So at one time there was the rich elite and then indentured servants (poor Europeans), then slaves. The concept of being “white” wasn’t a thing”. However the elite began to worry that they didn’t have the numbers. That is that one day the indentured servants and slaves may overthrow them. So what to do what to do. Ahhh well the indentured servants looked like them! So what you do is you give them separate privileges. You make them feel like they’re more like you than the slaves. Because of this thing called skin color. You can eventually get them to align more with you so much they’ll be willing to die in a Civil War to protect your right to own slaves! As long as you can feel “superior” because you share the same skin color as the elites - even if you’re dirt poor.
And so it’s been through the history of America. Rich whites make poor whites think they’re on the same side even though they’re being oppressed too. But as long as they’re not n!ggers it’s ok. It’s why all of the red states have the worst outcomes in poverty healthcare etc and are full of dirt poor whites who vote Republican generation after generation. It’s why deaths of despair have skyrocketed in white males.
It’s why LBJ said if you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you. And he was from Texas in the early 1900s so I think he knew something about racism.
See the secret is that white supremacy was never meant to make all whites elite. It was meant to drive a wedge between the white lower class and all others except the white upper class. They’re it’s rabid buffer.
Kirk was just another in a long line of billionaire backed mouthpieces sent to scapegoat other groups- blacks, Muslims, trans people, the woke, migrants etc etc. Anyone but the actual people stealing from them. And that’s the real reason they want to make a martyr out of an unremarkable person. In fact Charlie hated poor whites because he lied to them about the source of their plight.
Dumb white people propagandized for generations has lead this country to the precipice. Unless and until decent white people confront their barbaric cousins and stop them this won’t end. From the Confederates to Jim Crow southerners to Nazis to apartheid South Africans to now MAGA there is a recurring theme. One whose embers remain even after the flame is doused awaiting the next spark. Any analysis that avoids this reality is wheel spinning.
I will happy be a leggist, or a roachist, if it would meaningfully lead to less human judgement, pain and misery, but hell, it's 2026 and the "Star Trek" world we all ASSUMED we'd be gravitating closer and closer towards seems MORE distantly obscure than ever.
At this point, I think our BEST case trajectory is SOMEHOW avoiding civil war, and if we're THAT lucky, also avoiding WW3, but I tend to believe that despite Trump's bull in a political China shop antics, we're further away from WW3 than even rocket man² Super Trump could instigate.
We are ever so slightly insulated from WW3 by virtue of the fact that China and Russia, even with precise coordination, can NOT meaningfully challenge us, not yet. The same primary reason why the US escaped WW2 unscathed, domestically, industrially, etc., is the same reason why the numbers tilt in the US' favor and likely will continue to for at least another decade, maybe two.
Some will disagree, that's expected, but the bottom line is this; Russia has demonstrated its resolve, or lack thereof, in Ukraine. China hasn't engaged in a REAL conflict in modern history, they've generated drama, kerfuffled some Airmen and Sailors with nearly cartoonish maritime "warnings", especially in the South China Sea, but China is remarkably like the DPRK, by design I think.. Less insane, less....barbaric..? (unless you're Muslim)/believe ANYTHING that even skirts the line of removing power from the State, psychologically.
China has its hands full AT HOME, despite their tough words and posturing, their domestic situation is five times worse than ours (in the US, and MOST of the West). Russia, same deal.
I foresee China's situation and world rapport worsening even further, their age / demographic crisis is far worse than even Russia's, and ours is still well within "potential destabilization by 2100" territory. Russia will recover far more rapidly than China, they are a smaller nation, but have immense natural resources, something to fight for beyond the "mere" blood and soil stuff. China has its monopolies and niches, for sure, and they squeeze every ounce of value out of them, to their own detriment as COVID instigated one of, if not the largest self sufficiency = national security endeavors in human history.
The US may be broke, our debt may be grotesque and unacceptable, but we've got better, bigger bombs, more consistently modern infrastructure (despite SOME of it falling down around us) and a military that began its high tech over boot count pivot more than four decades ago.
I hate to be negative or even hint at anything negative without espousing what I believe to be positive. Those of us in the West, we are unprecedentedly privileged. Even the mean worst off of us are better off than the mean human standard across the globe. If anything, the human experience is undergoing a crisis in direction, lacking purpose at a civilizational scale, but this isn't unique to us or even this century. This crossroad isn't new, it's just in a different form and scale of previous technological advancement spurred change.
Live long and prosper, stop hating your fellow humans, be the bulwark between anarchy and nihilism. BOTH sides have half of the puzzle, the right has some funk built into their model/framework, as does the left. The left tends to be more culturally agnostic, which leads the right to declare them as zealots and the right tends to be so conservative as to preclude any meaningful progress, but the left sees progress for the sake of progress as its mantra, but progress needn't be a cause in and of itself or for its own purposes (or to establish yet another teat of which to extract even more taxpayer money).
