>>59850
Clickbait is a fundamental structural problem. When print media dies, no one pays subscriptions, and all fees and income gained by advertiser clicks, and everything is privatized and for profit, well then this becomes the only outcome. Either you end up needing to have something like PBS or BBC or whomever doing documentaries and the reporting, or you find a different economic model for the private business of media, otherwise the only outcome is solely printing the most outrage inducing articles with the most outrageous headlines and everything basically just becomes monetized shitposting. As people's expectations sink likewise, it becomes a race to the bottom.

On some fundamental level this is the same problem or similar to AAA games and Hollywood I like to bitch about so much. If what is most reliably profitable in mass media is truly Idioctacy tier and the public is uneducated or flat out dumb on top of it, then everything becomes geared toward most mass appeal and/or most controversy.

>>59838
People don't get banned for posting like OP. They do get banned for OPs like

>christianity a Jew religion for cucks. Islamic Vikingism is the most chad reliion discuss

Then they do eventually get banned and they should be banned. I actually seldom even see bans here tbh.

>>59840
>>59842
The thing is population density and you can see the outcome scrolling all the way back the catalogue. There are threads in there with like three posts. It's honestly a problem with generals also, which is ironic because generals often came about in reddit tier shitpost sites like 4krebs because if say a man eats a bat or IGN shitposts about about another good game, and everyone comes to talk about that, then there's no sense in having 15 threads an hour. Here it's because our population is too small and diverse in interests on some level to really sustain lots of random ass thread topics that may fit someplace else and would otherwise get no response.

Take my space and aeronautics thread. I didn't want to clog anything but really it should've gone in the technology or some other thread, and even that is not super active. A general is good for not clogging a thread on some other tangent, but it is also good to avoid yet another dead thread with like two people posting in it.

It's not like KC was where you could make some shitpost and someone out of hundreds of people would respond to it. There's maybe like three dozen people here spread across a dozen timezones. It likewise takes awhile for a bunch of new threads to eventually get farted down to page 5.

But again my take from it was OP just wanting to bitch about a whole variety of things where I'm not even sure what the point was.

Guys i figured it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So this type of person is called

>histrionic personality disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder
I came to the conclusion that the best way not to get triggered by attention whores is to
1) ignore them completely
2) laugh at them
3) never take anything they say seriously

You see apparently they have this massive ego that needs to be fed constantly and like i said before it's irrelevant what sort of attention they're getting.
They love when they are loved and they love when they are hated.
If you don't give them any or dismiss them and threat them as little children they literally die inside. The only dangerous thing about them is that IRL they might resort to violence when they are ignored.

Honestly these people belong in the mental facility (or coffin) but unfortunately thanks to the liberalism they are allowed to walk freely and annoy everyone with their shit. They are also good consumers so i guess that's why it was decided they shouldn't get any threatment. They are profitable.

They kinda remind me of Mark Hamill's joker. In the end they only way to defeat joker is to laugh at him, not what he says or does. That's what he's afraid the most.

>>59906

>Define "massive" because I get the impression your whole country doesn't hit the positivity rate of just my city.

Ireland is 90% vaccinated, the highest in Europe. My village is basically so small it is one maine street, 2 shops and 2 pubs, the outbreak here has been so big that everything has been shut down for 2-3 weeks.

My workplace is closed for 3 weeks, all childrens' activities have been suspended for 3 weeks (camogie, hurling, soccer and gaelic) and the only things left open in my village is the 2 shops and the chipper.

I'd also like to point out that while this nonsense has been going on for the last year, suicide has become an epidemic in Ireland. People killing themselves left right and centre.

>All I'm going to say is it really made the zombie shows and games I play come into a different light where I thought how unrealistic they are for saying a slow zombie apocalypse could happen. America would definitely be among the first to fall even with our guns.

It reminds me of that book I read, One Second After about the apocalypse, shit collapsed so fast in that book I did not believe it and I thought it was nonsense, I thought it was strictly an American thing that society could fall apart that fast and I still do. I don't think things would fall apart as fast across the rest of the world, I think the American continent in general is cursed

>>59943
That's Western lack of holistic, perspective because it is truncative rather than integrative. Partly it's a problem with Western scientific methodology itself through needing controls and reproducibility but is also a mindset thing. It is the mentality of seeing legs and breaking it down to segments than seeing how not just the butterfly works as a whole but also how the butterfly itself is only an extension of interedependent systems. It is the result of Western individualism mentality. I'd even go so far as to argue that it's rooted in Abrahamic theological views of things trying to trace it back to its true origins, and that it could be somehow rooted in out linguistics if not vice versa.

