As much as I agree, we can't hand them control of the entire web because it's "their territory". It would be nice if people could tune everything out, but we'd become a society ingrained with contrasting ideas forever divided like the old and new world. We deserve a voice even if they don't want to do as we would like. Realize that without the internet globalism would not be popular, it's a crutch to their existence, as is minority dissent.
I'm reminded of the point people make on this site quite often: if we were losing they wouldn't need to cheat. They need to bend the rules in their favor because a fair playing field is a disadvantage to them. I know it seems like we're constantly losing ground all around us, but that's only because they celebrate their victories with fanfare. The perception might be that we are underdogs, the reality however is the kind of thing that made November 8th 2016 possible.
In the very earliest days of our country, we communicated by newspapers. Private citizens would publish papers and then deliver them, often by horseback, to the rest of the country.
If those private citizens didn't want to tell the truth, or if they wanted to hide something, they did.
As time went on, these newspapers turned into the primary method of getting your political message out. Hence, many newspapers, to this day, have the words "Republican" or "Democrat" in them. Why? Because they were literally operations run for political ends.
As the 1900s started rolling in, radio shows and TV shows started to take off. Guess what the parties did? They started to influence and control TV. Unfortunately, the democrats won that war. It wasn't until Rush Limbaugh in the 90s that we even had any sort of pro-republican message on any mass media.
The internet was democratic, at least in the beginning, back when people knew what IP addresses actually where and could look up gopher or HTTP pages without having to use DNS. Nowadays, people access the internet through their smartphones, and it is strictly controlled by the hardware and software companies that control the devices -- or rather, control the consumers of those devices.
And which party do those companies side with?
Communication isn't ever free. Either you learn how to communicate using modern technology, and you spend the time and effort to do so, or you rely on more primitive means of communication.
Unless you are some sort of full-stack developer with plenty of free time on your hands, you aren't going to begin to compete with Facebook and Google and Apple and Amazon. And even then, you know that if you want to build a website that works, it's going to take thousands of dollars renting servers -- servers owned by Amazon or some other company, which can easily pull the plug on your entire operation.
The internet is just modern newspapers. Either you own a printing press and know how to publish thousands of copies of leaflets in a matter of hours, or you rely on talking to your neighbors.
Talk to your neighbors.
IF you have free time and you'd like to play the internet game, remember that you have to follow their rules and they will change the rules on you if you start to win.
Technology has always been a progressive idea, preceding modern times in the past as it happened with astronomy and Galileo and urbanization versus traditional village lifestyles. I had the chance to know a christian guy for many years who refused to get into a car because he thought it was immoral, it's the same thing with all old world versus new world progressive technology, the Amish tradition mindset.
Conservatives of any era will always choose traditional lifestyles over progressive ones, but that doesn't mean they have to. The difference is today progressives have even more progressive offshoots within their society, we know them as the sexual revolution pushing for a second revolution well under way today and of course the modernization of morals across many divisive topics. Those groups are clearly over-represented in respect to their actual population numbers. Studies say under 1-2% of the population actually practices LGBT, abortion, etc, while 40%+ support their privilege to do so.
A major point we completely miss is that the internet is not a political organization, people do not have to be political and are not required to speak about it. I'm reminded of how Reddit and the 5-cent army have to pay people to make it appear like the entire internet is anti-Trump and pro whatever it is they want them to be. It's difficult to be conservative online because we've been made to believe it's so, we're made to believe angry screeching blue haired fatties will doxx and make death threats if we say anything contrary to their views. Does that mean everyone is extremely liberal online? No, it means public spaces have been invaded by vocal and confrontational agitators online. On average you only see a "burst" of progressive anti-conservative sentiment online, an indicator that these people are mobilized artificially, not one at a time. I could go on for ages but I firmly believe the internet is not dominated by progressivism, it's merely flooded by it. If you've seen the twitter bots that always reply something negative to Trump's twitter feed every time he posts something it's the same basic concept, public spaces are where ultra progressive liberals congregate for maximum visibility. There's far more to this topic, but I'll leave it at that for time's sake. And yes, neighbors matter and friends will still listen to people over posts online.
I don't know where this idea that tech is "progressive" comes from. The entire idea of "progressive" is based on the fallacy that there is a forward direction to progress towards.
All of the major breakthroughs that made modern science a thing were done by devout conservative Christians intent on understanding the state of the universe.
I myself studied physics in part out of a devotion to God and with the intent to understand his mind and will. I pursued programming as a career for similar reasons. I'm about as far from a "progressive" as you can imagine and yet in my whole life I can count on one hand the people I've met with similar ability. And they were all more conservative than liberal.
Talk to your neighbor.
Don't rely on the internet to communicate.
One day it will no longer work.
As much as I agree, we can't hand them control of the entire web because it's "their territory". It would be nice if people could tune everything out, but we'd become a society ingrained with contrasting ideas forever divided like the old and new world. We deserve a voice even if they don't want to do as we would like. Realize that without the internet globalism would not be popular, it's a crutch to their existence, as is minority dissent.
