based = biased?
James Lindsay is an interesting case; it’s like watching a Leftist slowly pull the scales away from his eyes. His story is a modern version of the intellectuals from 100 years ago who suddenly realized that Marx was garbage.
James Lindsay is brilliant.
Never heard the term before. It seems awkward to me.
Thanks for posting.
“Evil people support each other. That is their chief strength.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - “Gulag Archipelago”
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
My goodness, reading this thread I feel so young and hip and “with it.” Ya dig? It is already passing as my actual hip is hurting. It was nice while it lasted.
If you don’t know what “based” means in this context, do whatever your parents did to figure out what you meant by “cool.”
The author is in his early 40’s, making him a late GenXer or very early millennial, so your GenZ grandkids also might not actually know the term. It’s a term that people in the aged 35 to 45 range used a lot online a few years ago. It’s a bit of a throwback to hear it now.
Sturdy, well-founded, in a cultural sense. It can also be extended to mean right-wing in an approving way, so still sturdy and well-founded in a cultural sense.
ALL “progressive/left” power originates from Electoral Fraud. ALL urban decline commences with electoral fraud. ALL OF IT.
The disenfranchised voters then leave...taking their money and their businesses..allowing the criminals to run the show.
Electoral Fraud ALWAYS precedes Leftism and Progressivism..because at the end of the day..Leftism is essentially a disordered mind/mental illness...and most people who can hold a job and are productive enough to be taxpayers are not mentally ill and reason just fine.
Those aiding and abetting local Electoral Fraud then get “theirs’ from the process starting in motion the urban declines. In the 50/60/70’s it was the bookies/the mob, by the 70/80/90’s the dope cartels, by now it has evolved into human trafficking with manifold different expressions as outlined in multiple places on the interwebs
Once the fraudulent processes are in place the networks of control assembled from decades of accumulated dirt and control crimes on one another in local and state and national politics layer and layer into a massive social/administrative/economic national mess. A slow “progression”into a nationwide dystopia
A man with a penis who puts on a dress and demands that I call him “her” is just a man with a penis in a dress.
A is A.
This.
We could change course almost overnight if we had that essential quorum, that critical mass, but individually everyone's chicken. Just imagine what the govt would be open to conceding if the right number of taxpayers decided not to enable anymore, even if it meant not working for some indeterminate amount of time. (And for sure that time would be short because the cities would burn down in a shorter time still, if the govt started to run dry.)
If you earn less than $12k a year, you don't have to file. It'll chafe, but you can live on that. And there's no Directive 10-289 requiring you to stay on the job.
Or if you can't make it on $12k, just apply for those lovely benefits. Food stamps; free heat; free phone; medicaid; cash!
Govt wants socialism, let's give 'em socialism, good and hard! Become a havenot. It's legal.
Great post, generated a great discussion also, thanks for posting.
But, should be noted, that it isn't pleasant to have to redpill people living comfortably in their lukewarm, fake delusions, that politicians, corporations, and greedy multi-billionaires "care" deeply about them, and wish them no harm.
(The only explanation for this unquestioning trust, of the ultra wealthy, that I can think of, is that most people assume, that these NWO types are just like them, only with tons of money. And then they think about what they would do, if "they" won, or were given a large sum of money, that "they" would want to help their friends, family, and that "they" would also try to do something for charity. They couldn't imagine that money would turn someone into a monstrous parasite, filled with resentment, and hatred for all mankind.)
This is why it is so hard to wake people up to these horrible globalist's true desires: that they want them (the populace) sterilized, catalogued, controlled, enslaved, or dead, and might even resort to crimes against humanity, to achieve their evil goals.
Add to this that there is no law and order whatsoever in this country, (no arrests, and seems the entire system is corrupt and/or conpromised), makes red pilling a most difficult task .
Then there's the mocking bird media's contributions to the dumbed down public's brainwashing: They are constantly pushing lie after lie, 24/7, about our country, and Constitution, while covering up, or outright censoring, anything that goes against, or exposes, the global elite's plans. This ensures that everyone awake, has their work cut out for them, in trying to inform the rest.
That said, the article is spot on. We have to wake people up.
We are ALL being "played" by these hideous 1%'ers trying to turn us against one another, so that we do not look at them, and their evil intent to enslave the entire world.
There is no other choice.
Not making the effort to wake everyone up, is sentencing ourselves, and the next generations to having to live under the misery of an Orwellian 1984, and Gulag Archipelago, type of tyrannical government.
But, then again, on a positive note-President Trump showed us what is possible with a true patriot in charge, (no credit going to the backstabbing weasels in the congress). It was just amazing what DJT was able to accomplish in a short time, and with what little he had to work with-Imagine what could be done with an entire government of patriots.
God please help us. Unite us and guide us. Please save our Republic
P.S. For anyone wanting to help redpill: A simple place to start might be to make copies of something you find impactful, a meme, an article, and put them in mail boxes, on porches, in grocery carts, tape to gas pumps, send to church leaders, exc...Remember how "Epstein didn't kill himself" showed up everywhere?
Even if you're not tech savy, or on Social Media much, this could be done.
It's also a way to help, if you don't particularly like the idea of talking to people.
(You could wear wear a mask and sunglasses, if feeling uncomfortable while handing out/putting up stuff. 😉)
My 2 cents.
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