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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   791 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 5, 2026

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I think a lot of the divide comes down to how we raise kids. The major difference between now and the past is that most parents are now so divorced from the idea that there should be any authority figures that they not only cannot raise their kids into adulthood properly, but often stand in the way of anyone who would demand a kid do anything they don’t want to. That often means that the child lacks the ability to act professionally or talk professionally. They don’t understand that going to a job interview is not the same as hanging out with the kid down the street.

Many of them often come from single parent households unfortunately.

We’re going to see an interesting social shift happen within a century’s time, if we haven’t begun this cycle already. Western welfare systems have been in free fall as a result of the social changes that have already taken place post-1960, along with globalization and technological progress; enabling corporations to extract more productivity out of people than individuals can easily earn back; as well as the difficulty of capturing the excess of the highest earners of the tax base (or just a complete intellectual loss of understanding how fiscal spending works, which coincidenced with the shift from Keynesian administrations to Neoliberal ones in the postwar period).

The cracks in the system are there and the modern world has made it such that this paradigm can’t be easily reformed (if it can be reformed at all). Collapse in the TFR means shrinking productivity, technology means capital flight is a few click away during tax season and antagonistic social relations between the genders means good luck to social stability in the future. There’s either going to be a Great Reconciliation where people just step to the right, and reality has forced them to acknowledge the necessary sacrifices to make life livable in hand times, or there’s going to be a great deal of oppression coming.

Oppression is coming, I think. Only question is how to best position myself and my family to minimize harm to ourselves. Probably best to delete social media profiles which can be used as evidence of any political leanings one way or another.

The oppression is already here. Men and women aren't allowed to agree on the rules of engagement, you aren't permitted a place to raise your kid without paying ruinous costs in rent because building is illegal, the list goes on.

Just because it doesn't on its face look like what Boomers (or prior generations) told you oppression would look like, and just because you can still technically bear it, doesn't mean it isn't oppression.

Could very well be. Roko’s Basilisk could still be in effect via social media.

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