It all started with parents taking their eyes off the public school system. My parents from a very early age taught me the importance of independent verification and empirical observations, but a lot of people didn't get that. Instead, the school system is engineered to reward unquestioning regurgitation of whatever authority tells you to think. Their definition of "smart" is being really good at repeating what authority tells you. Therefor, NOT repeating what authority tells you is the opposite of smart.
So when I was in third grade and the teacher told us spiders were mammals because they have hair, the other thirty odd kids in the class assumed she was right, and I was the idiot in the room.
Political movements have NEVER been about people knowing how things actually work. They're ALWAYS about how a large enough group of people believe things should work. Control what people grow up believing, and you control politics.
Christ - my demographic *Gen X" was skeptical about everything - particularly from the media.
I do not understand how the current generation is so open to programing - by the media of all things. In the age of the internet doing even the slightest digging against any narrative is beyond easy.
I’m a millennial with three Gen X siblings that are all raging lefties. My 70 year old dad left Facebook because all three of them were ganging up on him, calling him a racist with white privilege and all that shit for posting Candace Owens’ video about George Floyd.
My dad grew up dirt poor in a shit neighborhood, put himself through college on various scholarships, got two engineering degrees, worked for a handful of huge companies, rose to president and CEO level positions, invested wisely, and put all four of us through college. He’s not filthy rich but he made enough to put 4 kids through college with advanced degrees and live a comfortable but frugal retirement. We all lived a better life because of his sacrifice and my siblings find it more important to virtue signal on social media than pay the man some respect.
So yeah, there are definitely some Gen Xers out there drinking the kool-aid. They never noticed when their counterculture became the mainstream accepted views. They still think they’re cool for rebelling against their conservative parents.
Thanks, pede. I dunno why I turned out different. Maybe because I got rid of Facebook and Instagram and all that shit years ago, well before Trump took office, as I started to realize it was just a platform for narcissism. I recognized all the virtue signaling long before I ever heard of the term for it. My dad just had social media to see pics of his grandkids. He’s a real softy for the grandkids (who by the way, also have 529 plans funded by my pops for their education...dude is a legend and is hated for it.)
Hell it might have even been Trump winning that changed me. I used to be a raging lefty pothead Bernie bro too. When Trump won I started browsing the_donald to try to see what people saw in him. I went in with an open mind and quickly realized everyone was lying about Trump and his supporters. It changed my whole perception of the world.
It was actually a bit of an honor when he reached out to me and asked me how to delete Facebook for good. Interestingly when he sends out political emails to the whole family, nobody cares to even respond. They only want to lambast him in public where everyone can see how virtuous they are.
Damn, poor guy. Sounds like a great role model from which to learn.
But I'm also sure he was a flawed man, like the rest of us, and your childhood was not idyllic just because your father was there, seemed to care, and you didn't need to worry about a lack of money.
Many people do lack money growing up, so they underestimate the problems that arise from having too much. While objectively I think we'd all choose to have too much, we don't get to choose and are not responsible for our lot in life. We are responsible with what we do with it.
Sounds like you are probably his last hope and a source of great joy. That is all one person can do my friend. Keep nailing it Pede. The past doesn't matter as long as you end up at the right place in the end.
Yeah, he of course was not perfect, but the shit they hold against him is absurd. My older brother refuses to eat eggs even in his late forties, because one time my dad made him sit at the table until he finished his breakfast. The horror!
My sisters resent my dad because of an alleged affair with a secretary or something from before I was born. My parents worked through it and have been married for 50 years now. That should be between them. It’s nobody else’s business if you ask me.
There are more examples but most of them boil down to my parents trying to impose discipline on them, or having marital issues that they ultimately worked out and forgave each other for. Even though my parents worked through all of their issues and moved on, my siblings somehow act like they were scarred for life because of it. It’s really pathetic.
I think the worst thing I ever had on my parents were not letting me hang out with certain friends, who in hindsight were all deadbeats and ultimately ended up legitimately going nowhere in life. Even though I rebelled and still hung out with many of those friends, they tried to do me a favor.
Jesus Christ, dude. Your siblings are ducking garbage people.
Imagine throwing a life long fit because one morning, you were forced to eat a meal paid for by, prepared by, cooked by and served by someone else.
Your sister sounds like a typical Lefty. Outraged over something that has nothing to do with them, yet the insist they be involved in, and still making it an issue long after the problem was resolved.
My only sibling, my sister, is based, but my wife's only sibling, her sister, is a TDS Democrat. They grew up in the same household, with the same parents, and are close in age, but they are completely different people. Their parents were apolitical, but hard working and based. Her sister married a Democrat and his entire family are full blown TDS Democrats, but I suspect that she would be a Democrat regardless. My wife was based before she met me.
He can’t cut them out even if he wants to. He’s the only voice of reason. You can’t give up on family. You don’t take their abuse, but you don’t give up on them.
When I lived in Portland, Oregon during the Bush presidency, the Oregonian newspaper printed, “Everyone should know at least one Republican.” He’s their one...
Sounds like dad didn’t do a good job of discipline. They are spoiled brats!!
I’ve been considering the removal of tribulations to be one of if not the biggest cause for this trend towards societal collapse. The majority of young people in this country have coasted and believe they are entitled to continue doing so.
Not only that, but the lessons learned from overcoming challenges are being replaced by social programming from pop culture and groupthink spawning from internet bubbles. It’s highly concerning and I’m not sure if the trend is reversible at this point.
The ideological disease of leftism spans generations. I live in a town that is a popular retirement destination and a significant percentage of those retired seniors are Democrats, many of them far Left extremists. One of the most active Democrats here is an old communist who is fond of quoting Saul Alinsky and is involved in every leftist agitation and event in town. He and his wife look just like sweet little grandparents and you would never suspect that they are commies.
