Progressive types are known for denying MAGA people real estate transactions. Banning them from their concerts. Attempting to crater their skulls with 2x4s.
Then there’s this. A writer over at salon is recommending you shun all of your Trump-loving friends and family until they repent. Yeah, for reals:
“If you have friends or relatives who support Donald Trump you should confront them. Explain to them that they are complicit with Trump’s cruelty and sadism. Then communicate that you will no longer speak with them, nor will you offer them emotional, financial or other types of support until they denounce Donald Trump and what he represents — and make amends through speech and action. This will not be easy. Doing what is right rarely is. But it is necessary.
Some will protest, saying that you can’t know what is in a person’s heart based on who they vote for. This is untrue. Voting and other types of political behavior are in many ways actions which are based more on emotion than they are reason. As such, a vote for Trump and continued support for him is a clear signal to a person’s deep and sincerely held values and beliefs.”
Well, leftism is starting to sound a lot less like a political philosophy and more like a shady cult.
In r-selection, mate acquisition is key. The race is to see who can mate the fastest with the largest number of mates. It is why the males in an r-species often grow flashy, and develop fancy little dances to attract mate attention.
You can see how as cognition grew more complex, the ability to trigger shunning of competitors would be a powerful selection force against them.
Everything in r is social, and unrelated to competitive ability. This writer didn’t say go out and earn more money than them, or find disease cures they can’t find, or even beat them at the ballot box. He is trying to activate within your brain, fear pathways which he sees in his brain, and use that fear of shunning to make the right back off.
I think we need to recognize more the difference between what succeeds in r vs K. In times of K, like after WWII, it is fine for somebody like Eugene Stoner to retire to his garage, looking to create a more effective combat rifle. There, the competition is, who is best.
But keep in mind, as things turn r, the competition shifts to who schmoozes the best, and who has the widest social network, and can play the social game the best. When times are r, and conditions allow it, make those connections and leverage them to put yourself in a better position. Then once you are there, focus on quality.
But never loose sight that in times of r, quality is not the game.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because it is like shunning liberals
They are demanding repentance.
That’s cultural appropriation of Christians. My religion is not your goddamned internet fad.
I’ve worked in the biggest rabbit’s nest of an office you could imagine for eighteen years. It’s been a constant dance of wanting to be shunned because some of them are best kept at a distance and wanting to keep a finger on the pulse of what’s going on, in case they’re working on another plot to ruin my life. Fortunately, most of them don’t have two brain cells to rub together, so they mostly engage in 2nd grade lunch table group harassment. The worst thing they managed to do was convince the borderline retarded fifty year old incel who lives with his mom to stalk me. My best hope is that I can manage to become so creatively difficult to deal with that suddenly that happy me that enjoys life starts becoming pleasant in comparison.
I actually had a previously close friend do this to me some years ago: took a hard left and told me we couldn’t be friends any more because I was a conservative and therefore evil. I now recognize the guy had always been pretty rabbity, so I guess it was inevitable. Also in rabbity manner, he made this grand announcement with a sort of “no hard feelings” attitude, no loyalty for the years of kindness I’d shown him as a friend. I gave him a piece of my mind and never looked back.
Thanks to this and other experiences, I now head off such difficulties at the pass by categorically refusing to associate with leftists and those who are strongly rabbit. Won’t go beyond “hello”, “goodbye” and “the bathroom’s over there”. That encompasses both family and friends. I’ll entertain moderate left-of-center and libertarian types as casual acquaintances, but conservative/wolf mindset is non-negotiable for me to trust you to any real degree. Someone trying to shame me for my beliefs now would make me laugh in his face.
Just wait until The Storm has reached its full height, Trump is proved totally right and all the liberals’ darlings can no longer safely walk down the street. Then we can shun them right back. Amygdala hijacks will be effortless, even unintentional.
Hands up who can’t wait for the deranged leftists in their lives to finally leave them alone.
Another true r/K anecdote:
Lost a colleague today. Management let each of us decide whether to take the rest of the day off, talk to a counselor, etc., or return to work. I had to go home and I’m still wiping away the tears.
The most left-leaning amongst us were back to work within the hour.
I am sorry. I used to find that totally crushing, but I now know, beyond all doubt, that it doesn’t end here. It still bothers me strangely enough, even though I know they are happy and on a wild ride like nothing this plane offers, but knowing they are happy, and hopefully I will reunite again does help.
