How to fight Christian Nationalism & how to fight the Christian Right: An open message to fellow atheists. And a list of Right-wing Christian influencers
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This article is a followup to
for left-wing atheists.
If you’re a left-winger & if anything I say doesn’t apply to you, I apologize in advance.
I’m anything but a social conservative. To name a few things, I’m against authoritarian parenting, authoritarian schooling (I support alternatives such as Montessori education, for example), circumcision, bans on pornography, bans on prostitution, bans on drugs, corporal punishment, & school uniforms/dress codes. I support youth rights, animal welfare & equality for LGB people (in the sense of acceptance by the culture & equality of treatment by the government, but not in the sense of being entitled to have a baker bake your cake or otherwise entitled to not have your feelings hurt).
I also support right-to-repair along with free & open source software such as Linux & DeGoogled Android ([GUIDE] DeGoogle any device and install MicroG, [TUTORIAL] How to DeGoogle any Android phone WITHOUT root!).
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Even if you disagree with me, please take what I'm saying in good faith, even if I turn out to be wrong. Likewise, if you're going to try to dishonestly twist my arguments into something I wasn't saying, take me out of context & the like, or dishonorably tear me down, you're just proving why your arguments aren't strong enough to face me directly, & you're only showing your own morally degraded state.
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“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” - Anonymous.
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I expect you to give into your anxiety, chicken out & run away from problems. I don’t want you to do that. I want you to stand your ass up, pick your head up, take a deep breath, & get ready to deal with some uncomfortable topics. If nothing else, then to show why I’m wrong.
Don’t quit. If you quit now, you’ll always quit in life.
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I’m going to feature some excerpts from Another 12 Lies About Reality., by Whatifalthist.
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Purposefully Misunderstanding People is Ok.
"One of the things that drives me absolutely insane in debates is when I put a major point across & then the other person just nitpicks a bunch of minor details without touching the core point of the argument. It's depressing to see great men often get torn down from minor things they would have scarcely thought about & not considered for their greatest achievements. Sigmund Freud is mocked for penis envy in the Edible Complex rather than figuring out the underlying basis of modern psychology & the unconscious.”
“This is since our minds are inherently irrational & if we dislike someone since it's against our self-interest somehow, we look for reasons, no matter how petty, to do so, & since we don't want to come to terms with their core beliefs, we purposely misunderstand by nitpicking & trying to cut things in a lot of little ways. This may sound like a minor thing but it's actually a massive factor in tearing down successful interactions in people. The way you prevent big things from happening is by heckling them."
"If you're a teacher, the best way to discourage a student from being brilliant is by cutting them down by grading them too harshly for spelling mistakes. Society is built on cooperation. We can either structure it to be a negative force for criticism & belittlement or a positive one for encouragement & positive growth. Negative examples of this include stranger danger systems in which children were encouraged to view all strangers as dangerous, which resulted in a generation of isolated, unsocial & lonely people. Alternatively, academia's immense insistence upon exactness which cuts down genius & works of broad scope. We need to structure society with hope rather than fear, growth rather than littleness in mind."
“Reason for the Myth:
. We look for reasons to dislike someone or something to dislike rather than engaging them full on and instead try to nitpick them to destruction.
Some Informative Books:
. The Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haidt.
. Envy by Helmut Schoeck.
. Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley (the last 100 pages is very enlightening).”
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Information can be harmful:
"Nietzsche once said you can judge a man by how much truth they can handle. The truth is that the truth is the ultimate arbiter of existence. Having an understanding of how things work is the most important part of doing anything. You can't be hurt by knowing information since knowing the truth is just knowing what you'd already have to deal with anyway. Knowing that a hurricane is coming your way might lead to short-term stress but it will allow you prepare for said hurricane.
However, across history & the world today you see that regimes & ideologies try to shut off the supply of information saying it will hurt the public. The truth, however, is just that information hurts these regimes in their power. I remember an amusing anecdote of how catholic authorities in France were burning Bibles during the reformation for fear that people would upon reading them become protestant, to which my reaction is, 'wouldn't you realize you're the one at fault upon realizing that the appropriate reaction to reading your source material is that you're wrong?'
When someone tries to hide information, it means that they know they're on the losing side of the argument but want to keep power this is true between Tokugawa Shogunate Japan, Stalinist Russia, or Inquisition Spain. You can always tell who the bad guys are based off those who vilify the truth & tell you should support party thinking above it."
"As an inverse to information, propaganda is inherently harmful. The low degree of trust in societies in the modern world is likely a result of the massive propaganda campaigns of the World Wars that all-out lied to their populations. Similarly, although I think they're evil, I do understand why authorities want to keep their stories about the world & filter out competing information because said stories are how societies work & by degrading the common myths of societies you degrade cooperation. However, I think what people should do is edit their stories so that they can fit into new information & that's difficult but I think it has to be done."
“Reason for the Myth:
1. Those in power want to keep the myths that keep them in power.
2. We build stories to construct order in a chaotic world. We fight to the death to protect said stories so our lives aren't meaningless.
Some Informative books:
. The Righteous Mind by Johnathan Haidt.
. Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson.”
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Intentions Equals Results.
“Okay, so self-interest isn't everything, but it's very easy to do the opposite & act like goodwill is the only important thing. This in turn creates incredible problems when scaled. Giving people who want to do good too much power is how millions of people have died across history. This always becomes a problem when too many people with power agree that they're right & think that opposing their intentions makes other people inherently evil.
Across history, religious fanatics have done this a lot & today the left is by far the group that's most guilty of it. Take the social justice insistence upon defunding the police. This comes from a good meaning leftist outrage that stems from police forces often actually being corrupt & mistreating black ghetto communities often like colonies. In real terms, however, the actual amount of unarmed black men who are shot by the police is statistically very small. The real effects of lessening police influence in black communities & replacing them with social workers who have an extremely bad track record in improving said communities is a skyrocketing rate of black gun deaths since the vast majority of black people who are killed are by other black people. Statistically, police presence markedly lowers the murder rate & so to defund the police has actually ended up killing far more black people than it saved. We've seen a one-third rise in homicide rates since 2020.
The cardinal sin of left-wing philosophy is that it believes that people with good intentions are more important in a macro scale than incentive structures. Left-wingers believe that having the right opinions that brings them to utopia makes them good people rather than actually moral actions, which is why communists have always been willing to kill millions to reach their utopias. For example left wingers often think right wingers are evil since they think the right wingers are willfully against progress while the right-wingers often think left-wing policies just don't work. This obsession with intentions has often forced left-wingers into echo chambers, which dislodged them from reality, which has resulted in legitimately evil consequences, caused by people who wish the best. Communism in a 60-year period killed almost as many people as every other religion & ideology combined across the whole of human history.
