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Thank you for the kind words. I hope people listen to the speech. https://t.co/RNHmoDQjlC
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) October 20, 2023
Earlier this year, Arnold Schwarzenegger put out a video, calling out hate and antisemitism, which he denounced as a horrible loser ideology. This was probably in response to Kanye West and Nick Fuentas meeting with Trump, though it was reposted after the Hamas terror attack. Schwarzenegger made a similar video in response to Charlottesville, that called out Trump’s “both sides” comments, proclaiming that “there are no two sides to hate, there are no two sides to bigotry.”
Schwarzenegger’s video is mostly about antisemitism, but address bigotry in general. He starts off speaking about visiting Auschwitz with the message of “never again,” and asks how do we stop this from ever happening again. However, he makes the point that he does not want to preach to the choir but rather wants to talk to those who hold bigoted views, as he’s seen enough people who have followed hatred, referencing a personal angle with his father, who was a Nazi.
Schwarzenegger’s message is that the bigots themselves end up suffering rather than just their victims. He talks about the guilt and brokenness, but also that they end up feeling like losers, emphasizing the word loser. He says that some people feel like they deserve more in their lives, and that the only way they feel like they can make their lives better is to make others’ worse. Basically everything that you’re unhappy about is other people’s fault. It is easier to blame others and say that you’re superior to someone else than it is to work to improve, he says. He says that is not the path to success, but is the path of the weak. He says he doesn’t want you to be a loser, so rather than fighting a war against yourself, pull yourself up from your bootstraps.
In a sense it is a self-help/self-improvement video that has a redemption arch, that says it is never too late to improve and evolve rather than tell people they are irredeemable, as antiracist usually do. Obviously Schwarzenegger’s appeal is as a charismatic bodybuilder and action hero, not as an intellectual. However, there are partial truths to this message, as negative emotions can hold people back from accomplishing their goals and hatred often leads to conflict.
Regardless, Schwarzenegger’s commentary is hyper-moralistic and gaslighting, as well as a pseudo religious morality, that success is a reward for good moral behavior. Though it is convoluted in that it treats the loser in a Social Darwinist sense, while also worshiping the meek or victims. It assumes that there is a “right side of history,” with a Universal cosmic force that automatically punishes all actions and movements based upon hate. For instance, Schwarzenegger gives the examples of the Nazis, Confederates, and Apartheid South Africa, as failed movements based upon hate. Schwarzenegger called out the protesters at Charlottesville for idolizing losers as heroes, much like how CNN’s Jake Tapper called out Trump for defending the legacy of “loser Confederate generals.”
So many people mad that I’m laughing at Robert E Lee’s statue is burning to the ground. Good. I don’t respect him or the confederacy. They lost. The only historical remanent they should have affiliated with them is a giant white flag bc they surrendered. https://t.co/qHhfNwfpoX pic.twitter.com/5oa3wv04hr
— Matt (@MattM0720) October 27, 2023
While a moralistic view of history is appealing, there are plenty of historic examples of bigoted people succeeding, and meek but righteous people being crushed. Schwarzenegger is also blatantly wrong that there has never been a successful movement based on hate. Were the slaves and Native Americans also losers of history, while European colonists were the winners? Certainly Genghis Khan, who was responsible for millions of deaths, is a winner of history with millions of living descendants.
Good vs. Evil from a moralistic, humanist standpoint, and success and accomplishments from a materialistic, or “might makes right” standpoint, don’t necessarily match up. Schwarzenegger brings up Nazism, which is the most extreme example of racial supremacism and totalitarianism, but leaves no room for nuance on questions of identity, tribalism, and nationalism. Not to mention that Schwarzenegger expressed some admiration for Hitler back in the 70’s.
In America we don't even have an immigration problem. We have a
my life didn't turn out the way I wanted to so I blame other people problem. pic.twitter.com/EElbxbeZdj— Bill Maher (@billmaher) July 18, 2018
Deriding one’s opponent as a loser is a common political tactic, especially for establishment shills. For instance, Rick Wilson, saying that Trump supporters were childless single men who masturbated to anime, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign dismissing Bernie Sanders supporters as basement dwellers. Another example is Ireland’s Prime Minister saying about anti-immigration protesters that, “ask everyone you know what they fear most on our streets. They’re afraid of you. Afraid of your violence and your hate and how you blame others for your problems.”
