The fool on the hill

@louisvarge Welfare states started popping up after ww1, creating a system that people were forced to invest in. If newcomers can take advantage of it, then they become a burden on the citizens who are forced to pay for the newcomers. If there was no welfare state, there would be no burden.

i don’t understand why immigration of any sort is universally unpopular. almost every country on earth heavily restricts it this is a recent thing too! before world war 1, you could just take a steamship from Brazil to Paris for $20 and decide you lived in France now what changed? are people bad now? is that the reason more people are even more bad? back then income wasn’t taxed in most jurisdictions either. now we tax our own people’s income & we don’t allow others to immigrate and earn income. i ask again, are people bad? is working bad? where did this zero sum attitude come from? what if we could also start deporting our own citizens, to have as few people as possible. would that be even better? is 0 the best amount of people? what is the point of all this?

@MOA_Official1 @bumbadum14 There's little left to conserve. At some point, burning the husks of our once great institutions is the main way to stop the spawning of new communists

@bumbadum14 "We must destroy every valuable institution to own the libs." This is why we are losing people. Being conservative means defending institutions. Not destroying them because we lost our grip. We retake them, not forfeit them.

People proclaim the “end of woke” but the reality is the institutions have been totally captured. Theres no reality where we take law schools back from the left. This is why doing away with ABA accreditation is a big deal. At some level the government validates every credential that the left weaponizes. The validation must be stripped before anything good can happen

@waltwhitmangoth @BlackDumpling You likely can't at a young age, which is why patriarchy existed. It would be your father and brothers scaring off the dishonest men. We got rid of that, so now the dishonest of the species get to hurt women.

@BlackDumpling how would i know the difference between an honest and a dishonest man in order to select the honest man...

This woman is every single Feminist you have ever met in your entire life. And she can't see it even as her nose is being rubbed in it.

@fleshsimulator @InternetDog_ @liminalsnake Black magic is powerful. Do not mess with negromancy

@InternetDog_ @liminalsnake Do you think it like, causes people physical damage? It's some kind of black cognitohazard? Do you think black people are incapable of determining context?

Yeah this is why we have the rule

@fleshsimulator @awfulincidents When giving someone your word so they trust you becomes giving someone THE word

@awfulincidents When you join, the server prompts you to type the word of power

@FrancisMarcus97 @EveKeneinan "Maybe some fences were meant to stay up..."

@EveKeneinan Quite. What leftists think is high openness - "dude, Green Day is so cool. Pass me that joint." What is actually high openness - "Wow, we don't really know that Aquinas isn't just plain right about nearly everything, do we?"

It seems obvious that "high openness" can easily lead one to being open to such things as traditional ideas. For example, a mere few decades ago the West decided, contrary to the judgment of the rest of the world and millennia of its own history, that same-sex activities were not perversions, vices, or serious social ills, but instead were goods that ought to be promoted and celebrated. Some people may be open to the idea that this recent orthodoxy regarding sex and sexuality is in error.

@dystopiangf Damn this hits home. I was fresh off of tripping when I started my descent into RW ideas because they were taboo

“Everyone around me thinks this particular collection of ideas is evil. I wonder what that’s about”

It’s very funny ending up on the same side politically as very low-openness, rigid traditionalists. I became RW because of my 99th percentile high openness + rebellious tendencies

@MrMEESEEKSreal @fleshsimulator LSD snapped me out of the "progressivism" I was supposed to swallow in college

@fleshsimulator Does this work with other mental disorders

I was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder but I took massive quantities of LSD and manually inverted it so now I have Prosocial Personality Disorder

@Manny3034931702 @Selkis_2028 High School

@Selkis_2028 Maybe, but where was this mythical army of men during the Lockdowns when it actually mattered?

I realized last week that there are probably 10-20 million American men to the right of Nick Fuentes. People have no idea what’s coming.

