o also

while reading up on the q stuff, especially that take by the game designer (thanks haggis), i realised what it all reminded me of:

The Third Wave (experiment) - Wikipedia.

like totally

https://i.ibb.co/pKT72VM/1611183920558.png

Not my president

Ps yall got any vegan shaman meals

so who's excited for 2024 ??

I've seen both pretty closely, and yup, the "inner city leftie" is absolutely a thing and yeah, it can be pretty distasteful. On the flip side of that though, the "rural hick" is absolutely a thing as well, and IMO is a lot more problematic. Neither extreme is great, and there does need to be a middle ground there somewhere - while ignoring the conservatives can lead to some chaos as a myriad new ideas come and go, but ignoring the progressives can lead to complete stagnation, and that's basically death. Athens/Sparta is the textbook example there.

So is it tradition now for the loser to contest the election so hard that they hurt their party again?

i think tradition flew away a long time ago it's anything goes now

I live in Lincoln Park I can assure you it's not hipster

It's rich jewish mom's and big ten people from Michigan State

You gotta go all way to west logan to find a hipster these days

I am excited for 2021 - this is all Biden's now. I can't wait to see how he solves all the problems Trump couldn't!

I***8217;m sure he will make mistakes

But not being a huge egotistical narcissistic Twitter maniac will be a huge improvement

What makes you think the "rural hick" is more dangerous? The ultraprogressives tend to drive societal change through education and workplace reforms. What does the hick do? Form a militia?

They obviously do not care what any 'hicks' think. Theirs was a coup and they know people know it. In our face blatant, the erosion is in all of D.C. and has been festering for a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYyX...&index=33&t=0s

"..and we need the intelligence community, look at the WeaponsOfMassDestruction Russian hacking, we wouldn't have discovered it..."

gee thanks GI guys you're terrorific.. stay in D.C. and do your intelligent stuff

I'm confused, what's actually wrong with this?

Thought I went through that in the follow-up, but it probably wasn't particularly clear. No, I'm not talking about the individuals, just the mindset/philosophy.

Ultra-progressive concepts take on everything new and shiny with no real eye on where things are at present and where they've been. It can lead to too much, too soon, and overwhelm and alienate. The silver lining in there is that being open to new concepts can also lead to those "old" new concepts being discarded as well, and there's some sort of average that comes out of the wild chaos of change. While some of the changes may be a step back for some, others can come along and re-adjust that down the line.

Ultra-conservatism (ie: no change, no progress) is ultimately unsustainable. It is a complete stagnation of progress and development and will wind up being overtaken and overwhelmed - it's that isolated tribe deep in the amazon throwing spears at a passing helicopter. It's hundreds of years of Spartan lifestyle being defeated by Athenians who have figured out the flaws in their system. It can't work in the long term.

Conservatives when "big government" introduces any kind of policy which is seen as "nanny state".

https://i.imgur.com/QgXYq3F.jpg

One of my favorite things about Trump is he got more people interested in politics, including myself.

LMFAO

Ultra-progressives have the platform. Ultra conservatives, if they even exist in any sort of meaningful numbers, are of no consequence. They don't have a say in public discourse and they seem to have little or no political clout. The Overton window has shifted massively against them. They do not pose a threat. It seems to me that its foolish to even consider them a variable. We should be worried about the far left exerting pressure on institutions and businesses.

Why?

I feel like Bernie is literally Larry David and always think of the Curb your Enthusiasm theme song when I see Bernie