Posted on 12/14/2016 11:18:47 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy
A lot has been said about the broad alt-Right in recent months now that the SJWs and the cuckservatives have finally started to clue into its existence as an independent phenomenon. This is not to say, however, that either of these groups really understand what is going on, nor is it to say that their approach to it is marked by any great degree of honesty.
One of the themes used by those within the broad alt-Right is that of being “red-pilled” versus “blue-pilled.” Most readers can probably recognise that the imagery comes from the 1999 movie The Matrix, in which the main protagonist, named Neo, is offered the choice of a red pill and a blue pill by Morpheus. In the backstory of the movie, humanity had at some point in the past lost a robot war and individual humans were now used as bioelectric energy sources to power the robots’ world. To pacify the humans, they are kept sedated inside a virtual reality simulation known as “the matrix,” inside of which they are led to believe that they are living in “the real world” of 1999. Taking the red pill would allow Neo to wake up and re-enter the actual real world, in which a relative handful of humans were detached from the matrix and fighting a rebellion against the computers. Taking the blue pill, on the other hand, would return Neo to his blissful, sedated life as a virtual-reality addled battery.
The theme is used because it is a very good approximation of what we see around us. Practically our entire society exists in a sort of dream state where they are fed a false reality by the media, the education and propaganda complex, the government, the entertainment industry, and practically every other source of information. Like Neo prior to being red-pilled, most Americans float along without ever really thinking or question the “reality” they’re being fed by these sources.
In essence, to be “red-pilled” is simply to be able to think for one’s self, to recognise, and to be able to reject the false narratives that we are fed by the progressive-dominated information sources around us. There are many fundamental elements of the progressive worldview – equality, the “need” for diversity, the LBGTQ agenda, feminism, the goodness of democracy, the inevitability of “progress,” and much more – that are unthinkingly accepted, even by many so-called “conservatives,” who are largely indoctrinated into the progressive mindset while still believing themselves to be “constitutional conservatives” or something similar.
To be red-pilled means to recognise falsehood when one sees it. A red-pilled individual can discern worldviews and elements within those worldviews. They can look beyond the slogans and the soundbites to recognise what really drives any particular argument or action that the progressives and SJWs might make.
To be red-pilled also means to have the moral courage and fortitude to speak the truth about the progressive agenda when they see it. Many conservatives will recognise that something is wrong, but will allow themselves to be browbeaten into submission because they’re afraid of being called “racist, sexist, homophobic” and all the rest of the Left’s litany of psychologically-manipulative scare-words. Others desire acceptance by “polite” society more than they do a knowledge and acceptance of the truth. In effect, these conservatives are cowards, and it is their cowardice that often separates then from alt-Righters who are willing to accept the truth and to reject the false narratives of the Left even when they’re smeared by the SJWs and other “progressives.”
It is certainly true that a red-pilled individual will accede to truths that are outside the “mainstream” of polite discourse. That is because “polite discourse” is defined by a lying media and entertainment industry that is actively hostile to genuine truth and which seeks to advance a radical social and political agenda whose end is the destruction of our traditional society. The red-pilled individual chooses not to “go with the flow” like the many cowardly “conservatives” who are always just a couple of steps behind the progressives as society moves ever farther away from right reason.
As such, there are any number of issues – feminism, gay “rights,” immigration and culture, race, Islam, welfare, the divorce industry, and much, much more – about which red-pilled individuals will absolutely horrify not only SJWs, but also mainstream “conservatives.” These cuckservatives think they’re being “bold and edgy” when they support the 2nd amendment. Let’s see them start telling the truth about transsexualism being a mental illness, or about the implication of IQ disparities between different racial groups. It’s when you get into those realms that you start separating the men from the boys. Yet, it is falsehood in those realms which enables so much of the social decay and rot that we see today. We need to speak the truth in these realms, regardless of who doesn’t like it.
In summation, being “red-pilled” simply means this – being willing to speak the truth even when the world system is against you, being willing to “wake up” to a reality through which both sides of the uniparty-driven political spectrum would rather you continue to blissfully doze. The only way to change the system so as to return it to a traditional, genuinely reality-based one is to continue to encourage as many as possible to take the red pill.
“Well, in this particular excerpt it’s used to imply that any conservative who doesn’t hold or express white supremist views is somehow cuckolded.”
Uh huh. Told to you by the same sources that constantly lie to you on everything else, but that’s just gotta be true, right?
An old FR classic.
A Philadelphia school crossing guard bumped into a kid who called him “fatso” every day and decided to knock him out.
I cannot take credit for it, but it was a classic of old guys.
“http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2544557/posts?page=9";
“This just in: 14 year old boy learns that a 60 year old man arrives at that stage of life after having been a soldier/longshoreman/police officer/martial arts expert/sharpshooter/corrections officer/serial killer/ex-con/construction laborer/professional boxer/hitman or any combination thereof. These experiences are combined with the use or abuse of drugs and alcohol over a period of decades and then filtered with prejudices, relational disappointments, frustrations, and a fear of what the future holds. Lapping over all of this is a wash of irrational anger that the powers he once commanded are slipping through his fingers. Now from behind the young man’s lifted blinders, he can clearly see that he has been in the presence of an infinitely dangerous predator with skills, experience, and motives that are far beyond his comprehension. If he has wisdom, the young man would make amends to the elder and thank him for administering a lesson that may well extend his years on this planet. If not, I wouldn’t give him odds past 16.”