@fleshsimulator @automatedidiocy Bro crossed the party line and learned the difference between friends and "allies." Many such cases unfortunately

@automatedidiocy I was dissuaded of my rose tinted, idiosyncratic view of the left within 18 months of starting to interact with them and realizing they actually stand for nothing at all

The "snark community" decided I was a chud for putting out a miniseries on MDE.TV, and when I didn't disavow the MDE guys and grovel for forgiveness, they doxxed me, doxxed my parents, doxxed my grandparents, doxxed my now ex girlfriend, doxxed my former in-laws, posted everyone's addresses, threatened to rape my ex girlfriend after posting her address, tried to get her fired, tried to get my brother fired, sent my family death threats, made bomb threats to airports under my full name, made youtube videos insinuating I was a pedophile, attempted to get me to relapse on a daily basis, DMCA struck my podcast off spotify, fabricated an entire narrative about how all of this shit was actually my fault, and reported me to the FBI for domestic terrorism The response from people on the left that I had considered friends, people for whom I had stuck up out of principle even if I disagreed with them on the matter at hand, ranged from at best 'mealy half-sympathy in private' to actively trying to farm clout off my downfall because they thought they smelled blood in the water (Ask falcon finance how that worked out) I'm back to working on other obligations again but I am absolutely still on the war path MDE never dies

@TommyTwoKnuckle @GuardianZETI @JoeBartolozzi_ Ahh, add "fringe edge case" to the list of euphemisms for the New York Post headlines

@GuardianZETI @JoeBartolozzi_ I love how often racist republicans just project everything. “Look how could what you said be true when there is a singular example showcasing otherwise! As we all know this fringe edge case should be the center of all of your values and dictate your entire moral system!”

Hey @JoeBartolozzi_ did he kick this baby stroller because of impoverished areas too?

@Nom_de_plume @SCHIZO_FREQ Except our inner cities should be more civilized than a frontier town, not less....

@SCHIZO_FREQ It's just the same as if you went into a wild west saloon and called a grizzled old prospector a no good varmint, there are magic words everywhere, why is the right playing culture wars

Was talking to someone about the chud thing and said “Ya he was being dumb but I think everyone is growing a bit tired of this ‘magic word that justifies infinite violence’ thing” They hit me with a response I was completely unprepared for “What do you mean? The same thing would happen if you went to the ghettoes of New York and called some Jew a k*ke. They’d assault you too” One of those replies that instantly makes it clear you’re an idiot for even trying to discuss this with somebody so far removed from the issues at hand Like asking polar bears their opinions on airplanes

@swans11000 @Anglomaxxer If they begrudgingly got it and kept to themselves, I sympathize. Anyone who joined in on the pressuring/coercion... those are the totalitarian drones, and they aren't to be trusted with anything serious. Many of them deserve to be shot with a whole pharmacy of boosters.

If you took the Covid jab, you proved you lack basic critical thinking. You injected an experimental mRNA tech rushed with zero long term data, the same one now linked to child deaths, myocarditis, and irreversible damage in the healthy. Literal crackheads have lived longer than some people who blindly took it. Politely, I’ll struggle to value anything you say going forward.

@wobbyist @CasuallyGreg @Press_X_Fool Juuust smart enough to be arrogant. Around 110 iq

@TheFool64209 @CasuallyGreg @Press_X_Fool What’s a midwit to a fool?

Oh, honey. No.

@wobbyist @CasuallyGreg @Press_X_Fool *midwits

@CasuallyGreg @Press_X_Fool Because people like you drive smart people fucking insane

@evanstravers @CasuallyGreg @Press_X_Fool Nigga that is not a route you want to go down lol

@CasuallyGreg @Press_X_Fool More like a propensity to seek help and not kill themselves Let's look at suicide rates

@dumbbitchzine Mass su!cide pact to own the libs

@TheFool64209 We don’t honey, we just run for the hills or the stars and if we can’t, we just k!ll ourselves to be nice