A medium article by David Grace said that “The Charlotte/white supremacists stories in the mainstream media are all ‘New rise in racism–Hate is bad — etc.’ but nobody’s talking about the elephant in the room The basic, obvious, important fact that’s gone unreported is that saying, ‘I’m great because I’m white’ is equivalent to saying, ‘I’m a big, fat loser.’ Racism is something that people who feel inferior and weak grab onto like a guy who can’t swim clutching a life preserver.” Similar points are often made by conservatives about how the woke are losers who cling to identity politics, because they are too lazy to pursue STEM or the trades, or Fox News saying that it is anti-racist to be capitalist.
Boomers maintain that you’re a failure for “not pulling yourself up by the bootstraps” and not working hard enough, but will also call you racist if you call out there reasons why it’s impossible to get increasingly competitive jobs or buy a home today…
— Karl Böhm Respektor (@BohmRespektor) December 7, 2023
Racists are losers is the neoliberal mantra, with its twin mantra being that class based politics are also for losers. Telling people to not take pride in their ancestry/inborn identity but only in material accomplishments is the essence of neoliberalism. The idea that it does not matter what ethnicity you are, as long as you can make money, is sold as a moral good. However, those who are unable to compete under neoliberalism are both morally shamed, but also denigrated as low status for turning to identity and tribalism. Basically it is cutthroat capitalism but masked by an egalitarian meritocratic ideology.
There are limitations to self-improvement and most people don’t matter to society as individuals. The message that success is only achieved on an induvial level is bullshit, as people organizing as a collective can have a greater impact. Yes, identity politics empowers those who feel powerless as individuals, and that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. While there are opportunities out there for those who can carve out their own niche, there is zero sum competition and limited slots at the top, especially within mainstream institutions.
There are always going to be societal winners and losers, but there needs to be some honesty about that. Elites would rather gaslight people that all problems are personal than address deeper societal problems. Schwarzenegger, as part of the elite, is not saying that elites should have to make concessions to those struggling but rather is telling people that they can succeed, just like he did. It is a slave morality that is used to justify society’s social, political, and economic hierarchies.
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Presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, said that racism is a scarcity mindset, thus universal basic income can curb racism. This got him flak from the woke left for absolving racists of moral guilt. It was ground breaking for a left leaning politician to talk about racism in non-moralistic terms, but rather as an issue of material needs. Yang epitomizes the archetype of the East Asian technocrat, which many found refreshing in contrast with how American politicians tend to talk in moralistic platitudes. The leftist counter argument is that plenty of people who have their material needs met are still bigots. Regardless, the reality is that people are tribal and that won’t change.
Schwarzenegger’s comments imply that it is primarily ethnocentric Whites who are resentful and blame others for their personal failings. However, this victimhood mentality is way more common among the left and non-Whites. Overall the Left is much more motivated by envy and resentment, though recently a segment of non-liberal Whites are flirting with the politics of identity and resentment. Not to mention that anti-Jewish sentiment is also strongest amongst non-Whites.
Schwarzenegger expressed sympathy for Black Lives Matter but then BLM vandalized his statue in Colombus, Ohio. However, I wouldn’t even call Schwarzenegger’s commentary woke, but rather it encapsulates the late 20th Century, liberal capitalist paradigm, which is popular amongst Boomers. While you could describe Schwarzenegger as moderately woke, he basically is a neoliberal centrist who dislikes both MAGA nationalism and rising socialist sentiment on the Left. Regardless, woke did not come out of a vacuum, and is heavily influenced by the post-WWII, 20th Century Liberal Paradigm, including Civil Rights.
The neoliberal will deride Whites who can’t succeed and our bitter about it while the hardcore woke will focus on attacking White success, as a product of systemic racism. The woke leftist view is that capitalism is rooted in racism, and that the entire power structure that props up the wealthy, including the police and corporations are fundamentally White supremacist. From a rightwing standpoint this seems absurd, but the distinction is that it punches up rather than down. Though obviously the woke also punch down, so you can’t win if your White.
White Fragility author, Robin DiAngelo, stated that “Even the racial beliefs and responses that feel authentic or well-intentioned have likely been programmed by white supremacy, to perpetuate white supremacy. Whites profit off of an American political and economic system that showers advantages on racial “winners” and oppresses racial “losers.” Influenced by critical race theorist, Derrick Bell, Prof. Dorinda Carter Andrews, suggested “that because it is based on a system requiring winners and losers, capitalism is an inherently racist system and that education has been a “project of cultural imperialism.”
