An act of war, gosh that's lovely. Hillary really got to you people, didn't she? She was all ready for a big shooting war with Russia until she neglected to get votes in critical states. Oops, turns out you have to actually win the election first. So instead we got widespread hysteria and Red Scare Part II and everyone is looking under their beds for TEH ROOSHINS.
So all it took was 3,000 Facebook ads to swing the elections, who would have thought the Russians was this great at propaganda. $100,000 to defeat Hillary Clinton's $1,200,000,000. The whole narrative has become so ridiculously twisted. Replace 'Russia' with 'Britain', and the story would be about how an allied whistleblower uncovered the shocking story of the Democratic primary being rigged. Where's the outrage about that?
That Russia has wanted, and has tried to encourage, the breakup of the U.S. for decades is not news (Igor Panarin has very publicly made a career out of it). And buying ads to exacerbate the existing divisions hardly seems like an act of war or anything.
Russia's big "crime" was that they exposed wrongdoing of certain people within the DNC. As in, Russia exposed people circumventing the democratic process. Think about it: for all the brouhaha, by exposing that sort of thing they were actually *helping* strengthen democracy in the US. LOL! Down is up! Up is down!
Now I don't for a moment believe their motivations were pure or pro-US in any way, but it's so absurd to talk about all their evil meddling when the main thing they did was reveal the foul play that was already going on. Sheesh. Especially when we did it first: turnabout is fair play. Here's TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.
How on Earth do you believe that? The whole media lined up against Trump. They all endorsed Hillary. The New York Times misled its readers and published an apology after the election.
So how about Trump and the koi pond? Flat out lied. Textbook fake news. Accurate reporting my ass. Just think of the people who still aren't aware of what really happened despite video evidence.
With talk about lunatics and vampires, it's no wonder you're not taken seriously in politics. Lois Lerner forbade Tea Party groups from registering and she's not even in prison for doing it. Hell, the Left doesn't even agree that America should be a country and believes the American people are deplorable.
Coleman Young left office in 1994. He was a "Black Power" far left radical. He drove business from Detroit and told them good riddance. You don't know history, I see.
Boy are you in for a surprise when you find out about Coleman Young, his 20 years as mayor, and what he did to the middle class. He created the Detroit of today.
And you have the nerve to say blinkered stupidity and refusal to learn are right wing, and here you are doing the exact same thing. I suppose we all learned something today about being prejudiced.
Americans have been the good guys? What? No America is a racist white supremacist settler empire whose only fate is annihilation. Do you not see you're the world's #1 villains?
Exiting the Vampre Castle is an extremely influential essay, written by a leftist. It's a must-read. Even if you disagree with it, which is likely, you need to be aware of its arguments so you can counter them. Does any of this sound familiar?
The first configuration is what I came to call the Vampires' Castle. The Vampires' Castle specialises in propagating guilt. It is driven by a priest's desire to excommunicate and condemn, an academic-pedant's desire to be the first to be seen to spot a mistake, and a hipster's desire to be one of the in-crowd. The danger in attacking the Vampires' Castle is that it can look as if - and it will do everything it can to reinforce this thought - that one is also attacking the struggles against racism, sexism, heterosexism. But, far from being the only legitimate expression of such struggles, the Vampires' Castle is best understood as a bourgeois-liberal perversion and appropriation of the energy of these movements. The Vampires' Castle was born the moment when the struggle not to be defined by identitarian categories became the quest to have 'identities' recognised by a bourgeois big Other.
The privilege I certainly enjoy as a white male consists in part in my not being aware of my ethnicity and my gender, and it is a sobering and revelatory experience to occasionally be made aware of these blind-spots. But, rather than seeking a world in which everyone achieves freedom from identitarian classification, the Vampires' Castle seeks to corral people back into identi-camps, where they are forever defined in the terms set by dominant power, crippled by self-consciousness and isolated by a logic of solipsism which insists that we cannot understand one another unless we belong to the same identity group.
