The obligatory thread where we laugh at Commiefornia.
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Reminds me of a line from the Shadow Over Innsmouth:
"Hey, yew, why dun't ye say somethin'? Haow'd ye like to he livin' in a taown like this, with everything a-rottin' an' dyin', an' boarded-up monsters crawlin' an' bleatin' an' barkin' an' hoppin' araoun' black cellars an' attics every way ye turn? Hey? Haow'd ye like to hear the haowlin' night arter night from the churches an' Order o' Dagon Hall, an' know what's doin' part o' the haowlin'? Haow'd ye like to hear what comes from that awful reef every May-Eve an' Hallowmass? Hey? Think the old man's crazy, eh? Wal, Sir, let me tell ye that ain't the wust!"
Well,they certainly could worshipp Dagon.
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
You know they'll just rewrite the history books and blame everyone else retroactively, right?
That's kind of what they've always done, whenever previous generations of activists ended up creating problems that their successors always try (and fail) to "fix" a few decades later, on and on until the end of time. True, it may get harder to hide as their failures become more and more obvious, but that'll be because they get more and more catastrophic for the average person, who — even if they're intellectual know-nothings when it comes to history, economics, or public policy — will realize in their heart of hearts that something is profoundly wrong.
Bear Ribs
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You know they'll just rewrite the history books and blame everyone else retroactively, right?
That's kind of what they've always done, whenever previous generations of activists ended up creating problems that their successors always try (and fail) to "fix" a few decades later, on and on until the end of time. True, it may get harder to hide as their failures become more and more obvious, but that'll be because they get more and more catastrophic for the average person, who — even if they're intellectual know-nothings when it comes to history, economics, or public policy — will realize in their heart of hearts that something is profoundly wrong.
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Me, a rational adult:
You know they'll just rewrite the history books and blame everyone else retroactively, right?
That's kind of what they've always done, whenever previous generations of activists ended up creating problems that their successors always try (and fail) to "fix" a few decades later, on and on until the end of time. True, it may get harder to hide as their failures become more and more obvious, but that'll be because they get more and more catastrophic for the average person, who — even if they're intellectual know-nothings when it comes to history, economics, or public policy — will realize in their heart of hearts that something is profoundly wrong.
and now you know why after a modern period ends why the intelectual class gets utterly purged.
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Right alongside future favorites like "Those weren't real lockdowns!" or "That wasn't real climate justice!", I'm guessing.
Yeah, well, I'm at the point where I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the guy carrying out those purges will be Pol Pot with the Infinity Gauntlet, rather than "only" Robespierre or Savonarola on steroids. Because if it's not the far-left militants who start a Khmer Rouge knockoff that genocides huge swaths of their own people and turns the clock back to the Stone Age, it'll be an ultra-reactionary "Führer of the West" who does. We won't like the outcome in either scenario, I fear.
Right alongside future favorites like "Those weren't real lockdowns!" or "That wasn't real climate justice!", I'm guessing.
Yeah, well, I'm at the point where I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the guy carrying out those purges will be Pol Pot with the Infinity Gauntlet, rather than "only" Robespierre or Savonarola on steroids. Because if it's not the far-left militants who start a Khmer Rouge knockoff that genocides huge swaths of their own people and turns the clock back to the Stone Age, it'll be an ultra-reactionary "Führer of the West" who does. We won't like the outcome in either scenario, I fear.
We don't really get to pick the outcome.
The only way to prevent it is for the wests current establishment the left in particular to get over themselves stop stupid cultlike behavior and let the relevant people not only be kicked out of power but arrested and put into jail. This means a lot of powerful people have to go. But it is a possibility it could be done but the possibility is pretty damned slim.
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
We may not get to pick, but the point is that whichever faction takes power when we're old and feeble, the outcome is Pol Pot with the Infinity Gauntlet. Doesn't matter much whether it's crazed "Restore Gaia!" eco-cultists or reactionary "Modernity delenda est!" neo-fascists, because either way, you still get many millions (if not billions) of corpses and a fallout-ridden mess of unprecedented size in the aftermath.
Seras
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Came across this a week ago on youtube. It was actually a pretty interesting look from a locals perspective.
Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