"...but also mainstream “conservatives.” These cuckservatives think they’re being “bold and edgy” when they support the 2nd amendment. Let’s see them start telling the truth about transsexualism being a mental illness, or about the implication of IQ disparities between different racial groups. It’s when you get into those realms that you start separating the men from the boys.Nobody thought the term was racial, just that the application in this case implies a lack of white supremacist views.
Told to me by the excerpt posted on Free Republic.
Please keep in mind that anyone who’s not certified and approved as a PC drone neo-marxist is always slurred as a nazi by the same folk who work so hard to manufacture and maintain the opinions of those too lazy or stupid to do their own research.
It’s never a good idea to make assumptions about FReepers, but if you insist on doing so, you should play it safe and assume they’re ahead of you.
None of that has anything to do with the word in question.
The word in question does, very much apply to those who might intellectually know they’re constantly being lied to by the media but emotionally and/or psychologically constantly fall for the lies anyway.
We all need to start paying real close attention. This cultural war just starting to hot up. It only gets worse from here.
Cuck is a very appropriate term to apply to those in the GOPe that live on their knees in obedience to those who they publicly claim to oppose.
They are weak. Stupid. Spineless. Cucks.
Now, you can get all bent out of shape over it. No. One. Cares.
The fight is on. Play your virtue signaling games. Snipe at your allies behind their backs. It’s all expected, actually.
And again.
No. One. Cares.
Play time and nice nice are over.
So you can’t back your position.... No surprise there.
Can’t back my position?
How about this.
For decades now, the left has been running rampant through ALL of our institutions and positions of power.
The nice nice people of the “conservative” side have accomplished exactly nothing in slowing them down, let alone stopping them. Not. One. Thing.
That time is over. You can, of course, ignore the situation. Your choice. But there’s been a rather serious sea change recently.
Now, the fight is being fought by people who actually understand that this is a fight. A fight to the knife and the knife to the hilt.
Play time is over. The nice nice types had their chance. They failed. They’re no longer relevant.
The best they can do is try to get in the way of those that are fighting the fight that they, themselves, should be fighting but wont because they can’t even comprehend that this is an actual fight. It’s not a game.
You can have the last word. I’m done.
This is how you conduct your glorious fight? By calling names and running away?
Ain’t that the truth!
Much of what you say is true. Without those who actually saw this election as the street brawl it was, we’d be about to witness the swearing in of HRC.
Mitt Romney played nice. John McCain played nice. Playing nice with the left gets you nothing but the loss of everything most of us hold dear. The Marquis of Queensbury rules are just fine as long as both sides abide, but we are in a place where one side played nice, and the other set about destroying the country and its institutions, brick by brick.
Between the genteel losers in the republican party like Mr. Romney, Mr. McCain, Mr. Graham, Mr. Flake, Ms. Collins and scores of others, give me a guy who at least understands that this is war, not the Harvard debating society. If some don’t like the word “cuck”, don’t use it. I don’t, it’s not my style (some of this is, in case you haven’t noticed, a generational thing) but I absolutely understand those who do, and don’t fault them a bit for their choice of sobriquet.
Basically, an ultimate wimp, a sellout, a two-faced cowardly type, usually self-serving. The opposite of “a standup guy not afraid to tell the truth as he sees it.” Modern, more insulting version of “RINO”, favored by people under 30, as far as I can see.
The theories in posts 13 and 15 are incorrect. The explanation in post 35 is the most accurate. Younger conservatives use the term to show contempt for conservatives-in-name-only. You see it a lot on Reddit's Trump pages. I do not believe that liberals invented the term, but rather that conservatives invented it to show contempt for people such as McCain or Graham who betray conservative values or positions while feeling entitled to the votes of conservatives.
It's not enough to simply hold "conservative" positions. Some people do so because they regard them as sound and logical. Others do because they are the traditional positions of either America or "western civilization." To hold such positions for these reasons is to miss the point entirely.
Homosexuality is wrong because G-d says so. Abortion is wrong when and because G-d says so. Everything that is right or wrong is so because G-d says so. Merely replacing a secular liberalism with a secular conservatism is inadequate.
Similarly, the Jews were chosen by G-d. The Torah was written by G-d. Any one, whatever his other positions might be, who opposes the Jewish people is in opposition to G-d, just like the homosexuals and abortionists are. Anti-Jewish, anti-Israel "conservatives" are a curse to our cause and will only bring Divine punishment on us. And I think we've had enough of that for these past eight years (in fact, much longer than that).
All the enemies of the Jewish People are evil, for that reason. I will have absolutely nothing to do with any of them except to oppose them all the way.
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