Sure! Here ya go: http://www.la-articles.org.uk/fascism.htm The history of fascism, extensively footnoted and annotated. Think about this: We know the name of the philosopher of capitalism, Adam Smith. We also know the name of the philosopher of Marxism, Karl Marx. So, quick: What is the name of the philosopher of fascism? Yes, exactly. You don't know. Virtually no one knows. This is not because he doesn't exist, but because the political left - which dominates academia, the media and Hollywood - had to get rid of him to avoid confronting fascism and Nazism's unavoidable leftist orientation.
So let's meet the man himself, Giovanni Gentile, who may be termed fascism's Karl Marx. Gentile was, in his day, which is the first half of the 20th century, considered one of Europe's leading philosophers. A student of Hegel and Bergson and director of the Encyclopedia Italiana, Gentile was not merely a widely published and widely influential thinker; he was also a political statesman who served in a variety of important government posts. How, then, has such a prominent and influential figure vanished into the mist of history?
For Gentile, people by themselves are too slothful and inert to form genuine communities by themselves; they have to be mobilized. Here, too, many modern progressives would agree. Speaking in terms with which both Obama and Hillary would sympathize, Gentile emphasized that leaders and organizers are needed to direct and channel the will of the people.
Gentile was, in fact, a lifelong socialist. Like Marx, he viewed socialism as the sine qua non of social justice, the ultimate formula for everyone paying their "fair share." For Gentile, fascism is nothing more than a modified form of socialism, a socialism arising not merely from material deprivation but also from an aroused national consciousness, a socialism that unites rather than divides communities.
Gentile's philosophy closely parallels that of the modern American left. Consider the slogan unveiled by Obama at the 2012 Democratic Convention: "Government is the only thing we all belong to." That apotheosis of the centralized state is utterly congruent with Gentile's thinking. Only Gentile would have provided a comprehensive philosophical defense that the Democrats didn't even attempt. In many respects, Gentile provides a deeper and firmer grounding for modern American progressivism than anyone writing today.
How's this a bad thing? The world has been demanding an end to American domination and American bullying for decades. The reality is that war prone, trigger happy and selfish Americans and their subservient wagging tail European vassals represent the single greatest threat to peace to the whole globe. This pathological pursuit for geopolitical dominance and cheap access to resources at any cost will only bring more wars and wealth to the American war industries. When the US economy collapses many of the wars around the world will also stop.
So your point is there will be fewer foreign jerks to buy up badly needed US housing stock, leaving more for the people who live there? How's that a bad thing?
The only Chinese kids who go overseas are morons who blew the gaokao anyway. If they could get into a good Chinese school, they would never need to go overseas. These students hire people to do their school work and write their papers anyway, it's not like it's a big loss.
And this is a GOOD thing. The world will be a much better place. Merkel has already been world leader for six months now, ever since Trump withdrew from the Paris Accords. Don't expect so much from Americans. They celebrate Thanksgiving Day because their ancestors proudly raped and destroyed Native American people. Americans fucked most of the world through their history but rarely talk about how wrong they were. It's the rest of the world that is scared of America. Dumb, ugly, and armed to the teeth.
Outstanding! You can put that money that you saved towards pulling your weight in NATO. You know that you ungrateful pricks refuse to pay for your own defense, right? Why does a rich continent of 500 million people depend on a distant nation of 300 million to defend it against much poorer and weaker threats on its borders?
It's what's known as an "attractive nuisance". It's a hazard that nonetheless attracts people that it will harm. Example: an empty swimming pool in an abandoned house. Neighborhood kids are going to try to jump the fence and play in it, and get hurt. It's the responsibility of the property owner to fill it in, otherwise he can get sued.
Most of American culture isn't about white supremacy and racism.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ok nice joke there. The Constitution was drafted and signed by white men, for white men. Slavery was Constitutional. The "right" to terrorize citizens through the bearing of arms is Constitutional. So-called "due process," in which white juries condone the murder of innocent black men, is a Constitutional process. Being Constitutional does not make something progressive or innately valuable. In fact, Constitutionality is often synonymous with "exclusively beneficial to the white race." There are few aspects of the US constitution that don't primarily benefit male white supremacists first and foremost. It's a racist document.