It's something that drives me crazy about Western science, which is very much a not seeing the trees for the forest type of a mindset and is why only recently we have begun working on superior theorizing such as systems and chaos theory to explain why and how dynamic overlapping and interconnected systems work, like say climatology, meteorology, the carbon cycle, geological records etc. This makes a lot of Western moderns complete and total ass at understanding things like economics, climate change, meteorology, and pandemics because they are solely using inferior linear thinking of, at best, point A goes to point B which leads to outcome C, if they even are capable of thinking that far ahead. This leads them to being perpetually surprised and ignorant about a great many things the average person should've seen coming from miles away, like say how climate change is directly leading to our highest level national security threats in the very near future, or why neoliberal globalism is a pants on head retarded ideology. They might eventually figure out it is a bad thing eventually, but usually not until it is already happening to them, and certainly not why X is a bad thing let alone how a bad thing like X could possibly happen.

I would even go far as to argue it is only partially rooted in our linguistic development towards learning through narratives, because we still are pattern recognizing apes and you fundamentally do not need linguistics in order to understand a Rube Goldberg machine or puzzle solving, though clearly such a machine is just a more intricate linear thinking problem so I would say multipathed dominos falling or pool trick shots are better examples.

We are of course trapped in this by our inferior pedagogy which is itself a byproduct of industrialization that rewards adherence to the rules in strictly segmented class as well as topic with rote learning rather than innovation, creativity, problem solving, careful analysis, or any type of lateral thinking, because the objective was just making large masses able to follow instructions on operating machinery under their bosses, which has led to such stagnation that we're basically outsourcing anything else to foreigners first, and then later in a service economy not even that is emphasized because all that matters is "people skills" and malignant "socialization" because the fact is our society does not value any of that. You will do things the slow, stupid, and inefficient way if your boss tells you to do it that way, even though your boss only tells you that way because corporate is full of complete fucking idiots that far removed from real operations.

In short, it is not impossible nor even improbable, but merely deemed socially and economically undesirable. This is even more true when you consider how much money is tied up on doing things the stupidest way imaginable.

>>59947
I was confused what you're talking about until checking once again and realizing you meant the fourth pic. How marvelous. It's like such stupid shitposts make my eyes glaze over so much now it doesn't even consciously register and I solely saw the first 3 pics.

>>59903
Poses an interesting question where the marketing retards finally can do away with even pretense of talents altogether and the corporations can simply maintain high profit margins and control without even bothering to sign IP right deals, however I question how much it would become popular for the same reason people have moved away from everything like Hollywood, the recording industry, AAA gaming and so on. Of course large market segments are always going to be the same mouthbreathers who will believe anything no matter how transparently stupid or psychotic without even questioning it so long as enough critical mass of other idiots takes it seriouslyapparently one of the top news stories is some missing young blond woman like who gives a shit why does anyone care about this but I still question the success of a thing like that even under market liberalism.

You also seem to be assuming things will run smoothly for mostly the rest of this century which is laughable. I fell asleep listening to leutin talk 40K lore which apparently came out with hilariously good timing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7dJDmBUw4g

That's 2071 A.D. There is liable to be at minimum one more global pandemic of likely far greater severity and at least one more global war within that timeframe, to speak nothing of resource depletion and ecological collapse, which as should've been shown by the great 2020 toilet paper shortage can be triggered be seemingly small things and then the collapse happens fast.

I also knew nothing about the great British fuel shortage in the early 2000s. It is definitely true that a mind as devious and determined enough could being down the whole social order in about a month simply through the concerted spreading of rumours and conspiracy theories online. If I could hire out small stuff too I'm pretty confident I could bring the modern world down or screeching to a halt in about a month for the cost of a used car. Maybe a new one.

Also
>>58573

>Ultimately, I think racists played the long game and won.

They really truly didn't. Everything after the UTR rally was a total disaster.

Moreover they weren't playing the long game and were pretty damn low IQ for "5D chessmasters." Trump was a short term sacrifice for long term victory. In Tarot it would be described as a reversal

>A seemingly total victory that hides within it the seeds of crushing and final defeat

Likewise for liberalism, when Trump when it clearly was

>A crushing and seemingly total defeat that hides within it the seeds of final victory

The smart thing to do is always take down your enemy like the rural folk wisdom how to take down a barn: cut a small hole in the roof and stand back and watch.