Something really important is if you sacralize a social group for having good intentions, it will actively attract the most evil & unscrupulous people who will want to use the good will as a cover for bad actions. This is why the Catholic church attracted pedophiles, Communist movements the worst tyrants of all time, or religious fanatics have often blatantly broke the tenets of the religions they hold so dear.
A great example of incentive structures working in weird ways is the British Raj in India wanted to lower the snake population, & so, gave cash prizes to people who would bring them dead snakes. This in turn resulted in people breeding snakes & killing them in order to bring them to authorities for a cash-prize. The British realized this & got rid of the cash prize, which resulted in the snake breeders releasing their snakes into the streets, which just made the problem worse.
The key point t consider here is that our brains were designed to deal with small hunter-gatherer communities. People's brains tend to be on a spectrum between logic thing based & people feeling based. The people feeling part of our brain tends to be better at in-person small-scale communications. If your cousin makes a mistake but his intentions are good, you should forgive him.
However once you scale to millions of people, you need to view things logically & abstractly. The problem is that when people try to make political decisions to show their morality become popular inside their own moral structure, whether in Soviet Russia, medieval China or 16th Century Spain. This is my problem with isms like Globalism, Capitalism, Communism, etc, since when you start treating political positions like religions that demand loyalty rather than tools to help your nation prosper, you're going to run into this problem.
Reason for the Myth:
Decline in religion has made people treat politics as a substitute for religion which has made the idea of following the right creed or being righteous obsessive.
Our minds are naturally attuned to a hunter gatherer level where it makes sense to give good-willed people the benefit of the doubt since they’re not too dangerous & trying their best. We haven’t scaled our brains to the scale of the modern world, however.
Some informative books:
. A conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell.
. Woke Racism by John McHorter.”
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“We have to be nimble thinkers“. Try not to make everyone in the world be exactly like you. You have flaws & having people who aren’t you exist lets you balance out your own flaws”. - Whatifalthist, Twelve Lies about Reality.
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I won’t repeat myself in the article (only the comments section) if you purposely misunderstand me, anyone else, or advocate deplatforming/censorship. Don't Make Me Tap the Sign.
“The leftist, instead of, say, talking to these people, understanding them, convincing them, converting them, these pro-choice people, who should have been positive advocates for their position, who should have stuck by that bodily autonomy principle, instead they shrieked at the top of their lungs, 'shout your abortion, shout your abortion, subvert the system, smash the patriarchy, be as publicly immoral as possible!', did that convince the rightoids? Well, maybe only that they were correct to call you demons, along with driving away anybody who might have been on the fence, too.
If you want people to join your cause, & you should, you need to extend a hand to them. You are asking them to move to your position. But that means that the burden is on you to ease them into it. You have to give them a lifeline that, in their own time, they can use to pull themselves into your camp. If all you do is screech & shout about how they're bigots for not immediately thinking like you, becoming a copy of you, they're just not going to join you. But that is the bed that the left has made.
The end result will be that in their pursuit of everything the left is quite likely to get nothing at all.”
- Roe V. Wade Gets Nuked - ShortFatOtaku.
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“Generally speaking, if people with moderate views are lumped together with extremists, then at one point they'll start shifting from their moderate stances because they're considered extremists regardless and also might find a common cause with actual extremists because they ended up in the kinda same boat anyways. And then society complains about radicalization and how little is done to counter it.” - YouTube user yourneighbourhooddoomer535, The Coming Far Right Backlash.
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“If you demonize someone for merely existing, they have nothing to lose by becoming a demon.” - YouTube user bitbucketcynic, The Coming Far Right Backlash.
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Would you rather have someone agree with you 10% of the time, or 50% of the time? If you can partially change someone’s mind, take that as a small victory.
Appealing to your opponent’s values can work better than preaching (or screaming) your own values at them. If I was to talk to a left-winger, I’d appeal to their values of empathy/compassion, wishing to help oppressed peoples, hatred of corporatocracy & corruption, & so on. If I was to talk to a right-winger, I’d appeal to their values of Law And Order, strength, unity, & so on. Like what Shady Doorags said in King of the Hill - The One Where They Go to Japan, “if you’re talking to a logos guy“, ethos & pathos aren’t going to work”.
Summarizing part of what Shady Doorags said in King of the Hill - The One Where They Go to Japan, what happens is that Cotton gets angry at Junichiro for rejecting him & goes on a rampage. Hank needed Junichiro’s help to find their father Cotton. Realizing that Junichiro didn’t care about the same things as him, Hank appeals to something Junichiro does care about, his honor, to convince him to help find Cotton.
I wish more people would practice more of what I call “values empathy“, which is understanding & appealing to what other people value, instead of merely preaching what they themselves value.
Like the saying goes, you attract more flies with honey than vinegar.
In my opinion, left wingers are on average are more empathetic than right wingers, but the specific type of empathy is emotional empathy, not values empathy.
Is screaming at your opponent for disagreeing with you on X issue that really that different from a right-wing Christian calling you an immoral, sinning heathen?
I' have Asperger’s syndrome & schizoid personality disorder, & I have more empathy than that.
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When it comes to why you should treat your opponents like human beings, look at Daryl Davis, who got some 200+ individuals to leave the Ku Klux Klan.
Davis shows that it doesn’t require genius intellect or even expert knowledge (like a psychologist or sociologist) to change people’s minds. He’s a reasonable man whose a musician who made friends with & reasoned with people, presenting arguments that they haven’t heard before or looking at issues from different angles. His attitude is even better than mine’s.
200 doesn’t sound like much, but I consider it an accomplishment to change the mind of 1 person, so 200 is realistically a lot for one person.
Daryl Davis Breaksdown His Technique for Talking to Klan Members
Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville
Contrary to popular belief, even racists make exceptions, so it’s not a stretch that anti-Atheists or other faithists could make exceptions; 5 Things I Learned as a Neo-Nazi, by By J.F. Sargent, Frank Meeink.
Davis has also once stated that it actually takes longer to get people to leave the Klan if they joined out of family tradition rather than racial animosity (Why People Join The KKK w/Daryl Davis | Joe Rogan).
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I’ve seen many left-wing Atheists preach about how great Scandinavia is. That just doesn’t work. Right-wingers & especially the Christian-Right do not value the same things as you do.
You value comfort & equality. They value strength, unity, & order. Left-wingers tend to be like Rousseau, having an optimistic view of man as being naturally good & are made bad by institutions, while Right-wingers tend to be like Hobbes, having a pessimistic view of man as being naturally evil & need institutions (structures & hierarchy) to not commit bad actions.
