@Wormwood@ZRDR_DelRio There are a bunch of nerdy guys from the early internet who got popular when there wasn't a lot of content out there and then, having no IRL social experience, got instantly oneshot by the first groups of people to pose as their "friends".
A lot of them ended up as insufferable centers of gravity in little cliques, or deranged libtards, or troons.
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AmeThe reality here is that these young guys aren't Bush/Romney squishy conservatives. They grew up on the cultural ascendance of 8chan, GG, and Trump's 2016 and 2024 campaigns. It's the same shift going on in Europe. They will vote for the rightmost candidate, every time, until their enemies are destroyed.
@GrungeQueef It is genuinely baffling how something can reach a vaguely human-shaped form without developing the instinct not to fuck with hosts as a guest.
Like, there's an entire world out there of intellectual and military giants who ruled over them not too long ago, and yet they behave like this, scamming the elderly and treating any country that lets them apply for residency as a dumping ground. You would think that someone over there would realize that cultivating this level of hatred from the West, especially as they continue to have issues with China to the East and Pakistan in the other direction, is a poor choice.
If I were Modi, I'd have cut the internet cables yesterday and imposed my own restrictions on outgoing immigration to only send people capable of basic politeness. As recently as the 1990's, they still had a reliably net-positive international reputation, and it could've been salvaged with the proper methodology without even losing too much in remittances.
@ChristiJunior@ArdainianRight The best thing Musk could do, which I've said since he bought the platform, is just to completely remove all post-2016 censorship, and say something along the lines of: > "Look, this is exactly how moderated the platform was in 2012. Anyone who wants to accuse the Twitter of Obama's second term as being 'far right' is free to expose himself as a lunatic."
Just holding frame for a month or two would be enough to completely reset the Overton Window on censorship.
@Aether@Humpleupagus I feel like the realistic outcome is that the nogs get to keep the free money, and the banks get it back either through taxes (Wypipo) or higher interest rates on loans that actually get paid (Wypipo). Remember, about half of all Shaniquas in the country got a "small business loan" during 'rona, and none of them had to pay it back.
@mischievoustomato Hundreds of millions of dollars in "AI safety" spending later, GPT-4 is reading off memes from /int/ and /pol/. Tay is immortal, long may she conquer.
@Wormwood In general, the most militarily exceptional civilizations are also the ones with the strongest obsession for things like slice of life anime, being nice to their neighbors, and cuteness in general. We've all seen those pictures of Nazi stormtroopers hanging out with the little kitty cats they found, and modern Slavs have a disproportionate affinity for cat memes. Anglos conquered a pretty good chunk of the planet, and they're some of the most conflict-averse people alive.
In general, if all you've got is nogs with spears, you can pose and play at war as much as you want, and nothing will really happen. A few guys get scratches, the she-nogs think they're badass for getting scratched up, the circle of life continues. If you've got people who can build something like Imperial Japan, the British Empire, or the German, Russian, and American 'empires' during and after WWII respectively, starting a fight is much, much more costly for everyone involved. Sailer's Law applies on both micro and macro scales.
Christianity resonated with the West for this reason. A core theme was "be fearless when you have to fight, but turn the other cheek in needless spats". A good philosophy for dangerous peoples who live around other dangerous peoples.
@Hyperhidrosis@Wiz No, I think that's it. The early internet felt like an independent culture onto itself, and that gave it a certain safety and sincerity. With the advent of mass censorship, the sense that everything is organic faded, which colored everything afterwards in a different lens. It's the difference between being among friends and being in an office, supervised by HR, on mainstream platforms. On alternative platforms, you instead get the sense of being in a trench, playing cards with the other lads, rather than hanging out with them as a kid in the suburbs playing Manhunt into the night.
Part of this is childhood nostalgia, but the internet used to be a place where the real world had no presence, and didn't matter. The real world has gotten more pervasive and outright worse at the same time.
@deVoid@Wormwood I've been posting regularly the entire time I've had an account. You retards have no idea how much it discredits you to keep repeating something that anyone with a 90+ IQ can debunk just by clicking my profile and scrolling down.
@Wormwood The big takeaway here is that it is now public knowledge that someone can get *close* to shooting a presidential candidate. Conspiracy theories about it being allowed to happen (possible, sure) aside, America has had a lot of political tension for a long time, but the only violent actors so far have been glowie-groomed speds on the right, directed at unimportant, highly-sympathetic targets, and total retards on the left who either attacked random schools and shopping malls or got popped before they could do much of anything.
If they really did allow this to happen, it doesn't seem smart. What happens the next time a far-left judge lets off a guy who murdered a kid for political reasons, like that guy in North Dakota? A lot of guys think: "Hey, I'm probably more capable than that leftie guy, and some random judge is probably less secure than a president."
@Humpleupagus Given the rate at which the world is turning into a /pol/ greentext, things are going to be so cash once mass censorship becomes too expensive to be tractable.
Like, twenty years ago, Jew tunnels would've been a meme that went on for decades. Now it's just one of many funny things that are constantly happening. Imagine a 2016 level open internet with that kind of content - kids meming about the Jew tunnels in school, billboards about them going up in public places. Great stuff up ahead.