Prominent right-wingers -- conservatives... or libertarians?

I was thinking about making a post on the subject of conservative vs libertarian politics, where the (dun dun dun) obvious conclusion was that most mainstream right-wingers were just deranged libertarians, rather than conservatives, preservers and upholders of America or Western Civ, or whatever. 

However making a Serious Post would require an extensive intro, waffling, teasing, perhaps never reaching the conclusion -- since I don't have the energy for that, I'll write it like I would a comment, and then post it here for greater visibility to infrequent visitors.

For those who are not familiar with the research, the main difference between libs and cons is the disgust response (cons being more sensitive to disgust, libs less so), followed by the fact that conservatives place greater emphasis on purity, taboo, and in-group loyalty, compared to liberals -- see the work done by Jonathan Haidt. 

It turns out that libertarians score even lower on disgust, compared to liberals. And they are numb to the other major moral themes, unlike liberals (who de-emphasize them, compared to conservatives). They are are the most blunted and callous, and the least sensitive to disgust. See here for the evidence / background.

Their moral attitude is also "relatively cerebral as opposed to emotional"-- keep in mind that this is distinct from smart / intellectual (which, on the whole, they are not). It's a kind of nerdy, disembodied, detached / non-visceral style of thinking, which is hostile to intuition / emotion.

Applying these concepts to the current political divide, I think this explains why I find so many right-wingers repulsive, and why they in turn are so enthusiastic about promoting various forms of deviance -- such as out / there bizarre substances, living in your own filth, hyping up incel serial killers and school shooters as if they were saints and heroes, pornography / fetishes, gore and snuff films and torture footage (especially when they target innocent people and/or children), revenge fantasies, and the rest of that warped slop. 

Being libertarians, rather than conservatives, they are totally indifferent to taboo violation (which triggers the disgust response -- something they are incapable of feeling).

Instead the only emotion they feel is outrage and anger. These could, presumably, take the form of justified righteous vengeance or moral indignation at the fucked up state of society -- being a kind of martyr for a higher cause. 

But in practice they never act like this, and probably would scoff at someone who did resonate with such themes: instead it's more like they're addicted to the rush of spite that comes from enforcing some abstract principle ('UM AKSHUALLY'). 

It's individualistic (rather than channeling higher forces), power-tripping (pointlessly over-correcting crimes that are irrelevant in the broader scheme of things), and over-zealous; moreover all this obsession on punishment actually undermines morality, since there is no longer any reason to obey the rules when they are just going to be used to punish you anyway. 

It's also anti-conservative in the sense that it reduces everything to the utilitarian activation of certain receptors in the brain -- constantly stewing in rage, and making the consumption of rage-baiting slop your primary activity, fixating on punishment -- which in turn results in this kind of warped always-on-the-verge-of-going-postal zealot type of personality (anti-natural).  

Their kneejerk response, when they're confronted about their behavior, is along the lines of 'you can't tell me what to do, mannnnn' -- this is because their asocial brains are incapable or hostile to group membership, so they cannot really resonate with moral norms and judgement in general, (which primarily revolve around placing restrictions on individual behavior). Instead, they conceive themselves as bold individual liberated consumers who can do whatever they want.

Of course the interesting irony is that the liberated individuals, who are defined by withdrawing into their own cocoons and consuming various flavors of copium in total isolation, are so devoid of a personality that they are impossible to distinguish from one another (lol). Then as the hedonism becomes the main activity, the primary emotion is actually seething rage, rather than pleasure or joy (which are strangely absent in self-indulgence). 

Finally I also think this framework explains why the dorkazoids are so triggered by minorities, which I always found puzzling -- I don't mean wanting a more homogeneous nation, winding down immigration, feeling alienated due to being surrounded by foreigners, all of which are perfectly compatible with moral conservatism. I mean the characteristic flavor of rage, and getting worked up about the subject, and impotently fantasizing about revenge (as we see with the ICE masturbators). 

It's because they're weak, physically stunted, cerebral nerds, who feel easily threatened by brown / black people, and then spend their lives coping with that impotence through revenge fantasies, lol.  

Notice that they don't mention feeling what most people actually feel when they're surrounded by people who belong to a different ethnic group, speak an entirely different language, follow different customs, etc -- alienation. Most foreign ethnic groups aren't violently hostile, and nor do they practice rituals that are so sick and out there that you'd want to confront them and clean up -- it's more like you don't resonate with them, and that their presence makes you feel isolated and surrounded by strangers. 

However for libertarians, the concept of belonging doesn't make sense (DOES NOT COMPUTE) which means it's also literally beyond them to feel a lack of belonging -- and so, once again, the only emotion they have left is impotent rage. 

