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re: How did we end up here?

Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:35 pm to
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
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Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:35 pm to
Post modernism.
Posted by LSUbest
Coastal Plain
Member since Aug 2007
14935 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:37 pm to
Ask Germany if they can vote their way out of the leftist takeover.
Posted by back9Tiger
Island Coconut Salesman
Member since Nov 2005
17500 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:38 pm to
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Why is it ok for some people to be hateful?


Difference between knuckleheads' on here being keyboard cowboys and assholes, than the left taking the violent rhetoric from the MSM and their politicians to act out MULTIPLE times with this sort of violence.

You need to put this in the compartment it belongs and that is with those that are complicit to this and have poured gas on things because OMB.

Until you side decides to lower the temperature and police your side, nothing changes... it is about to get way worse I fear.
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
69370 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:39 pm to
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How did we end up here?


The honest real answer is the internet. It all comes back to unfettered internet access which creates the toasted fricker problem.

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It’s the Internet. Back in the days before it, we had to learn to live with those around us, now you can just go out and find someone as equally stupid as yourself. I call it the toaster fricker problem.

Man wakes up in 1980, tells his friends "I want to frick a toaster" Friends quite rightly berate and laugh at him, guy deals with it, maybe gets some therapy and goes on a bit better adjusted. Guy in 2021 tells his friends that he wants to frick a toaster, gets laughed at, immediately jumps on facebook and finds "Toaster fricker Support group" where he reads that he's actually oppressed and he needs to cut out everyone around him and should only listen to his fellow toaster frickers.

Apply this analogy to literally any insular bubble, it applies as equally to /r/thedonald as it does to the emaciated Che Guevara larpers that cry thinking about ringing their favourite pizza place. But the toaster fricker problem doesn't stop there.

Because every social group has an axis of prestige. They have to compete with each other for status somehow. That's what humans do. And in the toaster-fricking group, the axis of prestige aligns with fricking toasters.

So first they compete to see who can frick the most toasters.
Then, when that is saturated, they one up each other by being most open with the general public about their toaster fricking ways.
Then they make toaster-fricker pride t-shirts and hats and bumper stickers.
Then they move on to bragging about how they sneak into other people's kitchens and frick their toasters, too, and swap tips for how to introduce kids to the joys of toaster-fricking.

But it doesn't stop there, either.

Pretty soon normal people, who ten years before would shrugged and said "that's weird", are now sick of toaster-fricker flags everywhere and their kids being told to frick toasters by sickos, and now they're going to burn every toaster-fricker flag they see, and Florida just passed a law requiring you to be 21 years old with proof of ID to buy a toaster.

And Utah has banned toasters altogether and the Mormons have stopped even eating toast, bagels, waffles, or any other heated bread product.

But it doesn't stop there, either.

Because a few toaster-frickers get beaten with fence posts by people sick of hearing about toaster-fricking, and other people, who didn't see or hear the toaster-frickers' prior behavior, say "holy shite, toaster frickers really are oppressed". And they decide to become "toaster-fricker allies", despite the fact that they haven't the slightest real interest in fricking any toasters themselves.

But it doesn't stop there.

Because toaster-fricking has become a sacred cause, it must now must compete with other sacred causes for the minds of highly programmable non-player characters, and there are clashes in the streets between the Toaster fricker Pride March and the Stop Raccoon Shaving protests.

This is what "go outside and touch grass" really means. It doesn't mean that plants magically cure insanity, it means go encounter randomly selected people who have nothing to do with you other than geographic proximity. The purpose of this is to remember what normal people are like, and what normalcy is.

It's not that normal people don't do weird things. Maybe they like their pancakes with ketchup. Maybe they consider midgets to be the height of sex appeal. Maybe they never wash their socks, but just throw them away and buy more instead.

What makes normal people normal is that they keep that shite to themselves when it isn't relevant.
Posted by DarthTiger
Member since Sep 2005
3185 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:41 pm to
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Is there even a way back from this?

No. Liberals made the decision to allow themselves to be indoctrinated into using violence to get their way instead of allowing people to have their own beliefs and differences. I'm done with them.
Posted by Tigers0918
Member since Feb 2020
1676 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:41 pm to
This is not a left problem or a right problem. It is a lunatic problem.

