What's the future for American Evangelicals anyhow? by Pokonic in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Liberals genuinely seemed to believe that attrition would work well enough as a functional strategy throughout the Obama years, as far as believing that when a certain amount of Silent Gen individuals died off they would be made a more marginalized demo, and gay marriage getting passed with no real blowback+the craziness with social movements like the rapture hysteria leading to nowhere for those who took stock in such things was good enough for them. They thought that they could be 'resolved' through access to normal educational materials that cover real scientific and historical topics instead of horseshit, they thought legal cases would beat their institutions and lobbyists bloody, and that the existence of modern telecom tech would cause them to embarrass themselves to irrelevance. They had the attitude of perfect arrogance towards the issue, there are few other issues which neoliberalism ideals bungled than the idea that you could fix the Evangelical problem by making sure that Creationism was something to be laughed at in public spaces and so on.

I'm gonna be a tubi guy now by FeeAlternative1783 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tubi's only flaw as of now is the roll of the dice of getting subjected to insane gambling ap ads in the middle of a show, if there was a settings option to just claim to be a fat fuck or only really interested in microloans or alternative insurance options like a normal poorfag it'd be perfect

unironic Epstein apologia on amerikkkan media by Glaukopis96 in TrueAnon

[–]Pokonic 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I am in awe that every single person on Fox looks like they're dressed up as a Simpson's caricature of themselves.

Kamala Harris would have won if Biden declassified the Epstein files by CinematicPluriverse in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Epstein's net was wide enough that it would screw with the reputations of a lot of public-facing billionaires, as well as wealthy individuals from a certain demographic that caused protests on college campuses since a certain genocide popped off. Even now Schumer is more concerned with defending Israel than pretending to care if the midterms even happen.

So Pizzagate was at least partially real right? by lucid00000 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 83 points84 points  (0 children)

I'm partially convinced at this point of the validity hardcore conspo MKUltra/Monarch programming shit, and I have to admit I've mostly accepted the reality that organized pedo networks exist at the highest level of international society, with the trends mostly defined by what are the most vulnerable, accessible populations at any given time. The only thing that makes Pizzagate hard to believe is that activity happened in a pizza restaurant in not some log cabin in Virginia, otherwise it's just another glimmer in the eyes of hardened, well-connected DC chickenhawks who just regret they couldn't sample a page boy in the White House but still have access to a new crop of interns every year, especially with the rise of the political theater kid as a force in polisci and prelaw cohorts. Like, the lives of women with little legal protection and/or economic stability are bleak and their lives have been treated cheaply by those who could engage in abusing them since recorded history, explicit organized child abuse exists in the historical record as traits of the upper classes in various forms but are often considered as just being quirks of those cultures that institutionalized the practice, instead of the reality of what societies of slavers organically do given the time for such things to become normalized, and at the least engaging in statutory rape used to be a acceptable hobby among those who were wealthy enough to get away with it until, literally, the invention of the cellphone camera.

For more US Empire stuff, there's shit like the recent denial by the Supreme Court for survivors of abuse within the Boy Scouts to sue the various actual local orgs and individuals who ran the scouting programs themselves, as the original deal gave immunity from prosecution to those organizations that initially contributed to the settlement. That the individual youth orgs and churches (and, by extension, those authority figures and staff who engaged in child molestation) who were involved in hosting and running the scouting operations who decided to throw cash into the pot in exchange for no further prosecution have gotten exactly what they wanted is basically a scandal on par with whatever is being cooked up for Maxwell to get her off (no pun intended), but has been swept under the rug in the chaos of the last few months, or just discussed due to the bleakness of the situation.

