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‘Victory is a state of existence’: John Doyle rejects conservative ‘black-pillers’

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Many people on the right seem determined to convince everyone that defeat is inevitable, and BlazeTV host John Doyle isn’t having it. The worldview, which he calls “black-pilled,” is deeply pessimistic, nihilistic, and ultimately destructive. It also is a play on the red-pill/blue-pill dilemma from the film "The Matrix," where the main character, Neo, was offered a red pill or a blue pill. In the film, if you take the red pill you are awakened to the truth no matter how terrible it is. If you take the blue pill, you “go back to your normie life” and accept the lie. While Neo takes the red pill and carries out a heroic battle to fight those enslaving humanity, Doyle points out that in real life, those who have taken the red pill simply end up “being pretty miserable.” “You find out how bad things are. You think it’s always going to be bad. That kind of sucks,” he says. “And so then it kind of creates this self-fulfilling prophecy where you’re upset about being alone. You go online, you