I'm curious would you rather it be American culture, Russian culture or Chinese culture?
Explain to me how Chinese culture exports racism and white supremacy. How many countries have they bombed recently? How many countries has YOUR country bombed recently? Was it more than ten? Can you even name them? Yeah, that's right, you've bombed so many neutral countries you can't even name them all.
Immigrants are not "hungry". They simply want to live somewhere where it is not shit, and bring along all their shit cultural practices. Thus making America into the shit they "escaped" from.
Your stereotype of immigrants as "hungry" is outdated, and was last seen in the 1970s or so. Back when the melting pot idea was not regarded as racist. Today, it is. The watchword is "multiculturalism" and immigrants do NOT leave their old culture behind and become "Americans". Instead, they become hyphenated-Americans and they maintain their loyalty to their home. American citizenship is just a convenient passport, not a way of life. That idea is 40 years out of date and considered highly racist these days.
Excellent! The Americans will lose. Considering the millions that have been murdered illegally so that America could get what it wants, never mind the economic and social damage caused by a psychopathic foreign policy, this seems like a just and appropriate result. More! More!
The Deep State is not particularly competent at all. They simply like exercising power. If they fail - so what? They'll just try again. It's not like they're in danger of being tossed out for failure. Being untouchable is what being in the unelected career government is all about.
When the already super powerful government wants to make you even more powerless, that scares the crap out of regular Americans, but you guys have been all in favor of it. Take those nasty guns! Guns are scary and bad. Don't you stupid rednecks know what's good for you? The people should live at the whim of the state!
Research the term "baizuo". It's what they think of us, and it's highly destructive to the idea of sending their children to be educated by us. Why would they want their kids coming home with hatred of themselves and their own culture?
I've just re-read your comment and that seems to be exactly what you're saying. How is robbing other countries of their best and brightest a good thing? And sending students home contaminated with toxic American culture can't be good, either.
So your argument is we need to rob other countries blind of their best people? WTF? And those that return are irreversibly contaminated with our toxic American culture of white supremacy and racism? You're not exactly making a persuasive argument. Exporting American culture to the world needs to come to a screeching halt. The country that invented Jim Crow isn't exactly an example we want the world to emulate.
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It's written by someone who used to write for Gawker and Gizmodo. Yeah, that explains a lot. Hate dripping with condescension is their stock in trade.
An act of war, gosh that's lovely. Hillary really got to you people, didn't she? She was all ready for a big shooting war with Russia until she neglected to get votes in critical states. Oops, turns out you have to actually win the election first. So instead we got widespread hysteria and Red Scare Part II and everyone is looking under their beds for TEH ROOSHINS.
So all it took was 3,000 Facebook ads to swing the elections, who would have thought the Russians was this great at propaganda. $100,000 to defeat Hillary Clinton's $1,200,000,000. The whole narrative has become so ridiculously twisted. Replace 'Russia' with 'Britain', and the story would be about how an allied whistleblower uncovered the shocking story of the Democratic primary being rigged. Where's the outrage about that?
That Russia has wanted, and has tried to encourage, the breakup of the U.S. for decades is not news (Igor Panarin has very publicly made a career out of it). And buying ads to exacerbate the existing divisions hardly seems like an act of war or anything.
Russia's big "crime" was that they exposed wrongdoing of certain people within the DNC. As in, Russia exposed people circumventing the democratic process. Think about it: for all the brouhaha, by exposing that sort of thing they were actually *helping* strengthen democracy in the US. LOL! Down is up! Up is down!
Now I don't for a moment believe their motivations were pure or pro-US in any way, but it's so absurd to talk about all their evil meddling when the main thing they did was reveal the foul play that was already going on. Sheesh. Especially when we did it first: turnabout is fair play. Here's TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.