The internet game is rigged, and it always has been.
You can play their game, but you'll be playing their game.
Our strength is that when America crumbles, we will dissolve back into our communities, our churches, our families.
TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBOR.
There's a good chance he's even more conservative than you, owns twice as many rifles, and has ten times as much military experience.
And if you don't know whether you are willing to put your life on the line for him, you don't have much time to figure it out.
I'm reminded of the point people make on this site quite often: if we were losing they wouldn't need to cheat. They need to bend the rules in their favor because a fair playing field is a disadvantage to them. I know it seems like we're constantly losing ground all around us, but that's only because they celebrate their victories with fanfare. The perception might be that we are underdogs, the reality however is the kind of thing that made November 8th 2016 possible.
The reason why we feel like we are losing is because they have specially engineered it to feel that way.
Turn off ALL the media.
You won't feel like a loser anymore.
Meet your neighbors.
Here's what you're missing.
In the very earliest days of our country, we communicated by newspapers. Private citizens would publish papers and then deliver them, often by horseback, to the rest of the country.
If those private citizens didn't want to tell the truth, or if they wanted to hide something, they did.
As time went on, these newspapers turned into the primary method of getting your political message out. Hence, many newspapers, to this day, have the words "Republican" or "Democrat" in them. Why? Because they were literally operations run for political ends.
As the 1900s started rolling in, radio shows and TV shows started to take off. Guess what the parties did? They started to influence and control TV. Unfortunately, the democrats won that war. It wasn't until Rush Limbaugh in the 90s that we even had any sort of pro-republican message on any mass media.
The internet was democratic, at least in the beginning, back when people knew what IP addresses actually where and could look up gopher or HTTP pages without having to use DNS. Nowadays, people access the internet through their smartphones, and it is strictly controlled by the hardware and software companies that control the devices -- or rather, control the consumers of those devices.
And which party do those companies side with?
Communication isn't ever free. Either you learn how to communicate using modern technology, and you spend the time and effort to do so, or you rely on more primitive means of communication.
Unless you are some sort of full-stack developer with plenty of free time on your hands, you aren't going to begin to compete with Facebook and Google and Apple and Amazon. And even then, you know that if you want to build a website that works, it's going to take thousands of dollars renting servers -- servers owned by Amazon or some other company, which can easily pull the plug on your entire operation.
The internet is just modern newspapers. Either you own a printing press and know how to publish thousands of copies of leaflets in a matter of hours, or you rely on talking to your neighbors.
Talk to your neighbors.
IF you have free time and you'd like to play the internet game, remember that you have to follow their rules and they will change the rules on you if you start to win.
Technology has always been a progressive idea, preceding modern times in the past as it happened with astronomy and Galileo and urbanization versus traditional village lifestyles. I had the chance to know a christian guy for many years who refused to get into a car because he thought it was immoral, it's the same thing with all old world versus new world progressive technology, the Amish tradition mindset.
Conservatives of any era will always choose traditional lifestyles over progressive ones, but that doesn't mean they have to. The difference is today progressives have even more progressive offshoots within their society, we know them as the sexual revolution pushing for a second revolution well under way today and of course the modernization of morals across many divisive topics. Those groups are clearly over-represented in respect to their actual population numbers. Studies say under 1-2% of the population actually practices LGBT, abortion, etc, while 40%+ support their privilege to do so.
A major point we completely miss is that the internet is not a political organization, people do not have to be political and are not required to speak about it. I'm reminded of how Reddit and the 5-cent army have to pay people to make it appear like the entire internet is anti-Trump and pro whatever it is they want them to be. It's difficult to be conservative online because we've been made to believe it's so, we're made to believe angry screeching blue haired fatties will doxx and make death threats if we say anything contrary to their views. Does that mean everyone is extremely liberal online? No, it means public spaces have been invaded by vocal and confrontational agitators online. On average you only see a "burst" of progressive anti-conservative sentiment online, an indicator that these people are mobilized artificially, not one at a time. I could go on for ages but I firmly believe the internet is not dominated by progressivism, it's merely flooded by it. If you've seen the twitter bots that always reply something negative to Trump's twitter feed every time he posts something it's the same basic concept, public spaces are where ultra progressive liberals congregate for maximum visibility. There's far more to this topic, but I'll leave it at that for time's sake. And yes, neighbors matter and friends will still listen to people over posts online.
I don't know where this idea that tech is "progressive" comes from. The entire idea of "progressive" is based on the fallacy that there is a forward direction to progress towards.
All of the major breakthroughs that made modern science a thing were done by devout conservative Christians intent on understanding the state of the universe.
I myself studied physics in part out of a devotion to God and with the intent to understand his mind and will. I pursued programming as a career for similar reasons. I'm about as far from a "progressive" as you can imagine and yet in my whole life I can count on one hand the people I've met with similar ability. And they were all more conservative than liberal.