Look I realise this is probably something for a therapist to unpack, but I have neither time or the funds to burn on one. This is a rant if you will, you do not have to read it, its not a positive rant and its not about banging chicks or self improvement (TRPs main focus' lets be honest).
I've seen a few world war 2 movies lately including Midway, which was surpringly good and rewatched saving private ryan... Back then it was more clear (At least to some degree) who the bad guys were and who the relatively good guys were, and when you did something you did it in a unison for the greater good (To some degree). I see the exciting shit the navy, airforce and soldiers got to do and think about the sum of everything I did in my 20s and really just feel like the seriously grave risks are outweighed by how alive they were. We have so much less time to be alive then we realise (Biologically the average to live past the age of 30 is very lucky throughout the course of human history). Even if we play it safe to live to an old age... how do you quantify the value of a life lived for self preservation... and prolonged existence... I look at aircraft fighter pilots (including my own grandfather shot down by ze Nazis) or even just the crewmates on a battleship and feel so jealous that their one life was lived in the moment fighting for something good.
Its less clear where to focus ones energy fighting the good fight these days... one things for sure, the good, whatever that maybe... is losing... just look at award winning journalist Julian Assange... could not have single handedly done more to keep honesty and transparency in democracy than anyone else to have ever lived... and the American empire strung him up for his efforts.
I look at the way the western world is systematically handing over the keys to China and Corporate interests... and wish we had leadership to fight for good once more... but the corruption comes from the inside of allied/western powers so deeply that to turn the ship around so to speak... is seemingly insurmountable... the bad guys are now our leaders, our political landscape corrupted entirely ... and the woke police sure havent helped in their virtuous pursuit of virtue signalling.
Its as if our leaders subconsciously want to return to the dark ages before handing over the keys to China... and you spend enough time reading about organ harvesting or what happened to their top Tennis player recently and you realise that China's government represents an evil that has never existed before... truly the nightmare that Orwell predicted... a total disregard of the human existence.
We all collectively talk with positive affirmations of fixing things peacefully, but am I the only one that can see really quite clearly that there's going to be a lot of hurting in the realms of billions of lives lost/suffering because we all thought peaceful protesting got things done... the evidence is clearly contrary to peace, the only way positive change has ever happened is when politicians genuinely fear for the lives of themselves and their families if they choose corruption...
My only... pleasure, if you will, in seeing China rise to top dog, is knowing how little regard their government has for the woke and easily offended... the feminists will disappear over night, gender and race based privileges will be gone giving men an equal opportunity again in things like education and prison sentences... and theres endless examples like this where guys will see their lives improve... but with that said, I really dont want to see the western empire fall.. as whose to say what kind of racist shit we will all be subjugated to when we have a single race deciding our future.
whytehorse2021 2y ago
You can't out-vote the stupid majority so all your concerns are a waste of energy. I just try to remain flexible with where I can live. I rent instead of own a house. I work online. My money is portable. I've lived through revolutions in Thailand and it's not as big a deal as you might think.
Pedal_Moonpower 2y ago
Its not stupid majority. Its women allowed to vote and being more and more ×liberated×, men feminised and voting like women (emotionally). This cant be stopped as women cant change their nature (TRP lesson)and number of manginas will not decrease.
Its hard to predict how the fall will occur, but because of nuclear weapons you shouldn't really expect things to develop suddenly.
If you think about intercontinental war: unlikely. Nuclear weapon would have to be neutralised from inside and in many countries simultaneously. But can't be excluded if uncontrolled leftism is longerm play of China /RUSSIA.
Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EA2ohrt5Q
whytehorse2021 2y ago
...and women are the majority of people who turn out to vote.
Intrepid_Place53900 2y ago
Well, as of 2020, it's not who votes, it's who (counts) the votes. That's all that matters.
hannulv 2y ago
Here you go. https://youtu.be/Xmr6jIpXSmg. I celebrate Marvin Heemeyer day every year with the kids and they get day off school.
The history of the world is the history of emperors and vassals. The king of city 1 conquers city 2 and demands tribute in exchange for protection. When they revolt he brutally suppresses the rebellion and makes a giant stack of heads. In this way he builds an empire. Commoners have always been subjugated. Not just as conscripts into war, but as conscripts into serfdom to work the fields. A renter in feudal Europe that fled the duty of his fields would be hunted down and killed like a runaway slave. The elites have always rigged the system for themselves. They use law as a weapon to ensure that their own pockets are lined, and no one else can prosper. People used to get hung for things like using a cheaper felt mill, or making their own buttons or salt. It's always been this way.