There is no real poverty in the United States when you compare it to the rest of the world or even to the early history of this country. Even the homeless here are well fed and the standard of living of those on government assistance is quite high indeed relative to most other countries. We have a homeless guy who is currently camped out right on the major highway through town and he is morbidly obese. Dude is eating too well for his own good, and getting more handouts and food daily from people passing by. I also know a girl here who has two kids from two different baby daddies and we taxpayers are subsidizing their entire existence. She drives a new car and has the latest iPhone, luxuries that even I don't have, and I worked hard my entire life.
Gratitude is a fundamental human quality. It is possibly the most basic quality trait in major religions and society. From a religious stand point, that is where honoring ones parents, and teachers and love of G-d come from. From a societal perspective, the concept of "owing someone a favor" is as old as society itself.
Many teens go through a rebellious stage, where they fail to recognize the gratitude they owe their parents, and all the sacrifices their parents have made for them.
By all respects, it seems like your father was an excellent father. For grown-ass children not to acknowledge the debt of gratitude they owe him, and to treat him with dis-respect, puts them on the bottom rung of human morality. All while they posture and preen, touting their superficial and sanctimonious Social Justice bullshit
By extension this lack of gratitude applies to the very foundations of this country and even Western civilization itself.
It’s not being taught - the default mode for students is assuming the luxuries of today’s day and age exist just because. And beyond that, they aren’t even satisfied with today’s unprecedented prosperity...
Professors focus on negativity and “injustice,” emphasizing moral concerns over the ultimate morality that is the underpinning of capitalism and modern society’s fruits - the belief in independent thought and predominance of one’s own self-interest
Most people would define me as young Gen-X as well. There are plenty of uncritical, credulous idiots in all generations. To say that Gen-x is this way but Gen-Z is that way fails to acknowledge that Gen-Z was supposed to have been raised by Gen-X, so if there's a massive issue with how they were raised, then Boomer and Gen-X parents must be responsible for that.
Generations are a marketing concept, not a scientific concept. The ages of all the idiot libs in Congress proves that young people aren't the source of the problem. Parents who abdicated their parental responsibilities by turning their children over to the state without paying attention to what they were being taught is what happened. A bunch of self- professed communists in teaching positions from grade school through college didn't come out of nowhere all at once.
Social media may have accelerated the spread, but it started long before the internet was a thing.
It goes beyond that, though. My mom homeschooled 4 of us and we all turned out differently.
My elder brother schooled in England and married a British woman, then moved to California, became a leftist. I did mission work in several different countries before seeking a degree, married a leftist and stayed conservative. My younger brother married a girl in college and went left, especially after his divorce she subsequent bitterness. My youngest sister was fairly neutral but leaning left while she lived in California, then went hard conservative when she moved back home with her husband and started a family and spent time with us.
I think where you go politically has a lot to do with the company you keep. Not necessarily your friends, but whoever you spend the most time with.
I agree with your point about the company you keep, but during the first twenty odd years of life, the company children keep is a lot more dominated by the school system than by the parents, and a big part of the indoctrination is teaching children to think of their parents as racist, bigoted, idiots.
So if a person raised in that environment falls in with a crowd of liberals, then it's simple like-minded reinforcement of pre-existing beliefs, whereas a crowd of conservatives would have to work against those preexisting assumptions to effectively change the way the individual thinks.
A fiction author once wrote something that I thought was profound. She said that if the history of humanity consisted of one single word, we would pour over it, learn every facet of it, derive every meaning from that one word. Yet, we have a near inexhaustible record of our history and nobody cares.
Nope, just another progressive who got a college degree and a government job despite being an idiot because we sacrificed our standards at the altar of egalitarianism
I would have just yelled it out. I remember a time when my Environmental Science teacher tried to tell the class that over half our federal budget was military spending because she doesn't understand what a graph of discretionary spending is (as opposed to a graph of all spending).
I just yelled out that it wasn't true, and she sent me out of the room.
I had a teacher that claimed that the Earth was the closest planet to the Sun. She even had the class recite that in unison.
I knew better, and showed her an astronomy book from the school library that showed the correct order of the planets in our solar system, and she got angry at me for contradicting her.
Political movements have NEVER been about people knowing how things actually work. They're ALWAYS about how a large enough group of people believe things should work. Control what people grow up believing, and you control politics.
I wish I could meet this person, so I could ask them if bumble bees are mammals or birds. I've been told that bats are the only flying mammal, but I don't know... bumble bees look pretty hairy to me.
Hahah that's awesome. When I was in third grade, I corrected a teacher's math problem. She was so mad she called in my parents. Man, was that the best parent/teacher conference ever.
The last time a school ever called my parents, my Mom listened to the counselor whining for about ten minutes then looked at me and said, "Stop f*cking with the locals" and walked out without saying a word to the counselor.
LOL. It's different now. Now, schools are afraid parents might try to discipline children, so they don't call parents. And, if things get so bad that they must call parents, they definitely don't convey any facts, just "ask little Johnny to be nice." Me: I'm not telling my kids shit until you tell me what happened.
A friend of mine had a math teacher who would spend several minutes working out an equation on the chalk board, fuck it up, and then just erase the whole thing and move on. Apparently this happened almost every class.
Little later than that - he initially didn't believe media manipulation was on purpose (meaning they knew what they were doing). Took about a year before he came around that data-point.
He also tried to reach out to BLM folks - but it took about 6 months before he realized they weren't what they seemed. He does come-around on stuff but it takes a long time.
You are very right about this. Myself, I've ended my marriage of 18 years. It was a hard road but I built a case in that manner. I had documented proof, family and friends as witnesses. In the end, I have my house, my kids, and my freedom. During that time however. I was barely getting by and had to declare bankruptcy. It sucks, its hard and shouldn't work like that, but it does.
Communist ideology has been popular for almost 150 and it certainly does not understand how anything works. So how did it become so popular of a movement? Widespread oppression, violence, slavery, and mass murder.
Do they blame colleges and federally-backed student loans for exploiting naive 19 year olds into a lifetime of debt? No.“
But why don’t they?
