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Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

As you get older you tend to have more to lose. In those cases fear becomes much easier to sell. You'll notice conservatives almost never have any real facts behind them and their big proclamations never pan out. This is because the entire ideology is based on fear and especially when things are looking bleak these days, it sells real well.

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King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

they didn't know you hadn't seen it. would you rather waste some time looking at goatse a few times after it's no longer interesting, or go your whole life without seeing it

Im glad they've met the old friend, but yawn... They haven't even got to his subtle nuances yet. Like if you play the whole of Far Cry 4 instead of just sitting there and enjoying your crab Rangoon. You really learn there are no good guys and life is truly a road to hell paved with good intentions and gaping b holes. And only then have you achieved awareness as the goatman has.

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax
the holocaust never happened, is what I am saying

King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

the holocaust never happened, is what I am saying

Exactly.

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


when I was younger I used to not be a giant baby who rigorously scanned the political affiliation of casual acquaintances in order to avoid spending time with wrongthinkers but things have changed

gameFAQsspinoffETI
Oct 4, 2015

by Lowtax
People itt seem to be getting the wrong impression. I still like and hang out with all of my friends. Was just observing them becoming fascists

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

gameFAQsspinoffETI posted:

People itt seem to be getting the wrong impression. I still like and hang out with all of my friends. Was just observing them becoming fascists

fascism is good. it selects leaders based on their ability to set and accomplish goals and motivate followers to do the same, whereas the only quality democracy selects for in a leader is the ability to lie to large amounts of people for short amounts of time.

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008
i think a lot of white millenials go full bore fascist because despite trying to be generally inoffensive and supportive of identity politics they've been told that they're oppressors and always have been & always will be

its kind of a self fulfilling prophecy

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

unlimited shrimp posted:

i think a lot of white millenials go full bore fascist because despite trying to be generally inoffensive and supportive of identity politics they've been told that they're oppressors and always have been & always will be

its kind of a self fulfilling prophecy

actually it's because the oppression and neutralisation of anyone working in defiance of the state is the civic duty of every citizen

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

I know quite a lot people who aren't necessarily on the right wing but really like to spout rascist and homophobic bullshit whenever it's possible, with nice dash of "politically incorrect" humour. They all like anime and jrpgs so that's a nice correlation too

BigBoss
Jan 26, 2012

by Lowtax

unlimited shrimp posted:

i think a lot of white millenials go full bore fascist because despite trying to be generally inoffensive and supportive of identity politics they've been told that they're oppressors and always have been & always will be

its kind of a self fulfilling prophecy

More like dumbasses who are like, "Oh, I'm going to help revitalize the hood." So they move there then get robbed by the people they're "helping" and now they're full on John Birch society.

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?
Its probably because people leave lib dominated colleges and move to workplaces which usually don't have lib values OP.

circ dick soleil
Sep 27, 2012

by zen death robot

PCOS Bill posted:

Welcome to getting older, where everyone starts leaning more conservative unless they're complete idiots.

Conservatives usually aren't well-known for their intelligence.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
OP, I get what you mean. You see, it happened with my book club. At first we were book progressives reading stuff like Bossypants. But now we are sitting in our reading circle and someone casually drops a randism or they'll show me a "pretty interesting" book and its mein kampf

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Every day I edge closer and closer to the abyss

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot
imagine if Pepsi just stopped advertising altogether and Coke doubled their advertising

and then the Pepsi company came out publicly and said that they are gonna be just like Coke, and that people that want Pepsi are dumb basically and that they are not gonna try to get any new non-soda drinkers to become Pepsi customers, they are only going to try to steal existing Coke customers

and then some people that said they loved Pepsi started doing incredibly retarded poo poo in public like yelling at an important scientist for wearing a shirt with women on it and accusing white women with cornrows of "appropriating culture" whatever that dumbshit means

meanwhile Coke is advertising like crazy with tons of commercials and poo poo and NFL sponsorships and they are always trying to make exactly what their customers want, while always reaching out to new non-soda drinkers to try and make them new customers

Pepsi is the Democrats and Coke is the Republicans.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
I had another group of friends, like my book club, that were slowly turning right wing. But then we went swimming in my pool, which has a cocoon, and their political opinions changed back to the ones they had when they were young.

So OP, I suggest going swimming in a cocoon pool. I tried to get my book club to do it, but its hard because books can't get wet!

BrawndoTQ
Oct 18, 2001

laserghost posted:

I know quite a lot people who aren't necessarily on the right wing but really like to spout rascist and homophobic bullshit whenever it's possible, with nice dash of "politically incorrect" humour. They all like anime and jrpgs so that's a nice correlation too

it's goons! he's talking about goons!!



hey... wait a second

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This thread brought to you by a tremendous dickhead!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

circ dick soleil posted:

Conservatives usually aren't well-known for their intelligence.

