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It's pretty obvious America is heading towards some sort of filthy low level civil war like 1973-1976 in Argentina[0]. For those of you unfamiliar with this per

It's pretty obvious America is heading towards some sort of filthy low level civil war like 1973-1976 in Argentina[0]. For those of you unfamiliar with this period of time: this was the three years preceding Operation Condor and the Junta throwing people out of helicopters. A shitty period of chaos where opposing political groupings kidnapped, assassinated and otherwise destroyed each other in the streets. Cancel culture is just one aspect of it. Riots, mass shootings (hey, anyone remember Stephen Paddock shooting 500 people in Vegas? kinda reminds me of the mass murder[1] of the Montoneros at the Peron rally[2] except worse, and with a media blackout), tent cities, complete distrust of the mass media, political polarization over .... covid treatment and mitigation, clownish conspiracy theories touted on the mass media, actual conspiracies (dude totally didn't kill himself) in plain sight, people baying for blood on social media, and threatening to murder their political enemies. The classical liberal ideal of a marketplace of ideas and of coexistance with political rivals is dead and gone, and the virtues needed to sustain it basically don't exist in the population under the age of 40; aka the people who fight in violent civil wars. At some point, someone's going to go apeshit and go after the leader of the mob that canceled him. I'd say the main thing preventing it now is companies actually pay out decent settlements for firing people for political statements -leftovers from when labor unions had juice; remember labor protections, alleged lefties? The whole thing is idiotic and sad, and America will end up the totalitarian shit hole it seems to want to be. Junta Argentina without the nice climate and good looking people. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n#Third_term_(1973%E2%80%931974) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n#Third_term_(19... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezeiza_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezeiza_massacre [2]https://www.britannica.com/topic/Montonero https://www.britannica.com/topic/Montonero

luckylion 6y ago
> At some point, someone's going to go apeshit and go after the leader of the mob that canceled him. I believe it's a testament for how anti-violence everyone in our societies are. People being publicly hunted down in witch trials rather kill themselves than turn on those who seek to destroy them. I'm similarly surprised that all those pyramid scheme people live peacefully after their schemes blow up and thousands or millions are left holding the bag, while they made off with millions and might possibly face a year or three in a luxurious prison. When you consider how many people wish them death online and nothing happens, death threats to random Twitter users can probably be ignored in general: if people aren't going after those that defrauded them and took their life savings, they're not going to come after you because you disagree on politics.

luckylion 6y ago

> At some point, someone's going to go apeshit and go after the leader of the mob that canceled him. I believe it's a testament for how anti-violence everyone in our societies are. People being publicly hunted down in witch trials rather kill themselves than turn on those who seek to destroy them. I'm similarly surprised that all those pyramid scheme people live peacefully after their schemes blow up and thousands or millions are left holding the bag, while they made off with millions and might possibly face a year or three in a luxurious prison. When you consider how many people wish them death online and nothing happens, death threats to random Twitter users can probably be ignored in general: if people aren't going after those that defrauded them and took their life savings, they're not going to come after you because you disagree on politics.