I’m in my 20’s myself and I’m going without the expensive sheet of paper so I don’t relate well to those types. I know from experience that peers and parents expect you to “go to college.” The societal programming almost demands college attendance.
Yet these types absorb this programming without asking the colleges why they charge so much. Most seem to go to college just for the expensive piece of paper. But they don’t ask the colleges to cut down the amenities to reduce tuition cost. Are we a society of people going on 4 year vacations spending money with reckless abandon to later “graduate” and complain that we can only do so for 4 years and not a lifetime?
Are we a society of people going on 4 year vacations spending money with reckless abandon to later “graduate” and complain that we can only do so for 4 years and not a lifetime?
Yes, that's pretty much it.
They don't call out the colleges or the student loan industry because that would require introspection. It would require them to admit they're wrong in some way, that no, their $80,000 masters in latin wasn't worthwhile. It was an incredibly poor investment. They just can't come to terms with the truth. Even if you try to lay it out for them, they still buy into platitudes like 'if you think education is expensive, try ignorance.'
If only they had gotten an education we as a country could address the college problem among other problems. It almost makes one conclude that arguing with these individuals is futile. Yet if we give up the argument, all that is left is violence.
I almost find it funny that they would cling to such a platitude.
Would anyone address personal transportation so foolishly? As if the matter of getting around was only a choice between buying a Ferrari and walking to work.
To paraphrase Thomas Sowell there is a limited amount of everything, meaning scarcity. Not everybody can have as much as they might want of everything. Goods and services will be rationed by price, luck, favoritism or other means. When the rationing is done by price people have to decide how much they really need and how they will adjust their budget (or lack of one) assuming higher prices than typical. Obviously this provides personal incentive to potential suppliers to rush in supplies to an area demanding them. And then the prices come down.
And yet these peers of mine ignore the price, overestimate the value of college, borrow more money than they should and complain that their personal decisions have ruined them AND demand that someone else should shoulder the burden instead.
And where it’s personal for me is that I’m strange for not purchasing what I cannot afford?
Scarcity is a concept the left simply refuses to accept. They demand health care and college slots as a "right," but of course there are limited amounts of each available. How does capitalism ration scarce goods? By allowing the price of scarce goods/services to rise naturally, either incentivizing supply to increase or limiting demand. Is it perfect? No. Is it fair? Not at all. But what else do we do? Strict european-style testing that determines who can study what? There's enough corruption with ACT/SAT and college admissions as it is, as recent FBI cases have shown.
It's because so many think they're either going to have positions at the top, or they'll be given a life long vacation to relax and do what they want without having to worry about money or anything else because they helped ushered in the revolution.
They're stupid. I do not have empahty or pity for them.
"I don't understand how you" (insert malicious interpretation of opposing argument) "instead of" (insert flowery, idealistic interpretation of personal argument).
/\ Because at some point that became a legitimate form of "asking" someone what they think about an issue.
"How am I supposed to know that's how it is supposed to work?"
"Read the fucking manual, idiot."
Homeowners and new "techs" alike. It's pathetic. TV rewards the idiots on the show.
That and everyone is an expert because they read something on the fake book and they have 0 memory of all the times they were wrong. You'd think they'd get tired of being wrong but they never do. 0 self awareness.
Atheism and agnosticism were very popular in the 90s/early 00s. Religion was dipping in popularity. The early Atheism crowd was hoping for a generation of critical thinkers, taught to questing everything and think rationally.
What they got was social justice rising up as a crowd sourced religious cult filling the hole. Privilege is original sin that must be atoned for. They encourage you to cut contact with those who don't participate, just like cults isolate their members. They are rife with virtue signalling, which is actually quite popular in heavily religious communities.
For most people, a part of their brain wants to be religious. In the absence of a religion it gets filled it with garbage like worshiping corporations, pop stars, or the social justice cult.
Not really. What you are saying implies that this happened organically. It didn't. This is 100% top-down. Every society needs "problems", or they will create them, things to be mad about. Otherwise it just feels like you are being ruled. The elite with the wealth have learned this lesson and have made sure they can direct what the population is "mad" about. Notice how all the conflict is about shit no one ever cared about or should care about, like trans rights? It is all engineered, and top-down. Nothing organic about it.
I listen to Scott to learn about "persuasion" so I can recognise better when I'm being deceived and being worked on by a Wisard... We must be as wise as Serpents but not serpents ourselves.. When you listern to Scott you must remain cognisant that you are being manipulated in ways you do not recognize.
This isn't new, it's a repeat. The playbook for communists, fascists, socialists and various other extremists is the same. Undermine the foundation of a country by attacking it's institutions and then take over. That is the goal.
The tactics include an attack on religion, the family, heritage, history, political structure, media, courts, law enforcement, speech and guns. Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam and Ayatollahs all did the same thing.
The tactics include an attack on religion, the family, heritage, history, political structure, media, courts, law enforcement, speech and guns. Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam and Ayatollahs all did the same thing.
I once asked a Russian mathematician why it is people don't know how the "system" works, when so much of it works against them? And he said, "If they did, it wouldn't work."
The Mob is a weapon just like the Virus is a weapon... It doesnt matter the etiology so much as how they are being used/manipultated to creat a crisis/inflexion point...
Scott talks up a storm about the Trees but not the Forest ie the larger conceptual landscape... Part of persuasion is to divorce/seperate people from their greater Cognitive "morals/Idiology religion" framwork so you can get them to agree on smaller points and get them moving in your intended direction. Once you gain Intertia on small trivial points larger ones can follow. Its like a war/battle once you break resistance you turn it into a rout..
Yep, we watered down our republic too much. It's too close to a direct democracy, and it's going to kill us.
Exactly … democracies always fail. When I can vote for my neighbor to pay for All my living expenses and they can vote for me to pay all of theirs. It’s over.
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.“
-John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves.
