So it’s quite the shit show? I never had any illusions that enlisting would change anyone, and in fact I’d expect the military to get more problematic people than average. I just thought they were decent at managing them.

Top comment said hetero-sectional but everybody seems to want to make him bi for some reason.

Oh I haven’t. But isn’t the discipline pretty strict? I mean I’m sure they get all kinds of randos enlisting, but aren’t they controlled very strictly during their training, to prepare them to follow orders well later?

I’m genuinely curious here. Feel free to educate me.

I appreciate putting the threatening quote right in the post. The first time I saw this posted it just mentioned death threats and then I read the article. I’d gotten halfway through it and the bad guys were still just asking, insistently but politely, to have the article changed.

What’s most annoying to me about this is that white nationalists just mash together a whole bunch of different groups who used to war with and destroy each other. Now they’re just all one “white” identity somehow. There’s never been a more fake and meaningless label for people in the history of the world.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

He does not identify as bi.

As with the whole couch meme, we’re just conjuring things out of nowhere by saying them online.

I have trouble believing that the military can’t control recruits in training.

While the whole rest of humanity hemms and haws to eventually respond with this kind of limp-dick answer, the White House keep running amok. They started a fool’s war, and are trying to drag others into it. The appropriate response is “go fuck yourself Trump.”

Oh look! An optimist!

The beatings will continue until America is great again. Apparently the strategy is to lower the bar on what “great” means by dragging the entire rest of then world down.

Oh you mean “free speech?” /s

He has another long YT video about how immigration ruined Canada. Full of stereotypes.

I get that when you want to talk about geopolitics you have to generalize a bit, but this guy generalizes hard multiple times per sentence, these big crystal palaces out of those generalizations and then fashions predictions based on the layout of those palaces. It’s all a bit facile.

Speaking of easy, someday we will realize that this is a guy who predicted Trump would win and that there would be a war with Iran and those two things are not exactly Nostradamus-worthy.

Still I like him. Good food for thought. He thinks about things at a very high level.

I hope the article begins with a few reasons I should care.

Yes in a weird way, I take heart in knowing that America’s politics have been super fucked up for most of its history. I know that sounds odd but most people I know seem to think things have just suddenly turned bad recently. I think maybe they were born during a brief respite is all. And I do think that with the fuller context, the arc of history bends in the right direction, yes, albeit with famous latency.

Decades to gather the will to act.

Seconds to start lording their superiority over the US.