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[–]america_first_1776 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And now people really are facing censorship for their opinions (I mean, not really, because reddit, Twitter, and Facebook are companies that can do what they want. But they have enough influence to shift public opinion and fuck a lot of stuff up on a massive scale.)

They can only do what they want because they aren't punished for being the publishers that they are under section 230. There are also legit 1st amendment arguments that these companies are operating in the "Public Square." In Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robbins, SCOTUS affirmed the California SC's ruling and held that (per wikipedia): "under the California Constitution, individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts of private shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers." It also held that: "under the U.S. Constitution, states can provide their citizens with broader rights in their constitutions than under the federal Constitution, so long as those rights do not infringe on any federal constitutional rights."

There are also other arguments involving how big tech companies are violating the Sherman Antitrust Act for anticompetitive conduct.

I think a lot of us have the same basic fears that are just expressed in different ways, through different ideologies and beliefs about what systems will work best.

The issue is that the opposition's belief about what will work best involves BOTH collectivism and multiculturalism, which have been proven time and time again to end up in failure. You can not have mass migration of different hostile cultures who refuse to assimilate and at the same time have a welfare state.

The media relies on our outrage towards each other to get us hooked on our own adrenaline and they make money off of it ...both sides 🤷‍♀️ kinda starting to feel like psychological warfare

Well, 99% of "the media" is leftist and anti-white. It's not a "warfare." It's a slaughter so far unless whites start to stand up for themselves against this madness.

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

Michael Knowles said it best in an interview with Dave Rubin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzWiHUE6YLE&t=749

With time stamp.

[–]Trajan 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s not even just a conservative thing. The Overton window has shifted so much in 5 years that those of us who would be centrists are recategorised as conservatives, alt-right, or far-right. It’s a clown world in which a gay Jew with views that would have been mainstream a decade back is now literally a Nazi.

[–]africant 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

cross posting from another relevant thread: in the 90's when gay rights was about "tolerance" and i was naive i supported it. fast forward to now with homo civil unions (not marriage) trying to force ppl to "bake the fucking cake", degenerate "pride" parades, child strippers, normalization of pedophilia, all coming from that same conglomeration, i not only don't support homo anything but i actively oppose it

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

It took the entire left shifting 7 lightyears away from me before I realized that lol. At this point I don't know what I am.

Recognizing that political discourse has shifted far to the left, and believing that this is a bad thing; that we should reverse course from where we are because something's been lost - this makes you what's called a reactionary.

The fact that it's true that we've gone so far left in such a short time, means of course that people who would have been considered center-left 10 years ago will be reactionaries now if they didn't change their views. As you observe, "conservatives were right" - they predicted the moral decay of our current age. But those before them predicted the moral decay of theirs; consider the sexual revolution and how it paved the way for LGBT rights.

Reactionaries follow this logic to its conclusion. If discourse has been shifting leftward for so long, with the conservatives predicting every step, where did things go wrong? Was it LGBT rights? Was it the sexual revolution? Was it the 19th amendment? Was it the enlightenment? Answers differ on this question, but most reactionaries would agree that we're witnessing the decline of our civilization.

I still don't agree entirely with the ideology of the right

One important thing to note about what's called "the right" is that it's not a single viewpoint. Unlike the left, which can be loosely identified as a single structure that favors egalitarianism and social justice (who admittedly disagree about how to get there), the right is simply a rejection of the left - which you also reject, making you therefore right-wing. Viewpoints that reject the egalitarianism and social justice of the left include:

  • Classical Liberalism - People should be judged and treated as though they are individuals apart from any collective. We expect inequality of outcomes given equal treatment, and any attempt to "correct" these outcomes are illiberal and therefore unjust.
  • Monarchism - Property can extend to ownership of entire peoples. A monarch with absolute power has a personal interest in the fate of his kingdom, therefore will plan for the long-term far better than a transient democratically-elected leader or a decentralized coalition of syndicates.
  • (Right-)Libertarianism - the "Non-Aggression Principle" leads to unequal outcomes between individuals and groups; it is immoral to rectify these inequalities.
  • Fascism - The nation is a people; a group with a shared heritage, culture and language, inhabiting a territory that belongs to them. Nations are different - we should expect different outcomes between them. Within a nation, productivity should be rewarded; some are more productive than others, leading to natural inequality.
  • Civic Nationalism - The nation is an idea; a group with a shared set of values, who happen to occupy a territory where those ideas predominantly originated. Nations are different - some ideas are worse than others. We should reject ideas that threaten the nation even if that means (on average) discriminating against certain groups.
  • Islamic Theocracy - Allah is the one true God and Mohammad is his prophet. This divine truth reveals that the world must be brought into submission to Allah, with a unification of Islam and the state.

[–]Shadow_Death 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Alright OP, since you took that plunge I will suggest that you watch this time stamped part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzWiHUE6YLE&t=749

Also if you're able to find it watch "Uncle Tom" by Larry Elder.