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1069 sats \ 5 replies \ @BountifulB 28 Jan
A-men!
I tried to make friends with some Blue Pilled artists and musicians who seemed intelligent, fun and had a sense of humor. Things didn't work out because they cancelled me for having different political views. Then I realized that these people were the total opposite of stackers: they were slackers. Not planners, savers or survivors.
If there was a crisis or confrontation of any sort, they would be either be ground beef or sheeple zombies.
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597 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 29 Jan
Is it possible that maybe they canceled you because you're an asshole?
You sidling up to a group of people you think are cool, and then you having the sudden realization that actually they're all terrible and stupid and worthless after they reject you, strikes me as a possible opportunity to apply Occam's Razor.
Or maybe you're right, they're ground beef.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BountifulB 29 Jan
Nah bro, I have been cancelled by a number of people... even childhood friends... for political wrongthink. There was no argument or conflict - I posted a photo of me at an event for a political candidate they disagreed with and they unfollowed, etc.
I know someone who lost a friend of 40+ years for being unvaccinated: the woke friend was so terrified of COVID she refused to meet in person for over 2 years unless the other friend wore a mask in her presence. The unvaccinated friend politely refused to mask up. Their friendship deteriorated rapidly and is basically non-existent today.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 29 Jan
We have probably different views, born in a different country and living in a different time zone, but when I read this I feel like an invisible link is there.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 29 Jan
Do we need Slacker News?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scholarhacker 29 Jan
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 28 Jan
One interpretation of this is that The State is competing with men or at least The State is being asked to compete with men. Though, it's unclear to me if women become conservative after marriage or just tend get married if they are conservative. The former is consistent with The State competing with men.
A related idea that I also like is The Market competing with family members. For good or for bad, intentional or not, institutions change whatever came before them. It's just especially disturbing to see institutions replace roles that are fundamental to our nature and do an awful job of it. Worse, when institutions form in a bottom-up way only to do awful jobs, it suggests we were doing an even worse job before they arrived.
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969 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 29 Jan
Just as it's generally a pretty bad deal when the market is asked to assume a bunch of responsibility that community previously handled, it's probably the sign of a poisoned world when the state takes it on.
And then you occasionally have the best of both, e.g., taking care of old people is now almost wholly a market service, which then at nearly the speed of light becomes a state service after the old people burn all their income so they don't have to pay any of it on their own care. I can't think of a more pathological example than that one, although maybe there are some.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Design_r 29 Jan
I was always impressed by the US duality Red❤️ or Blue💙, eh! just hope some day you all (including @balajis) could go a bit forward and looks at all the shades that exist between two colours.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zarko 29 Jan
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