Well, the late 2000s and early 2010s were fun. We got the first black President, LGBTQ+ rights, the decline of the religious right, and through the power of the internet, we were starting to flirt with things like socialism and sex positivity. Then gamergate happened, the Nazis went online, the Bernie campaign was squelched out by the DNC, and Trump won (the first time) on a platform of racism and xenophobia.
We had a brief respite during Trump’s first term because he caused such a personal backlash and the Nazis overreached badly with Charlottesville, as well as the mass outrage at the murder of George Floyd, but COVID and the rapid capture of online media by right wingers led to a deep hollowing out and atomization of our society, especially through the subtle diffusion of reactionary ways of thinking even through ostensibly “apolitical” or even “progressive” sources.
Paranoia and xenophobia run rampant, everyone is extremely selfish and has no interest in helping anyone but themselves and those like them, Puritanism (both broader sex negativity and especially transphobia) is the norm again because ppl are being taught to view everything around them as a threat to themselves and/or society and the right (as well as parts of the left, I’m looking at you, radfems) figured out how to do social conservatism without overtly religious messaging, dating discourse is mind-bendingly essentialist, misogynistic, and reactionary now (redpill talking points are mainstream even with many women, slut shaming is back with a vengeance, any men who don’t fit the old-school stoic provider role are shamed as failures, body positivity has been more or less tossed entirely even by many progressives, people talk about “hookup culture” and porn like medieval peasants talked about witches, completely innocuous things are “red flags” and “icks” now, the whole “tradwife” thing, etc).
It feels like the pendulum swung back at least 15 years on almost every single facet of society and I don’t know how long this is gonna last or how we get out of this. Why did this have to happen while I was supposed to be living my peak life in my early-mid 20s smh
This is gonna be a loooooong decade, folks(14g)
>>2103165You are just being a little kid with no historical perspective. Whatever progressivism was a thing at the time was only there because the FBI or your local glows found it cute and thought it's more useful to them alive than dead. And they were right: many of these same progressives have now devolved into actual Nazi-tier seething and conspiracism about asiatic hordes and saboteurs. And the right wing contains the majority of people who are critical of this insanity, so it's not even about the left vs the right, it's just the way society is at the moment.
Glowies are still very, very lenient with the left. Had Luigi turned out to be a communist or an anarchist, they could have shut down most radical left websites in the anglophone sphere and organized crackdowns on local orgs. And it is nothing for them to arrange for another shooter, just groom some retard on discord or on matrix and boom, it's done. This could happen in the coming years.
>>2103203This analysis is correct
>>2103233This one isn't
>Had Luigi turned out to be a communist or an anarchist, they could have shut down most radical left websites in the anglophone sphereThey are doing that right now. They won't do it in one go tho.
>>2103165You’re right
Most of the board might disagree, but they’re fascists that would have celebrated the rise of Hitler if they were around to see it
>>2103165oh sweet baby boy
imagine being this innocent
To be honest, OP, I do not really see the developments of the past 10 years as a pendulum that is swinging back. If anything, the pendulum - assuming there is one - has been swinging to the benefit of the right since the 90s.
The peak popularity of leftism from the 60s to 80s never really recovered. The traction that it had for a while from the late 2000s to the second half of the 2010s in the form of social issues - BLM, LGBTQ, etc. - is to be completely seen within the frame of advanced consumer capitalism that is characterised by a deadness of actual revolutionary fervour. The most vocal leftists in the imperial core are either intellectuals or people who are terminally online and decide to spray some paintings or knock over a monument every now and then to channel these online-politics.
However, the actual power-structures which determine our lives and construct the lens through which we understand ourselves, have not been touched since at least 1985. Some argue they have not been touched since the Krushchev-times, but I find that a bit cynical.
The wins on the culture-front - same-sex-marriage, trans-rights, mainstream attention for decolonialism, etc. - are important, but they were opium at the end of the day.
>>2103793Moana 2, Wicked and the deadpool movie saved Disney this year.