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Treating your opponents like people who have legitimate concerns is more effective than screaming at them.
Censorship does not work. If anything, censorship increases polarization & radicalism. Also, censoring moderate voices & leaving up extreme strawmen can turn your strawman into a monster.
A case study of this is Nick Fuentes & Ryan Dawson. Fuentes went from a small-time streamer to becoming a household name & meeting Kanye West. Ryan Dawson, by contrast, was censored more heavily, & is still unknown to the world.
Ryan Dawson has debated racists, & has stated that approximately a third of the audience of his debates with racists has had their minds changed. He has even moved David Duke towards the center & away from racial determinism.
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Whenever you deal with your opponent’s ideas:
1. Have humility/be humble.
You do not & can not know everything. Be open to being wrong & to changing your views & policies if you’re wrong.
2. Look for information & views that differ from your own.
3. Falsify your own positions.
This is how Ryan Dawson is so good at making arguments & avoids nonsense. I remember a video in which he stated that he debates his opponents in his head until his points can’t be refuted.
Create a steel man/strong man argument, in which you argue against the best/strongest version of your opponent's ideas.
If you can’t imagine how your opponent’s ideas could work, or you think your opponent’s ideas are absurd, then you’re probably strawmanning them.
Think of your opponents as good people who want to solve the same problems as you do but have different solutions, not as people who don’t care, especially regarding economics & welfare.
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For example, if a progressive was to advocate for government to build & maintain roads, it would be a strawman for an anarcho-capitalist to say that the said progressive wanted the government to implement Stalinist collectivization & control every little piece of the economy down to lemonade stands. On the same token, a left-winger shouldn’t accuse libertarians & conservatives are not caring about the poor because they have different ideas about helping the poor.
This is what Shane Killian calls The Heartless Tin Man fallacy. “If you have to argue against the caricature of your opponent, then you really have no argument to make“.
I know that the last paragraph was more about economic than social issues when this article mainly pertains to social issues, but you get the idea.
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How to Talk Politics (and not get FURIOUS) | 5 Tips
The Alt-Right & Christian Right are predictable backlashes to social justice & bullying whites, Christians & the like. Be grateful that I’ve listened to Christian Right Wingers so you wouldn’t have to. It was frustrating. It was not pleasant. It was no fun at all.
Part 2: Your Political Psychology & Sociology Homework:
Almost all of the videos below are in the playlist
Optional:
An Honest Look at the Alt Right
Hollywood Hates You (Unless You Agree With Them)
How political opponents became enemies in the U.S.
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I’ll also mention that social conservatives tend to be higher in trait conscientiousness, unlike social liberals, who tend to be higher in trait openness.
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When it comes to what freedom is, here’s an excerpt from The conflicting definitions of freedom - America Versus Europe And The World;
Definition 1. Self-actualization. This is the Ancient, Aristocratic, and often right-wing/social conservative definition of freedom. You are freest when you are "your best self". For example, "if you studied hard, worked out at the gym, watched your diet, cultivated good and virtuous habits. This is you achieving self-actualization." This definition of freedom can be traced back to Aristotle and Fredrich Nietzsche. Many social conservatives argue that vices, such as pornography, prostitution, gambling, and drugs, prevent self-actualization. (This goes in-hand with social conservatives constantly talking about virtue & their obsession with order.)
Definition 2. Freedom from coercion. This is the classical liberal definition of freedom. You are free to walk down the street, but not to make anyone else carry you down the street. Your freedom to throw punches ends where someone else's face begins. This definition of freedom can be traced back to John Locke, Herbert Spencer, and F.A. Hayek. This definition seems to be more popular among parts of the United States of America and maybe even the Czech Republic and Estonia.
Definition 3. Convenience, lack of personal responsibility, and/or lack of boundaries. I am free to do whatever I want without boundaries. I am free to make you carry me down the street. In the words of YouTube user MAD Robot, "freedom is being unconstrained by responsibility... not having to worry about food, housing, education, transportation, healthcare, etc. not having to suffer the consequences of their own actions, playing the victim and blaming society or others for their own inadequacies." This definition of freedom is promoted by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and Jaques Derrida. This is the leftist definition of freedom.
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To add to the points in Imagine My Shock & The 7 Emotions that Push Civilization - Anxiety (41:27), please get a hobby or at least an interest outside of politics & take breaks (love her or hate her, Lauren Southern, while still a conservative, has tempered her views & tone after taking a year off from politics). Activism & politics are important, but they’re not worth your sanity, & high-quality content is infinitely better than high-quantity content.
Unlike many other Zoomers, I don’t let my politics take over my personality to the point to becoming a political contrarian. I can define myself, hence, I don’t need my opponents to define me.
“I know that some right-wingers would scoff &/or rolls their eyes at me writing that I like Amsterdam. My answer to that is that maybe you shouldn’t spend every waking hour of your life in politics or the culture war, & take time out of politics & the culture war & decompress some. The libertarian commentator Styxhexenhammer666, who has a strong right-wing following, spends time living in Amsterdam. Tom Woods, a boomerconservative turned libertarian, who is Catholic, by the way, likes New York City.”
Also, I may, say, hate Disney as a company, but I don’t feel the need to hate Zootopia or Turning Red (yes, I’m a furry. I need escapism, as someone whose involved in the alternate media & knows how shitty the real world is). (However, I still do pirate movies). I can compartmentalize between a work of art & its creator.
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Here’s the emotions each that I believe that each major political faction is driven by;
Boomer Republicans: Pride, Fear, Anxiety, Disgust.
Leftists: Anxiety & Envy.
Christian Right & Alt-Right: Disgust, Resentment, Anxiety.
Libertarians: Pride & Guilt.
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Boomer Republicans believe in American exceptionalism, ‘America is the greatest country in the world, goddammit!’ & that America has the right to be the policeman of the world (Pride), are afraid of Islamic terrorism, Islam taking over the west, Iran getting nuclear weapons, & China (Fear), hate social justice (Resentment), & do hold socially conservative views (Disgust).
Libertarians don’t lavishly follow authority (Pride) & neither give into shame easily nor follow the herd (Guilt).
Christian-Right & Alt-Right people hold strongly socially conservative views (Disgust), hate social justice (Resentment) & are willing to give up freedom from stability & community (Anxiety).
Leftists, well, read the articles The Unexpected Relationship Between Ideology and Anxiety - Psychology Today The System’s Neatest Trick, Dr. Theodore John Kaczynski explains the psychology of leftists, oversocialization & surrogate activities, The Psychology of Human Action By Jeff Leskovar, & listen to How Envy Drives Society, History and the Left..
