That's been me traditionally.

just started tryign to get myself prepped

I'm trying to change it.

And convince others to network more.

hoping i can be ready in time for if it happens

And look at the other elements that matter.

@TylerC agreed.

And I don't want to have to become a "resistance" to a tyrannnical semi-communist regime.

🤔

I want to stop this stuff early

But if it comes to that...I don't know what I'd do.

i really dont want america to end though, i love this place, and always have. it really hurts me to even think it could end over some bullshit like is going on today

I know, right?

it is the thing that has depressed me the most, trying to figure out how in the hell we got here

But if the communists remake and rewrite everything, I'm not sure what I'd make of it.

ya same

Agreed. I've been in shock since 2016.

It's actually gotten in the way of work.

And as much as a shock as 2016 was to me, the response has been far scarier.

shit, i started seeing this shit in the ether back as early as 2010, but i kept trying to ignore it

Same.

hell probably earlier than that if im honest

I actually trace it back to atleast the 90s.

Really the 60s.

ya, back as early as the first censorship stuff

i remember the cartoon mob back in those days

Alot of the social justice and weird multicultural globalism stuff I think is a direct result of the culture war in the 90s.

There was a pushback to "multiculturalism" then.

It retreated, but successfully took over the academies.

yep, but it came back stronger than ever thanks to groupthink of socialmedia

And kicked out people like Alan Bloom who were calling it out.

the 90s were even the rise of "political correctness" as a term.

it was

People were being effectively silenced then.

i remember the first time i heard that shit

I actually don't think it was social media.

i was like

well i dont want to be political

so i know im not going to be correct

so fuck all that noise

I think it was more of a generational shift due to academia being so far left.