Again, I just don't have the same obsession over which religion will "rule the future" that you apparently do. The Abrahamic religions all seem dead set on exterminating each other, so that doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their long-term prospects.
I don't give a shit what Muslims and Jews do as long as it doesn't effect me, but us religious Abrahamics are all absolutely replacing you. We aren't worried about each other at all.
I didn't deny that it was a form of Communism, just not a form that I'd endorse in whole or even in part.
Again, Socialism is a set of economic principles, not really an "ideology" per se. There are too many reasons to list as to why I believe it's superior to capitalism, but the short version is that nobody should be starving to death in the richest nation on Earth, as they are now. Hell, cannibalize one billionaire's wealth (take Bezos as an example), and you could feed the entire world population for decades, if not centuries.
Motte and Bailey logical fallacy.
If you want to know why all my motives aren't self-serving, that's easy: I simply wasn't raised that way.
Social signaling.
No need to use code, there was a fair-sized Socialist presence in Germany at the time. They were one of the first groups Hitler had to execute in order to complete his rise to power. You seem well-versed in WW2 history, so this is probably something you already knew and decided to leave out because it doesn't fit so well with the rest of your argument. Tsk tsk.
1. The Nazi (National
Socialist Party of Germany) wasn't socialist?
2. IIRC it was the USSR* who executed the anarchists and democratic socialists in Spain, several years before Hitler came to power. George Orwell only evaded execution because he couldn't talk and identify himself and his loyalties due to a battle wound.
3. The SA - the street-fighting, socialist/left-leaning wing of the Nazi party, which incidentally had a large minority of gay men - were technically the first to be purged when he came to power. Again, IIRC. So while you're technically right, the shall we say "nature" of the socialists who were purged is inconvenient for your argument.
*I've talked to Tankies from various feeds my church did on the West Coast. They seem like they can see reason, though their ways aren't mine. If they ever need help with DSA and Antifa types, I will gladly sell them whatever they need.
Capitalism has led us to where we are now, facing down modern-day fascists.
I agree completely. The union of the state and corporations - which is the definition of fascism - has resulted in the censorship of the Republican party and Donald Trump. For this reason we must discorporate Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, Twitter, and Google, break up the banks, and do a full audit and investigation of the 2020 elections with local, state, federal, and international oversight. To refuse to do so only harms Biden's legitimacy!
Placing too much value on money and property has devalued human life in their eyes,...
I agree completely, which is why I don't advocate for materialist philosophies such as capitalism, communism, socialism, or fascism that reduce all of humanity to economic interactions.
to the point where police brutality is perfectly acceptable to the right-wing.
Speak for yourself, I loathe cops. Should I do a search of your username and Ashli Babbit?
Also if the left disapproves of cops, why is their first instinct when they get into an argument or fight always to call the cops? Why did you mourn George Floyd being abused by cops, but approve of it when it's some dumb Trump-voting Boomer white guy? Judging by your actions, your apparent goal was to make sure that everyone is treated like George Floyd, not to prevent anyone from being treated like that.
Could it be that you're a small-souled creature whose only joy in life is sharing your misery with others?
Repression of intolerance is precisely what is needed to combat the rise of Trump's fourth reich.
Trump, the fascist, is the man:
1. Whose grandkids are all ethnically or religiously Jewish?
2. Who partied with Mike Tyson and George Mayweather back in the day?
3. Whose stated beliefs are those of the Democrat party circa 1994?
4. Who cried in public when a corny parade of high school marching bands and firefighters walked by?
Look, we both know that you want a world where the people you believe are your enemies* must follow all the rules, while you can ignore them. When you make dumb arguments like this, you only help persuade the audience to my side and make yourself look bad. For your own sake at least make it hard for me to persuade normal people that you're not a liar and hypocrite!
*The real enemies are corporations and banks, but since they fund Pride parades and BLM "protests", you're not ready to have that conversation yet.
Apparently gay pride and BLM are the left wing equivalent of abortion and gay marriage on the right: pointless culture war issues designed and propagated by wealthy managerialists to dangle over the left's heads to prevent them from uniting the those on the populist right to crush our real enemies, before we all return to states rights and leave each other alone.
This is assuming Trump isn't allowed to burn down the Republican party and leave only smoldering ash in its wake. Because if he's allowed to run again, that's exactly what's gonna happen.
I registered with the Green Party and I intend to vote for the craziest, stupidest lefty I can reasonably get in any office as punishment for the Republican elites and all Democrats. I want the entire country to have the same laws as San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle: legal street-defecation, legal shoplifting, legal camping on public sidewalks, legal hard drug use, and legal violent crime - all if you are non-white, poor, homeless, mentally ill, or addicted to something. Let the left live with the consequences of their beliefs for a while, nothing else will wake them up.
The Republican party is already dead. Everyone - literally everyone - I know that voted for Trump in 2020, which are all the Republicans I know, are never voting for a Republican ever again.
it's not like it matter anyways, Democrats will just keep finding votes until they win for all future elections. We won't have any non-subversive legal recourse, so why bother and paint a target on your back?
