California starts to ban natural gas in homes.

Arlos

Sad Monarchist
About 100 years or so, during the industrial revolution, workers threatened their job-givers for the shitty living conditions that were forced on them. Now their descendants gleefully put themselves under the same conditions and would probably even embrace living in company towns. How sad is that.
I though we had reached peak Bread and circus but those kind of news makes me reconsider my conclusion and make me baffled about what is going on at the same time.
 

CarlManvers2019

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There is a reason why the phrase ‘useful idiot’ exists after all. Though I’d say this is yet more ammunition ‘we’ can use against the California commies and their friends. So much for their great socialist state: their more slaves to the ‘evil capitalists’ then ever! It’s almost as if the they've been promised a pack of lies.

They think that Capitalists can only thrive and gain control in a non-regulated free market
 

Whitestrake Pelinal

Like a dream without a dreamer
I find it Hilarious, in sad way, that people from my generation cling to new concept and company that are considered hype and cool and anti-system etc....but exploit them like people haven’t been exploited in nearly a century :/
Calling them NPCs sound dehumanizing, but terrifyingly accurate. Such people are so thoroughly trained in the media-consuming lifestyle that they have been stripped of the faculty to perceive how ruthlessly they are used, or how readily they will be cast aside for the next batch of consumerbots.

Paul Joseph Watson's video on the 'pod people' really hit the nail on the head.
 
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CarlManvers2019

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Calling them NPCs sound dehumanizing, but terrifyingly accurate. Such people are thoroughly trained in the media-consuming lifestyle that they lack the faculty to perceive how ruthlessly they are used, or how readily they will be cast aside for the next batch of consumerbots.

Paul Joseph Watson's video on the 'pod people' really hit the nail on the head.

It’s kinda funny, SJW’s take over for their previous Moral Guardian counterparts on the idea that people are easily influenced and can’t really seperate reality from fiction

But they decided that fiction massively changes people and makes them unable to tell reality from fiction whilst being assholes in everyday life

And decide to make fiction that essentially only agrees and lauds their political bullshit and whilst also taking shits on guys like comicbook nerds and videogamers because they believe all the “satire” and “relevant” stuff in fiction that paint the latter as Mega Nazi’s and the like

Before, I think the Left was seen as the saner party that was more okay with things that the Religious Right or “Think of the children” people wanted censored.....turned out it was mostly because the opposition was “Right” rather than because they just wanted to have fun
 

LordsFire

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It’s kinda funny, SJW’s take over for their previous Moral Guardian counterparts on the idea that people are easily influenced and can’t really seperate reality from fiction

The religious right (for the most part) at least had the justification of not wanting to expose children to various things, because they often don't properly know how to analyze and accept or reject what's being fed to them.

SJWs just want to treat everyone like children, while persisting in childish ignorance themselves.
 
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The religious right (for the most part) at least had the justification of not wanting to expose children to various things, because they often don't properly know how to analyze and accept or reject what's being fed to them.

SJWs just want to treat everyone like children, while persisting in childish ignorance themselves.

Infantilisation is a very prominent aspect of the modern left, and I think that's quite distinct from a healthy childlike innocence.
 

S'task

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Random curiosity question, would anyone be interested in my long form analysis of the similarities and differences underlying the old right-wing Moral Majority and the present Social Justice movement? I think it might be an interesting thing to pursue a long discussion of.
 
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Random curiosity question, would anyone be interested in my long form analysis of the similarities and differences underlying the old right-wing Moral Majority and the present Social Justice movement? I think it might be an interesting thing to pursue a long discussion of.

By all means, I would adore it.
 

CarlManvers2019

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The religious right (for the most part) at least had the justification of not wanting to expose children to various things, because they often don't properly know how to analyze and accept or reject what's being fed to them.

SJWs just want to treat everyone like children, while persisting in childish ignorance themselves.

I think the Religious Right wanted to avoid even adults getting access, to somehow say children would get it, and also that it was making them into horrible people too

Both sides treat people in-general like ignorant and stupid children who are easily influenced, the latter just has far more mainstream acceptance and pretends to want “in” on the fun and fandom
 

LordsFire

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I think the Religious Right wanted to avoid even adults getting access, to somehow say children would get it, and also that it was making them into horrible people too

Both sides treat people in-general like ignorant and stupid children who are easily influenced, the latter just has far more mainstream acceptance and pretends to want “in” on the fun and fandom

There were some fringe elements in the religious right that wanted that, but it wasn't the main position thereof. I'm saying this as someone who grew up inside of said religious right, and is well aware that much of the 'old guard' would consider me too libertarian compared to their 'orthodoxy.'

I can also absolutely indicate from Biblical sources how Christianity isn't about trying to make non-christians act like christians, so those that did try to push such were doing so to serve their own controlling tendencies, not the traditional religious ideology that defined America's founding cultural principles.
 

CarlManvers2019

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There were some fringe elements in the religious right that wanted that, but it wasn't the main position thereof. I'm saying this as someone who grew up inside of said religious right, and is well aware that much of the 'old guard' would consider me too libertarian compared to their 'orthodoxy.'

I can also absolutely indicate from Biblical sources how Christianity isn't about trying to make non-christians act like christians, so those that did try to push such were doing so to serve their own controlling tendencies, not the traditional religious ideology that defined America's founding cultural principles.

Okay, though fact is, that portion of the Religious Right has helped cultivate people’s views on them for too long

Without them, perhaps you guys would have more support from entertainment creators like the guys eho made D&D and Mortal Kombat
 

S'task

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Without them, perhaps you guys would have more support from entertainment creators like the guys eho made D&D and Mortal Kombat
Uhh...

