Putin hates democracy
The year is 2025 and we're unironically busting out "they hate our freedom" for the purposes of neocon war propaganda.
corman
8d ago
but his opposition claims (also credibly) that he deliberately created a situation such that that provocation would happen and he would have an excuse to commit violence.
Seems to me that the rioters were the ones that "created a situation such that provocation would happen". It's fascinating to me how it always gets ignored by Rittenhouse haters that showing up from out of town to burn a community down is a far more sinister intent than showing up to defend it.
corman
8d ago
This is the flip side of a related issue, that the Constitution (or at least constitutional jurisprudence) does not sufficiently limit the imposition of irreligious totalizing ideologies because they are not an “establishment of religion.”
I'm glad that you brought this up because I thought of this as well while writing my post but didn't know how to word it. It has been rightly observed that the woke package of beliefs and its adherents could be interpreted as religious in nature and have utterly bypassed government safeguards w/r/t church and state.
corman
8d ago
The belief can't be "philosophical" or "political" it has to a sincere religious belief.
What is the difference between a sincere belief derived from a religious framework vs a sincere belief derived from a philosophical one and why is religion given more weight in this regard? If i said that I believe in the supremacy of the biological imperative, and that queer doctrine is blasphemous in this regard, is this considered to be philosophical and therefore unreasonable? What if I said I sincerely believe that the imperative is a facet of God's will? Has my belief now become acceptable in the court's eyes now that I've rhetorically laundered it?
What have those decades of rot delivered? The most advanced technological society in history, with the deepest understanding of the physical universe to-date?
The crux of my argument without getting too far into the weeds about politicization of the sciences and "expert consensus" is that "the most advanced technological society in history, with the deepest understanding of the physical universe to-date" has delivered us a significant population of elites and voters who cannot define what a woman is.
Epistemic collapse is my threat model.
The old model of "expertise" is out the door: it was ideologically captured by liberals. A new model of "expertise" must be created, one that by design serves not just conservative, but reactionary interests.
I doubt that when liberals subjected our institutions to decades of rot that you ever wrote a screed about how and why they were doing so, and why we must stop them. I will throw your critique in the trash with all of the other opinions from people who hate me and want me broke and dead.
corman
14d ago
I am also not sure why Black Americans outperform white ones. You could imagine these dual outperformances having similar underlying causes or very different ones. I have not looked into it, and frankly I don’t intend to, because I am happy living in a society where it is considered unseemly and inappropriate to preoccupy oneself with such questions.
It has been for decades now entirely seemly and appropriate to preocuppy oneself with the question of why the white animal is unsuited to positions of leadership and possessed of unique, vicious defects of character and moral turpitude.
corman
14d ago
Every time I read the nth article or post about how obviously the system is gamed and the truth counts for nothing, I think Charles Mackay writing about two men who had crashed France's economy: "They were both held in horror, but the people confined themselves to complaints; a sombre and timid despair, a stupid consternation, had seized upon all, and men's minds were too vile even to be capable of a courageous crime."
Yes, the truth is disdained by those in power, it is a sometimes useful tool for pushing a narrative and nothing more. What now? What actions can be taken to topple wikipedia, or smear it such that it's no longer the encyclopedia of record? How do you get reddit moderators to stop slandering Kyle Rittenhouse as an indiscriminate racist murderer? I think that "raising awareness" only goes so far until you end up in "here lies conservatism" territory.
corman
20d ago
Better the obnoxious moocher
I would be more inclined to accept Israel as the North Korea of the west if the west wasn't ruled by ethnic Israeli's.
corman
21d ago
Israel is a racial-supremacist national socialist state engaged in ethnic cleansing of a hated neighbor and also but whoops, the incredibly powerful jewish minority that is wildly overrepresented in positions of cultural, financial, and government power in America has been telling us for the last 80 years that all of these things are representative of the worst kind of demonic evil. Don't know how they can possibly hope to account for this issue, every attempt stokes further anger. There are lots of other factors (whoops they're triggering a racial awakening among whites!) but they cannot possibly hope to reconcile their ethnic hypocrisy that used to be hidden but is now very public.
