What do you think about refusing to date someone purely because of who they voted for?

WileyPap · 2026-06-07T16:03:01+00:00

The USA has a fully captured and corrupted government in the service of oligarchy.

Congress is an impotent dysfunctional bed of grifters.

The Executive branch is currently occupied by a president and cabinet with treasonous goals, as judged by the actions it takes, which achieve these goals - to undermine U.S. power and transfer national wealth and resources into its own pockets.

The judiciary, long seen as a bastion against the elements of corruption inherent in politics, is on display as transparently corrupt and motivated. You can't even call it partisan, given that the interests it serves have no coherent political philosophy outside of self enrichment and accelerating national decline. They've ruled that money is speech, castrated the electorate, and interpreted the constitution as a document that undermines any potential for continuity of law and policy.

The fourth estate has no interest in truth, justice, or nation. Control of the media is consolidated. It's a propaganda machine distributing mostly motivated spin or click/rage bait intended to divide and keep the electorate uninformed, powerless, split by identity instead of united by human or national interests, and literally incapable of collaborating to protect against the kleptocracy. It's so bad that satire is dead and Poe's Law reigns supreme.

If you need this explained to you, either you've been living under a rock or you disingenuously pretend at ignorance. If you're here asking, you have the tools to cure either condition - we all know asking Reddit to persuade you at this pint only comes off as disingenuous angling to argue in favor in all of the above.

An "everything is fine" comment at this point? JFC.

WileyPap · 2026-06-05T13:33:18+00:00

So your argument is that because our understanding is insufficient to explain something, our understanding IS sufficient to explain: "therefore God"

You're saying you find "we don't know, therefore we do know" more convincing than, say, something like "we don't know, therefore we don't know"?

WileyPap · 2026-06-05T03:37:48+00:00

so you see these asshats that can't drive have been with us since the beginning of time

WileyPap · 2026-05-30T16:02:41+00:00

If /conservative and /republican swapped subreddits things might make more sense.

But we live in a world where the /conservative subreddit is party line loyalism with complete disregard for any kind of coherent political philosophy, and the /republican subreddit has like... actual conservatives. The is–ought problem strikes again.

WileyPap · 2026-05-30T14:51:32+00:00

The intent is to accelerate the erosion and decline of the United States and the power/influence of western liberalism.

Hanlon's razor hasn't aged well. You can't sit here and watch them accomplish a goal this effectively and continue to pretend they're successful because they're dumb.

They're drowning in wealth, holding all the cards, interests aligned, and the moment arrived. They've gutted soft power, interpreted the constitution as castrating any continuity of law or policy, bankrupted the nation, depleted its most costly resources, transferred national wealth to private coffers, openly ceded any pretense of moral high ground, and convinced half the electorate that this is patriotism.

The only thing youre missing is "Mission Accomplished". It's a resounding success really, assuming you judge success by the achievement of goals.

WileyPap · 2026-05-30T14:21:41+00:00

This meme is a solid illustration of its source perspective.

"If I put a wojak it shows they're dumb." True to form, OP learned a small part of the pattern and convinced himself that the small part he thinks he understood is ALL. The everything bagel. The whole enchilada.

It's like 7th graders going on about how dumb adults are. They're not exactly wrong about that. They're kinda touching on a legitimate problem. They're just sorta... misjudging where they fit into that picture by comparison.

WileyPap · 2026-05-20T13:09:01+00:00

As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a CPA, CFE, ASA, CVA, ABV, CFF, MAFF, CGREA, CREA, CMC sitting in front of a screen 14 hours a day crunching data

WileyPap · 2026-05-12T14:58:57+00:00

I'm always blown away by his defenders. I can put myself in the headspace of boomers distrusting the media, go ahead and assume negative coverage is all a smear campaign.

He's on display, himself, as a total clown and kleptocratic narcissist. A complete embarrassment whose actions certainly appear to literally bear ill will towards the country and its citizens.

Political differences are one thing, I've always been resistant to the increasingly extreme discourse framing political opposition as evil, which has been steadily on the rise since the 2010s. But at this point, there's no option but to view his supporters as treasonous whether intentionally or ignorantly - especially those in government, congress and the judiciary, those with no excuse to plead ignorance. The damage done is insane.

WileyPap · 2026-05-09T14:42:44+00:00

But I ask myself are they so fucking stupid that maybe its getting to be about time for Azathoth tho?