Gary Gygax was pretty explicitly a Christian, you know...

Also, I'm going to touch more on this in the essay I'm working on regarding the Moral Majority movement and the modern SJ movement. Stay tuned.
 

LordsFire

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Okay, though fact is, that portion of the Religious Right has helped cultivate people’s views on them for too long

Without them, perhaps you guys would have more support from entertainment creators like the guys eho made D&D and Mortal Kombat

Not really. The political & secular left has had absolutely no reticence about relentlessly lying about their opponents for a lot longer than the 2016 political cycle. They've been doing it at an absolute minimum since the Vietnam war.

It's the same pack of lies that would have been perpetrated whether there was a sliver of truth to it or not. Granted, that small faction helped with the smear job, but it would have been carried out either way.
 

CarlManvers2019

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It's the same pack of lies that would have been perpetrated whether there was a sliver of truth to it or not. Granted, that small faction helped with the smear job, but it would have been carried out either way.

You know, going by the Conservative Authors I know, they’re pretty much living proof that Conservatives aren’t a bunch of Anti-Fun prude-douchebags, let alone actually bigots.

More on problems to do with economics and dumb political decisions by The Left, really.

Who here was said to be considered “too Libertarian” by the actual Religious Right?

That said, here’s a series suggestion I think all you guys would like


In-Universe the Mormons want a government in the Libertarian Moon City....apparently there are “other rights” than the “NAP” & Libertarian Free Market

Like the “Freedom NOT to live near a place where people are drinking lots of alcohol and gambling, the freedom NOT to have kids accidentally exposed to seeing a strippers’ tits etc.....and that the Casino they were attacking should move far away at the very least.....the MC responded with the problems of how a government makes it so that aside from corruption, a majority can bully a minority, and does the Mormons want a government against Mormons because they found them too annoying for disrupting their casual fun?
 

Captain X

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I meant it went up on national TV, at the 8 PM journal, the most watched journal of the day, on the most watched TV channel.
Also owned by the state I believe? Unless it is one of the many things Macron sold.

found this on their sites.
edit: it is obviously in french.
here is a rough traduction of the small resume:
Size isn’t to the taste of american youth anymore. When it come to housing, young people are ready to pay a lot of money to live in some sort of dormitory. They chose Podshare, a new concept that is in vogue in California. They pay 1000€ every month for a superimposed bed in a shared space
I've noticed this phenomenon recently, and it kind of makes me want to get into tinfoil hat territory - there has been a real push lately for people to live in "tiny homes" and to crowd into cities while doing away with suburbs. It kind of makes me wonder what the end game is there.

Not really. The political & secular left has had absolutely no reticence about relentlessly lying about their opponents for a lot longer than the 2016 political cycle. They've been doing it at an absolute minimum since the Vietnam war.

It's the same pack of lies that would have been perpetrated whether there was a sliver of truth to it or not. Granted, that small faction helped with the smear job, but it would have been carried out either way.
And yet very recently we've seen a return of the right attacking video games, blaming mass shootings on them. I won't disagree that there's smearing/lying going on, but the right has done a lot of it to themselves.
 

Whitestrake Pelinal

Like a dream without a dreamer
Random curiosity question, would anyone be interested in my long form analysis of the similarities and differences underlying the old right-wing Moral Majority and the present Social Justice movement? I think it might be an interesting thing to pursue a long discussion of.
Honestly.. no. They're nothing alike. Most of the things the old moral majority opposed were genuinely good things to oppose. Promiscuity, sodomy, pornography, the removal of Christian iconography and ideas from the public sphere. They failed, 'tis true, but at least they fought.
 

Cherico

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Calling them NPCs sound dehumanizing, but terrifyingly accurate. Such people are so thoroughly trained in the media-consuming lifestyle that they have been stripped of the faculty to perceive how ruthlessly they are used, or how readily they will be cast aside for the next batch of consumerbots.

Paul Joseph Watson's video on the 'pod people' really hit the nail on the head.

I still cant belive that's what got them triggered and freaked out.

I literally get called worse every day on my job, and NPC is what gets them triggered really? At that point I was just staring at the channers in confusion and watched them smugly smile and shrug.
 

Whitestrake Pelinal

Like a dream without a dreamer
I still cant belive that's what got them triggered and freaked out.

I literally get called worse every day on my job, and NPC is what gets them triggered really? At that point I was just staring at the channers in confusion and watched them smugly smile and shrug.
Because the Truth hurts, and being called NPC makes them aware on a subconcious level what they truly are.
Not only is it the truth, but to them it is a soul-crushing truth, a statement that negates one of their core axioms: that the world really is about them and their feelings.

Starting with the boomer babies, Americans have become deeply narcissistic, and I meant that in the clinical sense.

Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:

  • Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  • Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
  • Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
  • Exaggerate achievements and talents
  • Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
  • Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
  • Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
  • Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
  • Take advantage of others to get what they want
  • Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
  • Be envious of others and believe others envy them
  • Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
  • Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:

  • Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment
  • Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
  • React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
  • Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
  • Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
  • Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
  • Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation

For them to be an NPC, a sub-person in a video game that reads repetitively from a script as the situation requires, with that situation being changed entirely by outside forces, is pure truth and anathema to the play-pretend world that they live in.
 
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I still cant belive that's what got them triggered and freaked out.

I literally get called worse every day on my job, and NPC is what gets them triggered really? At that point I was just staring at the channers in confusion and watched them smugly smile and shrug.


When you are told the world is about you and you can do whatever you want until you believe that to the very core of your being, then finding out the System has sold you a lie since birth while buying and selling your soul like a prostitute is profoundly deranging.
 

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