I think the anti-woke will probalby not have a great 2025 as their cadre of stellar blade doing whatever numbers on pc and gacha games falling off but that is just my thoughts.
>>2103165These kinds of things eb and flow. The 1980s was much more culturally conservative than the 1970s, for example. I'd still say the general direction of American culture has been towards social liberalism. LGB stuff, for example, is basically settled precedent at this point, with the population as a whole generally approving of it.
Of course, these kinds of social values exist outside the scope of leftism, which is about class, not morality. Frankly, this should be a /siberia/ thread.
>>2103214>Culture war by progessive liberalsIt takes two to tango!
>>2103233>And they were right: many of these same progressives have now devolved into actual Nazi-tier seething and conspiracism about asiatic hordes and saboteursI've literally never heard the phrase "asiatic hordes" outside of /leftypol/.
>>2103793"Woke" media pretty regularly does pretty well financially. For a recent example, Wicked did insane numbers. Most of the stuff that flops does so because it's bad, not because it's "woke".
>>2103809Why did you censor "bullshit" in a post containing multiple slurs? lmao.
>>2103835Obama, to me, represents the apex of post-cold-war liberalism; a period where people were genuinely optimistic for America's future and felt that they lived in a progressive nation that was not only changing for the better, but was also in general a positive historical truth.
>>2103793Disney is going bankrupt because of the general tendency for the rate of profit to fall, which does not only affect the overall capitalist economy, but also its various industries and their various firms
Disney is going bankrupt because each new project is more expensive than the last and the profit margins are more and more thin
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>>2103165Instead of wasting all this time spreading liberalism, you could be advocating for radical drug liberation to escape this shitty reality. The only thing that leads you on and ruins you is sobriety. A sober person suffers, a wise narcoman thrives in spite of his conditions.
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No, you're not crazy OP. People are more racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, violent, anti-intellectual, anti-socialist than they have been in decades.
- Women have it worse than they did in the 70s onwards after roe vs wade fell. No abortion is a huge loss and nothing is being done about it.
- Gay marriage will probably be crushed over the next four years too. Gays aren't really accepted at all, despite what people here will say.
- Public health has ceased to exist as a concept after COVID and pretty much every disease is being allowed to run rampant, unchecked, and it's getting worse as people become more and more anti-vax.
- Everyone is being INCREDIBLY racist against indians, and this reveals how they feel about other "lesser" races too.
- The percentage of murders that get solved is falling below 50%, which means a SHITLOAD of minorities are being killed with no justice delivered for them. Let alone murders actually getting reported properly instead of just people permanently going "missing"
- Hatred of transgender individuals is reaching the level of the weimar panic over jews. It's crazy how you can see people on tiktok/instagram/xitter just openly call for killing them with no moderation.
- The internet has been fully weaponized as a tool of mass surveillance, propaganda, and mob doxxing at this point.
- Environmental protections have essentially all been repealed or ignored at this point, and it's full steam ahead for the destruction of the ecosystem and acceleration of climate change.
All of this and more is on average WAY worse than it's ever been for the past few decades.
We're headed for another mass killing incident on an unprecedented scale; the holocaust is going to look small compared to what's heading towards us. Pretty much everyone in the public sphere has embraced full blown hitlerism. The corporations are siding with fascism and the pigs are falling in line. Only this time, we don't have the USSR or any real socialist movement. We're in a much worse spot than weimar germany was.
>>2104074Bruh. Your post is delusional.
>Hatred of transgender individuals is reaching the level of the weimar panic over jews. It's crazy how you can see people on tiktok/instagram/xitter just openly call for killing them with no moderation.Those are a vocal minority and then they're found out with a ladyboy. transhumanists were given a lot more hate back then.
They were seen as serial killers or homewreckers.
>Women have it worse than they did in the 70s onwards after roe vs wade fell. No abortion is a huge loss and nothing is being done about it.Women couldn't get convenient birth control before the 1980s. Also, Roe v. Wade didn't stop abortions.
