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People love having a pervasive monolithic OTHER to neatly explain away every stumbling block in their lives. Its the most comforting thing there is, because suddenly nothing is your fault, its all THOSE PEOPLE who are conspiring to stop you. Its a pretty universal thing, certainly not just limited to the alt-right.
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Oh i though that was just called cowardice?
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 19:28 |
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I think its very important to remember that the alt-right are human beings with human brains and human thoughts just like anyone else, and the only thing special about them are the conclusions they have reached. They aren't some mutant offshoot distinct from 'the good ones'. They're exactly like the most woke person imaginable, just with different experiences and different conclusions. E: To clarify, its right and good to make fun of the little shitstains. Its just also important to remember that the dumb poo poo they believe certainly isn't unique to them
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 19:30 |
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I don't think it's just a need to externalize failure, because even a lot of superficially successful and affluent people are utterly miserable right now. I think there's a deeper, and largely aesthetic, rejection of contemporary society happening right now and that you can't just reduce that rejection to a question of who is or isn't flourishing in the new economy (though certainly that plays a large role as well). Beneath the generic alienation of late capitalism there's a deeper kind of alienation that has been targeted by spiritual and religious traditions for many thousands of years. Building our entire society around personal choice and maximizing conspicuous consumption would probably alienate a lot of people even if we somehow created a post-scarcity utopia where everyone is provided for.
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The Brown Menace posted:*blows bubbles out of pipe* sits next to you by the fire very much
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 20:58 |
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sometimes i wish i was alt right
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 22:10 |
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BONGHITZ posted:sometimes i wish i was alt right would you like a preemptive love punch in the ear to help you think harder?
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 22:12 |
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it probably wouldnt make things too much worse e: please
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# ? Apr 5, 2017 22:18 |
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Not a Step posted:People love having a pervasive monolithic OTHER to neatly explain away every stumbling block in their lives. Its the most comforting thing there is, because suddenly nothing is your fault, its all THOSE PEOPLE who are conspiring to stop you. My pervasive monolithic OTHER is the forces of capital, be like me
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Crane Fist posted:My pervasive monolithic OTHER is the forces of capital, be like me even if isn't the fault of capital, capital deserves the blame anyway
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 00:27 |
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I don't think the unspoken promise is so much 'you can benefit from loving over minorities ' (as i guess it had to be during slavery), as it is 'minorities are taking from you, and i can prevent that'. Its why these guys refuse to really recognize that they have become dependent on low-income support and minimum wage laws and the such - if only those drat minorities would stop taking their tax dollars (because they're the only ones that pay taxes), they'd finally be free to be the masters they think they are. Naturally, they're wrong, but the delusion is comforting, and it neatly dovetails into what business interests want. If the promise was just as you said, I don't think it could support itself. Interestingly, though, I think that the Trump administration may actually break that illusion - these promises cannot ever be realized, their only value is as a promise. What's going to happen when Trump does what the GOP had always said it would do, and these guys notice that things don't actually get better for them? I think the AHCA reaction is kind of the first example of what I mean, the prelude to the big fuss. rudatron has issued a correction as of 00:43 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Imma reduce it down to something much simpler. Forget aesthetic rejection, here's the real reason - loneliness. In small medieval villages, literally everyone in the same village goes to church, there's the pretense of some common bond. Most people today don't even talk to their neighbors. You can get help making a decision, but you can't ever really get guidance.
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 00:57 |
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rudatron posted:You can get help making a decision, but you can't ever really get guidance. i like that zen poo poo.
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rudatron posted:Imma reduce it down to something much simpler. Forget aesthetic rejection, here's the real reason - loneliness. ...and that's true, make no mistake
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 02:01 |
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The past couple pages have been some extremely good poo poo, that quote from The Culture of Narcissism is blowing my mind. Even though I think I always knew the yearning for oblivion was about this: rudatron posted:loneliness.