There is a horseshoe where both the dissident right and woke get at certain truths about power dynamics that the normie center totally ignore. For instance, woke critical race theorists are actually correct that the American system requires winners and losers. It is just that woke neoliberalism shifts around the seats, so that more losers are White and more winners are of color. The question is whether extreme wokeness will put enough pressure on the White upper class, rather than allowing them to just virtue signal and scapegoat downscale Whites.
While there are obviously tons of successful White individuals, Whites are declining as a group, in part due to hyper individualism and a lack of positive ethnocentrism. Multi-ethnic societies are overall harsher on losers, and capitalism fused with racial liberalism on top of social atomization, makes this especially harsh. While overt racism is low status for Whites, well off Whites use their wealth as a substitute for racial segregation. Non-ethnic Whites are at a disadvantage over groups that are more collectivist and who look out for each other, such as Jews, Chinese, and Hindus. However, I don’t support antisemitism, which is an easy copout and is ironically similar to how the woke left blames everything on White Supremacy.
We aren't a homogenous population so we have no empathy for the losers of society. https://t.co/KMA3E4iQta
— Bizlet (@bizlet7) December 15, 2023
While today’s America amounts to an economic zone, the ruling class still needs a moralistic ideology to justify their legitimacy. American exceptionalism is based upon both moral superiority and a sense that Americans are great because we are winners, an ideology that has no response to decline. This explains the rise in both ethnic identity politics and economic resentment, which will only further accelerate, as people’s economic situations become more dire.
More and more people view the system as rigged against them. Where one stands in the managerial hierarchy increasingly matters much more than talent or hard work. There is a paradigm shift among the young, where many feel screwed over by society and thus have no moral obligations to society. There is greater appeal in grievance culture, in that people want to be told that they have been screwed over and that they can get some justice. This applies to both the woke and MAGA/dissident right. Identity politics and tribalism have the potential to meet people’s unmet social and economic needs.
Our ruling class want to keep this country as competitive as possible in every facet of society. American managerial capitalism is heavily reliant upon mechanisms of control and rites of passage, which have brutal repercussions. You have to play the game if you don’t want to end up destitute, or you can become a grifter. Alternative History YouTuber, Whatifaltist, said that “If a guy talks about the economy being bad he’s called poor, if he talks about the dating crisis he’s called an incel.” He adds that “Our elite treats us as a conquered people to humiliate and hurt to break our spirit. At this point the only thing that would get the ruling class to realize how miserable, poor, lonely and angry most people are is if there is a literal revolution.”
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Belabor the obvious much?
More and more people view the system as rigged against them because it IS rigged against them.
This loser talk started during the so-called opioid epidemic because it’s always easier to say the deaths of despair have been increasing since life expectancy began dropping fifty years ago. It’s wrong, but most easy answers are.
By coining a new label every dozen years or so, they mask the effects of: mass inundation of non-civilized humans into the USA, mass destruction of work from all sectors that destroyed the old ladders to the Middle Class, and, most emphatically, the creation of a culture that is simply toxic to normal human behavior.
Most of this was hatched and spread by the scrambled egghead class that was marinated on campus in the Red Thirties and was put in charge of our world from 1945 on.
Arnold is too stupid to know any of this.
Also Islam during the first 1.5 centuries of its existence. Even with its subsequent decline, with some exceptions such as the Ottoman Turks and the Mughals, the effects of Islam are still extremely massively visible even to this day, and they are very far from always being positive, unfortunately.
Social Animal.
Boomers blame Greta for all that.
“You’re a loser” isn’t a winning political message when a nation’s birthright is being stolen and the nation is conscious of it.
Arnold will be gone soon and the worship of the steroid physique and of the “natural” steroid physique is in steep decline. The courage of the Confederates, the courage of Hamas, the courage of the German forces in WW2, these are immortal examples. The ignorant youth who fought for the people determined to enslave and destroy their own nation can never be worthy of respect or admiration. They have led America to ruin. Soon they will all be gone. Soon the boomers will be very old.
The rainbow flag and George Floyd are symptoms of collective insanity, but they were chosen as humiliating symbols of the domination of the Jews over American society. What will these people think of next?
He lost it here. He’s been a loser since.
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Sure, the “Nazis” were mindless haters and that’s why Germany was defeated by a coalition of global empires over ten times its size. Nothing to do with a radical new economic system that made both capitalism and communism obsolete. Does someone have some unresolved daddy issues here? And those muscleman beefcake magazines he collected as a boy – could this be why he has such a thing about “girlymen”? We think the Arnold doth protest too much.