It was harder to get legal abortions back before the 1980s.
>Gay marriage will probably be crushed over the next four years too. Gays aren't really accepted at all, despite what people here will say.Gay marriage won't be affected. Also, cishomo guys are accepted but only if they confirm to the stereotype of the glamor king or hunky brainiac. Not unlike their cishet counterparts
>The percentage of murders that get solved is falling below 50%, which means a SHITLOAD of minorities are being killed with no justice delivered for them. Let alone murders actually getting reported properly instead of just people permanently going "missing"Bruh, there's more unsolved murder cases from the old days than nowadays.
In fact, I bet a lot of solved cases back then were more biased or rushed.
DNA testing came about in the late 1980s and wouldn't be universal in crime labs until the next fifteen years.
Most crimes back then were family/neighbor/acquaintance killing each other.
>Public health has ceased to exist as a concept after COVID and pretty much every disease is being allowed to run rampant, unchecked, and it's getting worse as people become more and more anti-vax.Wanna go back to the old days when people smoked indoors? Or when we had lead paint ?
Or when people didn't have sinks to wash their hands? Or did bloodletting when you're sick?
Public health now is a major step up, even with the COVID mismanagement and anti-vaxx.
>We're headed for another mass killing incident on an unprecedented scale; the holocaust is going to look small compared to what's heading towards us. Pretty much everyone in the public sphere has embraced full blown hitlerism. The corporations are siding with fascism and the pigs are falling in line. Only this time, we don't have the USSR or any real socialist movement. We're in a much worse spot than weimar germany was.This is the same sentiment that the right feels about liberalism.
Everything you're saying is just hyperbole.
>>2104218>Bruh, there's more unsolved murder cases from the old days than nowadays.>In fact, I bet a lot of solved cases back then were more biased or rushed.No there are not. barely 50% of murders get solved now. It is an all time low. The number of murders is trending upwards too, and this is only confirmed cases of murder, god knows how many more just don't get classified as murder or go forever undetected because of how atomized society is now. The rest of your post is laughably out of touch and shows you weren't alive for the 80s or 90s either.
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>>2103764I agree with this take the most. However I think the (western) left is on the upswing since since post Obama. Much like how the New deal was a way to smooth over the contradictions of capital. The culture war of the 2010s acted as a way to hide those contradictions instead. Capitalisms was just assumed with no opposition or alternative and all left wing energy was spent into the culture war. Letting Neoliberalism run rampant, it took less than 25 years after the soviet union collapsed and capital was completely uncontested for socialisms to make a return on the mainstage of western politics, most shockingly in the U.S with Bernie. There might be a reactionary upswing right now but just like the last time rump got elected it'll only last so long and I think will collapse even faster than last time because Trump isn't going to deliver once again and his coalition is falling apart before even taking office.
People don't like neo-liberalism, it's only through distractions and propaganda that it continues to limp along.
>>2104298That's because there's more people who are less willing to cover up a crime than back in the old days.
Also, since our criminal justice system cannot dismiss/half ass murder cases like they used to, of course the clearance rate is gonna not be as high.
And we now have DNA testing with differing forensic methods. So things are gonna take time.
Again, you're probably not familiar with the serial killer wave from the 1960s thru the 90s.
>>2107071You explained it quite well. Liberals are just absolutely terrible at this, no one takes them seriously.
>>2107100Intersex people do exist, in fact the idea of gender was invented to erase them by justifying actual toddler sex transition surgeries (when the kid isn't even a year old) and even putting kids on hormones and other substances. But that's the wholesome kind of non-consensual irreversible damage to the body since it affirms the way god intended humans to be, so conservative people don't have a problem with that :D
>>2107105Intersex people do exist, yes, but it has no real relation to the overtly political progressive movement that for some reason has laid its eggs in the basket of supposed 'non-conformity' ironically by reifying the relationship of limiting social conventions with physiological sex.
