RWDT XX: The System Is Kapp Putsch

[Fahran]

In a similar vein of thought, Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka were basically correct about the warped industrialized hell-scape that swallowed humanity beginning in the late nineteenth century. We've been reduced increasingly to the status of automata functioning like replaceable cogs in the machine of a regimented and arbitrary society where moral imagination has progressively become a rarity and where the divine and the aesthetic have become contemptible to so-called civilized people who seek to sate only their wanton appetites. Kierkegaard's knight of the faith would be indistinguishable to many from a terrorist fanatic.

[Cekoviu]

In a similar vein of thought, Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka were basically correct about the warped industrialized hell-scape that swallowed humanity beginning in the late nineteenth century. We've been reduced increasingly to the status of automata functioning like replaceable cogs in the machine of a regimented and arbitrary society where moral imagination has progressively become a rarity and where the divine and the aesthetic have become contemptible to so-called civilized people who seek to sate only their wanton appetites. Kierkegaard's knight of the faith would be indistinguishable to many from a terrorist fanatic.

You know, this idea of the automatization of humanity and workers was really well-captured by Charlie Chaplin and the original Sonic the Hedgehog (the latter albeit alluding to it less explicitly). The fact that we've been parodying this for years really makes you think about the selfishness of the ruling class and the failings of capitalism. :^|

[Hanafuridake]

I'm gonna be honest with you guys, i've been pretty fed up with just forum politics recently. Posting witty comments or putting up meme's on r/pcm really isn't doing it for me anymore. I an genuinely frustrated with the society I live and genuinely want to take action in changing it now. The problem being my job, in that as I am a soldier, it would be wrong of me to come off as overly political while in Uniform. I've only got two more years in my contract, but I've effectively gone stir crazy. I can wait another two years, but it's hard because I recognize that I am currently living at a pivotal moment in history. Feels bad man...

Not really possible right now because of quarantine, but participating in cultural and religious activities in a communal setting can be a really good way to experience right-wing values without necessarily being overtly political. Cultivating a traditional sensibility one step at a time is the best way to change society.

[Exalted Inquellian State]

Ok, so what are your thoughts on Karl I/IV/III of Austria and a bunch of other places?

[Salus Maior]

Ok, so what are your thoughts on Karl I/IV/III of Austria and a bunch of other places?

An incredibly good man who came to the throne at the worst possible time.

“Emperor Karl is the only decent man to come out of the war in a leadership position, yet he was a saint and no one listened to him. He sincerely wanted peace, and therefore was despised by the whole world. It was a wonderful chance that was lost.”

[Hanafuridake]

Ok, so what are your thoughts on Karl I/IV/III of Austria and a bunch of other places?

Ngl I find it kind of funny that the Slavs hated them for being tyrants while the Nazis hated them for being too benevolent to the Slavic populace.

[Salus Maior]

Ok, so what are your thoughts on Karl I/IV/III of Austria and a bunch of other places?

Ngl I find it kind of funny that the Slavs hated them for being tyrants while the Nazis hated them for being too benevolent to the Slavic populace.

Funnily enough, Karl spent a lot of time pardoning falsely accused Slavic soldiers.

There was a paranoia among the Austrian officers that their slavic soldiers were trying to undermine the military.

[Deacarsia]

An incredibly good man who came to the throne at the worst possible time.

“Emperor Karl is the only decent man to come out of the war in a leadership position, yet he was a saint and no one listened to him. He sincerely wanted peace, and therefore was despised by the whole world. It was a wonderful chance that was lost.”

This.

[The New California Republic]

I'm gonna be honest with you guys, i've been pretty fed up with just forum politics recently.

[...]

On another note, I am considering setting up a subreddit; r/AuthoratativeSource.

A subreddit dedicated to analyzing MSM stories for misinformation and propaganda. Any tips or ideas y'all might have?

Going from the forums to Reddit is not an improvement.

[Fahran]

Going from the forums to Reddit is not an improvement.

It's pretty much a horizontal move as far as I can see.

