This is a bit of a venting post. So basically, my little cousin (who I'm basically a big bro to) has had this one friend for a long time. The two of them have always been really close, but since the George Floyd riots this friend has gone off the deep end. She starting talking about "white privilege," how "all men are trash," and even once gave me a mini lecture because I made a joke about how lighthearted male feminists are kinda creepy.

To me, this was honestly more amusing than annoying. But now I'm just mad. Apparently this friend had started spamming my cuz with political tiktoks and dumb stuff like that, and eventually my cuz just asked her to stop, and said she didn't care about that kind of stuff. She didn't say she disagreed, she just said she didn't care about politics.

After that, this person who she has been best friends with for years just completely ghosted her. Later she admitted that she cut ties because she "couldn't be friends with someone so privileged." And I know she's not the only one with this mentality. With the "silence is violence," and "it's not enough to be passively non-racist" crap, it's the mainstream view of the left. It's not just a sin to disagree. It's a sin to do anything other than fully submit to the cult of BLM.

It's just sad because this situation is so avoidable, and because I know other people are going through this kind of thing as well. If you have similar stories, please post them below, I'd love to hear them. I know there are a lot of crazies out there, but I trust common sense will win in the end.

Man am I loving all this white privilege

Title pretty much. So many Democrats are being arrested for tampering with votes, I see the stories everywhere. We need to create a full and updated list of these suckers who got caught!

I am not the kind of guy to think anyone I disagree with is automatically a bad person. Honestly, I've always seen that as a sign of ignorance. But the more I see of the actions of BLM and antifa, and their apologists, the more I believe that these are well and truly evil, despicable people.

I remember when I first read 1984, there was a part that always confused me. I won't spoil the details, but as some point, a party official explains to the main character that Ingsoc, the leading party, does not think that what they are doing actually benefits anyone. They only care about power. And I always thought that was unrealistic; even Hitler and Lenin seemed to think they were fighting for a good cause. But as I watch the riots, the murders (such as the murder of a young white mother for saying "All Lives Matter"), the violence, and how the MSM and DNC just ignore and even praise it in many cases, I realize that that is exactly the mentality these people have.

The higher-ups in the DNC are mostly smart people, you can't get that high without a little bit of intelligence. They're at least smart enough to know their policies make life worse for Americans. They just don't care, all they want is power. They see the pure hatred and nihilistic destruction coming from their useful idiots, and they see it only as a way to further tighten their control of the country.

I don't want to be a downer, but I'm an fairly serious student of history, and social climates like this don't end well. When an entire portion of society only wants to destroy and take for themselves, the social contract ceases to function. Let's just say I've been getting a lot more shooting practice recently. Stay strong pedes.

For the last few years my dream has been to serve my country as a Marine. I've weight trained extensively, worked hard on my grades, all to help me once I serve once I graduate college. However, for health reasons that I won't get into here but are absolute bs, I may not be able to.

I know it's weird for a zoomer to think like this, but I would be honestly depressed if I couldn't serve my country in some way. So, if I can't become a Marine, I've been really thinking about joining our boys in blue. It's just, with all the hate being thrown at them, and all the cops leaving the force, I feel like their ranks are going to be far too thin to effectively keep Americans safe. I've just been giving it some serious thought and talking to family about it; even if just one other person sees this I'd be glad to know I have some of your prayers.

Okay maybe this is just me being super paranoid, but since the left's become a parody of itself I've realized you can't be too paranoid with these people. With the recent organized purges (Reddit's banewave, YouTube's purge, and Twitch's Trump censorship all happened almost simultaneously), plus Amazon banning "Gone With the Wind," I honestly can't see where else this is going. It will probably take another decade or so to get to that point, but we're definitely more and more brazen book burning and censorship in the future.

This post was inspired by a post I made on "r/news." It was about how the Andrew Torba, founder of Gab, and his family have been blacklisted by Visa. Him and his family cannot process credit and debit card transactions, cannot obtain merchant processing, and if any payment processor supports Gab, they will be bullied by Visa until they stop.

What was somewhat unsettling to me was the comments on the post. Seven people commented before the post was quickly shutdown, and every single one of them were totally okay with it. In fact, they cheered it on. The same people who harp on about the evils of capitalism were completely fine with a multi-billion dollar company doing legitimately evil things.