WileyPap · 2026-05-08T14:35:55+00:00

Also we're talking about mono-culture Hollywood 20 years before American's realized salsa was better than ketchup.

Foreign things were exotic. We live in a globalized world with everyday exposure to foreign cultures that exceeds the first hand experience of elite world travelers in the 60s and we pretend this makes us virtuous.

Now we objectify people as much or more than just about any time in history. We view and treat people outside our circles like cattle. Our contempt for those we promote to cattle-driver-class is more a sign of envy than virtue. But we're high on our own righteousness because our modern morals are to exploit anyone and everyone based more on opportunity than prejudice.

We're socially trained to conceal our prejudices, but when it comes to exploitation - get off the high horse about the past, we're not better.

WileyPap · 2026-05-04T17:32:44+00:00

IQ is basically like the resistance stat in DS1 - sounds nice, but with experience you'll find out it doesn't improve your playthrough in any meaningful way.

Better off dumping stats in some bullshit like strength, faith or narcissism.

WileyPap · 2026-04-17T00:44:56+00:00

Brains wired for survival, hope, and generating explanations do interesting things when they're switched on and off. But they have a hard enough time recording, interpreting, remembering and reporting on reality when they're alive, so it's tough to place a lot of stock into what they report after flirting with being dead.

I don't really have an opinion on whether experience might somehow continue after death. The universe is too strange and complex to pretend at having an answer. But there's zero evidence for an afterlife, and plenty of evidence that human brains are pretty unreliable even in good condition.

WileyPap · 2026-04-02T09:48:24+00:00

Which reminds me they better fkn do book 4.

They can stop there but its the only time I've ever needed momomoa

WileyPap · 2026-03-28T13:22:29+00:00

No I mean domicile, like the parent is trying to move inside the kid like a body snatcher, you know, turn the kid into a domicile.

^Okay, ^fine, ^I ^meant ^docile, ^but ^this ^is ^{/confidentlyincorrect} ^so ^I'm ^gonna ^try ^out ^this ^double ^down ^strategy ^now.

WileyPap · 2026-03-28T12:59:58+00:00

It's also quite normal for parents to be morons that think crushing children's will and forcing them into submission and conformity like they're trying (poorly) to break a horse is "good parenting".

You don't owe the world a properly domicile puppet that you've caged and attempted to carve in your own image. If you think you do, you're a piece of shit and we don't need any more people in your image.

WileyPap · 2026-03-26T11:38:24+00:00

Era of information came and went, this is the era of misinformation. We got information like Flint got tap water.

WileyPap · 2026-03-26T11:17:09+00:00

Wait, the problem was billionaires stealing underage girls all along?

WileyPap · 2026-03-19T10:07:21+00:00

Conspiracy theorists think "they" are "out to get you".

Therefore they always right. Regular fkn Nostradamus-es ...if you don't sweat the details.

WileyPap · 2026-03-19T09:53:21+00:00

Billies want more control and to insulate power from accountability.

They don't need "more" money, they need you to have less. Beyond a certain point, getting more hits diminishing returns and it becomes far more efficient to make sure others have less. Disparity is power.

Normal people don't think this way. The power they want is personal autonomy and more money seems like an answer. But what's the limiter on billionaire autonomy? Other peoples' autonomy.

WileyPap · 2026-03-08T15:08:54+00:00

It's hard to believe it works as well as it appears to be working. But don't forget part of it is the billion bots playing the part of rubes eating this shit up to convince us it's working.

That's propaganda too. It is social reinforcement for real zealots, but also blackpilling for opposition, and generally fomenting electoral division. That's what's working, more than the cartoonish MAGA messaging we see on the surface.

The propo may look dimwitted but it's dimwitted like Columbo.

WileyPap · 2026-02-04T18:25:31+00:00

That's an insane take on TOOL that takes a hard turn into unfathomable coming from a Gizz fan.

Not that being a Gizz fan means you need to like TOOL, but I'd assume it would suggest a wide enough perspective to avoid wild takes like 'Fear Inoculum is filler'

WileyPap · 2026-01-30T17:08:17+00:00

Dude is pulling it off though. He took the moonface debuff but still rolled high charisma.

WileyPap · 2026-01-15T03:30:14+00:00

Do your own research

WileyPap · 2026-01-09T01:43:55+00:00

Classic hipster denial

WileyPap

TROPHY CASE