As for me, I guess I’ll continue to wait for today’s delivery of the wonderful advantages the system will shower on me because of my racial winner-ness. Ho hum, just toss ‘em onto the big pile of free stuff I’ve gotten so far.
The “steroid physique”. Yeah. Talk about a loser. What to think of a guy who is so insecure about his body image that he injects it full of manufactured chemicals which enhance for appearances sake?
If society collapsed tomorrow, Arnold would starve. Have you seen movie bits where he tries to run? He can’t. And, in case anyone’s forgotten, humans ran down their prey. It is simply not the case that wild animals stood immobilized with eyes agog at the sight of an Arnold, while allowing themselves to be slain. The body type promoted by Arnold is an evolutionary dead end and makes as much sense as those bootie implants so favored by Arnold’s feminine equivalents.
((( Joe Weider))) was Arnold’s sugar daddy.
Consumer capitalist society is probably the lowest form of human organization. It’s not so much culture, as the absence of culture, and it is decadent, in so far as the root of this word is ‘decay’. Only that which can be modified is encouraged, so there is no room for truth, honor, wisdom, or courage. Anyone can be an American, if you just want to make money.
Regardless, Schwarzenegger’s commentary is hyper-moralistic and gaslighting, as well as a pseudo religious morality, that success is a reward for good moral behavior.
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The idea that it does not matter what ethnicity you are, as long as you can make money, is sold as a moral good. However, those who are unable to compete under neoliberalism are both morally shamed, but also denigrated as low status for turning to identity and tribalism. Basically it is cutthroat capitalism but masked by an egalitarian meritocratic ideology.
It’s also basically a secularized prosperity gospel–or maybe the prosperity gospel is a sacralized form of neoliberalism.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I’d really like to explore that.
Hmm, Arnie is more Clydesdale than Thoroughbred, but when I saw him jogging in some 60 Minutes clip back in the Seventies, he didn’t run that bad. On the other hand Arnie looks like a natural when compared to Steven Seagal. I would put my money on Arnie in a 100-200 meter run against Steven.
When he was a body builder he apparently told a competitor to try mixing crushed Walnut Shell flour in his diet. This substance is in fact poisonous. The unsuspecting competitor became quite ill. The advice to reject ethnocentricity is similar poison.
Arnold is a nasty piece of work at heart.
How much Jewish dick did he suck to get his early movie roles?
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
Islam can’t be called a losers ideology though.
They extinguished two Empires and crippled two religions. Three if you count Hindus. Extraordinary bigotry.
I wouldn’t be so sure they’ve fallen on hard times either. The Oil money put them back on the map in a huge way and look at Vienna, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Paris or London now. And yes John Johnson even Moscow.
Of course Arnold doesn’t touch Jewish hyperethnocentricity either.
chwarzenegger is a pro genocide Jewish supremacist collaborator and genocidal Arnold has sold his soul to Satan for worldly wealth (Mammon) and he will burn in hell forever. He is the lowest of the low. Arnold Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Unfortunately, he appears to be with the majority.
As I have been asking “the winners” spouting crap like this, for decades, how can there be “never again” when there “never was”.
All of this excrement is competition for victimhood status. Blacks who were never enslaved or lived under “Jim Crow” have suffered because of Whitey. Jews, who control the finance and communications industries that limit what we can see and do, suffer from Auntie Shem-itism. The psychotic LBGT-WXYZ crowd requires a confrontation to prove their victimhood.
Orwell’s 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a blueprint.
Arnold was such a loser he apparently posed nude as a gay porn model when he wasn’t even gay. No wonder he was discovered by “Hollywood.” Hey, Arnold, is putting ‘pornography’ in quotation marks an anti-Semitic trope, too?
That cocksucker Bill Maher can go fuck himself.
Rumors have circulated that he is partly Jewish and also homosexual. A case has been made that those are the requirements to be a successful Hollywood actor.
Arnold has been in several decent scifi/action flicks which turned out OK despite his poor acting. He must have a good agent.
Maria Shriver was a loser. She married Arnold. Then she won by losing Arnold.
It has been argued that Schwarzenegger and Bruce Jenner were taking the same hormone-disrupting, performance-enhancing drugs back in the 1970s. We know what happened to Bruce, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if Arnold is homosexual
I say you’re overthinking it. There is no neoliberal mantra here.