I see you haven't heard of Agenda 21. No cars, warehoused in cities, the future of mankind.
How on Earth do you believe that? The whole media lined up against Trump. They all endorsed Hillary. The New York Times misled its readers and published an apology after the election.
So how about Trump and the koi pond? Flat out lied. Textbook fake news. Accurate reporting my ass. Just think of the people who still aren't aware of what really happened despite video evidence.
With talk about lunatics and vampires, it's no wonder you're not taken seriously in politics. Lois Lerner forbade Tea Party groups from registering and she's not even in prison for doing it. Hell, the Left doesn't even agree that America should be a country and believes the American people are deplorable.
Coleman Young left office in 1994. He was a "Black Power" far left radical. He drove business from Detroit and told them good riddance. You don't know history, I see.
Boy are you in for a surprise when you find out about Coleman Young, his 20 years as mayor, and what he did to the middle class. He created the Detroit of today.
And you have the nerve to say blinkered stupidity and refusal to learn are right wing, and here you are doing the exact same thing. I suppose we all learned something today about being prejudiced.
Americans have been the good guys? What? No America is a racist white supremacist settler empire whose only fate is annihilation. Do you not see you're the world's #1 villains?
Sure! Here ya go: http://www.la-articles.org.uk/fascism.htm The history of fascism, extensively footnoted and annotated. Think about this: We know the name of the philosopher of capitalism, Adam Smith. We also know the name of the philosopher of Marxism, Karl Marx. So, quick: What is the name of the philosopher of fascism? Yes, exactly. You don't know. Virtually no one knows. This is not because he doesn't exist, but because the political left - which dominates academia, the media and Hollywood - had to get rid of him to avoid confronting fascism and Nazism's unavoidable leftist orientation.
So let's meet the man himself, Giovanni Gentile, who may be termed fascism's Karl Marx. Gentile was, in his day, which is the first half of the 20th century, considered one of Europe's leading philosophers. A student of Hegel and Bergson and director of the Encyclopedia Italiana, Gentile was not merely a widely published and widely influential thinker; he was also a political statesman who served in a variety of important government posts. How, then, has such a prominent and influential figure vanished into the mist of history?
For Gentile, people by themselves are too slothful and inert to form genuine communities by themselves; they have to be mobilized. Here, too, many modern progressives would agree. Speaking in terms with which both Obama and Hillary would sympathize, Gentile emphasized that leaders and organizers are needed to direct and channel the will of the people.
Gentile was, in fact, a lifelong socialist. Like Marx, he viewed socialism as the sine qua non of social justice, the ultimate formula for everyone paying their "fair share." For Gentile, fascism is nothing more than a modified form of socialism, a socialism arising not merely from material deprivation but also from an aroused national consciousness, a socialism that unites rather than divides communities.
Gentile's philosophy closely parallels that of the modern American left. Consider the slogan unveiled by Obama at the 2012 Democratic Convention: "Government is the only thing we all belong to." That apotheosis of the centralized state is utterly congruent with Gentile's thinking. Only Gentile would have provided a comprehensive philosophical defense that the Democrats didn't even attempt. In many respects, Gentile provides a deeper and firmer grounding for modern American progressivism than anyone writing today.
How's this a bad thing? The world has been demanding an end to American domination and American bullying for decades. The reality is that war prone, trigger happy and selfish Americans and their subservient wagging tail European vassals represent the single greatest threat to peace to the whole globe. This pathological pursuit for geopolitical dominance and cheap access to resources at any cost will only bring more wars and wealth to the American war industries. When the US economy collapses many of the wars around the world will also stop.
So your point is there will be fewer foreign jerks to buy up badly needed US housing stock, leaving more for the people who live there? How's that a bad thing?
The only Chinese kids who go overseas are morons who blew the gaokao anyway. If they could get into a good Chinese school, they would never need to go overseas. These students hire people to do their school work and write their papers anyway, it's not like it's a big loss.
