Conservatives really hate all other people, even the people they should trust.
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American politics have become a death cult. Millennialism had a much deeper impact on this country than I recognized at the time.
Millennialism? I don’t think I’ve ever seen this mentioned before, can you explain?
Also called Millenarianism, it refers to the belief that a major change/end of an age/apocalypse is inbound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism
A lot of folks felt this way when the year 1999 rolled around and the "new millennium" began. For some it only got worse after September 11th 2001.
Ah, that makes perfect sense. There’s been so many articles recently about millennials being able to buy a house, or retire, or do whether that my mind was primed to read it with that generational context even if it didn’t make sense. Thanks for the clarification!
With over a century of vocabulary and terminology around these kind of social issues, it does get confusing in a hurry. That's why I try to stick to plain language and popular terms whenever possible.
A lot of this confusion is beneficial to the ones creating it. Confusing and poorly defined terms means more people spend time arguing rather than insisting the problems get discussed and solved in a rational way.
People in power benefit from the confusion. While we fight each other, we're not fighting them.
I have long held a theory that so much of the superficial orthopraxy demanded by various activist movements is intentional and designed to disrupt or retard actual action.
According to Wikipedia, Millenarianism has been around for a long time, and it sounds like the Christian "rapture" is a good example. Your post seems to imply it's a recent thing (ie. 21st century), but maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're trying to say?
It's not a recent thing but there was a pretty serious resurgence of it around waitforit the turn of the millennia back in 1999/2000, with a followup in 2012 when we all thought the Mayan calendar was going to run out for some reason. My observation is that these events had a deeper impact on world thinking than I realized at the time.
I know Hispanic, that came to the usa illegally and they hate immigrants. It's mind boggling... Selfishness is what it is.
And you know they're in favor of mass deportations until it impacts their family members that are still undocumented. They just want other people's family to be deported. It's like all those stories that came out about white Trump voters who were upset about their undocumented spouse or their favorite restaurant owner or whoever being deported.
My dad is the same. He arrived illegally in the 70s, got a factory job with pension, got his citizenship, and now supports tighter immigration control. He ate the fox news propaganda about the caravans and criminality. We troll him by not speaking Spanish to him and demand he speak "American"- he gets so mad when Spanish is not an option at a business.
Same with my Filipino dad who as a chef used hundreds of Mexican workers. When I was in grade school living in south Florida all the Brazilian kids would call all the other South American kids Mexicans.
A few years ago i saw a guy on reddit who was hispanic and he signed all his posts with "hispanics for trump"
I was sure that it was a troll or bot or something. For the first time ever i went through a guys comment history because i was sure that when i go a few month back, it's gonna be russian or something. Nope, seemed like a genuine normal ass hispanic dude who hated immigrants
Gotta pull up those ladders behind you. It's not like those immigrants could have anything in common with your family, that also immigrated to the US with very little.
This poll is weighted toward older conservatives. Of course the answer is going to be what a conservative thinks. Lots of polls are doing this now, even though older conservatives are not the largest group.
There's a huge difference between an older conservative Cuban man in Florida and a younger Mexican woman in LA.
I wonder how mass deportations would actually work. To me it sounds like seeking out undocumented or potentially undocumented people and detaining them until they are deported or can prove a legal status. It sounds like rounding people up based on some sort of identifying factor. How many people will get detained who shouldn't be?
The issue is that once the government has the infrastructure and networks to round folks up en masse, they can round groups of folk up en masse. That net will never be precise, so plenty of folks will get pulled in who shouldn't. That net can also be directed where-ever the powers that be decide, which is a real threat to liberty and justice for all.
And that's before we get to the part the ethics and issues behind our immigration policy in the US.
Yeah, but we’ll have the infrastructure for the next mass drag net of society. Sure, everyone expects that to be trans people… but those redneck morons don’t realize we have to take all the guns next. All the guns. The infrastructure will be in place.
Exactly. Everyone's on the list, eventually.
We already are...
Y'all 20 years too late jfc
How can we best get involved and support the cause?
- support net neutrality and privacy policies/laws. don't fall for the terrorist and children abuse tropes
- follow proper OpSec and protect your privacy online and off. this is complex and requires some changes in life style.
- switch jobs to get pay raises, this one is not obvi but if you aint got cash, you aint fighting... take care of yourself first, then start thinking bigger picture, family, friends, community, society. you need to be able to educate people around you and for family you have to pay extra costs that come with above choices. it is not cost prohibitive, but does require planning etc
But really we are fucked, my bet is that past the point of no return, time do this was around 2001 and nobody did it, fucking boomers (at least most of them did not do shit).
Just because the fight is futile, does not mean we have to give up any more dignity.
The original poll, for those curious: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/cbsnews_20240609_1.pdf
5. If the 2024 presidential election were being held today between Joe Biden, the Democrat, and Donald Trump, the Republican, who would you vote for?
Among likely voters, including those leaning toward Biden or Trump
Joe Biden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49%
Donald Trump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50%
Someone else/third party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0%
The 2-party state lives on.
How can the support for Not Sure be so low? He's the smartest man to exist, and he solved the water crisis!
We should be building those systems regardless. Also, dont accept defeat so easily. Find the moderates and fence sitters in your area. Talk to them. Show them the expert opinions, how closely Trump is mimicking dictator rhetoric and behavior. We beat him once, and we can do it again. But not if we just let the Democrats do their thing. We have to push this ourselves to the hand sitters. Also, if you can get even 1 no vote to change to Biden thats a victory.
Reminds me of "The Persuaders." Great book. This comes from a Guardian review on it:
By far the most fascinating and potentially useful case study is that of Anat Shenker-Osorio, the communications strategist for progressive causes, whose tactics, pegged to the data, have exposed a lot of shortfalls in leftwing political campaigning. Shenker-Osorio points out that when people get frightened, they skew right; when they feel compassion and common cause with their fellow humans, they skew left.