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I’m particularly worried about Generation Z, & I don’t share Cole Hastings’ optimism about them. I think Rudyard Lynch/Whatifalthist was correct when he says that Zoomers don’t believe in freedom or anything except for the most fervent worship of the most ardent ideologies. Just look at all of the young people who openly support authoritarianism & even totalitarianism. I think this is mostly driven by loneliness;
Is Loneliness Fueling the Rise of Political Polarization in the U.S.?
The politics of loneliness is totalitarian
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When it comes to Generation Z & echo chambers, before the internet, if you had a falling out or disagreement with someone, you’d probably see them the next day, which forced you to work things out & forgive each other, giving you conflict resolution skills.
Today, if someone has a disagreement on the internet, it’s easy to block them. This creates echo chambers where people with opposing views aren’t communicating with each other, which leads to them being incapable of truly handling disagreements, instead, handling disagreements in a childish manner like blocking & deplatforming, which leads to political polarization. A case study for this is The Academic Agent used to be chill conservative/libertarian, but after he got exposed by President Sunday & fired from his job, was radicalized & joined the far-right.
We’re getting to a point where the left thinks that their opponents are Nazis, while the right thinks their opponents are groomers who are Satanic heathens & thus deserve no rights whatsoever. People who have disagree with you are no longer good people with different ideas on how to solve problems, but are threats to your very survival (How political opponents became enemies in the U.S.).
(This was talked about from 9:00 to 11 in Ryan Dawson Historian, Journalist, & Documentarian on #WWII #COVID #BJJ & #ClearThinking #ryandawson - altCensored/Ryan Dawson Historian, Journalist, & Documentarian on #WWII #COVID #BJJ & #ClearThinking #ryandawson - Vid.ancreport.com (the video essay mentioned is The Fatalistic Youth and Gamers), along with What Millennials Stole from the Zoomers.)
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3.The inabillity to compromise, Gen Z dont see the win-win Situation in compromises and cooperation. Here in germany I really observed it with people born after 1990. Because at somepoint offical and inoffical politic for conflict resolution among children/student/etc. changed from "Try to find a solution among each other first, If you involve the teacher/authority everybody will lose." to "Go to the teacher/authority immidiately ". That created a generation of people who cant cooperate without an auhority, wich forces them to work together. So any compromise will be seen as oppression. I dont get what I want a 100%, so I have to oppressed, is the mindset of many. Politics is the art of the possible. But if you see every possibility where you dont get 100% as a form of opression, damn there are not many possibiltys.
3.5 Kind of in the same vain, if you cant find a reasonable compromise with your opponents or better neigbours, fellow citizens and in the end of the day brothers (and sisters lets keep it 2022) in arms, you will have to conquer and subdue them. Thats what I teach people about the spiral of violence. "To break the circle of violence we either go out as friends and your first born marries my daughter to consolidate our peace, or I will have to annihilate you, your family, your allies etc. so no one of you ever poses a threat to me." - YouTube user westphalianstallion4293.
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We see, for example, domestic rats revert back to their wild ways if they’re not properly socialized (5:48 of Hoarders: Glen Loses Control of his Rat Collection - Full Episode (S3, E20) | A&E). I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that humans revert back to barbarism if they’re not properly socialized, considering how we’re both mammals.
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I think that a significant factor for the popularity of Andrew Tate & Far-right politics among young men is fatherlessness, considering the statics of the problems from children who grow up without their fathers. Because these young men grow up without a father to guide & teach them healthy masculinity, these young men gravitate towards unhealthy forms of masculinity, such as hypermasculinity (with crime, gangs, &/or Andrew Tate) & political radicalism (I consider barbarism to be an extension of actual toxic masculinity).
"I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence." “Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can”. “You need a man to teach you how to be a man." - Tupac Shakur.
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Even for Christian Nationalists, I think today’s Internet Christian Nationalism is more of a hate boner for Social Justice than an organic Christian movement that was formed in a vacuum.
To paraphrase what was said in A Historian Explains Being Gen-Z., in history, despotism is often buttressed by social isolation & fragmentation. “Freedom is maintained by strong individuals, communities, & values that keep despotisms at bay”. Look at the absolutely unbelievable corruption in Latin America, where people often do not even trust their own neighbors, with similar conditions in Southern Italy. In the entire contents of Africa & Asia, tyrannies were driven by societies where people lived inside of clans &/or tribes & rarely associated outside of their social networks. “If we want our freedom to survive, we need to be able to stem this.“
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The radicalism caused by loneliness is so bad that I’m seeing the rise of Tankies & right-wing Tankies.
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Do you think a mentally healthy population would throw away their prosperous, free & beautiful western civilization for the world’s biggest totalitarian shitholes, being China & Russia (Orwell’s Eurasia & Eastasia, reviving the Mongol Empire) over some social disagreements? That’s absolutely frightening to me, not to mention appalling.
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I really ask that you read Addendum to WhatIfAltHist on Decadence, since it goes in-depth about how bad political polarization is & how it’s actually an existential threat to Western Civilization, human rights, freedom, & dignity.
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"A huge card that could end up helping the Chinese is the crisis of leadership that's currently happening in the west. The western nations are now in a basically religious civil war between the right & left, which consumes most of their population's excess energies. Much of the western elite hates itself so much that it's incapable of acting effectively. If the west doesn't sort out its social issues within the next 10 years, China wins.
Incoherent elites have allowed nations which are materially much weaker to make huge gains. The Manchus were able to conquer China with 1/100th of China's population in the 17th century, since Chinese society was so fractious at the time. A similar thing can be said of the British conquest of India, the Spanish conquest of the Aztec or Inca empires or the Roman conquest of Greece."
- Is China the Next World Power? by Whatifalthist
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"The Roman empire is falling & the Germanic barbarians are outside a city in southern France. The defenders don't provide any defenses & are in fact working with the barbarians against their local rivals, only to have their city sacked. It was incomprehensible that the barbarians could be a real threat after Rome had been strong for so long. It had been centuries since non-Roman threats had been in the area. " - A Study of Decadence(When Societies Commit Suicide).
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Working with barbarians over domestic opponents sounds like something both tankies & Nick Fuentes’ followers would do if Russia was to invade Europe, which would be a modern barbarian invasion.
Speaking of Russia, if you meet a Right-wing Russia/Putin supporter, show them the article An addendum to "stop idolizing russia" by NFKRZ & addressing Eli from Russia & Gonzalo Lira. Should the Right support Putin & Russia? Should the Alternate Media Support Putin & Russia?. All the yelling about Trump & Russia is barking up the wrong tree.
