you think that would go? Take a look at the Belt and Road, Empire of Dust, the fishing fleets, and explain why you think Pax China will be better.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
I think a lot depends on what you think "this kind of war" is,
Very much this. The shit they had guys like JTarrou doing in Iraq, the room to room sweeping with a random mix of civilians, fighters, and suicide bombers, where they had to pretend that everyone they met was friendly until they were being bombed or shot at? With RoE that seem almost designed to drive people insane or get them killed? Driven by the delusional belief that the only thing separating Uday Hussein from Will Stancil was a bit of pocket change and a lecture on queer puppet shows?
Yeah, the politicians calling for that can get fragged.
Bombing assholes into the Stone Age?
Talking about exactly that in the context of specifically Iran is actually where the we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before line comes from.
The current actions are perhaps on the upper side of expectations, but Trump was never a dove. He just isn't a medal-farming, nation-building retard.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
There are several justifications for this war that strike me as plausible, but I have no idea which ones (if any) are load-bearing among supporters e.g.
"Support" is a strong word. I've not sworn my life and honor to the Plannisters, but I've certainly learned not to bet against them. There's a lot of room for potential upside here, between positioning and maneuvering against China, the Middle East, knocking out a Russian ally, scaring and embarrassing our "allies", testing out next-gen combat, the fact that Iran just generally totally fucking sucks and has been calling for the death of my people for half a century, etc. It's not stuff I was chomping at the bit for, but I can see the logic, but it costs me little to wait and see if the administration can bring it home. If they can, it would be a hell of a coup, a lightsaber to a Gordian knot.
And maybe they can't. But frankly, there isn't a single politician in America I'd give better odds to than Donald Trump.
And on a more cold, personal level: I've been saying for decades that we should have just flattened every government building in Afghanistan and littered the country with pamphlets in every goat-herder language known to our anthropologists saying "If your government still offends us, we're just going to come back and do it again and again, so regularly you can plant your crops by the sight of our bombers smiting you. Repent or die. - Sincerely, the Fist of God (AKA: America)."
So I'm kind of curious to test the "can't do Islamic regime change by air power" hypothesis.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Blue state blues. On the plus side, I've been renewing my old-style license online and having it mailed to me since the Obama administration.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Black people do in fact usually have IDs. The people most likely to be loose in the world without one are professional white women who think their phone is a scifi universal gadget.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
The big obstacle with Real ID is getting an appointment in the first place. Every time I hear about it, the waitlist is months long.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Antarctic research station should be sufficient, no?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Andrew Anglin announced total Hebrew victory and unconditionally surrendered to ZOG by closing Daily Stormer.
End of an era. 13 years long battle is over.
Trust the Zion plan.
Say what you will about the Zionists, but they do appear to the only non-American faction with any measurable amount of both competence and agency.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Heftige Rivalität, soon on Netflix.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Outsiders using low-resolution judgment means that movements have an incentive to clean up their act. A high-resolution one would let them reap the benefits and face none of the consequences.
In other words, you can't complain about being called a communist unless you have enemies to the left.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
What's Andy Samberg doing these days?
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
The sheer Larry David-esque humor potential would greatly bolster the "dankest timeline" hypothesis.
That was not the American consensus position 14 years ago. It became a bit sketchy after Russian invaded Crimea in 2013, but no one wanted to go too hard on that because it was embarrassing to Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton, who were not just "soft" on Russia, but far softer than Trump has been.
"Trump kisses up to Putin" is actually just a retarded, self-serving lie, perpetrated by bad actors who were driven insane by TDS. He says nice things sometimes when he wants something from people, just like he does to Kim Jong Un and Zohran Mamdani, and other times he says mean things. And in the real world, Putin consistently launches invasions when verbally harsh, limp Democrats are in power, and sits in his lane when Trump is.
Again, as someone who does know the history here, it's hard to take your position as anything other than an isolated demand for standards, fueled by ignorance.
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