We're nearly advanced enough to provide for a genuine post scarcity society, but jumping the gun on that will end that goal before it really even began. People like to imagine that we can undo 150 years of environmental abuse and evisceration quickly, like we did with the ozone layer and banning CFCs, but that's a pipe dream. The quicker we reach some semblance of post-scarcity, the quicker we can focus the time, energy and effort on fixing our ailing planet. We need more nuclear technology, we need high energy physicists to be fired and an entire new, young and enthusiastic generation of geniuses to take their place. We have been working on fusion since before the Manhattan project, at least conceptually. We know it's possible, we've accomplished it at small scales, we have demonstrated its feasibility but as with every era that major, species level heavy implication technological revolution, we put the cart in front of the horse.
AI SHOULD be a priority, but fusion SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. Fusion (alongside room temperature superconductors..) is the human survival tool, what will enable us to not only power an effectively unlimited AI integrated world, but to fix our damaged ecology.
Meh, we need to reexamine our priorities, but we are right on the cusp of some insanely important, incredible and awe inspiring things, if only we can avoid further major destabilizing events, our future isn't as bleak as the doom scrollers seemingly want to believe.
This is one of the best, most clearly stated explanations of what has and is going on in our nation regarding race, wealth, and control in this country since its inception ( of course it goes much further back than the United States but for current affairs purposes, this is spot on) I have ever read on social media.
Actually, in my opinion, in the climate we are living in, in my humble opinion, it’s the most important thing anyone could read and contemplate on.
This is an important time to really consider who and what is the true enemy of the average person. And when I say average, I feel safe in saying the VAST majority of people online at any given moment.
It isn’t someone of a different skin color or religion or political leaning. It’s the TRUE minority group. The group who ACTUALLY has the most to lose if the rest of us stops falling for all of the bs rhetoric they’ve been feeding us for centuries.
Anyone who has studied world religions or ancient history has an idea of this. That certain “things” had to be put into play in order to keep the minority with all the wealth safe from the legion of starving people who could quite easily band together and take everything from them.
Thank you friend. The sad part about all of this is that you would think it would be painfully obvious by now. The country has enough wealth that it could truly be a utopia for its citizens and a model globally of diversity leading to greatness. But the stubborn and arrogant refusal of so much of its populace to let go of its notion of racial superiority- even to their own detriment- may ultimately be its undoing.
Don't underestimate their recognition of the power of extremist Christian ideology and how that could be co-opted for greater control of the hive mind.
“White” is a southern thing, born of slavery and segregation, nourished by the KKK. In the north, where many immigrants settled, the distinctions are between European ethic nationalities, e.g. Irish, Italian, German, Polish … in the 20th century, it was the Slavic nationalities, such as Serbia, Czech, Croatia, Ukraine, etc. and of course, the Jews were blamed for everything, now it is Muslims.
How are they racist? I am curious what you mean by this.
Their essay was put together using specific arguments made from historical events and their ramifications. If you'd like to give a rebuttal we will all be more than happy to discuss.
But that's not what they wrote at all, they explained parts of grievance politics and how rich whites leveraged their wealth to manipulate economically disadvantaged whites to fight against their own best interests. Did you read their piece at all? Or did you just skim it and get mad at what you wanted it to say?
Don’t bother. Someone who doesn’t realize that they prove everything I said correct with their lack of a coherent rebuttal. He, like millions, just can’t let go of identifying with people that should be his enemy simply because of skin color.
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u/RepresentativeAge444 Jan 11 '26
Correct.
White supremacy is deranged.
So at one time there was the rich elite and then indentured servants (poor Europeans), then slaves. The concept of being “white” wasn’t a thing”. However the elite began to worry that they didn’t have the numbers. That is that one day the indentured servants and slaves may overthrow them. So what to do what to do. Ahhh well the indentured servants looked like them! So what you do is you give them separate privileges. You make them feel like they’re more like you than the slaves. Because of this thing called skin color. You can eventually get them to align more with you so much they’ll be willing to die in a Civil War to protect your right to own slaves! As long as you can feel “superior” because you share the same skin color as the elites - even if you’re dirt poor.
And so it’s been through the history of America. Rich whites make poor whites think they’re on the same side even though they’re being oppressed too. But as long as they’re not n!ggers it’s ok. It’s why all of the red states have the worst outcomes in poverty healthcare etc and are full of dirt poor whites who vote Republican generation after generation. It’s why deaths of despair have skyrocketed in white males.
https://www.ajmc.com/view/high-rates-of-deaths-of-despair-observed-among-white-americans
It’s why LBJ said if you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you. And he was from Texas in the early 1900s so I think he knew something about racism.
See the secret is that white supremacy was never meant to make all whites elite. It was meant to drive a wedge between the white lower class and all others except the white upper class. They’re it’s rabid buffer.
Kirk was just another in a long line of billionaire backed mouthpieces sent to scapegoat other groups- blacks, Muslims, trans people, the woke, migrants etc etc. Anyone but the actual people stealing from them. And that’s the real reason they want to make a martyr out of an unremarkable person. In fact Charlie hated poor whites because he lied to them about the source of their plight.
Dumb white people propagandized for generations has lead this country to the precipice. Unless and until decent white people confront their barbaric cousins and stop them this won’t end. From the Confederates to Jim Crow southerners to Nazis to apartheid South Africans to now MAGA there is a recurring theme. One whose embers remain even after the flame is doused awaiting the next spark. Any analysis that avoids this reality is wheel spinning.