Yep. Why a Direct Democracy never works for long. And why we were set up as a republic. Unfortunately, we have become a democracy. Or will be soon. We must re-elect Trump to continue America for as long as possible
"Direct democracy would work a lot better than what we have." No way. As it is, the electoral college has barely kept total destruction at bay. Direct democracy doesn't reduce the prevalence of power-hungry psychopaths; everyone loves their own representative, and blames the problems on your representative. Direct democracy puts the blue cities in charge of everyone.
Perhaps, if you're talking about voting on every single issue. More likely, though, the collapse would have come sooner when a tyrant replaced the will of the people with his own. A few hundred tyrants is better than one.
we teach our kids about the horrors of Nazism and the holocaust
but not about the horrors of communism
how many kids today know who dith pran is
or have seen the movie The Killing Fields let alone been told the the truth about Stalin's Gulags or mao's great leap forward ?
And we allow our kids to be taught by communist apologists in grade schools and collage when Nazi apologists would have had their careers destroyed and been run out of respectable society to never hold anything more but the most menial jobs
Teaching the about the failures of the Marxist and socialism and the atrocities and human degradation that took place under them and psychopaths like che guvevara
should have been a** Required Course** in grade schools and collage 40 years ago
I keep saying all the Hippies found out their hippy dippy Love and Flower bullshit didn't work, so they went to get normal jobs but forever treasured protesting and fighting The System. So as these boomers sucked the future of the country dry they left the next generations with one simple message, "The only thing worth value are riots and activism."
You just gotta fight 'a system'. That's why all these protests and riots have no aims. They stand around demanding change expecting those that aren't on board will do all the intellectual work they didn't.
Lenin was a shitbag, but he at least knew what he wanted.
Because the people who decide what is "new" knowledge in academia are all fucking idiots. It's why college campuses are the Frontlines of the war. This isn't just about stopping antifa and blm. It's about cleaning house of all the socialist ideas that have infiltrated our education system over the last 3 decades. I don't know that it's doable.
Everyone is quick to blame millennials and gen ztards. But, remember, these were the first wave of participation ribbon kids. You know, every child is special, no child left behind bs. They are told they can literally be anything, whether that means changing your gender, becoming a furry, or majoring in transexual rights and history. They are told they are beautiful, even if they are 200 lbs overweight and have face tattoos. We've created monsters.
well, our public education system has been completely sabotaged into a gigantic communism machine. the lizards brain-rape our children from the get-go. your suburban school system is probably run by some lizard being from new york who cleaned out all of the local teachers.
It needs to be clarified that none of these progressive activist groups are actual movements. Movements have goals, a mission to be obtained. Do you see any goals being completed? The stagnant activism we see displayed is designed to continue forever, that is the goal. Did Hussein being president solve racism? No, and it became quite clear nothing will. When you look at their accomplishments it's quite obvious 'stagtivism' ideologies like climate change, equality and politically correctness only exist to preserve themselves and make people money. Ask them what they've accomplished and you will strike a nerve they cannot guard. It's one of the reasons we acclaim historical figures who were ordinary people like Rosa Parks, MLK, because they plateaued their ideology beyond words, not simply expressing it over and over again.
It all started with parents taking their eyes off the public school system. My parents from a very early age taught me the importance of independent verification and empirical observations, but a lot of people didn't get that. Instead, the school system is engineered to reward unquestioning regurgitation of whatever authority tells you to think. Their definition of "smart" is being really good at repeating what authority tells you. Therefor, NOT repeating what authority tells you is the opposite of smart.
So when I was in third grade and the teacher told us spiders were mammals because they have hair, the other thirty odd kids in the class assumed she was right, and I was the idiot in the room.
Political movements have NEVER been about people knowing how things actually work. They're ALWAYS about how a large enough group of people believe things should work. Control what people grow up believing, and you control politics.
Christ - my demographic *Gen X" was skeptical about everything - particularly from the media.
I do not understand how the current generation is so open to programing - by the media of all things. In the age of the internet doing even the slightest digging against any narrative is beyond easy.
I’m a millennial with three Gen X siblings that are all raging lefties. My 70 year old dad left Facebook because all three of them were ganging up on him, calling him a racist with white privilege and all that shit for posting Candace Owens’ video about George Floyd.
My dad grew up dirt poor in a shit neighborhood, put himself through college on various scholarships, got two engineering degrees, worked for a handful of huge companies, rose to president and CEO level positions, invested wisely, and put all four of us through college. He’s not filthy rich but he made enough to put 4 kids through college with advanced degrees and live a comfortable but frugal retirement. We all lived a better life because of his sacrifice and my siblings find it more important to virtue signal on social media than pay the man some respect.
So yeah, there are definitely some Gen Xers out there drinking the kool-aid. They never noticed when their counterculture became the mainstream accepted views. They still think they’re cool for rebelling against their conservative parents.
Damn, I want to kick your siblings asses for doing that to your Pop.
Hope it helps a little to know you aren't the only one that wants to do so.
Thanks, pede. I dunno why I turned out different. Maybe because I got rid of Facebook and Instagram and all that shit years ago, well before Trump took office, as I started to realize it was just a platform for narcissism. I recognized all the virtue signaling long before I ever heard of the term for it. My dad just had social media to see pics of his grandkids. He’s a real softy for the grandkids (who by the way, also have 529 plans funded by my pops for their education...dude is a legend and is hated for it.)
Hell it might have even been Trump winning that changed me. I used to be a raging lefty pothead Bernie bro too. When Trump won I started browsing the_donald to try to see what people saw in him. I went in with an open mind and quickly realized everyone was lying about Trump and his supporters. It changed my whole perception of the world.
It was actually a bit of an honor when he reached out to me and asked me how to delete Facebook for good. Interestingly when he sends out political emails to the whole family, nobody cares to even respond. They only want to lambast him in public where everyone can see how virtuous they are.
Damn, poor guy. Sounds like a great role model from which to learn.
