Quote (JohnnyMcCoy @ 4 Jan 2022 16:23)

being a conservative is pretty easy these days, be pragmatic, have common sense, focus on what works instead of utopian crap, protect the concepts that have made societies successful

done

Quote (Nibthebarb @ Jan 5 2022 06:54pm)

:rofl: Kinda reminds me of the "You're fuckin' white!" ultra beta male who's obviously just ingratiating himself to the black dudes around him and they're like "Uhhh.... sure."

It's the political equivalent of posting one of the millions of "I Love you Pokimane" posts on her instagram in hopes she'll notice - it's pandering at the most pathetic level

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The senator’s announcement comes amid more widespread Republican accusations that technology giants are censoring their content. However, there has been no evidence published suggesting systemic anti-conservative bias among major tech companies.

Quote (Goomshill @ Jan 5 2022 12:54pm)

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/587997-rand-paul-announces-exit-from-youtube?fbclid=IwAR3UDb-pQCFX8le7Bon5sgNOtTWgrAZVB2HhSKHBn-EhHaIgntqrJ3jib0s



Quality Journalism™

soon to be followed with:

"However, there has been no evidence published suggesting a rise in violent crimes around the nation"
"However, there has been no evidence published suggesting systemic discrimination against asian college applicants"
"However, there has been no evidence published suggesting a lowering of journalistic standards"

Quote (Nibthebarb @ Jan 5 2022 12:50am)

Well first, you've assigned all sorts of extreme views on me that I don't have.

Is there a war against American whites? Obviously yes. But it's primary belligerent is... American whites. (The little less than half of us who vote Democrat for some reason)

My first wish is for harmony in the human race. Not supremacy (obviously...) however, it's ever more clear that other races absolutely wish supremacy. This is a dangerous world and many American whites fail to realize that. American blacks? Been here for centuries, for the most part. I'm talking the descendants of slaves. They have far, far more of a stake to the land as most other groups. Just as much as I do, as my family has been here since the 1630s. However, obviously with racial politics the way they are, it allows for race hustlers/pimps to drive divisions and hold onto power through that means alone, rather than doing anything for the greater American good at large. Ever hear of Hotep Jesus? Black re-segregationist advocate. That word has some powerful connotations, but in many ways, we'd all be happier if using the government as a bludgeon to advance the interests of ethnic groups within America was much harder to do than it is now. It's obviously a failed marriage at this point.

If all White liberals were to instantly disappear (a guy can dream), then we'd lose what, a hundred million whites in the world? And that would "save" us and frankly everyone would get along better. Like a cancer being excised fully.

Quote (Goomshill @ Jan 5 2022 11:54am)

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/587997-rand-paul-announces-exit-from-youtube?fbclid=IwAR3UDb-pQCFX8le7Bon5sgNOtTWgrAZVB2HhSKHBn-EhHaIgntqrJ3jib0s

Quality Journalism™

soon to be followed with:

"However, there has been no evidence published suggesting a rise in violent crimes around the nation"
"However, there has been no evidence published suggesting systemic discrimination against asian college applicants"
"However, there has been no evidence published suggesting a lowering of journalistic standards"

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jan 5 2022 12:20pm)

When you compare right YouTube with left YouTube the difference is night and day. Right YouTube gets constantly recommended with millions of views. Left YouTube has to work and scrape for years to build an audience that maybe gets to 1M.

The reason is pretty clear. Right-wing YouTube supports capitalist bullshit and left YouTube doesn't. Hard to get a big company to push content that is trying to convince the masses that big companies shouldn't exist.

You guys are like "The FBI is targeting us! How would you feel if the FBI targeted you?" and everybody on the left is like "Dude, the FBI has been locking up leftists for over 100 years, systemically arrests any protestors for leftist causes, and might have been involved in the killings of multiple leftist agitators like MLK".

This is literally a case of "First they came for the left, and I didn't care because I wasn't on the left". The left is the main target. The right had to go all the way to pushing a Nazi revival to even get on the radar.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Jan 5 2022 10:20am)

When you compare right YouTube with left YouTube the difference is night and day. Right YouTube gets constantly recommended with millions of views. Left YouTube has to work and scrape for years to build an audience that maybe gets to 1M.

The reason is pretty clear. Right-wing YouTube supports capitalist bullshit and left YouTube doesn't. Hard to get a big company to push content that is trying to convince the masses that big companies shouldn't exist.

You guys are like "The FBI is targeting us! How would you feel if the FBI targeted you?" and everybody on the left is like "Dude, the FBI has been locking up leftists for over 100 years, systemically arrests any protestors for leftist causes, and might have been involved in the killings of multiple leftist agitators like MLK".

This is literally a case of "First they came for the left, and I didn't care because I wasn't on the left". The left is the main target. The right had to go all the way to pushing a Nazi revival to even get on the radar.

Quote (Goomshill @ Jan 4 2022 05:43pm)

Whats interesting to me is how quickly this political realignment occurred on the GOP side, versus how incrementally it occurred on the DNC side. Lets remember that the party of Michele Bachmann, the social conservatives / religious right with heavy corporate backing, was in control until 2016. The Trump movement only took hold with the election win, and would have been dismissed if Trump had lost even by a close margin like 2020. And there was a very obvious friction as the GOP shifted its platform, with never-Trumpers being forced out and populists taking lead roles. All that was in the span of a single presidential term, the last few diehard old guard have themselves become the new RINOs, like Cheney and Kinzinger, and are now pretty much democrats by default. Trumpism was swift. But the DNC has been sliding away from the working class and civil liberties and towards authoritarianism and social regressivism for decades. When can we even say it actually started? Probably with the election of Bill Clinton, and steady gentle downhill with the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry that we can only speculate about, until Obama took over and the slide accelerated throughout his term. He centralized control around himself, went full blown unilateralism, started pandering to regressives, embraced the elitist media/hollywood/corporate circle over the working class but still retained enough popularity and cautious policy approach to avoid alienating them. It wasn't until the Hillary Clinton era and now Biden era that democrats just went completely off the deep end at breakneck speed into the shitfuck we have now, where militant regressives think everyone who doesn't agree with the policies they only adopted in the past X months need to be put to death by the morally superior alphabet people.

There was really no trend towards Trumpism on the republican side even up to 2012. Blue collar populism, foreign policy disengagement / economic competition and respect for civil liberties were not even remotely in the GOP's cards up until Trump. If after Mitt Romney lost his election you told me the next guy the Republicans would circle around would be a godless social liberal who spent his whole life as a Democrat and personally paid for numerous abortions and openly advocates for canadian style policies and thinks we should get out of wars instead of starting them, I'd say you're nuts. They were the party of Dubya sending brown people to Guantanamo, the Patriot Act and telling gay people they'd burn in hell.