[Fahran]

Ok, so what are your thoughts on Karl I/IV/III of Austria and a bunch of other places?

An incredibly good man who came to the throne at the worst possible time.

“Emperor Karl is the only decent man to come out of the war in a leadership position, yet he was a saint and no one listened to him. He sincerely wanted peace, and therefore was despised by the whole world. It was a wonderful chance that was lost.”

^ This.

[Fahran]

You know, this idea of the automatization of humanity and workers was really well-captured by Charlie Chaplin and the original Sonic the Hedgehog (the latter albeit alluding to it less explicitly). The fact that we've been parodying this for years really makes you think about the selfishness of the ruling class and the failings of capitalism. :^|

I'd argue that it extends well beyond the ruling class and capitalism, however. The problem is hegemonic and occurs no less frequently among the dregs and anti-establishment segments of society or in many of the modern challenges to the capitalist order. Socialism, in particular, earns my contempt on that front because it still discusses man solely in terms of his labor in many cases and such narrow discussions, even when animated with quasi-religious zeal, do not raise us above the level of Sisyphus. Some socialists went and still do go beyond this but that requires a break with the conventional talking points and theory.

[Bear Stearns]

Trump's winning Minnesota this November. I'll throw out my Venmo and bet on it.

[Diopolis]

You know, this idea of the automatization of humanity and workers was really well-captured by Charlie Chaplin and the original Sonic the Hedgehog (the latter albeit alluding to it less explicitly). The fact that we've been parodying this for years really makes you think about the selfishness of the ruling class and the failings of capitalism. :^|

I'd argue that it extends well beyond the ruling class and capitalism, however. The problem is hegemonic and occurs no less frequently among the dregs and anti-establishment segments of society or in many of the modern challenges to the capitalist order. Socialism, in particular, earns my contempt on that front because it still discusses man solely in terms of his labor in many cases and such narrow discussions, even when animated with quasi-religious zeal, do not raise us above the level of Sisyphus. Some socialists went and still do go beyond this but that requires a break with the conventional talking points and theory.

What do you expect from materialism?

Trump's winning Minnesota this November. I'll throw out my Venmo and bet on it.

Probably. Although it does depend on how quickly he puts down the riots.

[Cekoviu]

You know, this idea of the automatization of humanity and workers was really well-captured by Charlie Chaplin and the original Sonic the Hedgehog (the latter albeit alluding to it less explicitly). The fact that we've been parodying this for years really makes you think about the selfishness of the ruling class and the failings of capitalism. :^|

I'd argue that it extends well beyond the ruling class and capitalism, however. The problem is hegemonic and occurs no less frequently among the dregs and anti-establishment segments of society or in many of the modern challenges to the capitalist order. Socialism, in particular, earns my contempt on that front because it still discusses man solely in terms of his labor in many cases and such narrow discussions, even when animated with quasi-religious zeal, do not raise us above the level of Sisyphus. Some socialists went and still do go beyond this but that requires a break with the conventional talking points and theory.

To some degree, but the subservience and dehumanization of laborers under capitalism labor is criticized and discarded by socialism in favor of a (nominal) valuation of workers beyond being simply automata. Certainly, purely worker-focused forms of socialism are a problem and we should be incorporating social justice beyond solely economic matters, but I don't think capitalism and socialism can be considered equally bad with regards to this, if you get my drift.

[Taihei Tengoku]

Under socialism all this won't matter because the secret police will disappear all the annoying eggheads

[The New California Republic]

Probably. Although it does depend on how quickly he puts down the riots.

Not that quickly by the looks of it.

[Aclion]

NS staff is a good example of the failings, incompetency, bias and general shortcomings inherent to solely private and volunteer ventures and is a good test case for right libertarian views on a micro scale. What say you fellow right wingers?

Pretty sure NS staff are MSS.

[Nilrahrarfan]

I'm gone for fucking twelve hours and you retards managed to get Questers banned and Nap Deated. Good job, RWDT.