corman
22d ago
I struggle with economic discussion in general because
A. I know almost nothing about economics and what I do know makes the entire system seem like a massive fraud i.e. it's a ponzi scheme when I do it but they're treasury bonds when the feds do it
B. The kinds of people who are able to discourse about economics are overwhelmingly PMC and will represent PMC interests and when economics are discussed at all then what is considered to be "good policy" will be policy that doesn't take into consideration blue collar workers
corman
26d ago
This is a sentiment I've heard a number of people express. Borderlands 1 being preferable to 2 because in 1 you play as a nobody merc while 2 makes you the savior of the world and center of the narrative. Classic WoW being preferable to later expansions because you're a nobody adventurer as opposed to Azeroth's Greatest Champion. Half Life 1 vs 2. Seems there's a kind of gamer that doesn't like the conceit that the player is always the center of attention.
corman
1mo ago
FYI my respect for towards you didn't move when Coil made the crack but dropped when you proved unable to roll with the punch. Self-seriousness will make you a target.
corman
1mo ago
I must confess that my persona on themotte up to this point has been a lie. I'm actually a progressive democrat. Here's what I actually, truly believe as a progressive democrat. That we have gone much too far with our cultural revolution, that it's not enough we stop pushing for further progressive transformation but that we must also roll back the success we've had. I think that conservatives have a point that our institutions are buckling from the weight of dogma. I also find conservative women beautiful and the men to be strong and handsome. Reminder, I am a progressive.
corman
1mo ago
Their approval is worthless, the cultural power they wield is the prize. I expect better analysis from one who is not "proudly ignorant".
corman
1mo ago
(as elsewhere, secularization is a bottom up thing)
It is your belief that a certain zealotry is necessary to motivate achievement?
corman
1mo ago
The fundamental problem the Red Tribe/American conservatism faces is a culture of proud, resentful ignorance.
Mass, public epistemic victory is about popularity and not truth. If you can gaslight the population to the degree that a 38 year old man can hold the belief that there are no physical differences between genders then it's trivial to gaslight the public to believe that anyone who speaks up otherwise is "proudly, resentfully ignorant". Too bad for you that society requires a minimum level of truth-based epistemology to function and you don't understand that you've crossed the line.
I think you're right and a better way of phrasing would have been that if 30% of paleontology enthusiasts are red and 70% are blue then it becomes a matter of time until social selection pressures ensure that nearly all (or all in the case of NPR's editorial board) end up blue.
corman
1mo ago
If trace is concerned about cultural institutions maybe he should have some words with blues using them as cover to shovel propaganda. He knows reds don't have the temperament or interest to "show up" for museums or libraries and begs them not to nuke from orbit leaving no option but to impotently shake their fist at enemy indoctrination operations that overwhelmingly target children.
No thanks. If trace cares about these institutions maybe he should be imploring them to police themselves.
corman
1mo ago
Responding to that debate by saying that you can't criticize one view because the opposite view is more socially popular and more visible in the media is an irrelevance when the question is not about which view is more popular but about the arguments themselves.
This is only true if the "popularity" is organic and not yet another outcome of a concerted effort by Zionists to manufacture consent.
corman
1mo ago
Of course you're obviously sidestepping the point that Zionist's criticism and hatred of Nazi Germany is blasted on full volume through all channels of media, politics, and schooling in the western world while all discussion of Nazi Israel's ambitions is kept thoroughly in-house.
I think NATO instigated color revolutions on his doorstep are more of a concern for Putin than a burning hatred for alternate political systems. The man's entire post psychoanalyzes Putin as if he were a petulant child instead of one of the most cunning men on the planet. I haven't forgotten 2000-2008 when every gas station clerk thought she was smarter than the POTUS. People remain unable to analyze men smarter than they are.
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