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 02:08 |
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HorseRenoir posted:https://twitter.com/nasboat/status/849642439417765889 these loss edits are getting a little ridiculous
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 03:10 |
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3239941&pagenumber=497&perpage=40#post470110454Gammatron 64 posted:Aw for gently caress's sake man, a lovely Mega Man clone isn't going to kill you. amazed nobodies given that guy a redtext yet (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:32 |
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quote:P. S. I think you're insane and people like you are why I grow increasingly more moderate. lmao what a threat WATCH URSLEF *unsheathes paper with sorkin-esque speech*
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:34 |
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*article appears in Dabiq, the official ISIS magazine, about parents worried their kids are growing increasingly moderate*
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:36 |
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The Brown Menace posted:lmao what a threat like that guy was in rare form after the election, straight up making Islamophobic posts and being smug as poo poo about it
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:37 |
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I don't think this is the right place, to complain about other users 1 month old posts, in the games forum
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:40 |
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Oh wow loogs, that was fast, well done
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:40 |
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mysterious frankie posted:I'm just doing the math here on my windows calculator app and, let's see... 19 times 24 and... hmm, it says here the answer is "why is humanity using us to drive itself insane?" and, yup, my computer has now deliberately overheated itself to escape this hellish reality. i hate to interrupt everyone's circlejerk but that's a photoshop. that isn't the real video title and also that guy doesn't really have a hitler mustache
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:42 |
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gingrich posted:i hate to interrupt everyone's circlejerk but that's a photoshop. that isn't the real video title and also that guy doesn't really have a hitler mustache Ok, adding this post to the calculations on my new computer and, well, hmmmmm, same answer.
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:57 |
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gingrich posted:i hate to interrupt everyone's circlejerk but that's a photoshop. that isn't the real video title and also that guy doesn't really have a hitler mustache well i never. Good thing its totally unrelated to the topic or we would all been laughing at something wrong and factually incorrect and thinking it was real
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 14:59 |
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Baloogan posted:When folks think about "how the world ought to be" isn't it more noble to think of a society in which whoever is thinking about it isn't the top dog? ^^Exact wording on the signs in front of the death camps Neo Canada established.
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gingrich posted:i hate to interrupt everyone's circlejerk but that's a photoshop. that isn't the real video title and also that guy doesn't really have a hitler mustache we wouldn't want to be unfair to an internet wizard
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:we wouldn't want to be unfair to an internet wizard what about just normal wizards?
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:we wouldn't want to be unfair to an internet wizard by all means, please make fun of styxhexenhammer666. god only knows how a man who uses such a ridiculous internet handle and looks like that managed to get over 100k youtube subscribers. but make fun of him for real things and not low-effort photoshops
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gingrich posted:by all means, please make fun of styxhexenhammer666. god only knows how a man who uses such a ridiculous internet handle and looks like that managed to get over 100k youtube subscribers. but make fun of him for real things and not low-effort photoshops Why?
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gingrich posted:by all means, please make fun of styxhexenhammer666. god only knows how a man who uses such a ridiculous internet handle and looks like that managed to get over 100k youtube subscribers. but make fun of him for real things and not low-effort photoshops Don't tell me what to do.
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 21:30 |
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I wasn't even really thinking it was a Hitler moustache, I thought his face just grew in that way.
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 21:44 |
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i cant even grow that much #justfrogthings
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# ? Apr 6, 2017 21:46 |
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https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/850197781419442179 https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/850223849576611840 https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/850174857950244865 https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/850174283116662784 Prisonplanet.com is officially off the Trump Train. Have yet to see a reaction from the Big Papa himself, the Jonesdawg.
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 11:17 |
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More like PutinPlanet
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 11:24 |
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now that is some good poo poo
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/850197781419442179 So now I live in a world where Ann Coulter is AGAINST President Trump because he's bombing the middle-east wtf is happening anymore
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s3HfIuof38
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# ? Apr 7, 2017 11:55 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/850197781419442179 none of this poo poo surprises me at all. much like tankies, these fucks LOVE assad because they see him as the last defender against the brown/muslim "rapefugee" menace and because he is facist sack of poo poo who is vassale to Putin who they legit love more being the defender of europe and he will restore it to its white purity or some poo poo. anyway. /pol/ and various donald reddits are going insane with rage at him as are a bunch of other alt right dick heads like spencer and cernovich.
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:So now I live in a world where Ann Coulter is AGAINST "President" Trump because he's bombing the middle-east
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