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Mordor She Wrote
Nov 17, 2014

Moridin920 posted:

I think Spunky was being a bit hyperbolic with that statement but fwiw in my experience an overwhelming majority of the legal Bulgarian immigrants I know are not fans of illegal immigration. I want to say stats I've seen indicate that over half of legal immigrants view illegal immigration more harshly than the average person born a citizen but I can't seem to dig them up right now :shrug:

Although they all agree that the path to legal status is insanely difficult. I don't think anyone is really disputing that though.


idk I think at least in this thread it's bc it seems like even the right wing people in here agree on the broader perspective of "the economy or government is not working for anyone but the super rich and that needs to end."

Like if I remember the discussion about the prison system correctly, Spunky thinks the issues are more a result of class/economic disparity vs racial stuff and just for that people jumped down his throat (I kind of agree with him honestly, I think the racism only comes about bc of class disparity in the first place). And we had some back and forth arguing the point of course but like I said in the end we both agree "yeah this poo poo is hosed and needs fixing and both parties are beholden to no one but monied interests."

(sorry if I put words in your mouth but I feel like that's where we ended on that topic?)

Racism and classism are sort of a horrible entangled rat king that you can't really unattach at this point, maybe ~~maybe if this was the 1700s and the beginning of race based classes, we could have prevented it, but you know..too late.

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Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Racism is just a really easy way to classify people in a hierarchy, 1800's deep south you just look at a guy who's black on the road and you're like "That dude belongs in a cotton field not walking around"

It's an expedient way of identifying people and since they're different it's easy to dehumanize them

Mordor She Wrote
Nov 17, 2014

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Racism is just a really easy way to classify people in a hierarchy, 1800's deep south you just look at a guy who's black on the road and you're like "That dude belongs in a cotton field not walking around"

It's an expedient way of identifying people and since they're different it's easy to dehumanize them

Yeah and that has lasting economic and social impact, like even if we could wave the magic communism wand, wouldn't end every aspect of racism.

SBJ
Apr 10, 2009

Apple of My Eye

Laughter in the Sky
Imo political views are a circle rather than a line. Go too far right and you end up resembling the left and vice versa.

Both sides have racists, either through "kill whiteys" or "kill muslims". Its an eternal culture war and what needs to happen is people say "you know what this actually is all bullshit" and topple the political elite.

A lot of people supporting Trump either think hes legit going to MAGA or that things need to burn down and hit rock bottom before it changes. Because the status quo has been the same and has been poo poo for 2 decades now.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Mordor She Wrote posted:

Yeah and that has lasting economic and social impact, like even if we could wave the magic communism wand, wouldn't end every aspect of racism.

There is no magic wand, but getting a bunch of jobs in the country where people can work their way up the social rungs is the first step

SBJ
Apr 10, 2009

Apple of My Eye

Laughter in the Sky
Racism will never be solved 100%. Making it better is an ongoing project that needs to be worked on and maintained constantly.

Thats why its a great tool for distracting the populace from turning on the elite.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Mordor She Wrote posted:

Yeah and that has lasting economic and social impact, like even if we could wave the magic communism wand, wouldn't end every aspect of racism.

It would not but the point was never to get the racist to like you, the point is to make it so the racist has no power to act on that dislike. Someone can hate me all they want, but as long as they have no economic/political control over me I don't really give a poo poo.

That's what Democrats don't seem to understand imo.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Moridin920 posted:

That's what Democrats don't seem to understand imo.

The definition of racism has been so warped to the point where it's basically having a negative thought about a person of a brownish color

Mordor She Wrote
Nov 17, 2014

Moridin920 posted:

It would not but the point was never to get the racist to like you, the point is to make it so the racist has no power to act on that dislike.

:shrug: if average Joe White person doesn't like black people that might not seem like something that would have power, but if a large subset of society either is consciously racists or unconsciously so that makes fixing issues more difficult. It's hard to move up the economic ladder if people won't hire you for having a "black name" or think that you are inherently lazy.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167283094004

Tiny Deer
Jan 16, 2012

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

The definition of racism has been so warped to the point where it's basically having a negative thought about a person of a brownish color

Well...yeah? I mean, those thoughts are racist?

Unless you mean 'Jimmy is such an rear end in a top hat' and someone told you that's racist because Jimmy is black. That would be stupid. But if the thought was more 'Jimmy is such an rear end in a top hat and I hate that Negro' then even if he's an rear end in a top hat that's still racist.

Edit: I don't mean 'you' as in you personally, just any example person.