I used to feel this way too…when I worked from home. “Slurs” are bunch of crap, please don’t even use that pathetic word “slurs”, leave it back in the 90s politically correct campus culture. I’ve heard that word enough from the Left for a lifetime already. The Left totally obscured the meaning of “violence” and got everybody confuzzled— see, another corny, stupid word— does it matter, though? Do you mind if I say “confuzzled”? Did I get the point across? Am I allowed to say a stupid word? You are. I hate that word you used. It’s grating, it’s ghey and it sucks. It reminds me of people who I find irritating. But you can say it. I can’t do anything about that. The Left said “words are violence” and made everyone forget what real violence was. Ironically, if “words are violence”, then I should be able to use words as my personal weapon to defend myself from “violence”, in lieu of “real” violence. But of course, words do not actually equal violence, and nothing will make that physically, imminently true. So let’s dial ourselves back to reality, where words are tools that we use to communicate. To build a bridge between us. “Slurs” is an annoying word to me because it’s loaded and reductive. It closes the book on any further examination of what a word means and the context of its use. There must be something to these “slur” words for so many people to have such a fixation on them. How many people think the word “níggеr” to themselves on a daily basis? If a dollar was earned for every time the word “níggеr” floated through someone’s head, how soon would we be able to pay off the national debt? That word is so many things at once. A weapon, a joke, a monster under the bed, a trigger, a trove of trauma, a bad memory, a psychic relief, a decompression, a term of endearment, an alarm, a taboo, a reclamation, an accusation, a differentiation, a smooth roll off the tongue. It’s got a ring to it and you can use it so many ways. It rhymes with a lot of other words, it has an interesting etymological history, its ‘rules’ of usage are unique. I don’t blame anyone for wanting to play with it or try it on for size. The Left said “words are violence” and made everyone forget what real violence was. Now, people have internalized that confusion to the point where they measure how ‘civilized’ they are by their opposition to both kinds of “violence.” The problem is, “real violence” hasn’t gone anywhere. There are still people out there who are capable of the violence that you’re not capable of, both the “real” kind and this cowardly, figurative, verbal kind that everyone needs to get over already. Who is supposed to handle your violence for you, since you are too civilized to participate in it yourself? The government? Is the most ‘civilized’ thing to do, to elect a representative who will direct the violence towards your enemies? Have they done that so far? Should everyone feel at ease when urban thugs are throwing public temper tantrums because the threat of Iran is being taken care of? Words are the most civilized “violence” you can possibly resort to. It doesn’t get more civilized than that. We should be grateful when people are civilized enough to use words to resolve their problems and not real violence. Some people still haven’t learned that.

@Elizabeth4xonly @AdamSinger Woah, cool it with the ableist slurs you bigot.

@AdamSinger This biased characterization is so fucking stupid. “Radicalized” as in recognized they no longer have equal agency over their bodies and are pissed, as in recognized that systemic injustices exist. Yes, men want the status quo. They benefit from it, you fucking retard.

Pretty much every chart over the last few years says women radicalized while men stayed normal, but we've seen almost no media coverage about this. Should be a huge story with ongoing coverage. Curious

@lazarusatgate @Empiricist871 I can understand that, but I think we're in a minority to know that the bombs went off at that scale at all, or that the people doing it were communists. Horowitz in both his memoir and his talks filled in the gap of ideology for me.

@TheFool64209 @Empiricist871 I was disappointed in DAYS OF RAGE, because it just went over what revolutionaries did without talking about why, about who those people were and what they believed. I already knew a lot of bombs were set off. I was hoping to learn more but didn't.

The left was always Marxist. I realize this only now, after being a deluded progressive and useful idiot for many years. The causes were never the causes; the cause was always Marxist destabilization, delegitimization of Western civilization, and ultimately, revolution. Foreign actors (the usual suspects: China, Russia, Iran) supported this, but it was not just foreign influence. After the proletariat had failed to deliver revolution (because capitalism just performed too well, even for the working poor), leftists had pivoted to new revolutionary causes: race, "gender", sexuality, climate, etc. They sold these ideas well and weaponized a lot of good will. We thought we supported civil rights, but we actually supported perpetual racial grievance, third world score-settling and reverse colonization, the deconstruction of sex and biology, and of objective reality itself. We thought we supported protecting the environment, but we actually supported Malthusianist intentional deconstruction of modern civilization and a return to bitter scarcity and poverty - the conditions our ancestors had labored for centuries to overcome. That is a lot of betrayal to process, for millions of people. The enormity of the deception we fell for boggles the mind. None of this means that progressive dreams for a better world are wrong. It just means that the left is not the political force that will make it a reality, or even bring it one step closer.