SubstackNecron
2d ago
Is there an amount of reality that the world does not work this way that these people could experience that would change their view or would such an event likely be of a magnitude that it would just kill them?
SubstackNecron
9d ago
1000% agree. I would add the additional sub-lesson is that as long as the lie is phrased at least partially as something they really want to be true it really doesn't matter how obviously a lie what it said is.
SubstackNecron
9d ago
And treating peasants like peasants is fairly common
It just happened. What do people think Trump just did? If the Democrats take anything away from this election other than "run the most charismatic person you can" and "just tell the bleating sheep what they want to hear" then they are miscalculating
SubstackNecron
9d ago
feds stop putting roadblocks in front of them
If/When the Dems regain power, especially if MAGA dies fully with Trump, what do you think is going to happen to them long term? My guess is imprisonment or just thrown off a building depending on the fallout of a Trump administration.
SubstackNecron
16d ago
I would disagree. I think we are going to see full ID Trump tariffs and all. I don't think he has the patience for anyone that is going to tell him no and he's gonna pull the trigger on any idea he has that can pass legally unchallenged though EOs or he can get the legislature to pass. The two things I am most sure of in the next 4 years is that he will 1. hurt the people who believe he is the only one who can help him 2. ruin JD Vances political career through either malice or indifference.
As as aside I also highly suspect Musk overestimates the influence what he has done for Trump has bought him but this is just a hunch.
SubstackNecron
16d ago
I’m daring to believe that over the next four years Trump and his team of consultants genuinely can start Making America Great Again.
By pressing the make the economy good button along with the make inflation not have happened button? I expect a bit better from the users here no matter who they hoped would win the idea that either of them were gonna effect the economy in any major way in the short term betrays a bit of a lack of understanding.
SubstackNecron
16d ago
voting mainly on the economy
AKA people who will either vote D or just go back into their holes next election when Trump fails to do any of the impossible things to the economy that he has promised them. If the Dems learn anything this election its that the key to dealing with rubes isn't to talk down to them or try to convince them of anything but to simply tell lies right to their face.
SubstackNecron
17d ago
He will always be with us in our hearts. Sloot and the other guy only wishes they could thot patrol as hard as ThePizza
SubstackNecron
17d ago
The odds that the next Democratic presidential nominee is a white male are 100%.
SubstackNecron
17d ago
the pizzashill
No one is going to get that reference.
SubstackNecron
17d ago
broad-scale strategic mistake
Closing the country at all during COVID was the biggest broad-scale strategic mistake for the left. Less damage to the economy and more dead boomers is a massive win for them in the short and long term.
SubstackNecron
18d ago
I would take the under on that one
SubstackNecron
18d ago
all civic good cheer here
I don't think I have ever had a negative interpersonal experience with another voter while voting. This is been my experience all the times I have ever voted by myself of with my parents as a kid.
SubstackNecron
22d ago
Anyone who thinks that the median poster on the motte is going to do anything other than duck and cover during real civil strife is kidding themselves. (this is true of most online spaces)
nor do I believe that there is any meaningful number of progressives in positions of power who believe in executing people for expressing conservative opinions.
True but if once we got to the point where we decided as a society "we should start just liquidating inconvenient people again" it might not be entirely clear where that stopped or who would be designated disposable under that paradigm. I am just as I said playing devils advocate here, I think if we got to the point where we were just executing either thieves or conservatives society would have gone pretty far off the rails albeit in radically different directions in those two cases.
SubstackNecron
22d ago
conclusively demonstrated, numerous times over an extended duration, that they’re unwilling and/or incapable of participating non-parasitically in society
To play devils advocate this would describe the red tribe to people who will very likley end up in charge of the US in the long term.
SubstackNecron
22d ago
In a scenario where Taiwan goes hot in the near future
China is rapidly building up there arsenal. Taiwan won't go hot until they know they can slag the US as a going concern.
SubstackNecron
22d ago
"I know my thumb is broken and if I cut my whole arm off that will defiantly fix the problem" type thinking
SubstackNecron
23d ago
abortion likely ends up codified like in every other industrialized nation
This will happen very quickly after most of the boomers are in the ground as any look into pro-life vs pro-choice by age demographics will tell you.
SubstackNecron
23d ago
A full exchange of nuclear warheads will end the US as a political entity for at least decades and probably forever. If it reforms it will be much later. The current political situation will cease to matter at all to the survivors. Pretending this is not true is deeply silly.
SubstackNecron
23d ago
erwgv3g34 what do you think the odds are that the Republicans manage to reduce women to chattel before losing their current political struggle with the Democrats as a %?
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
Indeed but there was a massive effort to hide and obscure it that would never happen today.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
I guess the question is how many MAGA presidents would have to lose in a row before they gave up?
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
Abbott
Abbott is a cripple and will never seriously be considered for a presidential ticket for that reason alone.
I mean I could but most of what I think of as victories I would imagine you would classify as defeats. The truth is it doesn't matter as more that one person can be wrong at once and as a great man once said "facts don't care about your feelings". No amount of anger at the establishment makes the "Trump is a king and he is going to hit the make the economy good button as well as the decrease prices button" worldview any less delusional.
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