I make a better case than anyone as to why the world would be worse off if Russia was the world’s superpower rather than America.
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Here’s a some videos from Christian Nationalists that I recommend to understand them. If anyone has better videos, articles, etc, please let me know;
Should we support Christian Nationalism?
Why the Left FEARS Christian Nationalism: the Case Against Secularism | Counter Culture
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Why Conservatives SHOULDN'T fly the Gadsden Flag - A Hot Take
The Unpopular, but Conservative Take on Gay Marriage & LGBT | Counter Culture
What the Far-Right's Victory in Europe Means for Us | Counter Culture
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As much as I fervently disagree with Carson Wolf, he does has a point towards the end of What the Far-Right's Victory in Europe Means for Us when he said that, in a nutshell, the more chaos there is, the harder authoritarianism will be to bring order to a society that was previously too okay with chaos. This was touched on in Another 7 Taboo Questions About History and Society from 39:16-40:53.
When I talk about chaos, listen to Paul Joseph Watson, Decoy Voice, Teacher Therapy, & Katharine Birbalsingh. I am NOT saying that they’re far-right (Watson can speak for himself), but I’m concerned that society will go authoritarian-conservative in response to chaos. I’m particularly concerned with parenting & schooling becoming more authoritarian. This is touched on in Horrible Japanese Propaganda about Corporal Punishment, when the Japanese right-wing politician Tōru Hashimoto was elected after the Fukishima disaster, which Ryan Dawson stated opened up a window of opportunity for any opposition party to win.
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Anyways, a very common thing that you’ll you from Christian Nationalists is that they feel highly antagonized, especially by the Social-Justice faction of the left.
I have a feeling that Catholic Christian-Right Wingers (& probably some Orthodox Christian-Right Wingers) identify as Catholic to be contrarian to leftists. They see left-wingers rejecting hierarchy, structure & tradition, & to be as opposite as possible to them, these Christian-Right Wingers identify with the Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church because they’re looking for hierarchy, structure & tradition, which largely comes from their Hobbesian view of man.
I’d like to mention a couple of common misconceptions about Right-authoritarians.
One is that Neo-Nazis & the Alt-right universally support Christianity. This isn’t true. I’ve observed comments from both Neo-Nazis & the Alt-right where they dislike Christianity, rather they see Paganism as a more European religion while Christianity is a foreign import, dislike Christianity because of its Jewish roots, perceive Christianity as weak, &/or they simply don’t like Christianity’s ideas/values.
Another misconception about Right-authoritarians is that fascism requires religion. Imperial Japan, Chiang Kai Shek’s China, Park Chung-hee’s South Korea, & Singapore are all examples of Right-authoritarian regimes that were irreligious or at least not religious in the way Westerners are familiar with (as in the case of State Shinto). The belief that fascism requires religion comes from looking at Right-authoritarianism in the west, which tend to include Christianity (or at the minimum pays lip service to it) as part of maintaining or returning to tradition, where this isn’t the case in East Asia, where Christianity is a minority religion & doesn’t permeate East Asian culture.
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Think of this like a meeting within a law enforcement, military, or intelligence organisation to understand the people you’ll be dealing with before going on a mission in the Republic of Pineland or something like that (the Republic of Pineland is a real place, kind’ve. I’m starting to sound like Life is a Special Operation).
(Special Operations and Conventional Forces Build Interoperability at JMRC)
(Military planners and planning: What does this really mean, and what do they actually do?.)
(This content is NOT endorsed by the United States Department Of Defense or United Kingdom Ministry Of Defense.)
Part 3: Barbarism: How the right is more dangerous than the left.
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Oh I forgot. A significant portion of you guys (I don’t care about pronouns) dislike both hierarchy & masculinity, or at least the police & military.
Though this was far from the 1st time this kind’ve thing has happened. I’ll use examples from 11th Century China & India, taken from A Study of Decadence(When Societies Commit Suicide). (no disrespect towards Indians or Chinese intended).
In China, when the Song Dynasty was facing a barbarian invasion to their North from the Liao peoples. Instead of funding or reforming the Army to improve it, the Chinese composed poetry about how badly they wanted to reconquer the North. In China, there was a saying “[Just as] good iron [is not] beaten [into] nails, [a] good man [does] not become [a] soldier". In other words, being an enlisted soldier was looked down upon as a job for losers.
In India, the Rajas (kingdoms) built temples to please the gods to grant them victory instead of taking on the tactics that made the Muslim conquerors so powerful or otherwise improving their militaries, allowing the Muslims who they outnumbered 100 to 1 to conquer & rape northern India.
Today, in much of the modern left, particularly the Social Justice faction, dislike masculinity & try to remove it, are anti-police, & also have anti-military sentiments. In the modern left, it’s looked down upon as immoral to become a police officer, soldier, hunter or gun owner, while in medieval China, a man who becomes an enlisted soldier was looked down upon as letting his clan down.
The modern left’s college/university professors are their equivalent to medieval India’s priest class, with both pushing decadent mindsets & policies that killed their societies, with Democrat prosecutors & mayors who defund or otherwise refuse to support their own police forces & allowing rampant crime remind me of Song Dynasty Emperors who failed to fund or reform the Chinese Army to improve it, which allowed the Liao peoples to conquer Northern China. And the barbarians in leftist-controlled big cities would be criminals (the commentator Decoy Voice has covered crime in left-wing controlled big cities), but would be militias in a civil war, while in Europe, their barbarians would be Russians.
The mainstream left has alienated the military, alienated law enforcement (Cops Say Low Morale And Department Scrutiny Are Driving Them Away From The Job,America’s Police Exodus) (contrary to popular belief, libertarians aren’t anti-police & military, which is more of an anarchist thing), opposes weapons ownership, opposes masculinity, any sense of duty & discipline is completely nonexistent, & completely pisses away moderates & is obsessed with purity. Many leftists get frightened whenever I talk to them about weapons ownership to protect against tyranny, being terrified of death & pain, & many leftists retreated from Twitter after Twitter ceased to be a left-wing echo chamber after being taken over my Elon Musk.
Medieval Indians thought that they could learn from no other societies & even that speaking to non-Hindus would permanently pollute a person. Muslims who visited India before the Islamic conquests described the Indians as the most arrogant people they’ve ever met.
Many modern leftists seem think that to speak with anyone means that you agree with them & just scream at you & block you if you challenge them. For example, Sargon of Akkad has been given an assortment of labels, such as “Nazi”, “Alt-right sympathizer” & many more simply for debating Richard Spencer. Ditto for Daryl Davis.
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"There are recurring cycles, ups and downs, but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations. It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes." - Theodor Reik.