But I'm also sure he was a flawed man, like the rest of us, and your childhood was not idyllic just because your father was there, seemed to care, and you didn't need to worry about a lack of money.
Many people do lack money growing up, so they underestimate the problems that arise from having too much. While objectively I think we'd all choose to have too much, we don't get to choose and are not responsible for our lot in life. We are responsible with what we do with it.
Sounds like you are probably his last hope and a source of great joy. That is all one person can do my friend. Keep nailing it Pede. The past doesn't matter as long as you end up at the right place in the end.
Yeah, he of course was not perfect, but the shit they hold against him is absurd. My older brother refuses to eat eggs even in his late forties, because one time my dad made him sit at the table until he finished his breakfast. The horror!
My sisters resent my dad because of an alleged affair with a secretary or something from before I was born. My parents worked through it and have been married for 50 years now. That should be between them. It’s nobody else’s business if you ask me.
There are more examples but most of them boil down to my parents trying to impose discipline on them, or having marital issues that they ultimately worked out and forgave each other for. Even though my parents worked through all of their issues and moved on, my siblings somehow act like they were scarred for life because of it. It’s really pathetic.
I think the worst thing I ever had on my parents were not letting me hang out with certain friends, who in hindsight were all deadbeats and ultimately ended up legitimately going nowhere in life. Even though I rebelled and still hung out with many of those friends, they tried to do me a favor.
Jesus Christ, dude. Your siblings are ducking garbage people.
Imagine throwing a life long fit because one morning, you were forced to eat a meal paid for by, prepared by, cooked by and served by someone else.
Your sister sounds like a typical Lefty. Outraged over something that has nothing to do with them, yet the insist they be involved in, and still making it an issue long after the problem was resolved.
I can’t express enough sympathy for you man.
Sounds so much like my dad.
Such wisdom! Well said pede! 👏
Aw shucks thanks.
My only sibling, my sister, is based, but my wife's only sibling, her sister, is a TDS Democrat. They grew up in the same household, with the same parents, and are close in age, but they are completely different people. Their parents were apolitical, but hard working and based. Her sister married a Democrat and his entire family are full blown TDS Democrats, but I suspect that she would be a Democrat regardless. My wife was based before she met me.
He can adopt me.
count me in as well
But cut them out of your life
He can’t cut them out even if he wants to. He’s the only voice of reason. You can’t give up on family. You don’t take their abuse, but you don’t give up on them. When I lived in Portland, Oregon during the Bush presidency, the Oregonian newspaper printed, “Everyone should know at least one Republican.” He’s their one... Sounds like dad didn’t do a good job of discipline. They are spoiled brats!!
They smell money.
That last line is soo damn accurate. These spoiled as kids who never worked for anything become resentful after being handed EVERYTHING.
That just sounds like greed but with extra steps.
They love our milk and honey, but they preach about some other way of livin’
I’ve been considering the removal of tribulations to be one of if not the biggest cause for this trend towards societal collapse. The majority of young people in this country have coasted and believe they are entitled to continue doing so.
Not only that, but the lessons learned from overcoming challenges are being replaced by social programming from pop culture and groupthink spawning from internet bubbles. It’s highly concerning and I’m not sure if the trend is reversible at this point.
It’s not reversible unless they find Jesus. 🙌 Now they are questioning their gender and any type of inconvenient rule.
The ideological disease of leftism spans generations. I live in a town that is a popular retirement destination and a significant percentage of those retired seniors are Democrats, many of them far Left extremists. One of the most active Democrats here is an old communist who is fond of quoting Saul Alinsky and is involved in every leftist agitation and event in town. He and his wife look just like sweet little grandparents and you would never suspect that they are commies.
Reminds me of the Satanists in "Rosemary's Baby".....sweet looking grandma and grandpa types that worship the antiChrist.
Also, people getting government-subsidized housing tend to become Democrat Pary/Commies.
Not all people getting government-subsidized housing are poor. Some of them are quite well-to-do - at least in my area.
There is no real poverty in the United States when you compare it to the rest of the world or even to the early history of this country. Even the homeless here are well fed and the standard of living of those on government assistance is quite high indeed relative to most other countries. We have a homeless guy who is currently camped out right on the major highway through town and he is morbidly obese. Dude is eating too well for his own good, and getting more handouts and food daily from people passing by. I also know a girl here who has two kids from two different baby daddies and we taxpayers are subsidizing their entire existence. She drives a new car and has the latest iPhone, luxuries that even I don't have, and I worked hard my entire life.
Gratitude is a fundamental human quality. It is possibly the most basic quality trait in major religions and society. From a religious stand point, that is where honoring ones parents, and teachers and love of G-d come from. From a societal perspective, the concept of "owing someone a favor" is as old as society itself.
Many teens go through a rebellious stage, where they fail to recognize the gratitude they owe their parents, and all the sacrifices their parents have made for them.
By all respects, it seems like your father was an excellent father. For grown-ass children not to acknowledge the debt of gratitude they owe him, and to treat him with dis-respect, puts them on the bottom rung of human morality. All while they posture and preen, touting their superficial and sanctimonious Social Justice bullshit
By extension this lack of gratitude applies to the very foundations of this country and even Western civilization itself.
It’s not being taught - the default mode for students is assuming the luxuries of today’s day and age exist just because. And beyond that, they aren’t even satisfied with today’s unprecedented prosperity...
Professors focus on negativity and “injustice,” emphasizing moral concerns over the ultimate morality that is the underpinning of capitalism and modern society’s fruits - the belief in independent thought and predominance of one’s own self-interest
Most people would define me as young Gen-X as well. There are plenty of uncritical, credulous idiots in all generations. To say that Gen-x is this way but Gen-Z is that way fails to acknowledge that Gen-Z was supposed to have been raised by Gen-X, so if there's a massive issue with how they were raised, then Boomer and Gen-X parents must be responsible for that.