Schwarzenegger has a Jewish hand up his deflated backside making him mouth words on behalf of his Jewish puppet masters like so many before him. He may have got paid to do it directly or made some deal over it or is even being blackmailed by Epstein types.
I doubt we will ever know. But it’s not something natural that he’s just decided to do because he cares so much about the issue.
There’s ill informed rumors about everyone being a Jew. They are stupid. There are a lot of Jews in Hollywood and as actors and Jewish nepotism, that is true, but people take this stuff too far.
A lot of his films seem fun when you’re young, when you’re older you realize they are mostly all liberal trash with libtard values. Conan may be an exception. And the first Terminator. But with bigger and bigger success comes bigger and bigger libtardism.
Actors lie. He doesn’t mean it.
He’s just submitting to the Regime like a scared little bitch. Turns out he really was compensating for something.
He is a roid brain who cucked himself before his Jew overloads. He deserves no attention or no praise as he has accomplished only what he has wore knee pads for. A disaster as California governor and a c level actor.
Robert Stark: “Certainly Genghis Khan, who was responsible for millions of deaths, is a winner of history with millions of living descendants.”
As for Genghis Khan, I always liked this quote attributed to him, and paraphrased by Arnold in his movie Conan the Barbarian:
Arnold is nothing if not a hypocrite, here glorifying hate. Of course, being a hypocrite is entirely in line with his philosophy of life, which can be summarized in some gym wisdom of his I once read in a bodybuilding magazine. It runs: “People fail because they aren’t willing to do what it takes to succeed.” With the one notable exception of keeping his dick out of his ugly Mexican housekeeper, Arnold has always been willing to do what it takes to succeed, whether it’s taking truckloads of steroids, marrying into the Kennedy family, or sucking up to Jews. We would probably never have heard of him at all except for the Canadian Jew bodybuilder Joe Weider, who launched his career in bodybuilding and served as his publicist. Without being a famous bodybuilder, he would never have become a movie star, and without that, he’d never have married into the Kennedy family, become rich, or become governor of California. It’s funny to think that his lifetime of scheming and relentless pursuit of personal advancement was ruined only because he slipped up a fathered a bastard son with that housekeeper. Just think! Were it not for that single mistake, given the Kennedy connections and influence, he might even have become president! LOL
Nevertheless, his advice is sound if your goals are the same as his were when he first arrived on these shores. If you want to become famous and popular, you can’t be a racist or an antisemite. Not if you’re white, at least. If you seek material wealth, then you’ll likewise have to conform to the prejudices of the majority, and in America’s culture, shaped as it has been by Christianity, that means being opposed to “hate”. Of course, everyone hates. The Jews hate and prey upon the goyim, and Hitler hated them back and gave them what they deserved. Hate makes the world go ’round, and life is a competition, a Darwinian struggle of all against all, one in which every0ne is for himself most of all — just like Arnold. That’s why he’s preaching the syrupy Christianoid glop he’s preaching. Because it benefits him, not you.
The guy doesn’t know that no matter how much trash he talks, his usable hour has passed; the circus is different and uses other clowns.
The average man would rather have Sylvester Stallone’s physique than Arnold’s competitive bodybuilding physique. The physique of modern bodybuilders are way over the top and not desirable by most. Gyms are more popular now than ever but you rarely see someone who is a hardcore bodybuilder. Non competitive bodybuilding minus the drugs is a healthy activity especially when supplemented with other forms of training like cardio, stretching, etc. Adding swimming you kill 2 birds with one stone, you get your stretch and cardio at the same time. Jack LaLanne, the fitness legend combined the weights with swimming, calisthenics, acrobatics, etc., the guy was amazing even in his 80s. Following the script of a “bodybuilder” like LaLanne is much more healthy than that of a competitive bodybuilder.
It was a Jew like Joe Weider who turned bodybuilding into a freak show. Guys with bulbous over developed chests, (rumored that Weider was gay), way over developed arms, etc. The gay culture has always been a part of bodybuilding as well. Maybe that is why Joe pushed the huge chest look. haha. Leave it to a Jew to turn a healthy activity into a sideshow and cashing in on it.
Arnie has worked for the Jew all his adult life. To spit on his own people, Austrians/Germans and father tells you all you need to know about Arnie. Arnier is a loser.
Islam is wickedly evil and began as such but look how far it spread around the world. And it spread by violence.
You can say that again.
Ok then. That cocksucker Bill Maher can go fuck himself.
Maybe not.
He was already well known as a body builder, he was already a millionaire before being hired for Terminator.