That's NSG in a nutshell

[Joohan]

I've always been a real bloomer but... I dunno man, the race riots have got me feeling bleak. It's never been this bad before. It's LA 1992, but everywhere. I remember Ferguson and all the other smaller incidents that have happened before, but those never really dampened my optimism.

What absolutely slays me as of recent, is how people all across social media are justifying and supportive of the murder and mayhem. I'm a generally chill guy, but that so many people are not only okay with the anarchy and violence but supportive of it astounds me! Like it were that people just gave up on civil society because violence seemed more cathartic and convenient. People are even trying to compare the butchery in the streets to the Boston Tea Party.

There is no coming back from Lord of the Flies. You don't just go back to normal after cheering on looters as they burn down your neighbors business and beat him senseless in the streets. If anarchy and barbarism was the great American democracy that the founding fathers had conceived of, then American democracy was a mistake.

[Nilrahrarfan]

I'm gonna be honest with you guys, i've been pretty fed up with just forum politics recently.

[...]

On another note, I am considering setting up a subreddit; r/AuthoratativeSource.

A subreddit dedicated to analyzing MSM stories for misinformation and propaganda. Any tips or ideas y'all might have?

Going from the forums to Reddit is not an improvement.

Still better than me, when I go to /pol/.

[Bear Stearns]

There is an interesting take I read about the Civil Rights movement, integration, and busing that occurred after World War II in Northern cities. The Democratic Party in the North was largely a contest between wealthy whites (usually Yankee Protestants) who based their power in their business connections, and white ethnics (Irish, Italians, Poles) who based their power in their ethnic neighborhoods and local political machines. While the end to segregation in the South was motivated primarily by moral terms, the shit that went down in Northern cities was an ethnic power play by wealthy whites to break-up the power of European ethnic neighborhoods in many cities by essentially destroying their communities and forcing them to move to the suburbs to dilute their power.

In response to this, white ethnics went overwhelmingly for Nixon.

Not sure if this is 100% true, and I'll have to find the article, but it was pretty interesting.

[Taihei Tengoku]

Probably totally accurate. The mandarin caste of whites and their river valley orbiters defected against the hill tribes in the 60s and the hill tribes finally caught on in the summer of 2015

[Salus Maior]

I've always been a real bloomer but... I dunno man, the race riots have got me feeling bleak. It's never been this bad before. It's LA 1992, but everywhere. I remember Ferguson and all the other smaller incidents that have happened before, but those never really dampened my optimism.

What absolutely slays me as of recent, is how people all across social media are justifying and supportive of the murder and mayhem. I'm a generally chill guy, but that so many people are not only okay with the anarchy and violence but supportive of it astounds me! Like it were that people just gave up on civil society because violence seemed more cathartic and convenient. People are even trying to compare the butchery in the streets to the Boston Tea Party.

There is no coming back from Lord of the Flies. You don't just go back to normal after cheering on looters as they burn down your neighbors business and beat him senseless in the streets. If anarchy and barbarism was the great American democracy that the founding fathers had conceived of, then American democracy was a mistake.

America has had riots before.

Probably way worse ones during the Civil Rights era.

[Bear Stearns]

I've always been a real bloomer but... I dunno man, the race riots have got me feeling bleak. It's never been this bad before. It's LA 1992, but everywhere. I remember Ferguson and all the other smaller incidents that have happened before, but those never really dampened my optimism.

What absolutely slays me as of recent, is how people all across social media are justifying and supportive of the murder and mayhem. I'm a generally chill guy, but that so many people are not only okay with the anarchy and violence but supportive of it astounds me! Like it were that people just gave up on civil society because violence seemed more cathartic and convenient. People are even trying to compare the butchery in the streets to the Boston Tea Party.

There is no coming back from Lord of the Flies. You don't just go back to normal after cheering on looters as they burn down your neighbors business and beat him senseless in the streets. If anarchy and barbarism was the great American democracy that the founding fathers had conceived of, then American democracy was a mistake.

America has had riots before.

Probably way worse ones during the Civil Rights era.

19th Century riots had deaths in the mid-hundreds.