Thanks AC. Mom’s close to checking out, seems like.
Reading this was helpful.
I don’t know what I believe anymore but it does seem God is acting and at play these days.
Here a Nursing site wanted to accrue stories of passings, to figure out how best to improve service, and it became a compilation of stories of people passing to the other side, and all the indications there was something more.
There are tons of cases of people seeing things like this, others who passed over and were brought back, and other stories which all have the same elements.
There is no doubt there is another side.
I’m absolutely certain there is a “beyond”, but I find it not comforting but terrifying. It is a moment of absolute unvarnished truth (which most of us spend our entire lives avoiding, at least to some extent or another), and also where your story is now over so you can’t change what you made of yourself. In a word: judgment. What a different world it would be if more people lived with a view to this inevitable appointment.
The funny thing about this, is that it isn’t actually triggering the fear response (as far as I know) It’s clearly triggering the anger/fight response.
I think this is bc the ostracism only works on K selected where the individual believes he is in the wrong with regards to the benefit/obligations towards the group. If however the individual sees himself in the right and the r character as a parasite, or a large group of parasites, then he is ready for a fight. Will probably even regard such people as defective or corrupted, in much the same way a man can saw off his own arm if he sees it is infected with gangrene.
Especially where that K selected individual is in contact with other like minded individuals all sharing information.
I think what’s happening is in a way even more terrifying bc we are observing human beings acting effectively without thought. These people are simply acting out a biological algorithm and are completely unaware of what it is actually doing. Like a bird running straight into a glass wall. Or a malfunctioning robot.
I think a simpler way to view this would be using the ingroup/outgroup angle.
r and K have different concepts of ingroup (ie, “tribe”). r’s ingroup is basically everyone except K. K’s ingroup is their tribe (similar ethnicity, culture, close relationships, etc, whatever).
Rabbits try to outgroup you from their tribe using shame. The purpose of shame is to keep people in line so they respect the customs of their tribe (under penalty of being cast away and eaten by predators). Shame works very well on leftists because their most primal fear is to be kicked out, which is why they use it among themselves liberally, and it is usually the first tactic they will use on you (and you should use it on them, too)… Constant virtue-signalling is an attempt to ward off shame…
However, you don’t consider yourself part of their tribe, so they can’t outgroup you or cast you away, and their judgment doesn’t matter to you. So it doesn’t work on you. On the contrary, if your enemy thinks you’re stupid, they’re doing you a favor.
Counter shame with pride. If they shame you for supporting Trump, then be vocally proud about supporting Trump, and all the people you respect also do, as do all your real friends (which is basically you outgrouping them). You will see the rabbit’s brain melt LOL. If it’s a pseudo conservative rabbit, shame them for being such a cuck! Then double down on the outgrouping: “We’re already winning without you. We don’t need cucks like you.”
Of course this will piss them off, but that’s so entertaining to watch!
The melting brains thing is so interesting. I don’t get how rabbits can be so pathetic because they’re never not scanning and observing you out of the corners of both eyes. They’re always taking the temperature, socially and emotionally, then bam! there they go and walk right into it again, resulting in another meltdown. Also weird how they’re quick to shame others but rarely/never seem to experience shame for their own embarrassing behavior.
I guess it’s true, that saying about how the dumbest people are the most arrogant. Still a hard one to believe.
“Then communicate that you will no longer speak with them, nor will you offer them emotional, financial or other types of support until they denounce Donald Trump and what he represents” Hahaha! Like liberals provide financial or emotional support for anyone. Bye Felicia!
Rabbits are broken and the know it, deep down. I veer between compassion and annoyance with them. They’re like perpetual children. I know rabbits in their fifties. There is something deeply unpleasant and gross about a grown adult not acting their age. Is it just me? Anyone else get their disgust reflex triggered by infantile behavior exhibited in an adult body?
Oh yes, nothing like working somewhere for almost twenty years, and now I’m the age most of them were when I started working there. I’ve grown as a person, whereas they are grown-ass fifty year old losers who are no different from twenty years ago. I mean, god damn….when does a person grow out of making smoking pot jokes or sleeping off drunks until noon?
Arrested development!
This past Christmas a friend of mine received an adult coloring book from his Secret Santa. The youngest person in the gift pool is in their early thirties, but there is such a thing as a coloring book for adults. Says “for adults” right on the front.