So many liberals now are vocal about "artificial divide", "discussions being turned into a culture war", "left VS right being fake". All of a sudden they acknowledge what's going on and claim that tribalism is actually a bad thing. They only do it because they're losing.
When they were winning, they were the ones denying that any culture war existed: they claimed they were fighting to promote "basic human decency", "goodness and safety for all". They were reframing the conversations as if they weren't pushing THEIR agendas, but rather advocating for UNIVERSAL values and things WE ALL WANT. After they overplayed their hand and got caught, people now see them for what they are - enemies of common sense and a cult.
So crying about "artificial divide" is just another tactic they play. They want to persuade you that they're not your enemy so they can hoodwink your platforms, your audiences and your influence. They lull your sense of self-preservation to sleep, persuade you into making peace with them and working with them, and then stab you in the back when they accumulate enough power.
The importance of culture war, especially to liberals, is very easily proven. If there's no culture war, then it shouldn't be the problem for liberals to make compromises and go back on some of their statements for the sake of reaching harmony and agreement with the opposite side. But they never do. They want to WIN the culture war. And they will do anything that will move them closer to that goal, even tell you "The war is not important and we all should abandon fighting".
Remember, it's never them who have to compromise their values. There's no making peace with the enemy.
Are we still doing this "tough guy who doesn't think the Left/Right divide is real" thing?
A Leftist gunned down Charlie Kirk on a college campus a year ago and everyone from Hasan Piker to "moderate" Democrat School Board members in Virginia publicly celebrated it.
And yet I'm supposed to still believe that "it's not Red vs Blue"?
Yes it is. And if you want proof that the Left/Right divide is real, go ahead and ask "your fellow liberal" what concessions they're willing to make in order to "unite" with their fellow conservatives.
They will offer nothing. Every call for "unity" with the Left is a demand for unilateral surrender.
@WarriorSpeech28 And yet, man-hating mothers of boys and even male feminists exist despite this ideology going against their self-preservation instinct. Sometimes the spell cannot be broken because this retardation became the foundation of one's personality.
In Europe, everything is illegal by default.
You want to build, hire, launch? You ask. And if no one answers – that’s a no.
Now imagine that system combined with post-communist administrative habits.
I don’t have to imagine. I live in Poland.
When everything requires permission, permission becomes the currency – and the people who master it are the ones who always did: the post-communists and their networks. Forty years of practice in navigating the apparatus didn’t disappear in 1989. It got a Brussels upgrade.
So the connected do anything. For everyone else, everything is illegal or very, very hard.
The system doesn’t select for the best builders. It selects for the best-connected askers – same as before 1989.
Meanwhile in the US, they just build.
That’s the whole difference. One system asks who you know. The other asks what you can do.
I'm watching NATO push Russia toward a response that terrifies me.
Let me walk through what's actually happening.
The Kursk incursion wasn't a Ukrainian operation. It was NATO. Real-time satellite data. AI intelligence collecting digital and mobile network information showing exactly where Russian troops were positioned. Special NATO operatives and Ukrainian forces got guided deep into Russian territory by technology and planning they don't have on their own.
That's a red line people who lived through the 60s and 70s would never have considered crossing. Direct NATO operations inside Russia. Not weapons. Not training. Active intelligence coordination for a ground invasion.
Then Ukrainian forces following that incursion killed civilians. Another line crossed.
Then drones deployed from makeshift trucks attacked Russian nuclear bomber bases. Targeting the strategic deterrence force. The weapons designed to prevent exactly this kind of escalation.
Every step calculated. Every line deliberately crossed.
Here's what makes this dangerous: the West knows Russia doesn't want nuclear war. Russia never planned for global conflict. They responded to Ukraine's NATO membership trajectory because their security demanded it. Not because they wanted World War III.
But NATO is facing irrelevance. The alliance needs a purpose. It needs an enemy. It needs escalation to justify its existence and its budgets.
So watch the contradiction in Western media: Russia is too weak to advance on the battlefield. Russia is also an existential threat that could invade Europe any day.
Both statements can't be true. But both serve the same goal.
They want to make Russia look weak enough that pushing them further seems safe. While simultaneously making Russia look threatening enough that massive military spending stays justified.
The strategy is clear: push Russia into retaliating. Cross enough red lines that Moscow has to respond with something NATO can call escalation. Then use that response to flip Western economies onto war footing.
Because those economies are beyond saving through normal means. The debt is too high. The infrastructure is too broken. The political systems are too captured.