Generations are a marketing concept, not a scientific concept. The ages of all the idiot libs in Congress proves that young people aren't the source of the problem. Parents who abdicated their parental responsibilities by turning their children over to the state without paying attention to what they were being taught is what happened. A bunch of self- professed communists in teaching positions from grade school through college didn't come out of nowhere all at once.
Social media may have accelerated the spread, but it started long before the internet was a thing.
It goes beyond that, though. My mom homeschooled 4 of us and we all turned out differently.
My elder brother schooled in England and married a British woman, then moved to California, became a leftist. I did mission work in several different countries before seeking a degree, married a leftist and stayed conservative. My younger brother married a girl in college and went left, especially after his divorce she subsequent bitterness. My youngest sister was fairly neutral but leaning left while she lived in California, then went hard conservative when she moved back home with her husband and started a family and spent time with us.
I think where you go politically has a lot to do with the company you keep. Not necessarily your friends, but whoever you spend the most time with.
I agree with your point about the company you keep, but during the first twenty odd years of life, the company children keep is a lot more dominated by the school system than by the parents, and a big part of the indoctrination is teaching children to think of their parents as racist, bigoted, idiots.
So if a person raised in that environment falls in with a crowd of liberals, then it's simple like-minded reinforcement of pre-existing beliefs, whereas a crowd of conservatives would have to work against those preexisting assumptions to effectively change the way the individual thinks.
Gen X here. I had a ‘question authority’ bumper sticker on my car in college.
Gen X also, I admit I bought into some BS but luckily saw the light after I graduated from college.
Same here. That first paycheck from my full time job hit hard.
Dido man, nothing quite like it.
A fiction author once wrote something that I thought was profound. She said that if the history of humanity consisted of one single word, we would pour over it, learn every facet of it, derive every meaning from that one word. Yet, we have a near inexhaustible record of our history and nobody cares.
We where Ignored for being to small of a cohort to merit the effort.
My 7th grade social studies teacher tried to get me in trouble for saying she was wrong when she declared:
"The Bay of Pigs invasion successfully overthrew Batista and installed Castro as the leader of Cuba"
+20 years later and that still pisses me off
What in the fuck? Please tell me the social studies "teacher" was really just the football coach doing his minimums.
Nope, just another progressive who got a college degree and a government job despite being an idiot because we sacrificed our standards at the altar of egalitarianism
Damn, I think she failed her IQ test…
Also known as majoring in Education
My advanced history teacher told us aspirin was a Nazi invention that resulted from testing on Jews in inhumane experiments.
No. Aspirin was invented in the late 1800’s. Bayer lost their patent for it after WWI as part of their reparations.
I would have just yelled it out. I remember a time when my Environmental Science teacher tried to tell the class that over half our federal budget was military spending because she doesn't understand what a graph of discretionary spending is (as opposed to a graph of all spending).
I just yelled out that it wasn't true, and she sent me out of the room.
I still feel good about that.
I had a teacher that claimed that the Earth was the closest planet to the Sun. She even had the class recite that in unison.
I knew better, and showed her an astronomy book from the school library that showed the correct order of the planets in our solar system, and she got angry at me for contradicting her.
Did she ever tell the class the correct order?
No.
That fucking bitch. Astronomy is awesome. She needs to learn her shit before she's trying to teach others.
Being sent out of the room might have been a blessing.
Yes. Couldn’t agree more!!!
Well. That sounds like an easy lay.
You've got me picturing spider tits, now, and I think I hate you.
More of a leg man, eh?
You could go sell "Spider Milk" and make a fortune!
You can't make a fortune if you literally cannot stop vomiting. It'll take a stronger man than I.
I wish I could meet this person, so I could ask them if bumble bees are mammals or birds. I've been told that bats are the only flying mammal, but I don't know... bumble bees look pretty hairy to me.
https://youtu.be/yvfH7fDceXw Freedom Toons
“Nuclear family causes cancer”
Hahah that's awesome. When I was in third grade, I corrected a teacher's math problem. She was so mad she called in my parents. Man, was that the best parent/teacher conference ever.
The last time a school ever called my parents, my Mom listened to the counselor whining for about ten minutes then looked at me and said, "Stop f*cking with the locals" and walked out without saying a word to the counselor.
LOL. It's different now. Now, schools are afraid parents might try to discipline children, so they don't call parents. And, if things get so bad that they must call parents, they definitely don't convey any facts, just "ask little Johnny to be nice." Me: I'm not telling my kids shit until you tell me what happened.
A friend of mine had a math teacher who would spend several minutes working out an equation on the chalk board, fuck it up, and then just erase the whole thing and move on. Apparently this happened almost every class.
Scott is a good example of smart people being incapable of rationalizing the stupidity of the average person.
Lol. Sounds like something he would say!!!
Because we are allowing the dumbest and the youngest to dictate the new cultural norms to the rest of society thanks to social media.
That and the weak leaders … They are too weak to…just say no!!!
The Reds always use them for their revolutions.
Every. Damn. Time.
His bag of fucks has emptied out since 2016 and he is just nonstop breathing fire now
Little later than that - he initially didn't believe media manipulation was on purpose (meaning they knew what they were doing). Took about a year before he came around that data-point.
He also tried to reach out to BLM folks - but it took about 6 months before he realized they weren't what they seemed. He does come-around on stuff but it takes a long time.
Styx gets it right - bang - on day one.
Yeah, Styx is pretty awesome.
That's about all.
Peace out.
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This! Mixed with divorce culture... governance by woman scorned
The trick for men and winning in the divorce courts is to have a pattern of staying at home and taking care of the kids.
But the moment you have ambition to go out and work to make something of yourself and provide for your family you lose in the divorce courts.
Irony.
You are very right about this. Myself, I've ended my marriage of 18 years. It was a hard road but I built a case in that manner. I had documented proof, family and friends as witnesses. In the end, I have my house, my kids, and my freedom. During that time however. I was barely getting by and had to declare bankruptcy. It sucks, its hard and shouldn't work like that, but it does.