He may have been seen as an asset to be flattered rather a naive hick to be exploited, they would be bidding for him rather than him granting sexual concessions or whatever. He was coming into the movie business with a stronger hand than most young, desperate hopefuls. He could have easily gone on to set up a gym chain instead and/or continued with the construction business.
Arnie is not a bigot. He doesn’t discriminate on race or religion. He doesn’t care where you came from or what you believe in. All that really matters is how much money you make.
The second terminator movie is popcorn sci-fi unlike the first which was pure and raw. T2 is impressive in the conversion of Arnold as the ultimate bad guy cyborg/actor into a good guy. I guess this can be taken as a libtard meme of “there are no evil robots (or people), just bad programming.” Heck, now you ruined it for me.
Jewish power in Hollywood and the media is one of the ultimate rabbit holes. People fall down this hole which is not hidden at all. They report back many facts which definitively show pervasive control and manipulation. I don’t think most of these people are crazy, they are simply noticing things. Hollywood and the media are a dominant influence on the culture of the USA so this is a serious topic.
> “It runs: “People fail because they aren’t willing to do what it takes to succeed.””
Now this is such an amusing maxim! I’ve grown familiar with it through eSports – professionals do not whine about game mechanics, they shut up and improve their skill in a given environment. Indeed, what use would there be in moaning about the ruleset? Who can even dream of changing the constraints of the game? And then, so much of the game is in the player’s own mind.
If we leave the individual behind, it also applies to the families and the nations – the parents saw no issue with sending their progeny to desegregated schools, and the American nation at large gleefully moved its industry to China, all the while feeding the rest of Asia, from Saudi Arabia to India – so much so that their capitalistic empire is now crumbling under their feet, even the Jews are set to lose their money… all because playing Hitler’s game of killing one’s enemies is unthinkable!
Chechar may talk nonsense about the offensive capability of the atomic bomb or the futility of invading Russia, but his Sun Tzu quote is spot on – knowing one’s enemy is paramount; all cultures are going through the motions like wound clockwork toys.
https://westsdarkesthour.com/2023/12/29/blunder/
> “…and in America’s culture, shaped as it has been by Christianity, that means being opposed to “hate”. Of course, everyone hates.”
Aren’t you technically contradicting yourself? Isn’t it the case that the Jews have convinced the Aryans to forsake hatred? Of course, this may be viewed as an extension of Jewish hatred towards Aryans, but in the moment, couldn’t the Christian Empire in America be considered a land devoid of white-on-black derision?
I’m not blaming you. My recent idea has been that we might be living in a Nazi simulation – I’m starting to lose my suspension of disbelief at the post-1945 world.
Adûnâi: ” … all because playing Hitler’s game of killing one’s enemies is unthinkable!”
The group mind can be very mysterious in its decision making. At times it has no problem with killing, even on a grand scale as in the firebombings and atomic bombings of WWII, but apparently has trouble reconciling certain methods with its own conception of itself as humanitarian, worthy of respect, and possessed of God-given rights. But the game of civic life as it has evolved has certain rules, and as you say, what use is there in moaning about the rules?
Adûnâi: ” … his Sun Tzu quote is spot on …”
But according to Sun Tzu, knowing one’s enemy is only half of what’s needed to guarantee victory. The other half is to know oneself.
Adûnâi: “Aren’t you technically contradicting yourself? ”
Perhaps I should have said pretending to be opposed to hate. But that would have implied a level of duplicity I’m not sure applies to Arnold, or most Christians. I don’t think they’re pretending. They really mean it! And if God is Love, as Christians preach, then where does that leave Hate? Hate is of the devil then, automatically. It never occurs to them that Love doesn’t really exist, and that in this world of eternal conflict, Hate is the only reality, sometimes even masquerading as Love and taking on that deceptive appearance, but always just under the surface. We can conceptualize Love as just another weapon in Hate’s arsenal, or better, as a mask Hate sometimes wears. In this case, by exhorting one’s enemies to abjure Hate, one hopes to disarm them, the better to slaughter them later.
All Americans are supposed to be women. Arnold might merely be especially able and willing to conform to this norm. Professionally an actor, after all. (E.g. all masculinity is considered “toxic” masculinity.)
During covid Arnold said, “To hell with your freedoms, get the shot!” that tells you all you need to know.
“The courage of Hamas” — only a madman could say something like this.
You’re suggesting the Hamas fighters are not courageous, or only that it is “mad” to say it? (because of who rules America?)