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[Hasbinbad]

politics is still just religion.

it's about control. no king ever really believed in jesus magic, but you behave better (produce more [not you the person, but you the serfs {in aggregate}]) if you think he does.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Look, I thought of a way to maybe get through to you. Your observation has empirical data to support it.



Here is the simple formula. People have replaced religion with politics. This has good and bad consequences, and neutral consequences.



When you accuse the left of using politics, and you yourself discuss and are clearly "invested" in politics, it proves your point more than you perhaps would like. For you too are falling away, invested not in God but man. Politics.



I'm a heathen with nothing to lose. That means unlike people who believe they immortal, time is a naturally scarce resource. A bunch of chuckleheads screaming for pronouns and bathroom access, or guns and God, is not nearly as fun as nearly anything else in life except perhaps anal prolapse. You got that prolapse draggin behind you, ain't gonna get no crack even if you say please.

It’s a matter of how we incorporate our investment in politics into how we see ourselves

The left, as I see it, like to incorporate a sense of moral superiority into their personal sense of self-worth. They get that moral superiority by using an “oppression index” type of hierarchy given to them by propagandists to decide which intersectional group has it the worst in America, then focusing on helping those going from the most disadvantaged up while simultaneously pretending that resources are infinite. Sort of like how Jon Stewart one time sarcastically commented “free money and unicorns for everyone!” or something to that nature

The big change in the last decade or so is the left has stopped giving a fuck about any right wing, whether that’s a poor or a black right wing person, etc. If they’re right wing, fuck them, they’re the enemy. So their altruism comes across as hollow in my mind. A true saint would be willing to forgive and care for literally everyone (maybe barring the most extreme outliers)

How I am like the right is I don’t mind telling people “no”, or admitting that some people might just be completely fucked by circumstance. I wouldn’t say it’s that I don’t care, but maybe that I don’t care enough, or that I am too much of a realist

I have no problem taking the moral lowground. I am the person on the lifeboat pushing people back with the oars, because if too many people climbed on, the entire boat goes down and everyone drowns. The left doesn’t want people like me, but any system with limited resources NEEDS people like me to tell someone “sorry, you might just be fucked”. And yes, maybe one day that fucked person would be me too

But yes, you are correct that I am not all that religious. Although I don’t see politics as my “replacement” religion, because like I said, I take the moral lowground in a lot of areas, politically

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Less than 200 years. That's a couple handfuls of generations. We didn't even know there was a "galaxy" in the sense of there being other galaxies until Hubble. And we didn't know their were billions of *visible* galaxies ... until Hubble!


So we wonder why people are rustled. Alvin Toffler called it "future shock" -- the future happens too fast for human groups to digest it. This was back in the 60's. It creates disorientation, or what Durkheim, 100 years early in the 19th century, called "anomie" -- a feeling of normlessness. Confusion happens when people do not know which way is up.


SO just, you know, pop in an 8-Track of Europe 72, and just realize, all this fury? Your youth and your best mind is passing by, and you are thinking some boogie man gonna get us. It ain't gonna happen man. You just got some bad acid.

[Trexller]

sorry op ended up having to work late, ill come up with something special for ya later

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Trexller [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

sorry op ended up having to work late, ill come up with something special for ya later

I know how hard it was for you to stop typing, and I applaud your efforts.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

WTF is he trying to do, destroy RNF?



Look, IGNORE THAT BULLSHIT. That was my goddam valet, Chang.

[Hasbinbad]

not a single one

[aussenseiter]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

again confusing the left with liberals.

you will find not a single leftist that does not say that any capitalism sucks.

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

not a single one

Yes there are lots of morons.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by aussenseiter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes there are lots of morons.

iknowyouarebutwhatami

[aussenseiter]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

iknowyouarebutwhatami

Can't we both be morons? Solidarity, brother.