It won't affect me since I'm in a multi-racial marriage and the father of a multi-racial child, the house I intend to buy is 70 miles (through rough terrain) from the nearest major city, and the land I want to live in is too harsh to be homeless in and useless for anything except grazing livestock. I'll donate $20 to the DSA, BLM, Communist Party, Democratic Party, ADL, and SPLC once every election year to prove my street creds. I literally just ordered BLM, Trans, LGBTQ+, Communist, and Mexican flags to put up around my house if the cops come knocking. I'll order some "programming socks", change my gender to female on all my government IDs, and change my name to Mary Smith.
I'll put my wife on paper as the owner of our ranch and any businesses we start, so we can get preference in government contracts as a minority (black, woman) owned business. We will do the bare minimum needed to get paid, and nothing beyond that.
If leftists want to erect barriers to living if you're a straight white Christian man, then I'll just lie. The government lies, leftists lie. Anyone that doesn't lie is a sucker. No skin off my back.
I hope you enjoy living in the cities and enduring the decayed infrastructure now that you've awakened the only people that gave enough of a crap to contribute to society. We're not going to contribute to a society that hates us. Good luck building a society from the ground up by yourself, while surrounded by people who are happy to stab you in the back!
While I wouldn't approve of all-out war with Russia, this type of response was absolutely warranted. Russia had just annexed Crimea and was attempting to invade Ukraine at the time, an ally of the US. Trump gave Putin everything he could've wanted in this regard by just ignoring the problem.
Anyone who gives a shit what happens 10,000 miles away is a dork. Like, Ben Shapiro tier dork.
You remember wrong. The criticism was for abandoning our Kurdish allies in the region and (once again) letting Putin come in and take control instead. Trump's first impeachment had nothing to do with a potential war, and everything to do with pressuring Ukraine to start a baseless investigation into Hunter/Joe Biden. I believe there were a million better reasons to impeach, but whatever. The fact remains that Russia is our adversary, not our friend. They just got done
hacking most of the US government, including our nuclear stockpile, a story that was largely swept under the rug after the capitol riot.
Sounds like an argument for reducing our dependence on other nations and cutting ties with foreigners. Russia can't do much if we have 200% tariffs on everything, and we block all internet traffic, immigration, and "investment" from outside the USA.
Besides that, the NSA spent all their efforts on subversion and offense instead of defense. If their defense continues to be as awful as it was since at least the Obama years, we'll see the Intel Management Engine cracked (plus the AMD equivalents) and every computing device made since like 2009 will be paperweights.
If we don't want to be hacked, maybe we shouldn't let the morons in our government deliberately compromise our tech and security?
Oh yeah, I just remembered that Congress wants to ban many forms of the strongest encryption too lol. Enjoy seeing your bank account cleared out once every year! Thanks Congress!
Besides, the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars are over. Whatever criticism you have of Putin, he won those wars.
So you're telling me Ghaddafi's son is slaughtering his own people and allowing a massive human trafficking operation to continue in the country, but I'm supposed to believe he's a good guy? Seems like the country was going to end up in a bad place with or without the drones we sent to help the rebels.
How is he allowing human smuggling and slavery to occur in his country if he's not in full control of it yet?
Why should I care what happens 10,000 miles away when we have more than enough problems here?
How do you tell who is the good guy when I can barely tell the difference between factions?
How am I supposed to fix it when they've been killing each other since before the USA existed?
Why should I risk the lives of my people for people very far away, who hate us for good reason, and when it doesn't materially benefit us in any way?
Why should I tell brown people what to do when I'm a straight white Christian man and telling brown people how to run their own nations is the vilest of bigotries?
Libya was already in a bad place, drone striking indistinguishable brown people won't make it less of a bad place. Besides that, I have this aversion to killing people who are no threat to me as long as they stay over there.
There are already a ton of Syrian and Kurdish refugees out there, Trump being responsible for many of them becoming refugees in the first place. On top of which, climate change is set to make the Middle East practically uninhabitable in the next ten years or so. There will be no shortage of refugees resulting from that.
Why is Trump responsible for CIA color revolutions in the MENA that started in 2010, under Obama, with Biden as Vice President (and I believe Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State), and continued for at least 6 more years?
Huh? If you're really that interested, the reason I attended a Christian middle school was simply out of convenience for my parents. It was like halfway between where they worked and where we lived in Washington state, and the public schools were all either further away or located in the opposite direction.
How much did that Christian middle school cost per year?
Charities don't waste money on status symbols like megachurches and private jets.
Yes, instead they spend it on useless eaters (managers and administrators) whose only job is to shuffle paperwork to stay in compliance with the endless regulations from our beloved comrades in government! Hail the Democrat Party! May our Glorious Leader Biden lead us into the future of total reliance on unaccountable bureaucrats for survival, forever!
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Right wing extreme Christianity like you get in the states, is something they invented. It's not real Christianity that you get from Jesus teachings.
The Balkans, Mediterranean Europe, Iberia, and Eastern Europeans aren't Europe?
Technically the only people above replacement rate in Western Europe are Africans and MENA Muslims, so if you define a nation by the people who inhabit it then in two or three generations Britain, France, Germany, and Sweden won't be Europe either. If you're an example of the average Western European, I must say that I support that. I'd much rather deal with an African or Muslim than a Western European, they're much more practical and less naive.
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