Authoritarian ‘maternal instinct’ or ‘nurture’ and a Napoleon complex is generally what a society gets from women voters and politicians.
The short answer is "White people were afraid of corporate media labeling them racist"
Yep
Communist ideology has been popular for almost 150 and it certainly does not understand how anything works. So how did it become so popular of a movement? Widespread oppression, violence, slavery, and mass murder.
Most protesters are young, dumb university students. They're saddled with student loan debt and limited job prospects.
Do they blame colleges and federally-backed student loans for exploiting naive 19 year olds into a lifetime of debt? No.
Do they look in the mirror and blame themselves for overpaying for worthless degrees? Of course not!
Do they blame mass immigration, outsourcing, and H1B visas for a tough labor market in certain sectors? No way!
They useful idiots who think communism and defunding the police is going to make all their problems go away.
But why don’t they?
I’m in my 20’s myself and I’m going without the expensive sheet of paper so I don’t relate well to those types. I know from experience that peers and parents expect you to “go to college.” The societal programming almost demands college attendance.
Yet these types absorb this programming without asking the colleges why they charge so much. Most seem to go to college just for the expensive piece of paper. But they don’t ask the colleges to cut down the amenities to reduce tuition cost. Are we a society of people going on 4 year vacations spending money with reckless abandon to later “graduate” and complain that we can only do so for 4 years and not a lifetime?
Yes, that's pretty much it.
They don't call out the colleges or the student loan industry because that would require introspection. It would require them to admit they're wrong in some way, that no, their $80,000 masters in latin wasn't worthwhile. It was an incredibly poor investment. They just can't come to terms with the truth. Even if you try to lay it out for them, they still buy into platitudes like 'if you think education is expensive, try ignorance.'
If only they had gotten an education we as a country could address the college problem among other problems. It almost makes one conclude that arguing with these individuals is futile. Yet if we give up the argument, all that is left is violence.
I almost find it funny that they would cling to such a platitude. Would anyone address personal transportation so foolishly? As if the matter of getting around was only a choice between buying a Ferrari and walking to work.
To paraphrase Thomas Sowell there is a limited amount of everything, meaning scarcity. Not everybody can have as much as they might want of everything. Goods and services will be rationed by price, luck, favoritism or other means. When the rationing is done by price people have to decide how much they really need and how they will adjust their budget (or lack of one) assuming higher prices than typical. Obviously this provides personal incentive to potential suppliers to rush in supplies to an area demanding them. And then the prices come down.
And yet these peers of mine ignore the price, overestimate the value of college, borrow more money than they should and complain that their personal decisions have ruined them AND demand that someone else should shoulder the burden instead.
And where it’s personal for me is that I’m strange for not purchasing what I cannot afford?
Scarcity is a concept the left simply refuses to accept. They demand health care and college slots as a "right," but of course there are limited amounts of each available. How does capitalism ration scarce goods? By allowing the price of scarce goods/services to rise naturally, either incentivizing supply to increase or limiting demand. Is it perfect? No. Is it fair? Not at all. But what else do we do? Strict european-style testing that determines who can study what? There's enough corruption with ACT/SAT and college admissions as it is, as recent FBI cases have shown.
Yes. And it’s just a new name for Collectivism PLUS Totalitarian Regimes
CommieS. Are cool now !!!
It's because so many think they're either going to have positions at the top, or they'll be given a life long vacation to relax and do what they want without having to worry about money or anything else because they helped ushered in the revolution.
They're stupid. I do not have empahty or pity for them.
"I don't understand how you" (insert malicious interpretation of opposing argument) "instead of" (insert flowery, idealistic interpretation of personal argument).
/\ Because at some point that became a legitimate form of "asking" someone what they think about an issue.
"How am I supposed to know that's how it is supposed to work?"
"Read the fucking manual, idiot."
Homeowners and new "techs" alike. It's pathetic. TV rewards the idiots on the show.
That and everyone is an expert because they read something on the fake book and they have 0 memory of all the times they were wrong. You'd think they'd get tired of being wrong but they never do. 0 self awareness.
And the entitlement!!
It is a goddamn religious cult, that's how.
Atheism and agnosticism were very popular in the 90s/early 00s. Religion was dipping in popularity. The early Atheism crowd was hoping for a generation of critical thinkers, taught to questing everything and think rationally.
What they got was social justice rising up as a crowd sourced religious cult filling the hole. Privilege is original sin that must be atoned for. They encourage you to cut contact with those who don't participate, just like cults isolate their members. They are rife with virtue signalling, which is actually quite popular in heavily religious communities.
For most people, a part of their brain wants to be religious. In the absence of a religion it gets filled it with garbage like worshiping corporations, pop stars, or the social justice cult.
Yep. That’s all it is
Not really. What you are saying implies that this happened organically. It didn't. This is 100% top-down. Every society needs "problems", or they will create them, things to be mad about. Otherwise it just feels like you are being ruled. The elite with the wealth have learned this lesson and have made sure they can direct what the population is "mad" about. Notice how all the conflict is about shit no one ever cared about or should care about, like trans rights? It is all engineered, and top-down. Nothing organic about it.
I listen to Scott to learn about "persuasion" so I can recognise better when I'm being deceived and being worked on by a Wisard... We must be as wise as Serpents but not serpents ourselves.. When you listern to Scott you must remain cognisant that you are being manipulated in ways you do not recognize.
Yep. I agree. A good man but be able to do bad AND still stay good …to defeat evil
I agree. I'm starting to pick up on his techniques.
I don't agree with everything he says and the more is listen to his show, the more i can see inconsistencies and hypocracy in his arguments.
That being said, I still really enjoy listening and learning from him.
This isn't new, it's a repeat. The playbook for communists, fascists, socialists and various other extremists is the same. Undermine the foundation of a country by attacking it's institutions and then take over. That is the goal.
The tactics include an attack on religion, the family, heritage, history, political structure, media, courts, law enforcement, speech and guns. Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam and Ayatollahs all did the same thing.