And this is a trend I've noticed elsewhere. If you talk about the hundreds of cops seriously injured in the riots, a leftist's response is usually "good." If you tell someone on the left about how an entire family was thrown into poverty because the kid (NOT THE ADULTS) said something dumb on the internet, they are totally okay with it. I one time showed a leftist a video of the Macy employee beating and he just shrugged it off. This same guy was all up in arms over the Bubba Wallace scandal, AFTER it was proved that it was a hoax. He was more upset some idiot had his feelings hurt by an innocuous object than he was at a violent racist beating.

My theory is that this is all because of the left bizarre morality system. To them, it is totally okay to violently attack someone or ruin their life if they have a thought or opinion you don't like. Any and all actions is required to destroy your ideological enemies if anyone steps out of line. It's honestly disturbing, I seriously think if someone violently murdered a public figure on the right, they would just cheer. It's a road I really think this country shouldn't go down.

(I made this post on the reddit and felt pretty proud of it, I thought you guys would like it. I just copy pasted it in here, I had a bajillion links but was too lazy to relink every single one, I hope you guys don't mind)

In the last few months or so, iconoclasm seems to be all the rage. The movement to tear down statues has gone from removing statues of legitimately abhorrent people like Nathan Bedford Forrest to destroying and vandalizing any monument that is perceived as unPC (whether or not that perception is even true, I'll get into that later).

First of all, let's start with the obvious. Why are statues important? Because the past is important. We build statues to honor the actions and historical significance of people in the past. We erect monuments to the Founding Fathers, to brilliant military leaders, and to social activists and missionaries because they are important. Do we think these people were perfect? Obviously not. But their actions and significance overshadowed their flaws. That's why there is an enormous statue of Ghengis Khan, a mass murderer, in Mongolia. Nobody wants to take that down, because the greatness he achieved and the legacy he built is a part of Mongolian heritage. On that note, we also build statues because we are proud of our culture and our past. All people, and especially people in the west, have a right to be proud of their heritage. By simply ignoring and censoring the mistakes of our ancestors rather than having the confidence to accept them, we are doomed to repeat these same mistakes.

A few weeks ago I didn't care about this issue that much. But it has gone so far beyond what is healthy or acceptable. Recently rioters tore down a statue of the man who literally built the country that they live in. Did he own slaves? Yes, even though he didn't like it. But his legacy isn't slavery. His legacy is building arguably the greatest and undoubtedly the most powerful nation to ever exist. The rest of the Founding Fathers have faced similar defacement. Rioters have also taken down statues to a general who fought to end slavery and the man who wrote our National Anthem. Teddy Roosevelt, a well known progressive of his era who fought for the rights of all Americans saved America from monopolistic control of the economy is coming down as well. These are but a few of many examples.

And the iconoclasm in Britain is even more ridiculous. Vandals defaced the statue of Robert the Bruce of Scotland, who probably never even interacted with anyone who wasn't white because he lived in MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND. Winston Churchill, the guy who literally saved the world from Nazism, suffered a similar fate. Protesters vandalized a statue of Matthias Baldwin, an outspoken abolitionists, for... reasons? It's gotten to the point that Shaun King, a prominent activist, has now said we just have to take down all murals of a white Jesus, even if they're centuries old. All the stuff that was said to be conspiracy theories a few years ago are now coming true.

The stupidity of this whole thing is that, by this logic, nobody can honor any part of their history. So we don't honor slave owners? Many African nation were built on enslaving and brutalizing their own kind, and they still do it now. Native Americans owned slaves, and frequently committed genocide against each other. Literally every culture practiced slavery, genocide, and all other forms of atrocities. But it was the west that ended slavery, and actively worked to end it elsewhere as well. It was the west that wrote the Geneva Conventions to limit the brutality of warfare. I feel like the best way to end this post is with a quote from a movie. The context of the quote is Pontius Pilate (in the epic 1959 Ben-Hur) explaining to the main character the nature of Rome. "Where there is greatness, great government or power, even great feeling or compassion, error also is great. We progress and mature by fault." The west has accomplished so much. It has so much to be proud of, but also much to learn from. By rewriting the parts of history we don't like, we are refusing to learn from our past mistakes. We are also refusing to be proud of who we are. I didn't mean for this post to be so long, but this is something I feel passionate about. I am passionate about being proud of my history, and the legacy of my ancestors. But maybe I'm wrong. Please, feel free to give your opinions below. I look forward to your responses :)

TL;DR Most of the statues being torn down are of people worthy of respect, so tearing those statues down is dumb and counterproductive.