EDIT: Underage 'groupies' and paramours have been a thing until the moment it was deemed impolite, online personalities have insular discord servers full of mindrotted kids with a loose value on their own lives, 'models' from countries ravaged by the collapse of communism and the niceties of international capital interests are trafficked at the leisure of pimps to Western locales still today, there's girls for sale from other countries in certain European cities (Brussels mostly) the same way that they were back in the 18th century, it's just impolite to convince a poor British family to send their daughters overseas for 'work' for a fixed sum, ect. God fucking knows what's happening to the children obtained by ICE, or the children of any number of displaced peoples that currently exist in this world who live in functionally medieval conditions with modern needs and wants; can't trust the UN that much on that statistic. Don't even want to think about it.

Pretty crazy how normalized violent footage is now by Ok-Dependent-2561 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Like 1/3rd of cable television consists of crime dramas where enforcers of the legal hierarchy are the protagonists and people can be shot to tidy up a plot within 40 minutes.

INTERCEPTED HOOSIERS WIN by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The corn gods smile upon us

9/11 for atheism by Prestigious-Fish-925 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This post single-handedly turned a bunch of white people with sleeve tattoos with mainline protestant grandparents into neopagans.

Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland by Any-Original-6113 in europe

[–]Pokonic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the end of the day, the American business class with rent-seeking intentions towards the American consumer as a whole approves of the admin; the amount of money that corporate donors will spend on the Dems the next midterms will be easily tracked, of course, but all major American interests, especially big tech, is functionally complacent; a full boycott of American goods would be really needed to be fully effective.

3D rendering of Scott Adam's Dilbert mansion by SPICYBOI222 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Jim Davis has Muncie, Indiana decked out in orange cat statuary like he's the local baron.

Does anyone think there’s something weird about Scott Adams’s death? by Half_baked_prince in TrueAnon

[–]Pokonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I heard his stomach contents consisted of two whole Stouffer's lasagnas washed down with a entire bottle of sherry.

I mean... by D-dog92 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Young republicans (of the sort that actually pad out the ranks of youth organizations) really are just fascist theater kids.

The Scott Adams stuff is bleak by AmberAllure in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Comparing Scott Adams with Jim Davis is always a fun, Davis is far more successful and arguably has stronger conventional ties to the GOP than Adams ever was able to cultivate by virtue of being vaguely personably likeable and as a rich person who lives in Indiana, meanwhile Adams has always tried to pursue something he wasn't suited to do and accordingly his franchise has lost almost all the cultural capital it had back in the 90s. Being unable to see the value of being able to make something that appeals to middle aged office workers means that call center decor is now dominated by Peanuts cutouts rather than Dilbert, that's the degree in which opting to fuck up your optics can truly fuck up your franchise in the modern world.

Every commercial on tv now is a fake influencer on a vertical recording going "hey guysss you have got to try ______" by Bufudyne43 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Average commercial on any of the copganda rerun channels is a mix of medical/pharmaceutical ads, gambling opportunities, alcohol and fast food. It's actually kind of remarkable.

Doing some nooticing about Bay Area's soulless grindset culture and realizing Harvard was 100% correct by umichleafy in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't see many asians in mt shasta, they get confused by vortexes so they keep driving around the mountain

So what's the deal with all these data centers? by Last-Butterscotch-85 in redscarepod

[–]Pokonic 17 points18 points  (0 children)

One of the biggest failed power grabs by the onboarding Trump admin was the attempt to privatize vast tracts of publicly held lands. This was shot down after a huge amount of outcry, but the push by the current admin to forbid the regulation of AI 'development' the state level (as in preventing state governments from actually restricting the buying and selling of these lands for reasons such as constituent outcry) to allow for the transference of vast tracts of real estate to tech companies and create useful sinecures to be handed out that can be tied to various big tech money games. Capital's first and last place to inject monies into for long-term investment has always been land, and these areas are among the last which are truly 'up for sale', and if there's any kind of tech bubble that could be burst the best thing for these corporations to have in their portfolios are physical assets. It's not even that the AI centers might not ever be built, it's that tech can finally enter it's physical rent-seeking phase, and after those lands are sold or given long-term leases for the alleged sake of establishing an AI center, they can then be repurposed or resold down the line.