Tiny Deer fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Mar 1, 2017

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Mordor She Wrote posted:

:shrug: if average Joe White person doesn't like black people that might not seem like something that would have power, but if a large subset of society either is consciously racists or unconsciously so that makes fixing issues more difficult. It's hard to move up the economic ladder if people won't hire you for having a "black name" or think that you are inherently lazy.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167283094004

I'm not disagreeing with you, I just feel like the part where the black person needs the white person to let him move up the economic ladder is the real root of this problem :shrug:

I don't disagree that it is all intertwined and you kind of can't address one without the other though, sure. I just am saying ofc you won't ever get rid of all racism but you don't necessarily need to either - just tamp it down enough that people aren't really affected by it in the same way I'm not really affected by someone's nutty grandpa who thinks all white people should be killed.

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
anal :ocelot::grin:

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
Class war will unite the races

redreader
Nov 2, 2009

I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.

Dinosaur Gum

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

You paid for it yourself? Did you do the paper work? Or did your parents do it

I did everything with a lawyer. My parents had nothing to do with it. My company helped, I suppose that falls under the power of "my hard work" or whatever you lot love to bang on about

edit: not sure how 'my parents doing it all' would make any of my experience less valid, but whatever, it doesn't apply in my case anyway.

redreader fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Mar 2, 2017

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Toadvine posted:

Class war will unite the races

nah i dont think it is going to

GREAT SATAN
Aug 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy
The only people who follow and agitate for cultural Marxism are white so ironically all it's doing is turning white people into an even more disturbingly homogenous and unified mass. As a brown person this is both amusing and frightening.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

GREAT SATAN posted:

The only people who follow and agitate for cultural Marxism are white so ironically all it's doing is turning white people into an even more disturbingly homogenous and unified mass. As a brown person this is both amusing and frightening.

As an aside I hate that "cultural Marxism" is a term at all.

Like it is literally a Nazi originated word used to smear anyone progressive. "Politically Correct" culture is annoying and bad sure but ugh that term just sucks and has nothing to do with actual Marxism or socialism.


e: "Kulturbolschewismus" if anyone cares.

ee: I mean I get what you're saying but that term is so loving loaded.

Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Mar 2, 2017

your friend a dog
Nov 2, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
anal :anime:

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Moridin920 posted:

As an aside I hate that "cultural Marxism" is a term at all.

Like it is literally a Nazi originated word used to smear anyone progressive. "Politically Correct" culture is annoying and bad sure but ugh that term just sucks and has nothing to do with actual Marxism or socialism.


e: "Kulturbolschewismus" if anyone cares.

ee: I mean I get what you're saying but that term is so loving loaded.

Any term that describes sides in the culture wars is going to get ruined considering the type of people on both sides who throw it about. MRA and SJW both mean relatively little now considering how much they've been used by idiots to describe anyone who shows an iota of deviance from their own views.

Mordor She Wrote
Nov 17, 2014

GREAT SATAN posted:

The only people who follow and agitate for cultural Marxism are white so ironically all it's doing is turning white people into an even more disturbingly homogenous and unified mass. As a brown person this is both amusing and frightening.

I'm not sure how "white" as a concept could become a larger homogenized blob, that was already done in order to exclude the immigrants and as the number of "whites" fell they added new whites to the Borg like blob, and now we're out of Europeans to assimilate.

crime weed
Nov 9, 2009

new phone who dis posted:

Any term that describes sides in the culture wars is going to get ruined considering the type of people on both sides who throw it about. MRA and SJW both mean relatively little now considering how much they've been used by idiots to describe anyone who shows an iota of deviance from their own views.
oh man, MRAs



they were so excited when donald grabbed 'em by the pussy



those were simpler times

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Mordor She Wrote posted:

I'm not sure how "white" as a concept could become a larger homogenized blob, that was already done in order to exclude the immigrants and as the number of "whites" fell they added new whites to the Borg like blob, and now we're out of Europeans to assimilate.

Latinos are next.

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Kjoery posted:

oh man, MRAs



they were so excited when donald grabbed 'em by the pussy



those were simpler times

The funny thing about the old Hell Thread was how much even the most strident anti-PC people hated most of the actual old-school MRA internet weirdos. Davis Aurini is a walking loving joke of a human being and his feud with his pet wookie was some prime schadenfreude.

crime weed
Nov 9, 2009

new phone who dis posted:

The funny thing about the old Hell Thread was how much even the most strident anti-PC people hated most of the actual old-school MRA internet weirdos. Davis Aurini is a walking loving joke of a human being and his feud with his pet wookie was some prime schadenfreude.
theres actually decent overlap between the frogs and the manosphere, but r/theredpill is probably the most extreme example of the manosphere spiraling into hilarious and horrible extremes

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Kjoery posted:

theres actually decent overlap between the frogs and the manosphere, but r/theredpill is probably the most extreme example of the manosphere spiraling into hilarious and horrible extremes

All I remember clearly is some hairy rear end Chewbacca-looking motherfucker doing a youtube video while he was sitting in the bathtub complaining about how nobody would gently caress him or whatever and my mind just rebelled against it's very existence.

crime weed
Nov 9, 2009

new phone who dis posted:

