How will Americans adjust to life in an authoritarian state?

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24 Oct 2023, 10:38 pm

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What exactly do you mean by "leftish identity politics"? Does your definition of "woke" include, for example, everyone who has ever marched in an LGBT Pride Parade?


No, and this is why I keep including words like "totalizing" and "identitarian" to distinguish them from less identity focused activists. The defining feature of wokeness is how it flattens everyone to their identity, like that's the most important thing about them, and the entire ideology is built around that and who's more oppressed.


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25 Oct 2023, 12:43 am

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No, and this is why I keep including words like "totalizing" and "identitarian" to distinguish them from less identity focused activists. The defining feature of wokeness is how it flattens everyone to their identity, like that's the most important thing about them, and the entire ideology is built around that and who's more oppressed.

But, regarding "identitarian," see my post here.


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25 Oct 2023, 7:45 am

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But, regarding "identitarian," see my post here.


I'm not using it colloquially, I'm using the technical meaning, which I've previously explained to you, as well as making it even more clear in my explanation of flattening that you're replying to. You seem downright determined not to understand.


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25 Oct 2023, 10:23 am

Dox47 wrote:
Mona Pereth wrote:
But, regarding "identitarian," see my post here.


I'm not using it colloquially, I'm using the technical meaning, which I've previously explained to you, as well as making it even more clear in my explanation of flattening that you're replying to. You seem downright determined not to understand.

See my reply here. (And I would appreciate it if you could reply there, too. This discussion is more on-topic in the other thread than it is here.)


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25 Oct 2023, 11:53 am

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To understand the apparent mechanism, by which our government controls our propaganda that we are fed.
You need not look too much further than 9/11, debacle . Where when our President was in a elementary school
reading in or to a class and the Secret Service told him that the country was under attack . His reaction at that moment was not of a surprised or indignant reaction . Or to leave immediately to take his role as president,
. But to malinger . And sit peacefully. As a man whom was already aware of the events.

There probably wasn't much he could do until he had an opportunity to become better informed in a systematic way, and until the Secret Service was able to get him safely out of there and into a hidden location. Until both of those things happened, his best (in purely practical terms, though maybe not politically wisest) course of action was probably just to stay as calm as possible.

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Then building three was demolished,to the ground .Never stuck by any plane. And the media spin was to have us declare a War on a Country that had no apparent connection and destroy it...Not even Weapons of mass destruction were found.MOST ODD,

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Had worked in the special effects industry,( old school) NOT CGI graphics,Have seen buildings demolished in various locations aswell . The Building were demolished , via demolition,by all outward appearances.

Please see my comments here about the WTC demolition theory.


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25 Oct 2023, 5:38 pm

i understand your opinion , but after having several extremely tall hotel casinos demolished over the years in
Las Vegas.. Was not aware of anything different in all appearances between the WTC towers and building 3
And the hotel/ casinos being demolished.. but to give creedence to appearances you might not care as much about collateral damage to surrounding structures ..There Was absolutely no reason for building three to go down the way it did.. in all version of videos ,i have seen , in its demolition . Snd am not really considering that the structure would go diwn evenly , even if the metalurgy of the main structural beams gave away. As it would have obviously not affect all the structural metallurgy of the entire building and more over the structural demolition of building three.
and to imply otherwise causes me to feel your assesment of the stuctural damage in the way you potrayed was even remotely possible.. And notice you did not seem to address the demoition techniques used in building threes demolition. But as i should use disclaimers regardless of the overt nature of the demolition...IMHO


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08 Nov 2024, 7:42 am

How does everyone feel about my prediction so far?


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08 Nov 2024, 11:42 am

In my wild imagination my prediction is probably close to your own but it's not gonna be like Gilead overnight

I'm more concerned about the ripple effect across the world from this


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08 Nov 2024, 12:26 pm

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How does everyone feel about my prediction so far?


Could not navigate past " the Daily Beasts paywall for this article" Concerning Trump deploying military to the streets
after day 1 in office ."


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08 Nov 2024, 1:11 pm

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MaxE wrote:
How does everyone feel about my prediction so far?


Could not navigate past " the Daily Beasts paywall for this article" Concerning Trump deploying military to the streets
after day 1 in office ."

That article must have been accessible when I posted a year ago. I am not a paid subscriber to the Daily Beast.

But my last comment was about my original premise that Trump would win the election, which a lot of commenters seemed unwilling to believe.


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