https://nitter.net/DavidGHFrost/status/1716359322496598299
Western Civilization
You really need to prod people like this to name names. Odds are the folks you're talking to have no idea who - in particular - they're explicitly referencing. Western Civ is just a vibe and we don't need to interrogate which luminaries are responsible for the modern way of life.
Occasionally, you'll get an "Albert Einstein" or "Steve Jobs" or "Elon Musk". But by and large, Westerners have no earthly idea how shit gets made much less who makes it. Why does Taiwan control the most advanced semiconductor foundry in the world? How come all of our steel comes from Brazil and Mexico? Why could Cubans develop a vaccine on par with the Top Minds at Pfizer? Who actually knows how a TV works, much less how it is manufactured and assembled?
We're all just piggies feasting at the slop bucket, never wondering why it gets filled every morning or questioning to what end the farmer lavishes us with treats.
"Western Civilization" is just a way for people to say "white" without having to think about what it means.
Except when Whitey also wants to take credit for something Japan/Occupied Korea/Province of Taiwan did. Then they're suddenly "Western" too!
They became “Western” the day the US military occupied them and made them dependent imperial colonies. If their governments ever tried to exercise political autonomy or asked the empire to remove bases, they’d be be overthrown. If they successfully expelled the imperial military, they’d go right back to being “dirty backward orientals” like China and Korea.
liberals keep stealing our shit, now they've stolen "socialism or barbarism"
"It's going to be Socialism or Barbarism. And as everyone knows, socialism is impossible so we absolutely must hold onto liberalism forever"
Western
liberal
progressive
chaos and barbarism
White
white
white
[words the slur filter would remove]
That whole tweet reads like a Jordan Peterson rant lmao
And they will damn us all in the name of "whatever, dude"
Imagine hating the young so much you think they're all cartoon villains.
guy who is always telling young people how they need to change their ways or else doom humanity: idk why they treat me like i'm lecturing them
I never saw Joker, but reading that tweet was a profoundly Jokerifying moment
It's a movie about a dude that's really fucked up mentally and he kills some finance bros almost by accident and then becomes a folk hero. At the same time he's failing his career in comedy and goes onto a talk show and shoots the host for disparaging him, says "we live in a society" and blunders outside into a riot that have deified him for killing the finance bros.
Also they shove in a Batman reference
Made by the luminary responsible for The Hangover 1-3 also Joaquin Phoenix dances
Well said. We tend to get more and more weak in decadence, so barbarism is able to take over.
This guy is an interior designer
Back in Roman times, he would be leading legions and securing the frontier.
Well, yeah, USA and their vassals are the only places on earth where the liberal barbarity is considered to be "value"
I honestly do not understand how anybody alive can still buy into this. I mean it was never true but in like the 90s and early 2000s this “well it’s not perfect but it’s the best we got” mindset does make sense for a large segment of the population, as the earlier dunk tank post demonstrated. Even in the early 2010s, once we were a couple years out from 2008, during that whole party till the end of the world zeitgeist, this wasn’t completely delusional for significant numbers. At this point though this is just sad to read. That there are people still clinging to this in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
it's evident to anyone who's paying attention that the West - economically, culturally, in terms of global power - is in decline and rapidly deteriorating
I wonder what examples this person would give for "social and cultural breakthroughs"
I mean as far as liberal values go, nobody does genocidal racism like America and her allies.
God I just want the "garden" to burn sooooo fucking bad. Burn that shit to the ground
We must secure the existence of liberals and a future for harry potter fans
BUT WHO WILL INNOVATE WITHOUT RICH WHITE MEN COMMANDING COLONIAL EMPIRES
on this: 
"Up yours, Daddy-O!"
BATMAN REFERENCE 
reading off the charts