All I remember clearly is some hairy rear end Chewbacca-looking motherfucker doing a youtube video while he was sitting in the bathtub complaining about how nobody would gently caress him or whatever and my mind just rebelled against it's very existence.
they've come a long way from that point, they have their own acronyms and terminology (AWALT, SMV, HB[1-10], Game, Dread Game, Hamstering, Hypergamy, and more!)

its quite a fascinating culture thats developed around the premise of Sticking Your Man Meat Into Her Babymaker with maximum efficiency

GREAT SATAN
Aug 1, 2014

by Fluffdaddy

Mordor She Wrote posted:

I'm not sure how "white" as a concept could become a larger homogenized blob, that was already done in order to exclude the immigrants and as the number of "whites" fell they added new whites to the Borg like blob, and now we're out of Europeans to assimilate.

Yeah, that's the problem imo. It's better I think if white people didn't identify as white but as French or German or whatever. I'm from an area that had real cultural heritage, unique language food and religion. Now it's pretty much just generic poor white people with an accent. It's really sad and it's not much better for the Indians who live there.

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


SBJ posted:

Racism will never be solved 100%. Making it better is an ongoing project that needs to be worked on and maintained constantly.

Thats why its a great tool for distracting the populace from turning on the elite.

a totalitarian state could solve it in like four, five generations, tops

just ban same-race marriage and actually enforce it.



total violation of what we consider basic rights and possibly tantamount to genocide, but hey, you can't make an omelet without assuming totalitarian control over an entire country for several generations

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe

Grand Prize Winner posted:

a totalitarian state could solve it in like four, five generations, tops

just ban same-race marriage and actually enforce it.



total violation of what we consider basic rights and possibly tantamount to genocide, but hey, you can't make an omelet without assuming totalitarian control over an entire country for several generations

totalitarian regimes foment resistance, not reduce it

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Kjoery posted:

they've come a long way from that point, they have their own acronyms and terminology (AWALT, SMV, HB[1-10], Game, Dread Game, Hamstering, Hypergamy, and more!)

its quite a fascinating culture thats developed around the premise of Sticking Your Man Meat Into Her Babymaker with maximum efficiency

Someone once said something like they were GameFAQs losers compiling cheat codes for the vagina and I think that summed them up pretty well.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Except the cheat codes don't work lol

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Moridin920 posted:

Except the cheat codes don't work lol

The hosed up thing is that a lot of their bullshit is specifically tuned to take advantage of emotionally vulnerable or extremely insecure people so sadly it does work in some cases. It's a form of abuse to obtain compliance.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Moridin920 posted:

Except the cheat codes don't work lol

actually they do, lol if you never used the low gravity cheat

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

redreader posted:

I did everything with a lawyer. My parents had nothing to do with it. My company helped, I suppose that falls under the power of "my hard work" or whatever you lot love to bang on about

edit: not sure how 'my parents doing it all' would make any of my experience less valid, but whatever, it doesn't apply in my case anyway.

You're a tech worker then. You're in the global empire camp. You don't care because illegal immigrants don't threaten your livelyhood or have a negative impact on your economic situation, in fact, they improve it by decreasing overall American wages.

Trump's cracking down on those H1b1 visas or whatever they are, meaning you're kind of in the same camp as illegals

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
We already have a solution to racism it's called total human extinction please try to keep up.

Knight
Dec 23, 2000

SPACE-A-HOLIC
Taco Defender

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

You're a tech worker then. You're in the global empire camp. You don't care because illegal immigrants don't threaten your livelyhood or have a negative impact on your economic situation, in fact, they improve it by decreasing overall American wages.

Trump's cracking down on those H1b1 visas or whatever they are, meaning you're kind of in the same camp as illegals
Surprise, Spunky Psycho Ho doesn't like immigrants whether they came here legally or illegally.

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


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Nov 12, 2016

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Luxury Communism
Aug 22, 2015

by Lowtax
some days I wish I was alt-right because it is fun to take syllables and replace them with "cuck"

Starbucks => Starcucks

Comedy Gold.

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crime weed
Nov 9, 2009

Luxury Communism posted:

some days I wish I was alt-right because it is fun to take syllables and replace them with "cuck"

Starbucks => Starcucks

Comedy Gold.
this is hellthread you can frolic with all the unironic frog people if you want, no one will judge

here are some terms and concepts you may want to incorporate into your new and exciting hellthread frog posts,:

Cultural Marxism, Nationalism, The Immigrants, Leftists, The Left, Regressive Left, Virtue Signaling, White Genocide, Hillary Clinton, The Mainstream Media, Why Punching Nazis Is Wrong, Feminism, Why "Death To All Jews" is cool and good, and how campuses are indoctrination centers for The Left.

remember: when you make a frog post, always mention how oppressed your group is, and how mean the Other Side is - make sure to appear outraged yet smug.

consistently incorporate enough of these concepts and you too can join in the group masturbation session that is the alt right

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