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Goodguy  1d ago (text post)   Edited 1d ago   8227 thread views

Midterms Megathread

Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.

The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.

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I’d be fine with Vance, DeSantis, or Rubio at this point. As long as Trump is gone. He’s incompetent and chaotic for no benefit. If we’re not getting Hitler 2.0 then let’s just do managed decline and we can all live peacefully. I’ve accepted that’s probably best case scenario at this point.

If we’re not getting Hitler 2.0 then let’s just do managed decline

As opposed to...

Presumably Hitler 2.0 would be immediate and catastrophic decline that leaves the country a bombed-out ruin?

Hitler 1.0 was defeated by the combined armies of white men that are long dead.
Who could possibly stop Hitler 2.0?

Well…himself.

What are these guys going to do?
Could they even win against one of these drunk women the Dems are fielding?

we can all live peacefully.

That's until the President says that that rioter the police shot was his son or some other bs.
Without Trumpian youth American streets would not get pacified. You'll get a cop knocking at the door after your next X (formerly Twitter) post right for tea time. What we've seen so far is the beginning of the bad. Trump put a halt to much of it, but it barely even began.
Remember in 2021 they wanted to get you fired if you did not take a shot.
Have you taken your daily capsule of Anti-whiteness yet citizen? We have reports that bad thoughts were being emitted in your area.

I don't think you understand how fucked we (as in white conservatives) are already. I moved out of Texas recently and it is probably 30% white now. Chicago is noticeably more white than Texas cities. Texas is going to be permanently Blue. All you need to do is go to a Costco to see this. It's done. Trump's antics have radicalized the left so much that if they win all 3 branches of government in 28, they are going to open the borders like we've never seen before. At this point, if you care about demographics, it's either Hitler 2.0 Reconquista right now or it's over. If you aren't down with that (and it looks like America isn't hence the response to ICE raids) then that's about as good as we can hope for. There are no white pills to be had. Vance is the best the dissident right can ever hope for, as sad as that is.

Trump did not make anybody open the borders.
Trump's antics got him elected which is better than any of these other yahoos could hope for.
I don't really care about demographics, maybe local power at this point.
Demographics vote their way into what we have now anyway.

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