Now let's talk about how virtue signaling is linked to Dark Triad Personalities:
I actually owned a Huawei phone a couple years ago. Once I found out how the Chinese government effectively controls all businesses, I threw it in the trash. It also explains why I started getting all kinds of weird, low-res photos showing up on my device that I never even scrolled across while browsing the web.
The Fascist-era monuments in Puglia were pretty nice. A lot of people probably don't like having Mussolini and Emmanuele III 's names plastered on a bunch of stuff but I'll be glad if at least some of the more artistic--not architectural--ones are preserved for posterity. Not that it's up to me at all, really.
Also, the Milano Centrale station is one of the more beautiful in the country imo.
Does your friend know that the Libertarian Party is shit and just panders to the insane left on important cultural issues? I consider myself a libertarian but I would never vote for an LP candidate unless they got their shit together and ran someone like Ron Paul. Even then, the Republican party is undergoing a shift and the new blood might be better for liberty anyway.
No worries, your title is fine. I wasn't assuming too much about your own beliefs, just responding to the image.
I've indulged in stereotyping as well and it's mostly an emotional response to things that are frustrating me, like talking mad shit about my Asian boss because of a heavy workload, understaffing, not as much pay as I'd like, etc. I won't pretend racial stereotypes don't exist or that they or racism can ever be eliminated, but to me things like that are a big step removed from the kind of racism we're seeing from the left. It's one thing to dislike or have disdain for a certain race, it's another to want to actively oppress or harm them. I just think that even people like the former realize that it's a slippery slope that leads to nowhere good for anyone.
I grew up in the Bay Area--one of the most diverse places in the country--and I definitely remember myself and my peers explicitly not caring about race. We acknowledged certain stereotypes because of the rough areas we lived in but didn't hold it against entire races nor apply it to the general population. I also recall hearing over and over that mixed-race children would be the true end of racism. It was a lie, of course. Being mixed, I typically just got shit from the assholes on each side ('you're not really white' vs 'you're whitewashed').
Then around '08 or '09 is when I started to notice the shift. I went to college and started hearing bits and pieces of wokeness but most people just dismissed them as weirdos. Then after the Supreme Gentlemen did his thing, one of my own friends told me straight up that all women are oppressed by men. That's when I knew something was wrong and from there it was a steady decline from sex-based animus to race-based animus. A lot of it was still contained in places like Tumblr (as far as I could tell) but it started leaking out. Victimhood became a race to the bottom and every narrower iteration of an oppressed group only fed into the anger against the 'umbrella group', the majority: whites.
Despite all this, almost every non-white I talk to outside of university doesn't seem to hold those same racially prejudiced ideas. Maybe they support it because they care about the 'marginalized' people but not because they explicitly dislike or hate whites. That might just be my generation, though. Younger people I've worked with were more ready to hop on the race-baiting bandwagon.
One more thing: OP makes the mistake of treating races as monoliths. It may just be a rhetorical choice but it's inaccurate. Other racial groups did not "sucker punch" whites, dumb and/or ideologically radical people of those groups did. More to the point, a lot of the ones doing the sucker punching are other whites (even excluding Jews). Much like the black-on-black homicides, this reeks of searching for a racial "other" to blame for problems caused by non-racial factors.
I think racism is increasing but it's not as prevalent as it's being made out to be. You have a relatively small group of far leftists who infiltrate key areas of society and give the appearance that anti-white sentiments are widespread. The appearance then fuels the far right who use it as justification for their side. Most people just want to live life with their fellow Americans and do their own thing.
I think it's also worth mentioning the government and elite actors who benefit from inflaming racial tensions. If we're busy fighting each other then we're not fighting them: CIA, FBI, deep state, etc.
Being emotional isn't the same as being empathetic. They're highly emotional in their interpretations and responses and low in empathy. Even among their in-groups, I'd argue their responses are more conditioned by peer pressure and expectations than actual empathy.
From what I've seen, he was perfectly within the law since he didn't bring the rifle from out of state (he received it in Kenosha) and the law allows 16 & 17 year olds to carry long arms. It would take intentional legal fuckery to find him guilty.