A war with a big payout at the end solves everything. Wipes debt. Rebuilds industry. Unites divided populations. Access to Russian resources makes it all worth it.
That's the gamble. Push a nuclear power until they snap. Then use their response to justify what you wanted to do anyway.
That bet scares me more than anything I've seen in 25 years.
After the 2024 election, many people were wondering how Democrats would react. What would they do in response to losing the popular vote for the first time in 20 years? They had thoroughly pissed off so many people with Woke identity politics, so who could they possibly appeal to in order to dig themselves out of this hole of their own creation?
Well, it should be obvious by now who the new center of attention is on the Left and what cause gets to be the new Current Thing. The new Left wing strategy is to go all in on open borders, abolishing ICE, mass migration, and Third Worldism.
The funny thing is there was this brief moment in 2025 where you saw Democrats talk about moderating their stance on young White men (ie: stop doing everything in their power to make their lives worse), and that pivot lasted all of about 6 months before it was chucked aside in favor of the Zohran Mamdani “Impoverish the White middle class” path.
This is now the second time we’ve seen this movie. The first time happened in 2017 when the New York Times flirted with appealing to the White working class in states like Ohio. For a brief moment after Trump’s first win, Democrats entertained the idea of moderating their stances on the culture wars before concluding by the Fall of 2017 that the White working class were irredeemable racists who needed to be re-educated or destroyed.
That decision paved the way for the peak insanity of Woke 1. And I expect a similar path to unfold now that Democrats have ditched whatever fake moderation they flirted with in 2025 in favor of unbridled Third Worldism.
That tells us what Woke 2 is going to be about. It’s essentially going to be an attempt to make Camp of the Saints real.
People who blame the “Epstein Class” for all of the division between Americans conveniently ignore that ordinary Leftists gleefully supported BLM, political correctness, trans kids, mass migration, COVID lockdowns & mask mandates.
We haven’t forgotten. They are still the enemy.
@ReviewsPossum The left is inherently women-like because of their ideology lacking balls. No wonder left is allergic to accountability and can't connect cause and effect just like women.
"Nationalism" is the belief that a nation should prioritize it's own people's interests over the interests of foreign people's.
"Christian" means "someone or something that aligns with the teachings of Christ."
So, "Christian Nationalist" would simply mean "a nationalist who is Christian."
To be more specific, a "Christian Nationalist" is "a person who believes his nation should align itself with Christian teachings, prioritizing the needs of its own people over the needs of foreigners."
Somehow, leftists (and many so-called "conservatives" who are simply 90s liberals) have been gaslit into thinking this is somehow a big, evil, terrible thing that should be avoided.
Why yes, I do think my country should put its own needs first, because that's what any sane, rational person wants. I don't want my government sending billions of dollars every year to countries that hate us, or inviting in millions of people who hate us. That's pretty basic survival instincts.
And yes, I am a Christian, which means I do want my government to apply a Christian standard to laws and morality. I do want things like murder, theft, lying, adultery, and rape to be regarded as criminal, and I want them to be punished. Again, any sane, rational, decent person wants this.
But, thanks to leftists (and extremely gullible, stupid people like taoki), "Christian Nationalist," much like "sexist," "bigot," "patriarchy," and other such terms, has become a loaded phrase that, in the minds of morons, simply means "a bad person."
They never actually ask themselves what these words mean, what they describe, or why they are even bad. They aren't smart enough to understand those concepts. They cannot reason themselves out of something they never reasoned themselves into.
They simply accept the left's framing that these things are bad, and so if you call yourself these things, you are a bad person by default, because you believe in bad things.
Don't ask them why. They don't know either.
And they demonstrate it further by quoting passages from a book they don't comprehend and barely even read.
The cold, hard truth is that the Left are okay with tyranny as long as they’re the ones doing it - because it’s for the “common good” (which they decide).
Mamdani understands how this all works. Politics isn't about the free market of ideas or balancing budgets. It's about taking power, defunding your enemies, putting your people in charge of everything, and then using that authority to enshrine your values as the new norm.
And to that end, he's shrewdly using the city's resources to reward his friends (Communist agitators) and punish his enemies (landlords, Whites, and anyone who isn't a Socialist ideologue).
This is why this guy is so dangerous. It's not because he's some whackjob from Uganda who "wants Sharia Law". Mamdani knows that the key to power is making a bunch of viral edits that win over the bleeding hearts of the normies, while ruthlessly redirecting the flow of money and power to ensure the normies never get another chance to undo what they foolishly sanctioned when he was first voted into office.