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[–]ech[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Exactly -- "skin in the game" is a big part of the appeal, ditto that you get to prune which audiences are pandered-to.

I basically agree with Peter Thiel that if I have to choose between liberty and democracy, I choose liberty. But, joke's on us, because soon we're going to have neither. LOL.

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But, joke's on us, because soon we're going to have neither. LOL.

If we want to avoid that dystopia we'll have to fight for it - and not with words. You can't put Pandora back in the box without upending the board. I predict the next 6 years will be challenging and bloody. My advice to anyone I like is to get well stocked on the essentials. Long term food, lead, and precious metals. At the end of the day, violence is all that is left when words and reason have failed.

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It's difficult to predict the future now but if I had to, I'd predict a slow slide into entropy and rot. Infrastructure gradually shittier. Societal trust gradually declining. Court system less reliable, families less functional, streets less clean. But no big explosive definitive boogaloo. This could be the worst case scenario, because at least if we dramatically imploded into a full-throttle war, there would be no pretense of enforcing the old rules and nobody could stick their heads in the sand anymore. This could be a long agonizing frog-boil situation instead.

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It's difficult to predict the future now but if I had to, I'd predict a slow slide into entropy and rot. Infrastructure gradually shittier. Societal trust gradually declining. Court system less reliable, families less functional, streets less clean. But no big explosive definitive boogaloo. This could be the worst case scenario, because at least if we dramatically imploded into a full-throttle war, there would be no pretense of enforcing the old rules and nobody could stick their heads in the sand anymore. This could be a long agonizing frog-boil situation instead.

You sound like me on my blackpill days. I know plenty of people and groups that won't stand for it, I just don't know if it'll be enough. :/

[–]ech[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is theoretically possible we know some of the same groups. I'm very blackpilled on the "will it be enough" question, but candidly and crassly, I am rich enough to survive even if it's not. I regret what is in store for normies, however.

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It is theoretically possible we know some of the same groups. I'm very blackpilled on the "will it be enough" question

Quite probably. I'm willing to die for what's right, but I'm not about to throw my life away just to make a political statement. Too many dependents for the young man mentality.

I am rich enough to survive even if it's not.

Aye, if it comes to that it'll be across the entire english speaking western world. I'm not keen on learning a new language.

I regret what is in store for normies, however.

I do and I don't. That Ron Paul meme, "You could have prevented this" springs to mind.

[–]ech[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not keen on learning a new language.

lol I am looking at real estate in Eastern Europe, but grudgingly.

I do and I don't. That Ron Paul meme, "You could have prevented this" springs to mind.

Yeah but foresight isn't in normies' nature. The elites who should have husbanded them let them down.