Why does it feel that the evil sides globally are winning. Even evil people are winning. Why?
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Because evil is loud and self-important, and people doing good have learned to be mycelial, underground, quietly building the new world in the shell of the old.
Evil also tends to be wealthy. And wealthy people suck up all the oxygen in whatever room their in.
I really like this, and I think this is exactly what Jesus meant with the oft-misunderstood “The meek shall inherit the Earth.”
There’s so much loud roaring nonsense going on, but we’re quietly just building our own layer of alternative society to exist on, for people, hoping it can stand on its own when the power hungry institutions collapse in on themselves under the weight of their own backbiting, infighting, and greedful self-sabotage.
It’s kinda like Lemmy or Mastodon or Linux as a tech example, or mutual aid, intentional communties, and unions. We’re here quietly trying to do what good we can, and when the power goes out, our light will be seen all the brighter.
Because people say stupid shit like “but they have laser-guided drones and you have a rifle!”
Fucking idiots do not understand how revolution works and dont know that the US military has failed every invasion.
We need more violent good guys
Everytime we talk about violence being the only way to create change, limp-dick liberals bitch about how peaceful protests are the only way.
Liberalism helped build this hell, and it’s determined to maintain it.
Leftist need to get guns. Now.
Liberals have good intentions at times, but they are ultimately toothless because they are pussies. I just have to roll my eyes at the people who you tell you to contact your representatives, but has never spent a minute at the range.
Do you know how you get people to listen to you? Let them know that you and people with similar views know how to operate a rifle.
So the republicans were right all this time? Wow
The Second Amendment wasn’t always a party dividing issue, it was a solemnly held responsibility of American culture. Being a helpless subject to violence from others is a violation of personal liberty.
It became yet another convenient “two party issue” once neoliberalism’s effects on the human psyche manifested into shootings, and the GOP and NRA decided to make “gun culture” into an obsessive “loud toys for boys” fetish. This might have been around the time Gingrich was pushing to radicalize the Republicans to be as comically, ridiculously opposite of the Democrats as far as possible, doesn’t matter why, only that they were loudly opposed and won at all costs. That man is an absolute monster clearly going for a top score for when he finally makes it to Hell.
The other side of the aisle decided to go the complete opposite direction to create more “brand contrast”, so they decided to fear-monger and miseducate about firearms as much as possible so their most dedicated voter base became smug, hoplophobic disarmament absolutists, and pushed for wild ban bills and government registration lists and all sorts of other nonsense everybody knew wouldn’t pass…but it differentiated them from “Those other guys.”
(Seen starkly in the meaningless term “assault weapon”, or that many people believe you can just walk into any gun store and buy a fully automatic weapon, and CNN’s now-infamous “This gun is fully-semi-automatic” clip.)
This was convenient for the parties because it was yet another hot button “single issue voter” issue, which helped capture voters who wouldn’t even think about voting for the other party depending on how they now felt about guns. (See also: healthcare, unions, abortion, LGBT rights…)
It was great fun for those playing the game of politics (read: Not the vast overwhelming majority of us.), but as usual, it’s warped into an artificially polarized tribalism that’s wreaked chaos on general society.
So now we have a disproportionate amount of potential violence on the side of the big red bullies who are now so deeply entrenched in gun fetishization, prepping based on conspiracy theories, and toxic individualism…
And the official stance of liberals is “Um…a harsh reprimand and honest discussion about our feelings?”
Still, there are leftists who quietly take their responsibility seriously, (see: Socialist Rifle Association), but can we be organized enough to make an autocrat and his violence-obsessed pawns think twice? That leaves room for worry.
I would encourage people to at least have basic training in how to defend themselves, because things are both wildly unpredictable and repeating very dark history at the exact same time…
No, they weren’t… because they never made any effort to stop authoritarianism, and now are begging for it. The GOP will be coming for their guns.
The idea of being armed as a deterrent to authority is historically true. You don’t even need to use violence, just being capable of it is enough.
Republicans worshipping cops while encouraging mentally ill teenagers to own 15 guns is not, however.
Republicans also utterly fail to realize corporate power and government power are the same thing.
You don’t even need to use violence, just being capable of it is enough.
This right here. Reminds me of a quote:
“Being incapable of violence doesn’t make you a pacifist, it makes you harmless.”
Choosing to be civil, and being capable enough to deter would-be oppressors, are not mutually exclusive values.
Republicans also utterly fail to realize corporate power and government power are the same thing.
This one ALWAYS bothered me. I don’t understand it! They freak out about income taxes and regulations and wax nostalgic about fantasy-1776 and scream about “freedom”, but their daily lives are more shaped and worsened by their hierarchy of petty bosses, who they’ll simp for and hold them blameless at every turn, even while grumbling about how their job is getting worse and then turning around and bragging about their “work ethic” and how little they slept this week.
It’s gotta be stressful holding so many mind-tearing contradictions together. It’s an entire ideology of corporate sock puppeteering.
Yeah it’s all the same authoritarian ideology just with different versions of their daddy.
Oh, so where the abolitionist wrong to shoot up slavers?
We need more reasonable people who don’t believe in delusional nonsense like “bad guys” and “violent good guys”.
That only works if the other side decides to not use violence
More milquetoast pussy-aased doormatterie
While times seem bad, and they are worse than they used to be, especially with the election of Donald Trump, imagine what it was like during WW2. Nazi Germany invaded France, Czechoslovakia, and half of Poland (with the Soviet Union the other half); Britain stood alone. Spain was under fascist dictatorship. Now Russia barely controls 1/5 of Ukraine, and has suffered many thousands of losses in tanks and armoured vehicles. Modern Russia is now weaker than the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany was (for their time period).
Because it always has been. It’s called capitalism. This system will literally destroy the planet and enslave all live for the profits of a few ultra privileged man babies.
Evil has been winning, just the mask slipped off and now it’s capitalism in decay, fascism.
Good people are still around still doing good, it’s just not any rich person or anyone in a government like this. And they won’t be televised.
Because people have become comfortable enough (can’t remember the downside) to flirt with populism.
Once they get the short sharp shock of what it actually means to be governed by these people we might recover from it… Maybe
There’s no “populism” under the state. It’s called fascism.
That is the eventual conclusion of capitalism, the way it is currently set to play out.
The only forces that could act against it depend on the distribution of critical information… And those are owned by the same private interests… Soooooo. We’ll see. Doesn’t bode well at all.
Because most people are either stupid, evil, or stupid and evil.
I don’t know what the solution is, I can only hope its mostly just the “extreme ignorance” type of stupidity and not evil or “willing ignorance” stupidity and after experiencing the suffering they’ve enabled for themselves that they put 2 and 2 together and things maybe recover partially or enough to prevent the end of human civilization as we know it.
Evil was winning, we’re watching the collapse of the evil empire from within.
The rebels in Myanmar are winning.
There’s a new miracle drug for addictions.
That’s all I can think of.
thank you david
One aspect is that mass media is overall owned by those people and is propaganda. If you don’t have ways of seeing what’s happening on the ground, you miss a lot of the good news. Even your twitter/bs/mastodon feeds won’t give you the full story, you have to (where possible) get involved in a real community organization.
Because we have been taking the high road. Time to play on their level. Have no shame!
Because they are.
Can I reccomend for you Vlad Vexler on utube. He is a polital philosopher in the UK, whp spends most of his time dealing with this topic. He has some wonderul content which is both educated and humane.
To summarize: democracy is waning, and we have some rough times ahead, but there will be wins mixed in with the losses.
Maybe you have this filing because live is anadrome of evil.