The smart long game racists had been playing was to claim all racism has been solved with a wink and a nod while letting SJWs look like idiots calling everything Nazi and claiming racists are hiding under their beds. Indeed, this already had been discrediting them.

Instead what woketard right wingers effectively did was give these screeching idiots a solid target, and not only that but now they had all these milquetoast housewives otherwise thinking them negroes is acting up again crying racism about nothing and seeing a bunch of scary retards marching like they're in 1930s Munich with torches, and actively telling regular people and political moderates to gas this Jews. This electrified them and this atmosphere helped to make even a ton of Trump voters actively sympathize with BLM until, again, you stood back and watched BLM self destruct with the rioting.

In combination of all that the "great white hope" they stupidly saw in Zion Don effectively took down right wingism in America at this point. You might have helped further radicalize people that already agreed with you, but you massively pushed everybody else away who now just see you as dangerous idiots. It's gotten so bad that basically so far as a lot of people care they see you as a bunch of terrorists and don't care about deplatforming or actively applaud it.

It's like staging a terrorist attack and somehow thinking you got back at the man, too stupid to realize you basically just discredited your own people. Anyone with a couple braincells left saw exactly what was happening and the damage it was doing with things like the 6th DC Riots that in turn led to the total clusterfuck of amoral optics management with nobody able to agree on "now it was antifa false flagging" "no it totally was us we got invited in" "no there was no riot" and so on while sensible Republicans immediately distanced themselves from that shit, the result of which is hundreds if not thousands of people being hunted down like dogs by the FBI and added to counterterror databases.

Yeah good job. Anyone who was liberal and smart enough could see this as a final victory. Anyone smart enough as a Conservative can see the total defeat looming on the horizon and the disaster that POTUS Trump wrought and how in the wrong direction the GOP is going as a whole which may well lose them permanent influence for a generation and already it's been doing poorly since the 90s.

Seriously you just not only legitimized all the idiots looking for racists and Nazis under their beds but now also have electrified moderates against you and hitched yourselves to the dumbest self destruction I've ever seen.

It should be noted that the average GOP voter is older, whiter, more Conservative, more religous, and the average Democrat younger, browner

>older
>younger

Now imagine what happens when you gaslight all these people into not wearing masks, not getting vaccinated, not washing their hands, and turning it into a political issue while all the already younger liberal voters all are taking precuations, wearing PPE, getting vaccinated and so on particularly in already stereotypically filled with old people swing states like Florida where having even 10,000 extra votes matters.

They didn't play the long game. They impulsively took an opening. They took the bait that any chess player knows exactly how to do to a novice opponent. They thought taking out that rook was some great victory not understanding a trap was laid for their final and total defeat, and all the while ended up playing the game exactly how their opponent wanted them to play it and they marched like lemmings to their doom. Now this is effectively just a mopping up job ensuring "the great replacement" gets accelerated enough to the point where they permanently lose hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states on top of losing the cultural war. By the time 2024 shows up there will be a lot of dead Republicans not voting in critical states like Florida. This will be happening on top of the fact Trump himself that white nats stupidly supported took them down as a whole, that parading like actual Nazis and providing every scrap of ammunition to shrieking liberals they could so they could say "see we were right all along there's Nazis everywhere trying to genocide you" and ruining their own optics, and on top of that clearly coming across as unsympathetic and amoral lying sociopaths who only care about optics while liberals can go back to painting themselves as concerned humanitarians.

If you really want your opponent to lose you never interrupt him when he is making a mistake. I found particular irony in the fact poltards kept repeating this as a mantra to themselves all while they were falling on their own swords.

If you need any further evidence of this just look at how rapidly the situation changed in 4 short years controlling every branch of government to a few years later controlling completely fuckall with no significant accomplishments to show for it and being utterly hated by the majority of the country. Your only hope now is that the Tuckers and Qtards of the world shut the fuck up for long enough to watch Dems and liberals consistently making a series of mistakes.

>>58606
Perhaps I wasn't clear by my last line. It was the racists on imageboards that steadfastly held the line and kept their messaging consistent throughout the years which drove away non-racists and even embarrassed liberals who were unprepared to respond to them. The only boards on 4krebs that happen to be liberal or left-wing these days are /his/, /mu/ and /lit/, and even /his/ and /lit/ still happens to have racists from time to time.