Trump was shot, Kirk is now shot. Last year a Minnesota Democrat representative was killed and another was shot.

And of course the crazies on both sides try to blame everyone who disagrees with them. Look at this board blaming every Democrat for this. Just like reddit blames all trump supporters when someone on the right kills someone.
Posted by Pickle_Weasel
Member since Mar 2016
4760 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:41 pm to
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How did we end up here?


The far left have been radicalized by their leaders and the media for years on end. Most of the leftists are super emotional and not capable of critical thinking, so when they've been bombarded with rhetoric 24/7, is anyone surprised by the result?
Posted by DVinBR
Member since Jan 2013
15169 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:42 pm to
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How did we end up here?




This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 2:43 pm
Posted by GamecockUltimate
Columbia,SC
Member since Feb 2019
9129 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:42 pm to
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We got here because of Obama, Biden/Harris, Clintons, MSM, Morons in Congress and the Senate, the View... I could go on and on. They have spewed nothing but hate and violence. You don't hear that on the daily from the right.



You cannot seriously say this and not include anyone from the right.

Trump, MTG, Boebert, Alex Jones, Candice Owens, Glenn Beck. I don't disagree that the names you listed got us here, but so did the names above on the right, and yes you do hear it daily.


Yes reddit an absolute cesspool of crazies lefties, but there are no less than 3 threads on here today where it is suggested that lefties be rounded up and killed.
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
16743 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:42 pm to
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How did we end up here?



Progressive left ideology. It's their end game
Posted by Houag80
Member since Jul 2019
17463 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:42 pm to
Sit this one out chubs. frick off.
Posted by Pendulum
Member since Jan 2009
7883 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:43 pm to
Social media echo chambers

Dont know how you fix it but this construct allows everyone to only conversate with their respecrive political gangmembers and demonize the other side without any debate or discussion

This is not how humans are supposed to work.
This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 2:45 pm
Posted by RobertFootball
SC
Member since Mar 2021
1912 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:44 pm to
We took God out of our society and it went downhill from there.
Posted by prouddawg
Member since Sep 2024
6658 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:44 pm to
McCarthy was right !!!! That’s how !!!!
Posted by TigersSEC2010
Warren, Michigan
Member since Jan 2010
38133 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:44 pm to
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This is not a left problem or a right problem. It is a lunatic problem.



No, it's a left problem. Go be a retard somewhere else.
Posted by GamecockUltimate
Columbia,SC
Member since Feb 2019
9129 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:44 pm to
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This is not a left problem or a right problem. It is a lunatic problem.

Trump was shot, Kirk is now shot. Last year a Minnesota Democrat representative was killed and another was shot.

And of course the crazies on both sides try to blame everyone who disagrees with them. Look at this board blaming every Democrat for this. Just like reddit blames all trump supporters when someone on the right kills someone.


add in the pelosi family getting attacked with a hammer. Jan 6th, etc.

Too many stupid lunatics thinking they need to resort to violence in order to create change. They don't realize that their involvement fuels politicians to continue the divisive rhetoric...because it works and gets them elected.
Posted by loogaroo
Welsh
Member since Dec 2005
39131 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:44 pm to
Pure evil. No other explanation.
Posted by back9Tiger
Island Coconut Salesman
Member since Nov 2005
17500 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:45 pm to
Compare the speech between both sides.

You tell me who is more violent, consistently.

It is clear as day.

Posted by latigerfan2
covington, la
Member since Jan 2005
2109 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:45 pm to
We got here because of the constant vitriol spewed from the left wing media! They have been giving license for this type of violence to their followers for years now. When you constantly tell people who are mentally unstable that they are defending democracy if they commit violence against those on the right, you see these types of results unfold.
Posted by AGGIES
Member since Jul 2021
10498 posts
Posted on 9/10/25 at 2:46 pm to
Lots of threads here calling for violence as a response.

Psychology tells us that people are much more easily influenced and/or manipulated when they are in a heightened emotional state.
This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 2:47 pm
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