For some reason, my anti-war parents which opposed Afghanistan and Iraq, thanks to this Ukraine shit are now suddenly the most warhawkish people I think I've ever met. Not only do they think the US should send supplies to Ukraine, but they actively wish for the US to intervene to "save" Ukraine and are happy about any reports of massive Russian casualties. I'm not sure wtf is wrong with them since it's like a complete 180 from how they normally are. Even my father who originally was encouraging me to work on a railroad like my grandfather is now encouraging me to join the army like my great grandfather, which was weird since he pretty vocally before never wanted me to even touch the military if I can help it.
Help me Any Forums, I don't understand what happened to my parents
My Anti-War Parents are suddenly the most Pro-Warhawks I've ever met
They're reeds in the wind.
Boomers have outsourced all of their thinking to the mass-media. If the media reprograms them in a certain way, that's that. That's what they will 'believe.'
Eventually you realize your parents aren't as smart as you thought as a child and thus have to cope with the fact you lose respect for them.
me too. NBC/CNN/Facebook fucked their brains during Trump then COVID fear propaganda absolutely destroyed the rest of their critical thinking skills and now they are just putty in the hands of the TV
sad to see man. their entire generation is entering their second childhood and they're just...completely helpless.
Amerimutt Anti-war sentiment is not genuine it is tied to partisanship between the two parties
Don't join the army. Bots are th worst.
Afghanis and Iraqis didn't exactly invite US in, Ukraine did
this is a really good point and i think one of the main tasks of growing up. you replace your internal ideas of them (called "objects" in psychology) with more realistic views- and, because everybody develops their worldview due to their external influences (ie their parents) then as adults we learn to "re-parent" ourselves
i think it's normal to lose respect for them in your 20s as you become an adult yourself and then a few years later (often when you have kids yourself) you come back around full circle to realizing they're actually good people who were trying their best, albeit imperfectly, and we're all just humans trying to make our way in a confusing world
even though my parents went full covid cultist retard and didn't talk to me for months because i was unvaxxed and are now in the throes of war panic, making facebook posts about sanctions being good etc, i still love them because they raised me and i know they mean well.
let's see how the boomers react to losing their entire retirement funds here in a week or two though. they're about to experience the biggest rugpull of all time. i don't think most people realize how hard this economic collapse that's starting literally as we speak (oil up 1000 Euros in the last few hours as trading opens) is going to fuck the world
They're nostalgic and scared.
this
It's like watching a toddler when they use the internet to look something up. I ask them what site they're on whenever they look something up and they just say "google" while I try once again to explain what google does.
My dad is glued to CNN, MSNBC all day and he doesn't seem to realize it.
All those boomer complaints in the mid 2000s about kids always being on their phones and watching too much TV I now find myself saying to them.
The good thing about growing up with this technology was that you learned from your mistakes. I bricked the family computer with porn viruses for example. I was trolled countless times, I nearly gave away my C&C RA2 CD code the first time I got online. But now I see app developers working backwards to accommodate stupidity and in so doing removing the learning tool of failure and embarrassment.
"Fact checkers" do the thinking for you.
trained by media like the retards that they always were. people were only anti-war because their media told them to be. now that their media says otherwise, that's their opinion.
sorry user, your parents are NPCs
Because nobody cares about sandniggers being drone strikes because their semite cousins sicked their attack mutt on them. Seeing actual human beings (Europeans) die is easy motivation for bleeding heart retards.
My parents are also watching TV. And they support the war. This is fucking ridiculous. Half the population is completely zombified by propaganda. I guess it's the result of the development of social engineering. You can't root for death and suffering if you have some compassion, but the TV says war is peace. Defensive attacks my ass. Any peace is better than this.
your medias weren't that critical of bush exporting democracy while importing oil and opium :^)
Even though I was still cooking, my parents were both anti-war in Serbia during the 90s and Clinton was a Democrat. So idk what changed.
nah there was a ton of anti bush anti iraq and even anti afghanistan media at the time.
This is what Team America World Police is all about. Back then the media wasn't upstream from policy. The actors and bleeding heart liberals of the world complained about oil wars and this and that and everyone hated Bush, but it was a civil hate. Not this new 2016 "I will literally kill you" hate we have now.
They also used to make an attempt at some semblance of objectivity. CNN showed the bombing of Bagdad live on air as it happened, they did not then begin ranting about their opinions on the war as they do today.
>Be against starting unnecessary bloodshed
>Be for trying to stop unnecessary bloodshed as fast as possible
Sound like good folks.
There was a thread earlier that talked about cern and it changing timelines and fucking with the past and future.
While Schizo tier it makes a fuck ton of sense when we look at it.
Logically cern consistently fucking with the timeline would produce strange illogical shit! We call it clown world. For example antifa and blm promoted commie shit all during the riots now these same idiots want Putin to die! Putin is literally an ex kgb agent who is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union again by capturing Ukraine!
How about this a deadly pandemic that is less deadly then the normal flu?