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Talk about painting yourself into a corner.
Who Will Win America's Next Civil War?
There’s no block button for right-wing militias.
I’ve lived my whole life in The South. I know what muscleheads/meatheads are. You aren’t ready to deal with an army of 100 million muscleheads/meatheads.
Someone please explain to me whose going to enforce gun laws when the police is defunded & you don’t trust the military either? Just as fiat currency is bullshit backed by aircraft carriers & nuclear weapons & cryptocurrency is bullshit backed up by fanatical nerds, gun control is bullshit backed up by police officers with guns, & without said police officers with guns (or other government agents like soldiers), you have no real authority (I paraphrased from A Final 8 Taboo Questions about History and Society.).
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Go look into the comments of The Coming Far Right Backlash with YCF - Youtube Comment Finder, & search words such as “atheist“, “libertarian“, etc. You’ll see members of the actual far-right beating their chest. They don’t think that they’ll beat you.
They know that they’ll beat you. And then wipe the floor with you, because that’s how barbarians operate.
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I gotta admit, the Christian Right is extremely masculine, know what their values & principles are, are disciplined, & are way more intelligent you think. Take my word for it. It’s common sense to never underestimate your opponent.
We’re getting to a point where the left thinks that their opponents are Nazis, while the right thinks their opponents are groomers who are Satanic heathens & thus deserve no rights whatsoever.
If you want to know what war with religious fanatics looks like & what is required to fight them, look into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It isn’t pretty.
Part 4: Racism & Social Justice:
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When it comes to racism, the vast majority of Right-wingers I know aren’t racist. Tribal & socially conservative, but not racist. Rural people do tend to have stronger in-group preferences than city people, & prefer that outsiders pass a test or otherwise show themselves to be worthy of membership within their tribe, which is the local community.
There are legitimate criticisms of immigration, which aren’t racist.
I do think conservatives are more prone to prejudice, such as prejudice towards furries or atheists, which I believe isn’t because they’re irrationally bigoted but rather primarily because they lack positive interactions with people outside of their tribe, & secondarily, being lower in trait openness than social liberals.
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Ever noticed how the social justice movement has taken off in 2014?
I remember in 2012 & 2013 that the alternate media was on a strong upswing, & Tea Party & Occupy Wall Street movements were getting close to figuring out that the corporation between big government & big corporations was the source for so many of our problems.
Then 2014 came, & the Social Justice movement rose. I would attribute it largely to a handful of big corporations trying to get people to obsessively look for microagressions rather than focus on corporate corruption & influence in government. The same companies that talk about racism, sexism, & prejudice towards queers in the Anglophone world don’t do the same in, say, China or Saudi Arabia. Likewise, say, Raytheon would rather have the left talk about trans-issues rather than the fact that Raytheon’s military hardware are used by the U.S. government in unjustifiable wars & that Raytheon sells military hardware to imperialist human-rights abusing states such as Israel & Saudi Arabia.
( Ron Paul to unite Occupy & Tea Party)
(Separation of Business and State)
The Blunt Truth about The Trayvon Martin Case
Dave Smith Explains The Origin of Woke Culture
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The media will talk about dividing issues like abortion, how many genders there are or other culture war issues rather than unifying issues such as corruption.
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The media is literally controlled by the CIA & Military-Industrial Complex.
(Alternative Media Censorship).
(The above image comes from the video How they bleep you, which I was able to get from using Awesome Screenshot Minus & the crop tool.)
‘Six Corporations Own 90 Percent of News Media’ - Truth or Fiction
(https://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/cartoons/rick-mckee-cartoon-18/)
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Social Justice People obsess over petty stuff like microaggressions or being called the wrong pronoun. Early in the monkeypox outbreak, many people were so politically correct that they split hairs to not call monkey pox a gay sexually transmitted disease. In my opinion, if they truly wanted to help gay men instead of virtue signal, those same would advise gay men to wear condoms, not exchange bodily fluids & get tested regularly (which everyone whose sexually active should do anyway if they aren’t monogamous, as that there are many nasty STD’s out there, some of them permanent).
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So, say, seriously talking about Israel is out of the question.
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Let me demonstrate the difference between political correctness & true compassion.
Opposing all circumcisions on children (except for rare medical exceptions) is compassion.
Letting circumcisions happen because the parents making the decisions are members of minorities is political correctness.
Opposing unjustifiable wars is compassion.
Making excuses for otherwise unjustifiable wars because members of some social minority is involved is political correctness.
Political correctness is cowardice. Cowardice that hurts EVERYONE both in the short term & long term. Also, the aforementioned cases are examples as to why we need to have clear values & principles.
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I expect Social Justice Warriors to assume that I hate Chinese people or especially Jewish people whenever I talk about the Chinese Communist Party or Israel & Zionists respectively (there are people who really think that you hate Chinese people if you crticize the CCP).
I don’t have time to make a disclaimer every time I turn around. The people of Palestine, Syria, & the rest of the Middle East all sure as hell don’t have time for me to make a racism disclaimer every time I try to talk about Israel.
I sincerely do not want Mei & Miriam
to get shit for the stuff that Yang & Eli up to.
Israel is not an American puppet. And proof that America does not go to war for oil.)
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If someone accuses me of hating Jews, it would be hilarious. Some of my favorite people in politics are Jews, as you can see in my article, A few notable Jewish libertarians & allies of libertarians, along with its stripped-down version, Notable Jewish anti-Zionists.
A couple of individuals that might be of interest to you would be Robert Epstein, whose a teen rights advocate/youth rights advocate, & Eric Clopper, a researcher & anti-circumcision activist.
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“For those of you who hate Jews, look at Imperial Japan in contrast to modern Japan. Imperial Japan was a pure monster. Its Army and Navy routinely abused and tortured prisoners of war, had soldiers kill and rape civilians on a routine basis, committed the Rape of Nanking, and conducted some of the cruelest human experiments in history. But Japan today is a pacifistic country, with one of the best human rights records in Asia, rule of law, freedom of the press, and is one of the most loved nations in the world.
If the isolated Island nation of Japan can change, I think Israel and the Jewish people can, too.” - Antisemitism explained.
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The problem of never holding minorities accountable for that they do is talked about in How leftist protect extremist.
I’m the one whose saying that we should judge people as individuals, not collectives as if they were Borg drones.
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Cut out the ad homineum attacks.
Refer back to “Misunderstanding people is okay“. If we’re going to cancel everyone for having a single flaw, then we’ll have to cancel:
. Socrates for being a pederast.
. Thomas Jefferson for owning slaves.
. Sigmund Freud for his theory of penis envy.
