Just a semi-pagan, quasi-Gnostic, culturally-Christian American Dharmi trying to survive in this emerging cyberpunk dystopia without succumbing to madness.
@its_so_murky@ArtemisConsort That myth is part of a much larger grand narrative to which the Right, as a whole, has no real viable alternative. You can't organize a thriving society around the idea that Progressivism is built on lies (even though that is indeed the case).
@ArtemisConsort None of the popular candidates are credibly promising anything close to that. Also, I'm not entirely comfortable handing the American Empire over to an inexperienced populist coalition in the hopes that they'll somehow manage to do a safe controlled-demolition of it.
@ArtemisConsort I really do try to be nice to the genuine weirdos; however, the fake, status-hungry ones are disgusting & contemptable and thoroughly deserving of marginalization.
@H1storyMedia Terminally online "spergs" don't notice when they're framing a legitimate issue in an off-puttingly pretentious & self-aggrandizing way. They don't understand how obnoxious they sound to everyone around them.
The real question is: Why do I have to tolerate people like you?
@razwiedka@ArtemisConsort "There are some important [consensus supporting] arguments out there that I don't know" is usually a perfectly reasonable assumption for the average person to make if he lives in a stable, orderly society which actually cares about him.
@PrimalHex@Grumpy_Pancakes@ArtemisConsort Progressives needed a new victim group to use as a weapon against their political enemies, so the establishment empowered these mentally unstable useful idiots to terrorize normal people & beat them over the head with system ideology. I think it backfired, though.
Everyone wants to save the West, but I don't think we're talking about the same West. I want to save the West of Socrates, Homer and Plato, through their second incarnation as Trekboer Africans. TradCaths want to save the West of the Conquistadors. The OrthoBros want to bring Constantinople back. The RedeemedZoomer Calvinist gang Jamestown, wignats 1930s Germany with anime, and Conservative Inc. the Reagan 80s. I suppose local Border War nostalgists are trying to hold onto the 70s, and American "Trads" the 50s. I think one of the biggest signs that we are a dying civilization is that we agree that we have to "retvrn" to something, vecause there is something deeply broken about the Occident right now and that it's veen on that trajectory for a while, but we can't agree on what to retvrn to. The West is so destroyed we can't even remember a time in which it worked. I don't mean to blackpill, because if you read my posts, you know I think there are real answers to this question of where and what to retvrn to, but I wouldn't be an honest realist if I didn't tell you that this is a problem we must solve.
@jollyheretic I think half the spergs around here just found a way to reframe & reinterpret their most interpersonally irritating deficiency. They'll now have the ability to view their rudeness & unpleasantness as a sign of innate brilliance.