In fact it might be questionable to say that intersex people are really inter'sex' usually, because the marker of sex (the universal one, so also for non-human animals) is gametes. I'm not going to pretend I'm incredibly well-educated on this but I think the percentile of a percentile edge-cases where someone is not only intersex in the conventional term (has both genitals) but also intersex in the strict term (has functional egg AND sperm production) is exceedingly rare, and usually is strongly associated with external associated physiological markers of sex of either males or females.
My problem isn't that we started questioning gender norms, it's that we went from trying to introduce more neutrality into the English language and more acceptance of people not conforming to gendered standards towards comprehensive physiological categories that are *less* productive than what we had beforehand, and are also far more intuitive to people.
>>2107142>Most people barely knew what trans people were before like 2014. You're telling on yourself.
Please stay in your containment thread, burgerboy.
>>2103165Keep in mind that Trump barely scraped by with a win overall. It is not as much of a landslide as the chudoids make it out to be. Most people in the US simply. Did not give a shit. At all. For varying reasons. The US 'becoming chudified' is a myth they believe and want you to believe too, desperately.
Given him choosing dingbats, wrestling CEOS and other satanic characters for his cabinet, most of this is going to be just pageantry. Trump did not solve any of the US' ailments his first term, more so trying to put out fires he helped start. I have no reason to believe this won't be the same, if not even worse for him and his base. The movement is already falling apart, in real time, right before our very eyes.
That healthcare CEO fuck getting blasted in the streets has united the US more than he has, or could hope to. And on the topic of healthcare, there's a post in /siberia/ somewhere about how transphobia is being uniquely weaponized as the bugbear issue today because of the interaction between it and our health system. Pretty neat read, though I'm not sure how true it could be. While Trump's term could definitely be damaging towards LGBT rights, these issues kinda burn bright and fast. They aren't actually going to help anyone, or solve issues that are affecting people in tangible ways. They can get their gay little bathroom bills but nobody is actually going to enforce something like that.
Anyway OP don't let it break your spirit, look for mutual aid, groups in your area, ect. If anything you should take away from Trump's victory, is that how ineffectual the US government is at actually helping people.
>>2107264This is an ideology that lack any direct economic justification. Why don't banks organise processions too? I'm pretty sure there are just as many hardcore Christians as there are LGTBs. The best thing that could have happened to the latter group is to have capital drop their "support". Hopefully people will forget this time period and not do something terrible to them when the real revolution comes.
>>2107071Ownership of your own MoP you use or living necessities is a good thing. It's sometimes even better than state ownership because it creates a base that can't be betrayed by traitorous bureacrats like in the USSR. It's sad how so many leftists become ultra-progressives in terms of familial or sexual relations when big capital is saying the same thing and trying to capture and commodify it along with the underlying economic and property relations. No, the end result won't be Ultra FALC with 0-24 orgies (maybe for the 1% lol), it will be the same shit but slightly worse because you have given over another previously sacred thing to capital for nothing in return and then you will have to fight tooth and nail to get it back when you can't even get free healthcare.
You will own nothing and be happy - Karl Marx, probably.
This is where conservatives are right that liberals and communists are the same.
>>2108649>>2108660This is exactly what the elite wants you to feel like.
If WWIII happens, it will be more a self-fulfilling prophecy
>>2108649>stop worryingWhere did I say that, if anyhting this is much more worrysome.
>>2108660>so whats the point of all the macho shit, to prepare the country for war? Yes, it is to boost enlistment rates. The US military has a shortage of people willing to enlist, glowies are trying to spin up the propaganda machine to change that. This is why social media and MSM are all of a sudden promoting "the right"
>>2108545liberals lost because liberals won.