. Albert Einstein for having sex with his cousin.
. Ghandi for his racism & sexual behaviors.
. Martin Luther King for being a womanizer, plagiarist, & homophobe.
. Richard Stallman for his comments about pedophilia, plus eating something off his foot.
(3 of the aforementioned men are Jewish, & at least 1 is autistic.)
(The above was partially inspired by ALT Lite has more in common with MLK than SJW do, Dont let the Holier than thou SJWs destroy our History, they are after Jefferson now as predicted & My Thoughts on The Richard Stallman Situation..)
Conversely, Hitler opposing smoking, supporting welfare, & being a vegetarian is not enough to make him a good person. Stalin’s Soviet Union banning lobotomy does not change the reality of Stalin’s Soviet Union having one of the very worst human rights records in human history. New Jersey banning corporal punishment in both government & private schools does not change the reality that New Jersey is one of the most corrupt states in the union, rife with organised crime. And Caleb Mauphin speaking out against corporal punishment in American schools does not make him any less of a Tankie than John McCain opposing torture makes him any less of a Neocon.
You need to learn to compartmentalize both the bad & good in people, & judge them by the totality of their actions.
Why do I say that? Because I see the mainstream media cancel anti-war figures, such as, love them or hate them, Ron Paul & Tulsi Gabbard, either digging up something they said politically incorrect or borderline defaming them while promoting politicians who have murdered hundreds of thousands of people in unnecessary wars.
Like I said with compartmentalizing, if I was to, say, talk to George Galloway about Israel, it does not make me a Tankie (support China & Russia) anymore than talking to David Duke about Israel makes me a racial determinist.
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I don’t know why it seems that, by & large, leftists are more likely to smear & defame people than right-wingers. It could be because left-wingers have a more Utopia Justifies the Means/the ends justifies the means mentality, right-wingers have a stronger sense of honor, right-wingers are better attached to reality, or a combination of the above factors.
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I expect Left-wing Atheists to drop the ball at talking to Religious-Right wingers like the Tibble Twins pissing off Molly by ‘screaming for icecream’ in the Arthur episode Mind Your Manners
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Or alternately, when in the movie Jarhead, Swofford earned himself a demotion.
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“When this war begins, & it will begin, I don’t want you covering my ass“. - Staff Sergeant Skykes, United States Marine Corps.
(That’s exactly how I feel with an overwhelming majority of left-wingers I’ve dealt with.)
“There is nothing more frustrating for a left wing progressive such as myself, than left wing 'progressives'. I honestly don't know how we got to the point we are. We are (the left) without doubt our own worst enemies, and will pay a heavy price for our arrogance, dishonesty and hypocrisy.“ - YouTube user twowolves2106, The Coming Far Right Backlash.
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If the Christian Taliban takes control of America & turns America into a Puritan totalitarian theocracy, do not come crying to me about how centrists are conservatives who are fascists (seriously, I know a popular left-wing YouTube channel that says just that. That same channel is a literal Tankie channel that has the audacity to call centrists fascists & tantamount to Nazis). Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.
Part 5. A case for cautious optimism.
I do have cautious optimism for the moderates winning in the long-term, or at least if the Christian-Right take power they’ll only briefly be in power.
Oliver Cromwell did become the dictator in England but democracy returned after he died.
France in the 1960’s had Charles de Gaulle take over, reset the system, & return representative democracy.
Turkey had 2 military coups d'état, 4 attempted coups d'état & 4 military memorandums in the latter half of the 20th century, avoided slipping into a totalitarian nightmare, rather it be right-wing totalitarianism in the form of an Islamic theocracy or left-wing totalitarianism in the form of Marxism-Leninism.
Egypt in 2012 & 2013 had the Muslim brotherhood in power for approximately a year & was overthrown.
In the Islamic world, many states declare Islam as the state religion, but the state is de-facto secular, not imposing Sharia Law outside of family law, such as Tunisia, Algeria &, to a lesser degree, Morocco & Bangladesh. Countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Indonesia (except for Aceh) & Turkey have secular governments (though nonreligious people do face discrimination in Indonesia). Prostitution is legal in Turkey, Tunisia until 2022, Algeria, & Bangladesh. (Prostitution in Africa Prostitution in Asia)
Many of the aforementioned countries are more collectivist & are more accepting of authoritarianism than America. However, what worries me about America is loneliness, which is largely caused by internet addition along of car-dependency reducing “third places“ (places other than home & work/school), which as mentioned before, loneliness can lead to totalitarianism.
What could happen is that, after the Christian Right seizes power, the rest of America’s population creates a coalition to remove them from power.
Most American conservatives outside of the Bible Belt are often libertarian or at least moderate, & don’t support Christian fundamentalism or extreme social conservatism. It’s in our interest to not piss them off.
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If I’m given the choice of someone being moderately religious & politically rational or politically dogmatic & irreligious (or religious), I’d pick moderately religious (“radical & “extremist” aren’t the best words to use; I am an extremist! And so are you). Moderate religion provides the individual meaning & community, which can keep them away from dogmatic politics.
Hopefully, a moderate sect of Christianity, such as Quakerism, rises.
Instead of sweeping bad ideas under the rug, introduce better ideas.
This reminds me of beekeeprs requeening Africanized bees to replace the agressive African bee genes with the far calmer & less agressive European honeybee genes.
“You don’t kill the Africanized gene. You breed it out“. - Roy Arnold, Arizona beekeeper on Requeening bee hives, Valley beekeeper taking the 'killer' out of Africanized bees.
(This isn’t a reference to human racemixing, so don’t look too deeply into that.)
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If we’re going to defeat the Christian Right, it’ll require unity.
“Unity, turds! That is the key word in ‘unit‘, without the ‘y‘!“ - Major Benson Winifred Payne, United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance.
Additional comments:
“As a 16 year old male, that outro deeply resonated with me. I've been having vengeful fantasies of mass domination and terror as of late, and am terribly scared that I'll let them overtake me. It especially resonated with me, because that I'm more of a nerd type, so these fantasies manifested themselves in the form of far-right extremism. I'll try to keep my own impulses at bay, and try to continue to stand for what is honorable. It's tough to believe that things will get better for me right now, but I'll take you at your word. Thank you, Whatifalthist, thank you.”
- A comment from Why Modern Dating is Broken.
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"I played a game of Valorant today, a kid gets on the mic and instantly starts flaming me, calling me slurs saying we lost because of the character I picked. He continues for three rounds really throwing out some horrendous shit. I mute him and move on.
Clearly he is still flaming because the rest of my team continues to shit on him.