The invention of the printing press brought change and allowed the masses to organize against their oppressors, resulting in populist democracies all over the world, starting in the late 1700s. These democracies carved out a place for the elites to coexist with commoners and yielded prosperity like the world has never seen. But the 1900s saw the rise of mass media with the radio. This gave democratic governments a new tool to assert domination over the public: propaganda. In the U.S. this coincided with Woodrow Wilson's rise six years after the first public radio broadcast. Wilson believed that democracy was inept at doing good government, and that policy making should be performed by technical experts, not politicians. Wilson effectively invented regulatory government, in which agencies full of technocrats would be tasked with administering the laws and creating policy. These technocrats would be white knights, incorruptible, and of pure spirit. They would be beyond the influence of the Rockefellers.
Some, like the Nazi's, Soviets, and Maoists went so far left that they resulted in a new kind of populist totalitarianism. These places embraced collective humanism over individual humanism, justifying the removal of individual rights in favor of collective benefit. However, centralizing power always leads to corruption, and in the end these systems were more oppressive to commoners than the feudal systems they replaced.
In the U.S., propaganda would be used to perfect society. Eugenics and progressive social policy would remove all ills and create utopia earth. Then the progressives stepped in it with prohibition (for our own good). The rise of popular crime led to the corruption and capture by organized crime syndicates of state and local governments. The response to this, was federal law enforcement. At first, noble and pure, hunting down brutal gangsters, federal law enforcement did its thing for good. But in the aftermath of world war 2, Prescott Bush helped form the CIA. This agency funded secret operations with invisible, unaccountable money to protect America from "enemies".
It wasn't long though before that enemy became a president of U.S. seeking to dismantle the CIA, JFK. While the government refuses to release the full details, its seems clear that Oswald was trained at a CIA sniper camp and that there was a backup team of CIA snipers at the JFK assassination who were supposed to be cleanup crew and kill Oswald. In the aftermath of JFK, the presidency was beholden to U.S. intelligence agencies. The only political outsider, Reagan, had former CIA head, George Bush running foreign policy. The Clinton's jumped straight into bed with the CIA, followed by Bush/Cheney.
But you also had another media revolution with the rise of the internet alternative press. Under the early Clintons, people would pass around homemade documentaries of all the evil shit the Clinton's did on VHS, but the internet broke the Lewinsky story, something no mainstream press would have ever touched. Bush/Cheney was where the deep state made its power grab. We may never know whether 9/11 was a CIA op or just a golden opportunity, but the "Patriot" act was used to give federal law enforcement KGB-style totalitarian power, and create an a series of endless wars to fund the Washington war machine. Enter Obama, an enigma, "a law professor" that no one can remember having for a teacher. It seems pretty safe to agree now that Obama was a CIA asset. His mom, Ann Dunham, reported directly to 3 different CIA operatives, and was stationed in Indonesia during a series of high profile CIA operations. His shadowy history, and the ease of his rise to power, make it likely. Instead of putting an end to the Bush/Cheney war era, he doubled down on it.
Obama presided over the complete weaponization of the deep state. Republicans were allowed to use the IRS against their political adversaries. They DOJ, FBI, and EPA were politicized. Wilson's technocracy had finally evolved to Stalin levels. Then Trump fucked everything up. He wasn't supposed to win. This was a nightmare. And so the deep state did their worst throwing everything they could at him, including an engineered pandemic, so that mail-in voting could be used to cheat during the next elections cycle, and observers could be kicked out of counting rooms to "protect" election workers. Now the deep state is waging a full war on the middle class. The elites want their serfs and they don't want a political class that's wealthy and engaged.
They are walking a tightrope, but they have completely lost public support. They are trying to control everything, all internet speech, all media. They are fucking running FBI intimidation campaigns against soccer moms. The backlash they are going to get is going to fucking epic. Power is so decentralized in the U.S. that it VERY hard for the feds to legally assert authority over most things. Real law enforcement exists at the local level with elected Sheriffs. We are seeing local political engagement like we haven't seen since the 50's. Seething moms and dads are stepping up to take over every county office, election judgeship and school board seat. There's still time to fight this within the system before things go hot. The last election had about 10% of the poll watcher positions filled, because people trusted the system. That is never going to happen again in contested territory. In Virginia, the last Clinton ally was ousted from government. Someone who no one thought could lose. In NJ a 7-time state senate majority leader that spent $1.5M was beaten by a truck driver that spent $200.
Populism is going to crush these motherfuckers with a tidal wave. It's going to be a long fight, but these fuckers are going to be destroyed, and when the general populace finally learns that the mandated vaccines double your death rate, there's going to be retribution on these captured government regulatory agencies and new restrictions like we've never seen.
China's game in all this isn't to take over the U.S. They want our trade dollars, sure. But China's big moves in controlling Biden and Australia are simply to capture Taiwan. This will be a major economic blow for us. But it won't put us under the authority of the Chinese government. China will retake Taiwan within the next 18 months. They have been playing the long game and they are looking to take it without firing a shot.