It also ties into the one group which is strangely absent from their retarded fantasies-- the homeless. Being surrounded by mentally-ill ex-asylum patients, who are often decomposing or shooting up right on the sidewalk, is a massive threat to normality. It's one of those things that does actually strike most people as needing a campaign / crusade to clean things up (unlike people of a different ethnicity living next to you) -- but once again, normality is not a theme they care about, so they pay no mind or even support it being degraded.

I always wondered, 'what kind of social conservative is seething with rage at the entire concept of normality?!' -- I never understood how you could hate the social order, and uphold being a gay reject... while calling yourself right-wing. Now, however, it makes much more sense. 

For now these are the main examples, but I'll add more in the comments if / when I think of them.  

The state of the GOP

Millennial (and Zoomer?) right-wingers are now soyfacing about slavery, as long as it's accompanied by edgy memes from 2008.

 

OMG BRO!!!!! I get to whine about FEMOIDS on the INTER-WEBS!!! WOW!!

I heckin' LOVE being a GOOD SLAVE! 

IMPOVERISH ME HARDER, ELON!!!! 

Meanwhile the guy commenting is the spitting image of a degraded cuck, and the person who made the video has a noticeable gay lisp -- but you're only allowed to notice the details we want you to notice, lol.

The definition of a dickless loser is someone who gets worked up into a furious rage over minor or irrelevant insults... and then does absolutely nothing when confronted with a serious offense. 

Right-wingers will whine and whine about women, wage war over the tranny question, and crusade for LGBTQ-free video-games... but when Trump and Israel and the other billionaire lobbies are busy flushing them down the drain, they are either silent or in some cases active participants in their own replacement. Pathetic.

Watching this disaster unfold has led me to the following conclusions:

1) Conservatism may be impossible in a nation as young, rootless, and fragile as America. It's more like liberalism vs deranged libertarianism. 

2) The right-wing is mostly for people who are lame and out-of-touch with social trends. It has nothing to do with attitudes, stability, preservation, disgust / purity: it's just a movement you join if you weren't part of the cool kids in high school.  

3) Right-wingers are far less confrontational than left-wingers, both against their overlords and their political opponents. 

Leftists will use institutions, the media, protests, etc for offensive campaigns to wipe out their enemies, actively; right-wingers hide in their domestic bunkers and quibble about the meaning of words. They also infight more than the left.

Democrats criticized Biden and openly admitted that his administration was garbage (which it was). Right-wing audiences have built a cult around cringely worshiping Trump, who has become schizophrenic. 

Because they spend their time slurping up fan-fic, I largely ignore them, and instead get most of my news from populist / anti-woke left-wing media outlets instead. 

(Even an equivalent anti-woke / populist figure like Tucker Carlson is far more delusional and psychotic than his left-wing counterparts: his show is about magic, ghosts, spiritual influences, Tarot cards, and other kinds of ridiculousness. A journalist asks him a single question, and he doesn't know what planet he's on, which is why I don't listen to him anymore, despite liking him.)  

4) To the extent that one party is less likely to blow things up, and more hostile to scammers and parasites... that would be the Democrats.

All of this makes it a no-brainer for people like me with independent standards to vote for the left: the GOP is just an unreformable cancer that has to be eradicated in order to make way for something better. Trump and his cult have to be wiped out politically and perhaps also personally: if voting for the left is what secures that outcome then I'm fine with doing that.

Update to the update on Venezuela

The whole thing was 1000% fake. 

The Venezuelans are certainly not fighters, so they took a bunch of money in exchange for handing over their leader, and allowing the FAFO American military to stage a public operation -- when the dilapidated US military comes away with a win, you know there must have been something going on behind the scenes. 

However now the MAGAtards get to brag, 'Heh, no more regime change, no more bringing democracy to the 3rd world savages... now we just go in there and take what we want. Fuck around, find out... heh.'  

Well, despite this verbalistic slop being posted everywhere on social media, they still have no actual physical control over the oil or influence over the Venezuelan gov't -- they never have, and never will (they only do in the deranged minds of Trump cult members). 

And even if they did, it would take years to build up the infrastructure, assuming our shithole economy even has the people with the skills required for those tasks (doubtful). Not to mention that the amount of oil that is being sent here is so tiny, that it won't even put a dent in the upcoming Iran-war-related economic collapse. 

Such laughable BS!

The important thing to understand, and then remember, is that collapsing empires don't suddenly resuscitate, regain all their powers, and then go on to conquer new territory -- this literally has never happened, in all of history. They just die, and that is what America is doing now, with one defeat after another: in Iran, in Lebanon, in Venezuela, in Yemen, in Ukraine... and maybe soon in Taiwan, too, for good measure.

Remembering this will keep you from being scammed into thinking that there will be a W somewhere down the line -- there won't be. 

