Anybody with two grey cells to rub together can see that there is hardly anything in the modern zeitgeist that can be considered original, innovative, enriching, insightful or definitive of the current generation. See: the media industry realizing that they don't have to put out new ideas and making nostalgia-pandering remakes that simultaneously seek to debase the original with the poisonous cultural values of today.
It's always been a topic tugging at the back of my mind. I have two threads that contribute to the current state of affairs.
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The popular narrative of America having a peaceful 90s euphoria from the perceived defeat of the Soviet Union which terminated into the post-9/11 grunge era (the "fuck Bush and Cheney" era) and later into the accelerated Roman decadence we now find ourselves in thanks to academia and the planned subprime crisis. In other words, we celebrated too fast and got complacent. It should be noted that much of popular culture as we know it is rooted in this era. I personally consider Fight Club to be the last Great American novel, despite it being the author's first work. Which leads into...
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Technology and media in itself depriving people of meaningful experiences and critical thinking. Pokemon, for example, is a franchise that financially eclipses both Marvel and Star Wars, but the creator based it off his childhood experiences collecting insects. Now think about how many children practice it as a hobby today. Less and less people are reading and literacy rates are declining; it should be noted that reading has a noticeable impact on critical thinking skills and capacity for empathy. You can also see it with creative endeavors in general; going back to the Pokemon analogy, more and more media is created with a reliance on the target reader having already consumed previous media. For example, more shows and works are based on their audiences knowing certain plot conceits and structures from other past media. Reddit Player One is one of the most blatant examples in recent memory, and it points to our current creatives lacking real-world experiences to draw inspiration from on account of consuming inferior simulcra and basing their childhood growth and values on that culture instead. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis experienced the First World War firsthand; how many creators venerated today went through a similar experience?
Seriously, you'll thank me later.
So nice to see organic TD/P.W content again. No FUD, no link spam, no sudden insertion of "Q WAS A PSYOP HAVE YOU HEARD OF Q Q TOTALLY DESTROYED US Q IS THE ONLY THING I CAN TALK ABOUT JUST LIKE THE ONLY THING I EAT IS THIS COCK" bitching.
I get the more emotionally minded people here are mad at Trump for not crossing the Rubicon, but once the regime starts fucking everybody over and destroying the normalcy bias fantasy everybody is undergoing, people from both the left and right will start admitting a couple of years without a Muslim snackbarring randomly wasn't so bad compared to the slide towards Venezuela we are headed towards.
It's what I expect from human behavioral patterns anyways.
Only difference is, the government has itself in a tizzy because they can't deploy the military to eliminate the useful idiots after their purpose got fulfilled.
Heh :)
It does not hurt our cause to make the outcry public. Trump can claim that he bowed to public pressure if we make it vocal enough that not even telecommunications can censor it.
It's better for us if we assume that Trump is still on the "edge of invoking it" and we make the outcry so large that he cannot ignore it.
This is the most peaceful resolution possible. Otherwise we're headed to balkanization.
https://www.jcs.mil/About/The-Joint-Staff/Chairman/
The Goldwater-Nichols DOD Reorganization Act of 1986 identifies the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the senior ranking member of the Armed Forces. As such, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal military adviser to the President. He may seek the advice of and consult with the other JCS members and combatant commanders. When he presents his advice, he presents the range of advice and opinions he has received, along with any individual comments of the other JCS members.
Under the DOD Reorganization Act, the Secretaries of the Military Departments assign all forces to combatant commands except those assigned to carry out the mission of the Services, i.e., recruit, organize, supply, equip, train, service, mobilize, demobilize, administer and maintain their respective forces. The chain of command to these combatant commands runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense directly to the commander of the combatant command. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may transmit communications to the commanders of the combatant commands from the President and Secretary of Defense but does not exercise military command over any combatant forces.
They are just civilian advisors. They DO NOT HAVE COMMAND AUTHORITY OVER THE U.S. ARMED FORCES. (They do have an interesting relationship with the FBI and CIA.)
Any veteran who has been part of the Armed Forces and indoctrination within the past decade at least would know this to heart to pass boot camp.
The lack of civics knowledge is going to kill us all.
In the case the 20th passes and they go full Khmer Rouge only the illegal owners will survive the purge. They will go after the legal owners (because you "trusted" them with your personal info) and seize the weaponry before purging the rural areas (they won't learn a thing from dekulakization).
What is the harm? If Trump does not act upon this public outcry, that is fine, but I personally will not accept the community abandoning him while he needs us the most.
I was pushing for this in the weeks leading up to the session and people were telling me I was glowing.
Having public outcry would have normalized the notion and given Trump a pretext to use it with popular support no matter the "optics." And as we can see now neither side should have cared about "optics."
It's still NOT TOO LATE, I don't care if they flag you for inciting violence, just claim it was in regards to the "unruly protesters" when the gestapo ask you what was up.
People were complacent and in denial and we paid for it dearly. Now that we are seeing the results we should seize the chance for redemption.
Perhaps POTUS is already cooking it up but who knows. We should not care about vanity and appearance, only results.
Related: Testimony that Italy had a role in the election fraud
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