A vaccine that don’t stop you from getting the virus or spreading the virus?
Nazi Ukrainians fighting for a Jewish president and financially supported by Israel.
Yeah user it’s that strange! It like everyone is holding conflicting ideological stances! Just like your parents!
they got mkultra'd
no one is immune to propaganda
Some people gotta believe in something. Better this than trump
"because they mean well" no fuck that, fucking your childs life is nothing you can excuse with "I meant well"
You either ready to guide a child or you don't get one. simple ass. and fuck your parents too.
>it's like a complete 180 from how they normally are
It's simple they are on full scale brainwashing that is called MSM.
Simply that's who they are, and they always been
Their thoughts were never their own. And now the people doing the thinking for them have changed the programming.
There's a quote that goes something like "reading is just replacing your thoughts with someone else's." Watching TV is basically the same thing. It's non-interactive so you don't challenge other's beliefs, you just get bombarded with other opinions until you conform.
Psyop virus acting through colors and sound.
We are in a mirrored timeline where people who identify as leftist are acting like Fascist and say pro fascist shit, where communist want freedom, where women are acting like men and men like women.
turn the channel to basketball
The people in charge have figured out exactly how to sway the opinions of NPCs. Anyone who watches TV or participates in places like Reddit or Twitter is 95% under their control.
people don't have ideas, ideas have people
that is the quote that always comes to mind
that being said i would not compare the book to television. Gutenberg technology has completely different effects when compared to electronic media. Although newspaper, not book, is probably more close to what you see in electronic media.
If you have the time give Marshall McLuhan a read. Start with The Gutenberg Galaxy to understand how that technology shaped the mind of man and how its changes are being undone by television and now the internet.
That's the conditioning working.
I must've lived in a different reality. There was some criticism as the years went by, but certainly at first it was anathema to even consider criticism because we had been "attacked" and everyone needed to be patriotic and support the war effort. If you raised concerns about the Patriot act or why we would invade Iraq when we were going after bin laden, you were called a traitor.
There were massive protests worldwide about the Iraq invasion but they got very little attention. Meanwhile, shows like 24 glorified torture (since we were torturing people) and war movies were all very patriotic.
>acting through colors and sound.
Aquino unironically covers that in his book MindWar. Sadly he is far too much of a boomer and the book is a terrible read with some rather nonsense takes but he does mention how you can deploy color to change mood.
why are you crying like a bitch you subhuman pussy?
>wu wu wu huuu every body is a brainwashed npc but I'm on Any Forums and I'm a free thinker you're the only ones who understand me in the whole world frens
>sad_pepe.jpg
it's time to kill yourself.
that's the best part though, it's still Trump
all the of the "russian collusion, russian collusion" has been vindicated. somehow.
don't ask me how, but my dad's real happy about it.
fuck yea
wjat a night
I'm sorry user, but your parents are NPCs.
I'm afraid it's terminal.
their NPC programming is activated
agent smith syndrome strikes again
sthil chainsaws get a 6'
Your parents are intellectually average and believe what they see in the media. Many of us have similar parents. Boomers are unique in the trust they have in corporate media, no generation before or since has been raised with a sort of unconditional trust in "journalism".
It's Boomerism. Once they get to a certain age and realize they can't be drafted anymore, they assume the most fun they can have is getting their kids drafted and killed in the WW3 scenario they were promised all their lives but that One World Government never delivered on. Their entire lives are one big story of hiding under the desk during the nuclear drill, and to not have WW3 at the end is such a cosmic letdown they'd have to admit they were morons their entire lives for believing the government, and they'll never do that.
So WW3 and dead kids it is. While they're still able to reach the tv clicker, because that damn nurse just isn't helpful. Fucking niggers.
>Parents support pro-zionist Ukraine.
>Parents are nazis.
Sad but true.
I dunno, as an avid reader it helps explain why booksmart people can be so dumb sometimes. I think it was Socrates who was against writing and thought it destroyed your faculty for memory. I've noticed the same thing in media vs books, where the author states things as facts that may not be true, and you'd have to cross-reference literally every page to have any semblance of honesty to the situation. And when 90% of info on a topic is propaganda, you could cross-reference against 8 other sources and still come up with the wrong answer.
NPCs man... NPCs.
By Speedrunning to Nuclear Holocaust?
>colors
>blue + yellow
>picrel is a fighting game that came out in early feb
This. Tomorrow the media will say niggers are the master race and the NPCs will believe that too
Show them gore videos and ISIS exections, see if they still have a hard-on for war and all it entails.
Can't remember the quote but basically the only people who are pro-war are those who haven't witnessed or experienced it - some greek nigga 5493492 BC
it was nowhere near anything like we see today, certainly. But the Iraq war generated a lot of controversy, protests, buck fush tshirts. Patriot act too.
Everything was just more civil back then. People weren't lighting cars on fire because a bunch of niggers died in a hurricane.
This was where the left picked up all it's momentum. The millennials were raised on this shit and they paid attention.