JTarrou
4d ago
If I read all that right, then the courts have held that a minority must be given their own voting district because they are not the majority. If minority's "preferred candidates" don't win, they must be made to win, because the majority must not be allowed to elect their preferred candidates. We call this "democracy".
JTarrou
7d ago
"Sidney Sweeney's jeans ad is nazism"
"Wtf I love Hitler now"
The saying goes that leftism is basically just pretending not to understand simple concepts, making dialogue untenable.
JTarrou
7d ago
Evil rapacious capitalism less exploitative than the dictatorship of the Kremlin proletariat?
Unpossible.
JTarrou
8d ago
If you don't have a chat the left would cancel you over, you don't have any friends.
JTarrou
8d ago
If this be nazism, make the most of it.
"Nazi" in the current parlance just means "politically sane".
JTarrou
8d ago
It's zero problem. There are no real nazis, there are plenty of anti-semites on both sides. Beating the "muh nazis" dead horse only hastens the day when it reaches negative social connotation. We may have already passed it.
JTarrou
11d ago
It's all right in front of you. This is a belief system that posits "scientific" politics as a substitute for what christians would call "godliness". "Science" is the clerisy that interprets the Moral Arc of History (the Popular Will, or Will of God) and informs the initiated what the correct Just Being A Decent Human Being (politically correct, christian) behavior is. Marx was just the first big one to take off during the religious doldrums of the second half of the nineteenth century, and so it is his name most associated with all the related sects that squabble among us to this day. From the enlightenment until now, this has been the pattern. The first attempt in France to replace Christianity failed miserably, the second in Russia worked, sort of, for a while. The third, in the west has been more successful, largely by free-riding on western military power and religious tolerance. But here too, we see cracks forming.
JTarrou
11d ago
We call by many names the "successor ideology", "wokeness", "PC", "Cultural Marxism" etc. It is all the abstracted christian heretical sect which has no true ideology except opposition to western society and its economic and military success. These are deracinated christian cultists who believe the US is the devil. It really isn't much deeper than that. Any number of political, social or entirely imaginary theories will be propagated to hold up this structure, but it really is just oikophobia at the root.
That this ideology is the ruling ideology of the western empire, which legitimates their expansion of empire, is merely the crowning irony.
JTarrou
18d ago
The answer is as simple as it is impossible for the current left to even fake.
They have to value real, actual masculinity.
JTarrou
1mo ago
Atrocity math is a bad game to play when you're losing by a landslide. It can drive people into all sorts of intellectual contortions. Squid ink.
JTarrou
1mo ago
You're being obtuse. Nonfatal violence is less serious than fatal violence. It wasn't nonviolent, there were felonies committed, and plenty of people should have gone to jail over it. None of that makes it as bad as six months of terror, murder, secession, looting and arson.
JTarrou
1mo ago
Zinn appears to be a long-term psycho. Did jail time for calling in a bomb threat to a marathon, some possible 9/11 fakery etc. A sort of political gadfly loonie like the second Trump shooter, not sure on his actual politics.
Perhaps not surprising that someone extreme in several areas of his life might be extreme in another.
As a side note on the child porn, let me ask a conspiratorial question: Without any opinion on this particular case, given the level of tech access of government agencies and corporations, what are the odds that nobody is putting child porn files onto the devices of people they want to discredit?
JTarrou
1mo ago
All this is true, and yet most people aren't all people.
The world is full of keyboard warriors. The real ones are in the military or prison.
Now you know why each political party wants to put their warriors in the streets.
JTarrou
1mo ago
Great, make your worst-case scenario, let's take it all as gospel FTSOA.
The right has several thousand more fatalities and several trillion more dollars in damage to do before the ledger of riots is balanced in just my lifetime.
J6 was a minor riot that killed no one, and during which police shot and killed an unarmed middle-aged woman. There's no math that makes this the equivalent of even one weekend of BLM, much less the entirety.
JTarrou
1mo ago
I think Freddie has a point that a culture that does not provide sufficient sanctioned outlets for young male aggression will have to deal with the unsanctioned versions. How that violence expresses itself is memetic, something I've been saying for some time. Serial killers, school shooters, anarchist assassins, muslim suicide bombers etc. are all culturally embedded expressions.
Of course, this is only something he can come at with ten thousand words of obscure physics analogy and only when his side is the one in the hot seat for encouraging this violent tendency toward their opponents.
JTarrou
1mo ago
Think oil pipeline security facing off with NGO-funded armed protesters, or CIA-funded terror cells sniping at the FBI-funded terror cells.
JTarrou
1mo ago
Like I said, we're not there yet. AOC is still pretty milfy for a politician.
JTarrou
1mo ago
That would make it what, 147th on the list of most violent/destructive protests in the past twenty years? Like I said, very minor.
JTarrou
1mo ago
Interestingly, the left's attempt to paint the assassin as a Fuentes fan has really raised his profile. A real "choose your destructor" moment, and not one I think is likely to go well.
Israel has accepted a lot more land settlement deals over the years than the Palestinians have. Further complicating things, Israel has one government, and the Palestinians have somewhere between two and six, depending on which terrorist organizations you count. There is no body of Palestinians that can approve a deal that can command the obedience of all the disparate armed groups. Hamas does not command the PLO, the PLO does not command Hezbollah, Hezbollah does not command IJ.
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