It’s all liberalism, top to bottom
>>2108506>This is somewhat of an aside, but something I've always found interesting about Trump is that he's relatively progressive when it comes to the the LGB side of the LGBT spectrum.You picked up on this. Trump's introduction to Republican Party politics at CPAC was organized by GOProud, a group of gay Republicans, for precisely that reason. The 2016 election year was also interesting because Peter Thiel was up on stage at the convention saying he was proud to be gay (and a Republican). Milo Yiannopoulos was also turning into a celebrity and was performing drag shows to college Republican groups, but I think he was a bit too degenerate even for them so he didn't last much longer beyond the election as a quantity. There wasn't as much of it last year, but I did remember Joe Rogan and J.D. Vance talking about how they'd win the "normal gay guy vote."
>>2108594>This is an ideology that lack any direct economic justification.Where do ideas come from? Some God in the sky? When I look up, I don't see one. If these things seem like they lack an economic justification, then you haven't looked deeply enough at the underlying economic logic. But when I say that, it's not to look uncritically at the supremacy of economics, or the dependency (which might be a better word than justification) on a material substructure, or that such categories would/should structure a non-capitalist society.
>Why don't banks organise processions too? I'm pretty sure there are just as many hardcore Christians as there are LGTBs. Maybe not processions (just curious, do you live in a heavily Catholic country?) but banks in America sponsor religious events all the time. They're always partnering with these televangelists on "philanthropic" endeavors and "community outreach" programs "to benefit local communities." In addition to providing financing for everything they do. But people don't think much of it. But that's what religion is now, it's another business.
>It's sad how so many leftists become ultra-progressives in terms of familial or sexual relations when big capital is saying the same thing and trying to capture and commodify it along with the underlying economic and property relations. It's goofy-ass cartoon Marxism to assume the existence of a politically unified capitalist class, which is actually a fragile and arduous achievement even within a single nation-state, to say nothing across nations. "Big capital is saying…" but which capital? Capitalists have different interests, and capitalism as a whole has contradictory tendencies.
An example of how that relates to LGBTs, I think it's pretty simple. I may be gay, but I really have the industrial revolution to thank for that. That has freed people up (along with urbanization, modernization) to live more autonomous sexual lives. But the "family" is still important for acquiring and dividing private property contributing to the reproduction of class society, and so there was a contradiction which was resolved, dialectically within capitalism, by same-sex marriage and the embourgeoisement of same-sex life. Strictly speaking, however, "the family" does not exist.
>>2108660>so whats the point of all the macho shit, to prepare the country for war? bush era 2.0?If you listen to Palantir CEO Alex Karp's interviews, he can sound like that. He describes wokeness as the biggest threat to "our way of life" as it's undermining America's ability to wage wars against ruthless and amoral enemies in the world, and things being as they are, America must be at least as ruthless and amoral as them, so they'll be afraid. At the same time, I think he thinks of himself as a "progressive" guy and probably sees macho gays as compatible with that project, but it's hardly like there are any real monarchists left either.
>>2108678>yeah but a ton of young men are voting for the right because they think the dems will send them to die in ukraineIf young men voted for Bernie instead, would that stop the build-up towards war? Think of the social democrats who wonder why electing AOC doesn't change anything. It's because the legislature, or even who the president is, is not the only institution in society as a source of power. There's a lot of other stuff from educational institutions, communications / media, corporate offices, factories, business associations and assorted lobby groups, the military etc., which altogether amounts to a hegemonic structure of power by some social blocs over others. I'm not saying don't vote actually and that it doesn't matter, but people can become too fixated on elections, so everything else is secondary, as if power exists in a relationship in a symmetrical way between the population and who is sitting in the White House or Congress. I just wouldn't stake everything on it, is all.
>>2108704Here's an illustration of the French physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace responding to a question by his former student, Napoleon Bonaparte, while discussing new celestial mechanics models. Point being, he no longer needed the "hypothesis of God" as he referred to it in explaining how the world worked.
But left one other point out, I haven't looked that closely at it, but I'm pretty sure the way these banks sponsor religious events in the U.S. is in the same way they do with LGBT organizations through specifically designed "charitable and non-profit organization" accounts and structures. Same template.