After 20 minutes, I hear my teammates defend me again and I tell them "Don't worry man he's just raised by an iPad, kid didn't have a dad" (you should have heard what he was saying).
For a solid 5 minutes my teammate said something that got him to completely open up and I unmute him. His tone has completely changed and he is answering questions about hit life. He is 16, from Detroit and works at McDonalds. His Dad left his mom when he was one - he had seen him once and said he was just a bum who lived off of his new wife's money. It was an insane heart to heart that I had never heard, and the kid began to admit that he shouldn't have been so toxic. He actually starting talking about the future and although things had been hard, he was working and felt confident that he could survive and thrive. It was really crazy and I hope it wasn't the greatest actor of all time but I felt this connection with a kid that I had been there 5 years before, feeling the same way but with much different circumstances."
- YouTube user mumble, A Historian Explains Being Gen-Z..
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"One of the BEST videos on youtube I have ever seen in my life.
Im far right. VERY Far Right. Im a Naz from Scotland.
But this video killed my egotrip a bit and opened my eyes.
The most important thing id like to confirm to everybody, is that the reason I am a Naz1 at all, is because of the left.
I was a centerist at 12 - 14. But was attacked and called a naz1 for not aligning with Antifa.
Now all these years later in my 20s, I am what they were trying to destroy. The left is why the far right exists.
We have to control our emotions in the future however.
I have youtube downloaded this, favourited, liked and shared.
This video is one of THE best i have ever seen in my life.
The only words i can think of to say are:
Thank you. Thank you for this truly awinspiring enlightening experience. Also you family structure fascist thing was spot on. Literally spot on. Ireland & Scotland both have fascist structures. You got it right :D". - YouTube user vadoksam9235, The Coming Far Right Backlash.
A list of people to address (the REAL far right, NOT anyone merely to the right of Karl Marx):
American Virtue (Twitter YouTube Instagram)
Groypers:
Vincent James (Website Gab Twitter Telegram).
Michelle Malkin (Gab Twitter Facebook).
Stew Peters (Website Gab Gettr Truth Social Telegram).
Wayne Dupree (Website Facebook).
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Non-Groypers:
Michael Knowles (YouTube Facebook Twitter).
Carson Wolf (unsure if he’s a Groyper).
John Doyle.
Pat Buchanan (Website).
E. Michael Jones (Twitter).
RockingMrE.
Dr. Steve Turley (Website Twitter Subscribestar Patreon Rumble Bitchute YouTube Facebook Instagram).
Bill Still (Website. Includes social media links).
Milo Yiannopoulos (Website Twitter YouTube).
Mental Outlaw, aka “Kenny“.
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Government officials hosted by the America First Political Action Conference &/or have an agenda similar to the Groypers:
Majorie Taylor Greene.
Paul Gosar.
Wendy Rogers.
Janice McGeachin.
Steve King.
Laura Loomer.
Janice McGeachin.
Populists (not all may be Christian Nationalists or Fundamentalists, many certainly do have a very high opinion of Christianity):
Joe Kent.
Blake Masters.
Doug Mastriano.
Anthony Sabatini.
Matt Walsh.
Will Witt.
Bryson Gray.
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You can find a lot of Christian-Right wing individuals on Gab.
There’s 1 more individual that I'd prefer to talk to myself. I’ll mention them after I bring my content to their attention.
I ask that no one else contact Carson Wolf & Vince Dao, as that I’d prefer to contact them myself, considering how they’re small content creators & are reachable.
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Darkmatter2525
Alternate Media sources:
Don't like the mainstream media? Here's some alternate media sites that I would recommend
Debate opportunities:
America Versus Europe And The World
Alternate media starter pack:
The Corbett Report (Best one here. Doesn’t get into the culture war.)
Ryan Dawson altCensored videos
Thank you for reading.
Notes.
. Being a furry. I’m a furry in the sense of being interested in anthropomorphic animals. I’m not an otherkin, I don’t have species dysphoria, & I’m not a zoophile. Though I’m not going to lie that the furry macroculture is immature, not furry individuals, but the macroculture. For details, see Why I Left The Furry Community, & for the bigger picture, see the playlist The furry fandom explained ] Furry fandom misconceptions ] Being a casual furry.
I’m a furry largely for escapism, knowing just how awful the world is & there’s little that I could do about it (though I do enjoy darker Mature Animal Stories such as Beastars). As much as I dislike the prejudices & misconceptions towards furries, the furry fandom, as a macroculture, isn’t its own best friend. I see that it’s common for minority groups to, as a macroculture, to not be their own best friend, rather it be Black Americans, Muslims, Jews, or hillbillies (the Diane Sawyer documentary “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains” shows the redneck culture that Thomas Sowell talks about). I defend minorities as people, but I will not defend or make excuses for negative aspects of their cultures.
. Pirating movies. The software I use is the Linux Mint operating system, hardened LibreWolf browser, qBittorrent torrenting client, & Mullvad VPN.
. Libertarian thoughts on the police & military. I’m anti vandalism, not anti-hammer. I’m against the misuse of hammers, not hammers themselves. On the same token, I’m against how specifically governments use military & law enforcement forces, not the institutes of military or law enforcement themselves, & I'm not an anarcho-capitalist, anarchist or other form of neckbeard for that matter. Being mad at soldiers for a war I disagree with would be like being mad at McDonald’s employees for McDonald’s menu. The job of military personnel is to carry out the killing & destroying side of war, not to be involved in political side of war, & as a matter of fact, the United States Armed Forces is supposed to be apolitical, & other countries have similar concepts (Civilian control of the military).
. My personal philosophy. To keep things nice & short, it’s similar to Arthur Schopenhauer; What If The World is Actually a Prison? | The Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. I may be a misanthrope, but I also know that we’re all struggling in a cruel world that our minds weren’t evolved for.
. Social structures. While I’m not a social conservative, I do NOT stand with the postmodernists that want to tear down every structure in society. I recommend seeing the video How Family Structure Drives Ideology. I might write about my thoughts on social structure & hierarchy in another article someday.
. If more Right-wing writers/commenters/commentators mention me being & furry & mentioning Turning Red than Left-wing writers/commenters/commentators,that would be extra evidence that the Right is more willing to do reconnaissance & other work to understand their opponents than the Left. The Right knows that it’s in their self-interest to know their opponents, while the left is too lazy, &/or more likely, too anxious to do so.
Also this reminds me of a book I’ve read in 7th grade, Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang, in which Ji-li mentions a family member leaving a mop or broom on the balcony or in a window of her home. If the mop or broom was disturbed, then that was a sign that Red Guards searched the Ji-li family’s home.
I know mentioning all of this is weird, but I’m a weird man.
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