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"The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future,"
"Why are these museums about historical subjects so stuck in the past rather than focusing on the future?"
: “Hey, brown people, we’re NOT sorry! But you OWE us your forgiveness!”
Is it just me, or despite these types genuinely despising us. They also kind of want the approval of the very people they despise? They wouldn’t be insisting slavery wasn’t so bad if they didn’t, they’d just be reveling in it “yeah, we’re assholes! And we’re not sorry! Suck it!”
100%. It’s not enough for them to get everything, they also need to be liked. And they know they aren’t and it bothers them to their core.
Most people who fall into hardcore chuddery do it because they are lonely and unliked, and are told by their fellow CHUDs that it will make them more likable and popular, they are always "telling it like it is" and "speak for the silent majority" so when that silent majority fails to manifest, because they don't exist, it makes the CHUDs uncomfortable, they are just looking for human connection, but want to also never actually be the sort of person worth forming a connection with. It's a deeply, fundamentally uncomfortable existence.
This especially describes Elon Musk. I can't think of any other reason why he'd pay people to play video games on his accounts.
It's the need to enforce hierarchy, you see it with the way they'll talk to LGBT people as well
cw for mild transphobia and racism
"trans women aren't women and as such we won't let you have the legal status as one, no matter how badly not having that status ruins your life, but also you should be grateful to live here instead of the middle east where they'll kill you for being trans"
Fascism is the disturbing logical conclusion of the “gotta keep up with the Joneses” mindset. I fully agree they’re protecting what they perceive as their title as ‘king’ from ‘usurpers’. It literally is the TV trope offended by an inferior’s success…and they say we’re the politics of envy.
I think many chuds just force themselves to hate any given minority. Because to them, they are “The Joneses”.
America is ultimately just Florida on a delay.
America's Wang leads the way
florida is more of a turd being excreted from the "butt" of georgia/deep south.
My guy is worried about getting into heaven while he's advocating for slavery not being so bad.
He's reinventing Southern Baptism in real time
I've always said museums should have more exhibits about things that haven't happened.
how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been
that's definitely my takehome when reading about historical poverty, seeing kids stacked in elevators going into deep mines, seeing families living 20 people to a room with no heat in winter.... "these people are quite unaccomplished."
Has America been rewriting history of slavery? Slavery should have not been reinstated.