I'm not quite that blackpilled. The college libs will change their minds as soon as the Starbucks and iPhones run out. Either that or they'll simply die, and either outcome is fine with me.

The point lands for me, though. Even if it's not 50% or more in support of the regime, the colonists did have a lot of support from local non-combatants. I don't have much faith in that being very high this time around.

it was too late.  They played the log game, and beat us.

How the !@#$% can capitalism exploit PUBLIC schools??

Anyway, with regard to the long game, this is the problem. Capitalists are greedy (ironically) as in a greedy algorithm. That is, under capitalism, day-to-day behavior is dictated by the best course of action in the moment, with the current available information. And this is how it should be.

The problem is that these Marxists or Maoists or whatever you want to call them are idealogues, which grants them the superpower that is hive mind. They look ahead and plan. That is how they are able to organize and coordinate long games, while the rest of us are (again, as it should be) mostly fending for ourselves.

2023-05-10 11:28 from nonservator <nonservator@uncensored.citadel.org>

Always remember that Clown World is just a distraction. Family is
everything.

"Family?" What's that?

Oh, you must mean the four legged furry things that mooch off of me and won't get a job. Yeah, it's ok I guess.

2023-05-10 22:27 from zelgomer

2023-05-10 11:28 from nonservator

<nonservator@uncensored.citadel.org>

Always remember that Clown World is just a distraction. Family is

everything.

"Family?" What's that?

Oh, you must mean the four legged furry things that mooch off of me

and won't get a job. Yeah, it's ok I guess.

Most of my four legged furry things help with the gardening and are actually grateful I let them mown my lawn.

I also have a number of two-legged feathered things that help me produce omelettes.

2023-05-09 17:15 from zelgomer

it was too late. They played the log game, and beat us.

How the !@#$% can capitalism exploit PUBLIC schools??

Anyway, with regard to the long game, this is the problem. Capitalists

are greedy (ironically) as in a greedy algorithm. That is, under

capitalism, day-to-day behavior is dictated by the best course of

action in the moment, with the current available information. And this

is how it should be.

The problem is that these Marxists or Maoists or whatever you want to

call them are idealogues, which grants them the superpower that is hive

mind. They look ahead and plan. That is how they are able to organize

and coordinate long games, while the rest of us are (again, as it

should be) mostly fending for ourselves.

You are overthinking. The core problem is simpler.

The core problem is that most non-wokes don't even want to acknowledge there is a culture war going on, and if they are forced to ackoledge it, they consider woke moves to be non-meaningful.

See, if a company releases an RPG book with a disclaimer that reads "We love gays," most non wokes who were interested in buying it before the disclaimer was known will still buy it because the disclaimer is not bad enough for them, or they consider it harmless. This allows the publisher to keep producing woke material because there is virtually no resistence. It is not a culture war because a war needs two sides fighting.

I have mentioned it earlier, but if you come from a boardgaming background you know that who you buy stuff from is a CRITICAL factor in business. The argument that capitalists feed the communist machine by purchasing communist products because communists have the most convenient deals is broken.


Imagine you are playing a 3 player economical game. You are short of funds but have a lot of metal, so you consider seling some metal to another player. Player 2 offers you half the money for your metal than Player 3. Player 3's offer is better, but Player 3 is in position to produce an army of killer robots and the only thing he lacks for doing so is metal.

What we have now is non-wokes accepting the offer of Player 3 and then getting surprised when he uses their money to build an army of killer robots and invade.


To be honest, I am finding hope because many non-wokes have been awakening during the last years. Many people who didn't want to acknowledge that buying from woke companies was feeding the woke war machine have stopped purchasing from woke companies altogether. There are woke school boards but anti-woke school boards are also gaining traction. We are 5 years late, but resistence is building up. It is just not notorious.

The core problem is that most non-wokes don't even want to acknowledge

there is a culture war going on, and if they are forced to ackoledge
it, they consider woke moves to be non-meaningful.

As I keep saying to anyone who will listen, nothing moves in the same direction forever. There are tipping points and disruptive events and many other variables.
The devil always overplays his hand. Look at the backlash happening to the Bud Light people if you really think the whole world is ignorant of the woke assault on our culture.

If you really want to piss off the woke elite, simply be an excellent citizen.
Have a job, raise a family, go to church, participate in local communities, and refuse to become addicted to anger.

The devil always overplays his hand. Look at the backlash happening

to the Bud Light people if you really think the whole world is ignorant

of the woke assault on our culture.

Not entirely comparable though. Bud Light's problem is that they forgot who their target audience is (or hired someone who never knew in the first place). When it comes to politics, their target audience isn't Bud Light drinkers.

The devil always overplays his hand. Look at the backlash happening

to the Bud Light people if you really think the whole world is ignorant

of the woke assault on our culture.

I had to look it up. So delightful.

As I said, people is awaking. This sort of thing would not have happened 5 years ago.

Right. There are some small signs that the pendulum could be swinging back a little. Perhaps we have reached Peak Woke.