For those of you who haven't yet, it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with Curtis Yarvin's "Dark Enlightenment Theory," because that's what's informing all of these chuds.
JD Vance has cited this guy. Peter Thiel is a huge fan. Based on his views, Musk is almost certainly reading this stuff.
The "theory" basically boils down to that tenet: empathy is weakness, might makes right, and it's only natural for the strong to dominate and brutalize the weak.
Remember that kid in elementary school who refused to play with anyone at recess and just spent the whole time frying ants with a magnifying glass?
That kid grew up and has an "intellectual following" now.
Or maybe do one of those oh-so-much-better things you mentioned while participating in this event that so, so many other people are participating in too?
There aren't going to be any medals, my dude. Nobody is going give you a plaque that congratulates you for trying harder at leftism then anyone else.
If you want to organize something bigger, nobody's stopping you, but nobody is impressed with the dick-waving.
Did people dislike it compared to the first one? It's got an 88% on rotten tomatoes, and anyone I've talked with about the films prefers the second one.
I agree with you, by the way, I just don't think that's the unpopular take (Ridley's opinion is meaningless at this point).
I would love for you to be right.
If you're in the US, though, voter data doesn't seem to support that.
It would be amazing to live in a country where half the populace agreed that my son has the right to simply exist in peace but I don't think we do anymore.
They got my $40 in 2012.
I absolutely loved the Wing Commander series; Wing Commander II was an embarrassingly important part of my adolescense, I love space sims, and still had fond enough memories of the name Chris Roberts that I didn't think he'd blatantly lie and steal from me.
How people are still giving these clowns money I have no idea.
Have you ever voted? Like, gone to the voting booth and voted? How about attended a caucus or primary? Because I regularly do, I'm 45, and I'm typically the youngest person in the building.
All these Verizon outages are intentional and part of the plan to invalidate the 2024 election.
We'll see it happen again on and around election day, maybe xitter will go down too.
Whole voting districts in Georgia won't report in, citing system crashes, security breaches, whatever they feel like making up. Republican Secretaries of State will declare the election compromised before vote counting even starts.
Obviously there's also a hurricane and massive flooding, hence the tinfoil hat, but let's not forget where and when we are in history, and that The Business Plot was a real thing.
Right? The two parties we have are doing such a fantastic job representing the people already, why break from the status quo now?
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