They won't survive the century if we work hard

Skeleton Ape
Dec 21, 2008



Has anyone else noticed that the more a person is exposed to the real world the less they think like they did when they were in college? It's weird

Also umm in Europe our Democrats would be far right fascists, so really we have no liberal party, I don't know if you know this but I do. I know a lot about these things.

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"
I lust for death and this thread has intensified my desire ten fold.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
no OP stop being friends with retards

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

Moon Atari posted:

I'm climbing the social ladder so the people I know are getting more and more vocal about gender politics and international poverty, while also getting more and more directly responsible for and reaping the benefits of local poverty.

This. THIS.

Macasaurus
Oct 12, 2012

Moon Atari posted:

I'm climbing the social ladder so the people I know are getting more and more vocal about gender politics and international poverty, while also getting more and more directly responsible for and reaping the benefits of local poverty.

wait so where did you post before gbs, im curious about this ladder

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Moon Atari posted:

I'm climbing the social ladder so the people I know are getting more and more vocal about gender politics and international poverty, while also getting more and more directly responsible for and reaping the benefits of local poverty.

call them on their bullshit

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
op its called growing up

when ur in college its like ya everyone should hold hands and be cool and then u realize everybody is a poo poo

That Robot
Sep 16, 2004

ask me anything about robots
Buglord

City of Tampa posted:

nobody is marketing any other ideology to Americans

feel the bern

The Dipshit
Dec 21, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Nope. Not really. The biggest change I've seen is a guy go from lolbertarian to democratic socialist. Nice thing is he went from dogshit pizzaboy pay to a 6 figure dev as well while undergoing this change, when it is usually the other way around.

Hermetian
Dec 9, 2007

unlimited shrimp posted:

i think a lot of white millenials go full bore fascist because despite trying to be generally inoffensive and supportive of identity politics they've been told that they're oppressors and always have been & always will be

its kind of a self fulfilling prophecy

this.

There are a bunch of people who are pretending to be liberal because that's what they're "supposed to do," except then they get to be adults and care a lot less about what other people think. Given the choice between an ideology that says you're wrong and should feel guilty, and an ideology that says that you're OK, most people are going to pick the latter every single time.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Moon Atari posted:

I'm climbing the social ladder so the people I know are getting more and more vocal about gender politics and international poverty, while also getting more and more directly responsible for and reaping the benefits of local poverty.

But if you're up the ladder with them...

Collaborator! Bring out the guillotines!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

gusanos pinochistas

Tezzor
Jul 29, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!

gameFAQsspinoffETI posted:

when we were younger everyone I knew was across the board progressive. Nowadays we'll be drinking some beers on the porch and someone will toss out some casual racism, or ill be over at a friends house and they'll show me some "pretty interesting website" that turns out to be a holocaust denial conspiracy page

this is the vampire curse of the white race

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax
"If you aren't a vaguely leftist do-nothing when you are young, you are heartless. If you aren't a full-bore fascist by the time you are grown, you are mindless." - Kurt Cobain

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

fascism is good. it selects leaders based on their ability to set and accomplish goals and motivate followers to do the same, whereas the only quality democracy selects for in a leader is the ability to lie to large amounts of people for short amounts of time.

it's the easiest system to have regular and peaceful transfer of power which is like the #1 most important thing if you like having a functioning economy

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
No I haven't noticed this, I didn't surround myself with limp wristed faggy liberals when I was young either.

A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty
as a conservative poster id just like to post in every thread and say notice meeeeeeeeeee

Tezzor
Jul 29, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!
as a conservative poster i'd like to take this opportunity to whine about how the forums aren't funny because of liberals while i have never written anything funny in over a decade of my posting on this forum because my idea of a funny joke is a black guy shot to death holding a winning scratch ticket

Tezzor
Jul 29, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!
as a conservative poster i'd just like to say that although i am using profanity and slurs and trying to doxx you and won't stop posting i am not mad and do not care

Tezzor
Jul 29, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!
as a conservative poster i'd just like to say *insane spittle-emitting rant about total nobody on the internet who said a mean thing about my videogames*

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i was reloading
Aug 15, 2015

by zen death robot
when we were younger everyone I knew was across the board progressive. Nowadays we'll be drinking some beers on the porch and someone will toss out some casual racism, or ill be over at a friends house and they'll show me some "pretty interesting website" that turns out to be a holocaust denial conspiracy page

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