he owns up to the fact that he is unhinged

a coward and a liberal

This user is an annoying zionist is my bet.

They went from freelance radicalism to state-sponsored radicalism

Wanting to belong just shortcuts people's brains. Absolute boomer logic. I too would love to just be a cog in the machine. I love the idea of all working together to settle Mars, Expanse style, except the way I'd do it would be to bring back Soviet style communism (Red Planet huehuehuehue).

Difference is, I still actually don't want to society to suck and be shit, and for these 20 something boomers, they just don't give a fuck. They love slavery so long as it is part of their identity. Imperialism is fine, because it is people who look like me who are doing it. Even though it is Coca Cola and Nestle and the oil companies that are the ones who reap the benefits.

Same thing with organised religion. People literally could not give a fuck if it makes sense, or if it makes their lives worse, or if it used as a cudgel to bludgeon the poor unfortunates that fall outside the pre-defined good group. They don't care if it serves archaic power structures, and even do not give a fuck when it is arbitrarily used against them. They just pick an identity (or more accurately have one randomly assigned to them by the circumstances of their birth), and then they go with it. Pure vibes.

So yeah not in the least bit surprised that the army brought these people "back into the fold"

They went on to say that it's a "great equalizer", lol:

I'm aircraft maintenance in the Air Force. I have never experienced a greater equalizer than working on the flight line. Doesn't matter your sex, race, or orientation. If you're good at your job, you're one of us.

Outside of bombing mostly brown ppl, this isn't even true internally. The sexual assault rates for women in USAF are astronomical, and the class and race divisions are all there: if you're not a straight white, you aren't going up through the ranks, with the exception of a few tokens.

yeah, I expect a common reason to be "became a landlord"

Dude thinks life being more valuable than property is radical, peak ghoul.

you'd get banned for being white

A good combination of and

Because that implies that data has 'ideology' as opposed to just data points existing in a vacuum.

the central conceit of neoliberalism has always been that it's the most rational position and only the true adults in the room will accept its mandates.

this was all the more mindboggling in the aftermath of the World Wars, when state-driven planning resulted in absolutely massive economic and industrial booms and even better profit for the bourgeoisie than under "free trade". it was literally just "ignore what happened over the last five years, ignore the evidence of your senses, we have to do deflation and remove funding from programs." this total willingness to ignore history and science in the pursuit of maintaining the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie even at the expense of their own profits means that there is no hope that in the current day, neoliberal governments will follow China's lead. hell, even mild Keynesianism and full employment measures would be regardless as giga-Stalinist ultracommunism now. this is bad for us proles of course, but pretty great if you're interested in watching Western imperialism collapse - they will resist with all their might any attempt to take the offramp that would save the imperialist system

Peak comedy