All that's left during the collapsing stage is concocting, and selling, fan fiction, in the hopes that the audience will be dumb or desperate enough to suspend disbelief, disconnect from reality, abandon all logic, etc and not notice just how ridiculously implausible the slop actually is, and how obviously it is contradicted by the actually-occurring events, which anyone whose brain isn't plugged in 24/7 to a digital hallucination machine can notice. 

The billionaires are betting on the audience members being in such desperate straits that they'll abandon all their dignity, just to get a little rush of copium. 

(And with the Trump Cult, it seems they were correct -- but you shouldn't stoop to that!)

Don't miss out on the chance to wipe out MAGA

I have seen other right-wingers I follow say the same thing, so I might as well jump on the bandwagon. The post almost writes itself.

The main thing I want to announce is that I plan on voting for the left in the upcoming midterms and the general, purely in order to wipe out as much MAGA / Republican scum as possible. They deserve it. 

(Yes, I know what the blog is called. From now on, 'right' must be interpreted as meaning 'correct' and 'truthful' rather than indicating my political preferences lol.) 

I struggle to imagine that anything in America will be better with the Dems in charge. However, Trump, the Republican Party, and their Internet slopagandists have worked hard enough that my desire to get revenge on them outweigh whatever reservations I might have about the left. 

I'll end the post by reviewing some facts about the major achievements of Trump's 2nd term:

-Not a single job has come back. The tariffs subsidize moving the already off-shored jobs out of CHYNA and to India and Malaysia and Vietnam (and wherever else they can find slave labor) by passing those costs onto the consumer in the form of higher prices. They are anti-industrial. 

-Trump has started and lost a retarded war against Iran for Israel, with big consequences for the world economy. He has managed to make America look militarily weak and morally disgusting, in a uniquely cringe way. 

-The Ukraine war has been allowed to continue, and now the neo-Nazi LARPers in Kyiv have been given permission to strike inside Russia. Not even Biden was willing to do this. This is another disaster with profound impoverishing effects on the world and on America. 

-Illegal immigration into America has not changed or gone down, because none of the billionaire lobbies that benefit from it have been targeted: I called this one back in 2024. It was obvious. Moreover, Trump has amplified people like Musk and Vivek, who are seethingly in favor of replacing Americans.

However Republicans have opened up a new genre of racebaiting fan fic, which does target immigrants, and that allows the rightoids to get high on revenge fantasies against the people who laughed at them for playing World of Warcraft back in high school -- getting replaced never felt so good! 

-The AI cancer has been deregulated further, to the detriment of the real / productive economy.

I'll admit I underestimated the degree to which the entire right-wing movement consisted of cucks who were only in it in order to escape reality (and their suicidal ideations) -- turns out they are the majority. Because they have no self-esteem, they will eagerly slurp up whatever they can get, even if the outcomes are the opposite of their purported goals. Trash-consumers, and trash producers. 

Anything I can do to wipe them out...

Life in Japan?

Just a non-political post to plug a cool channel, which may be of interest to the weebs out there, or to those who are simply interested in Japan like me. It's by an Australian man who lives there and is married to a Japanese woman, and who vlogs (?) about his experiences. 

 

This is the video that lured me in, originally.  

For future readers, in case it gets taken down or whatever: he's driving around at night, talking about how much easier it is to have fun in Japan than in Australia. In the former, people are encouraged to channel their energy in a way that leads to fun, collective effervescence, etc. While in the latter, the miserable angry power-trippers clamp down on every bit of individual expressiveness, until eventually everyone is lonely and atomized (for no reason!). 

It's interesting because our image of Japan is of an ultra-conformist hellhole where everyone is overworked, and yet every interaction I've had with them (or witnessed online) has made them seem way more FREE than we Americans / Westerners are these days. And I don't just mean in the narrow sense of being able to spontaneously shoot fireworks, but in the broader sense of being more unburdened, unrestrained, allowed to be who they really are... and without having to constantly monitor their communications, put on emotional armor, apologize for every micro-micro-expression, like we have to here.  

It goes back to what I was trying to say in my (poorly written) post about fighting for your authenticity, etc-- there's a real sense that if you try to be sincere, open, and unrestrained you'll be targeted by the seething ironic hater crowd, for not being enough of a faggot (an offense against the climate of maximum conformity, in their eyes). 

You also realize that phrasing everything in a non-offensive / watered down way, and being an ultra-offensive all the time, are in fact two sides of the same coin (inauthenticity, and specifically, not wanting to genuinely bond with other people). One is trying to avoid social connections by just not saying anything at all, by being as meek and inconspicuous as possible, etc, while the other is so dialed up and to the max that it is also impossible to relate to, which makes them seem different, but they both actually stem from a similar instinct.  

Anyways... check the channel out!