Nemesis thread. The world is plagued by a powerful adversary. Some pervasive, malicious, and shadowy force is the cause of your suffering and misfortune. The nemesis is a scapegoat, it is the name you curse, it is a shared enemy.

To resist the nemesis is the cause that unites you with your brethren. Sometimes "it's just a metaphor" but when pressed, most people will confess that whatever nemesis they name, this is how they truly feel. it’s comforting to blame your problems on something outside you

Originally in Greek mythology, nemesis was the goddess of divine retribution, an inescapable and implacable being, whose name came to be associated with “just resentment”. Here I am using the term slightly differently.

Christians: Satan, the angel fallen from heaven, the first whig, a rebel against God. He will promise you many good things, and then he will destroy you out of hatred. He will tempt you away from the straight and narrow with lies and pleasant sins.

Neoliberals: Trump, the uncouth, who eats his steaks well done and is definitely a racist and a rapist. In truth every standing Republican (i.e. outer party) president gets this treatment, Trump is just exceptionally good at it.

Ethnic Nationalism: usually, the enemy is the Jews. Controlling all the media and government, they use their power to demoralize us and erode our families, promoting sexual deviancy and usury.

Scientology: Xenu, maybe, it’s hard to really know. Intergalactic alien emperor does some Malthusian pruning of his population, Yada yada yada, here we are on earth plagued by alien ghosts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu 

Feminism: the enemy is the patriarchy, a self-perpetuating ideological structure that causes men and women to conform to traditional gender roles and stereotypes, which hold you back from reaching your true potential.

Marxism: the “fat cat” capitalists and the vapid materialistic bourgeoisie unfairly hoard the wealth to the detriment of all but themselves. They create and enforce social structures that “oppress” the poor working class by preventing them from finding self-actualization

Buddhism: the source of our suffering is our own desires and attachments. You are your own nemesis

Basic bitch liberals: “the corporations”, “Wall Street”, “capitalism”, sometimes even “Monsanto” if they watched a documentary about factory farming.

Red pill manosphere: “the feminine imperative”, which is an amorphous inclination produced by feminism and innate human psychology to always prioritize women over men, emphasize their problems and downplay men’s, and to grant women more freedom and men less

Veganism: Not well-developed, But they have some pretty funny words for meat-eaters that may indicate they are developing a theory of outsiders as the devil; carnist; bloodmouth...

Nrx: the cathedral, but especially virtue- signaling leftists, are creating civilization destroying incentives and then following them in a vicious circle that will bring down western civ