And this is a GOOD thing. The world will be a much better place. Merkel has already been world leader for six months now, ever since Trump withdrew from the Paris Accords. Don't expect so much from Americans. They celebrate Thanksgiving Day because their ancestors proudly raped and destroyed Native American people. Americans fucked most of the world through their history but rarely talk about how wrong they were. It's the rest of the world that is scared of America. Dumb, ugly, and armed to the teeth.
Outstanding! You can put that money that you saved towards pulling your weight in NATO. You know that you ungrateful pricks refuse to pay for your own defense, right? Why does a rich continent of 500 million people depend on a distant nation of 300 million to defend it against much poorer and weaker threats on its borders?
It's what's known as an "attractive nuisance". It's a hazard that nonetheless attracts people that it will harm. Example: an empty swimming pool in an abandoned house. Neighborhood kids are going to try to jump the fence and play in it, and get hurt. It's the responsibility of the property owner to fill it in, otherwise he can get sued.
Most of American culture isn't about white supremacy and racism.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ok nice joke there. The Constitution was drafted and signed by white men, for white men. Slavery was Constitutional. The "right" to terrorize citizens through the bearing of arms is Constitutional. So-called "due process," in which white juries condone the murder of innocent black men, is a Constitutional process. Being Constitutional does not make something progressive or innately valuable. In fact, Constitutionality is often synonymous with "exclusively beneficial to the white race." There are few aspects of the US constitution that don't primarily benefit male white supremacists first and foremost. It's a racist document.
I'm curious would you rather it be American culture, Russian culture or Chinese culture?
Explain to me how Chinese culture exports racism and white supremacy. How many countries have they bombed recently? How many countries has YOUR country bombed recently? Was it more than ten? Can you even name them? Yeah, that's right, you've bombed so many neutral countries you can't even name them all.
Immigrants are not "hungry". They simply want to live somewhere where it is not shit, and bring along all their shit cultural practices. Thus making America into the shit they "escaped" from.
Your stereotype of immigrants as "hungry" is outdated, and was last seen in the 1970s or so. Back when the melting pot idea was not regarded as racist. Today, it is. The watchword is "multiculturalism" and immigrants do NOT leave their old culture behind and become "Americans". Instead, they become hyphenated-Americans and they maintain their loyalty to their home. American citizenship is just a convenient passport, not a way of life. That idea is 40 years out of date and considered highly racist these days.
Excellent! The Americans will lose. Considering the millions that have been murdered illegally so that America could get what it wants, never mind the economic and social damage caused by a psychopathic foreign policy, this seems like a just and appropriate result. More! More!
The Deep State is not particularly competent at all. They simply like exercising power. If they fail - so what? They'll just try again. It's not like they're in danger of being tossed out for failure. Being untouchable is what being in the unelected career government is all about.
When the already super powerful government wants to make you even more powerless, that scares the crap out of regular Americans, but you guys have been all in favor of it. Take those nasty guns! Guns are scary and bad. Don't you stupid rednecks know what's good for you? The people should live at the whim of the state!
http://monsterhunternation.com/2016/11/14/a-handy-guide-for-liberals-who-are-suddenly-interested-in-gun-ownership/
Research the term "baizuo". It's what they think of us, and it's highly destructive to the idea of sending their children to be educated by us. Why would they want their kids coming home with hatred of themselves and their own culture?
I've just re-read your comment and that seems to be exactly what you're saying. How is robbing other countries of their best and brightest a good thing? And sending students home contaminated with toxic American culture can't be good, either.
So your argument is we need to rob other countries blind of their best people? WTF? And those that return are irreversibly contaminated with our toxic American culture of white supremacy and racism? You're not exactly making a persuasive argument. Exporting American culture to the world needs to come to a screeching halt. The country that invented Jim Crow isn't exactly an example we want the world to emulate.
LOL Nazis were socialists dumbass. Fascism grew directly out of socialism. Get an education.