Yep … Same story different faces.
Yep. They where taken over decades ago my the Red Diaper Doper Babies
Found Michael Savage.
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Because the Liberal Elite are using them as a tool to promote Radical Left Shit so they can tear down America.
Commies could never beat America head on.
But they can use infantile rage of idiots to erode us from within.
Without the Liberal Elite and Liberal Media these people would be nothing.
Ask the Bolsheviks.
Lol
Useful idiots have been used by brilliant yet evil people since the dawn of time.
I once asked a Russian mathematician why it is people don't know how the "system" works, when so much of it works against them? And he said, "If they did, it wouldn't work."
Yep
The answer is postmodernism
Yep. That’s exactly what it is. Nothing more nothing less
When certain people figured out that it would make them wealthy and powerful.
The Mob is a weapon just like the Virus is a weapon... It doesnt matter the etiology so much as how they are being used/manipultated to creat a crisis/inflexion point...
Scott talks up a storm about the Trees but not the Forest ie the larger conceptual landscape... Part of persuasion is to divorce/seperate people from their greater Cognitive "morals/Idiology religion" framwork so you can get them to agree on smaller points and get them moving in your intended direction. Once you gain Intertia on small trivial points larger ones can follow. Its like a war/battle once you break resistance you turn it into a rout..
Stop coddling your children, they've had it too good for too long.
Yep. And get rid of participation trophies for life.
Because our society is stupid enough to have universal suffrage. The last fifty years is proof positive for the future, that democracy does not work.
The only power the mob has is numbers.
It doesn't. Thats why we were set up as a Republic …. But have morphed in to a giant pig trough.
Yep, we watered down our republic too much. It's too close to a direct democracy, and it's going to kill us.
Exactly … democracies always fail. When I can vote for my neighbor to pay for All my living expenses and they can vote for me to pay all of theirs. It’s over.
-John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Yep. Why a Direct Democracy never works for long. And why we were set up as a republic. Unfortunately, we have become a democracy. Or will be soon. We must re-elect Trump to continue America for as long as possible
"Direct democracy would work a lot better than what we have." No way. As it is, the electoral college has barely kept total destruction at bay. Direct democracy doesn't reduce the prevalence of power-hungry psychopaths; everyone loves their own representative, and blames the problems on your representative. Direct democracy puts the blue cities in charge of everyone.
Perhaps, if you're talking about voting on every single issue. More likely, though, the collapse would have come sooner when a tyrant replaced the will of the people with his own. A few hundred tyrants is better than one.
Democracy fails as soon as those in power can control the information flow, ie the media. That is where it all breaks down.
Media Manipulation is the end of it all
The question at this point isn't whether the franchise will be limited, it's how severely it will be limited.
we teach our kids about the horrors of Nazism and the holocaust but not about the horrors of communism
how many kids today know who dith pran is or have seen the movie The Killing Fields let alone been told the the truth about Stalin's Gulags or mao's great leap forward ?
And we allow our kids to be taught by communist apologists in grade schools and collage when Nazi apologists would have had their careers destroyed and been run out of respectable society to never hold anything more but the most menial jobs
Teaching the about the failures of the Marxist and socialism and the atrocities and human degradation that took place under them and psychopaths like che guvevara should have been a** Required Course** in grade schools and collage 40 years ago
I keep saying all the Hippies found out their hippy dippy Love and Flower bullshit didn't work, so they went to get normal jobs but forever treasured protesting and fighting The System. So as these boomers sucked the future of the country dry they left the next generations with one simple message, "The only thing worth value are riots and activism."
You just gotta fight 'a system'. That's why all these protests and riots have no aims. They stand around demanding change expecting those that aren't on board will do all the intellectual work they didn't.
Lenin was a shitbag, but he at least knew what he wanted.
Yep. And he made quite a mess !!
Because the people who decide what is "new" knowledge in academia are all fucking idiots. It's why college campuses are the Frontlines of the war. This isn't just about stopping antifa and blm. It's about cleaning house of all the socialist ideas that have infiltrated our education system over the last 3 decades. I don't know that it's doable.
Yep. And have no idea how to exterminate this madness. These leaders are the children of commies.
Everyone is quick to blame millennials and gen ztards. But, remember, these were the first wave of participation ribbon kids. You know, every child is special, no child left behind bs. They are told they can literally be anything, whether that means changing your gender, becoming a furry, or majoring in transexual rights and history. They are told they are beautiful, even if they are 200 lbs overweight and have face tattoos. We've created monsters.
That’s really the bottom line.
well, our public education system has been completely sabotaged into a gigantic communism machine. the lizards brain-rape our children from the get-go. your suburban school system is probably run by some lizard being from new york who cleaned out all of the local teachers.
Yes. It has.
POSTMODERNISM in a nutshell
Exactly!!!
When ineptitude became a virtue that was rewarded.
Yep. Participation Trophies
Teacher's unions.
Yep
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Scott Adams is the epitome of "I don't agree with everything the guy says, but I like him!"
I agree with you. A lot of times his stuff is off the rails. At least for me. Lol.
It needs to be clarified that none of these progressive activist groups are actual movements. Movements have goals, a mission to be obtained. Do you see any goals being completed? The stagnant activism we see displayed is designed to continue forever, that is the goal. Did Hussein being president solve racism? No, and it became quite clear nothing will. When you look at their accomplishments it's quite obvious 'stagtivism' ideologies like climate change, equality and politically correctness only exist to preserve themselves and make people money. Ask them what they've accomplished and you will strike a nerve they cannot guard. It's one of the reasons we acclaim historical figures who were ordinary people like Rosa Parks, MLK, because they plateaued their ideology beyond words, not simply expressing it over and over again.
They are just useful idiots.
Ignorance is a virtue now.
Yep. It really is
Star Trek IV embodied this perfectly with Scotty picking up the mouse to talk to it. We're almost there.
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