War is coming. In our lifetime(medium.com)
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War is coming. In our lifetime
https://medium.com/@sudo_script/war-is-coming-dec11bd4c334#.b97g65ysg
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This needs a (June) marking, e.g. Trump has indeed won, and:
Believing, really believing that the future doesn’t have space for you, your loved ones, and your way of life — believing that you are on the verge of extinction — is so scary that people will fight to the death for it.
That and much else he says was reified by Hillary's September speech declaring a quarter of the nation to be irredeemable. Hard to state it more plainly that "the future doesn’t have space for you, your loved ones, and your way of life"....
ADDED: see also the bottomless well of disdain for the people of "flyover country"....
On the other hand, timeline prognostication is notoriously difficult, e.g. when I got seriously into survivalism in the mid-80s the leading gurus who weren't nuclear war oriented had been predicting an irrecoverable economic collapse since some time in the '70s (and having lived through that period such predictions were not in the least crazy, although perhaps unfounded in that that sort of thing has happened many times before and "irrecoverable" (my characterization) isn't how they play out).
ADDED later, to reply to tendies123 since this topic has been killed stone cold dead by I assume the moderators:
You're attacking a strawman, white nationalists, to the extent I've observed them, do not define themselves in such an indeed "utterly asinine" way. You're also gravely mistaken about the lethallity of nuclear war, even a full out one during the Cold War would have "only" knocked the US back to roughly the Civil War era.
And, so, what do you propose to do with the "pointless people", you do realize you're completely validating the article's hypothesis?
Believing, really believing that the future doesn’t have space for you, your loved ones, and your way of life — believing that you are on the verge of extinction — is so scary that people will fight to the death for it.
That and much else he says was reified by Hillary's September speech declaring a quarter of the nation to be irredeemable. Hard to state it more plainly that "the future doesn’t have space for you, your loved ones, and your way of life"....
ADDED: see also the bottomless well of disdain for the people of "flyover country"....
On the other hand, timeline prognostication is notoriously difficult, e.g. when I got seriously into survivalism in the mid-80s the leading gurus who weren't nuclear war oriented had been predicting an irrecoverable economic collapse since some time in the '70s (and having lived through that period such predictions were not in the least crazy, although perhaps unfounded in that that sort of thing has happened many times before and "irrecoverable" (my characterization) isn't how they play out).
ADDED later, to reply to tendies123 since this topic has been killed stone cold dead by I assume the moderators:
You're attacking a strawman, white nationalists, to the extent I've observed them, do not define themselves in such an indeed "utterly asinine" way. You're also gravely mistaken about the lethallity of nuclear war, even a full out one during the Cold War would have "only" knocked the US back to roughly the Civil War era.
And, so, what do you propose to do with the "pointless people", you do realize you're completely validating the article's hypothesis?
If we limit her statement to the white nationalists of the world it is hard to argue with the idea that these people aren't irredeemable. It isn't even about morality, whiteness viewed in the purist supremacist vein can't continue to exist. You would need a purity rate of 100% which is utterly asinine. The only hope is genocide which would lead to a nuclear war ultimately killing all the white people as well. It is in this context that you can see that these are pointless people to actually have passion in their illusory hopeless supremacy.
To have passion in that viewpoint when simple logic can refute it is pretty desperate, pointless, and ultimately irredeemable.
To have passion in that viewpoint when simple logic can refute it is pretty desperate, pointless, and ultimately irredeemable.
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You start labeling people as crazy and stupid ("That’s why the crazies are not going away. Maybe Trump won’t win. The UK might even reverse Brexit.") and you preclude all hopes of reasonable dialogue.
This is definitely a case of somebody with an axe to grind and the war boogeyman to scare people into doing what "smart" people want to do.