>>2108545So we've looped back around to using 2007 Reddit speak unironically? Oh spare me please!
>and gay marriage is le cringeGay marriage is generally a "settled issue" by this point, and the Republican party has become significantly more socially liberal on the issue, even, and I'd actually say especially, over the course of Trump's presidency.
>>2108678People act as if he won by a fucking landslide because everyone is hysterical nowadays, but I can assure you that what happened this election with Trump is not at all out of the ordinary.
>>2108713Majority don't vote they fairly consistently call themselves conservatives anyways
That being said it's just because they have a good "Vibe", on actual values they tend to be pro socially liberal outside of hating trans and even then they don't hate trans that much.
>>2108545Maybe he's actually thirteen for the third time in his lifespan?
>>2109417Libs are anything but sex positive or drug liberalisation, or anti-conformist.
They criminalize male youth sexuality, they get pissy at minorities who reject Democrats and Republicans, they don't like weed all that much either.
>>2108545>drugs are le badThe majority of Americans are for drug liberalization
>gay marriage is le cringeA supermajority of Americans are for gay marriage
>and nationalism and obeying the law is le goodI don't have any data on-hand for either of these, so the following is pretty much entirely anecdotal, but in my experience, most Americans are to some degree anti-authoritarian. Think about how many people who describe themselves as "patriots" also describe themselves as "rebels". But again, I don't have the data to back this up, so meh.
Overall, I think you're a fucking retard who thinks that vibes alone are in any way meaningful.
>>2109527It's basic psychology, fear turns to hate, hate turns into horny.
Fear>hate>horny
>>2109518no!
>>2108695>There wasn't as much of it last year, but I did remember Joe Rogan and J.D. Vance talking about how they'd win the "normal gay guy vote."As a personal anecdote a (distant) friend of my partner's ended up falling into this, kept yapping about the
LGB movement and claiming that he was voting for trump to save the economy, blah blah. He himself is gay. Last I heard he was regretting it because of him learning how tariffs work. The effort against trans people has definitely worked to break up what would otherwise be a pretty uniform contingent against the right.
>>2108545>Sex positivity, drug liberalization, body positivity, anti-nationalism, and anti-conformity is why the libs lostAll of these things are popular except 'anti-nationalism', which honestly libs don't even do. Anything that approaches it is framed as a desire to improve things, make the great nation even greater despite our flaws, ect.
>>2108594>It's sad how so many leftists become ultra-progressives in terms of familial or sexual relations when big capital is saying the same thingRead the Manifesto. Family abolition has always been part of Communism and capitalism itself destroyed the "traditional" family conservatives all want to go back to.
>given over another previously sacred thing to capital for nothing in returnRead the Manifesto. Destroying "previously sacred things" is one of the progressive functions of capitalism. Nothing is sacred you fucking larper.
>>2108594What’s with you nighas and tailing fascists this fucking hard?
You could actually read Marx instead of quoting a rightoid meme like “You will own nothing”.
The very nature of Capital progressively abolish all those sentimental structures and values of the time before it and indeed, even its own earlier epochs, it is not on us to try return to a better, kinder, more traditional, more (etc) capitalism, but to transcend the relation altogether. The nuclear family, fyi, or anything known as a so-called “traditional family”, all were historical, not “traditional”, traditions as they are being historical artifacts; family structural and hegemonic sexual relations emerge dialectically, capitalists aren’t plotting the “destruction” of “the family”; capital is too anarchic for them to plan much of anything long term
>>2103165It's merely capital doing its balancing act between political/cultural legitimacy and/or economic profitability. If it puts your company in a better position to portray your hiring practices as highly biased towards race/gender instead of competency, you do it. If everybody adopts that practice then you are no longer unique, and the boons wear off: you are left with a talentless hacks who represent all the colours of the rainbow.
Idiot leftists and conservatives cheer whenever the pendulum swings in either direction, while the obvious constant is that capital can't overcome its own limitations and socially destructive behaviour that it pretends to solve with politically correct shit.
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