I disagree with the notion that "pretending racism is over" would be the winning move because, if the respective careers of anti-racist activists like Tim Wise, Jane Elliott, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi and others I can't be bothered to recall are any indication, fighting racism is an evermoving goalpost. They have redefined racism to mean literally anything that puts colored people in a disadvantageous position even if its in done entirely according to the rules of equality. This is why they have now shifted the discourse away from equality to equity. It's why conversations with anti-racists ultimately end in failure when you play by their rules. Blowing up the game and saying "White people have interests" is a far more viable strategy.

In terms of actualizing real life political goals, you are correct that the right got high on their own supply and impulsively took an opening when everyone should've hesitated and carefully calculated the next big move. Complacency is death, and that was another critical error on part of the right. Instead of playing like they're losing, they got reckless. No one argues that UTR wasn't a total shitshow, and ironically, the fallout couldn't have divided the right more. There was the era of infighting known as the Optics War which Groypers / AmNats openly feuded with alt-righters / WNs over who ruined everything when it should've been the opportunity where differences were put aside and resources pooled together to fight common enemies.

Re: Trump. Once he caved on the wall after a long period of shutdowns, there was nothing left to support. Bollard Fencing is not a wall. Everyone who had voted for him had been conned. Come 2019, Trump's most enthusiastic supporters from years past completely gave up on him and left behind Republican Party activists, QBoomers and AmNats / Groypers who foolishly thought they could take over the party. I consider the fallout of 1/6/2021 to be just desserts for every AmNat who shat on alt-righters for being openly racist. For every time AmNats cheered whenever prominent alt-righters would suffer misfortune, they're now getting hunted down by the FBI and even sold out by their own leaders. For me, this development couldn't be more fitting.

Re: popular consensus. It means absolutely nothing to me that the majority of the country has been conditioned by the media apparatus to hate people who are pro-White. The number of people capable of independent thought or going against the grain have always been outnumbered those who conform and follow trends. That people approve of the FBI throwing geriatrics in jail for marching around the Capitol is entirely predictable because the media is designed to manufacture consent. A complete plagiarist, womanizing fraud like Martin Luther King, Jr. had exactly 30% approval in his lifetime, but upon being assassinated and the riots that engulfed major cities following, he was canonized as a saint, and it was ultimately a Republican who honored MLK with a Federal holiday, not a Democrat. Of course, once those FBI files will get declassified at the end of this decade, we'll see the true nature of MLK. Other thing is: Democrats are just as absolutely shameless with who they associate with as Republicans. Consensus doesn't mean jackshit. Only thing is, the media apparatus won't report on it because it's literally owned by corporate interests with money in both parties. Jimmy Carter's wife and Mayor Harvey Milk both openly stumped for Rev. Jim Jones with the latter even going on record to condemn People's Temple defectors and concerned relatives of those who went down to Guyana as liars. Later that year, the Jonestown Massacre happened. It's only in some online commentary that you'll find this information.

The Republican Party collapsing would be an absolute boon for me because it's already been long speculated by some people, including some of my own Democrat relatives who had ties to George Soros (no word of hyperbole) that the GOP will never win another US Election and will slowly dwindle into irrelevant regional power. They openly scoffed that only shitholes like Alabama will be Red, and even that could turn. Just this last Election, the Dems proved they don't even need Florida to win an election anymore. They took Virginia and Arizona, and Texas will likely be next. What will politically reunite the racists will be the absolute excesses of progressives and modern leftists. History has shown them to be absolute ghouls who can leave nothing alone. Liberals do not care if you're a basic bitch boomer Republican, Neocon, AmNat / Groyper, WN, alt-righter, TradCath, OrthoBro, Fascist or Nazi. So long as you represent an opposition to their plan, then you must be destroyed by every means necessary.

>Tucker

He's controlled opposition: https://dissident-mag.com/2021/04/24/cant-schmuck-the-tuck/

In the meantime, we'll just be irreverent, insightful and, most importantly, funny. Comedy is the greatest weapon to winning hearts and minds, and oh boy, I couldn't think of a less funny, sanctimonious bunch than your average shitlib.

On a completely different note, I'll leave you with this:
https://youtu.be/ArOQF4kadHA