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Its a real mess over there. They can't vote for the May deal because it sucks, they can't get a better deal because they have no leverage, they won't call an election because they will lose, and they won't vote no-confidence in May because no other Tory wants to be on the hot seat. Its a cmopletely ...

Impressive pier jumping, I'll give you that. I don't know what that means. I'm always behind on the latest terminology. I just learned "virtue signaling" but I haven't figured out "intersectionality" yet. Or your drowning in it. I'm not using any terminology. I'm saying you dive...

Tories: "We aren't going to help a bunch of dusky foreigners when we've got our own poor who need help! ... We also won't be helping our own poor."

What we do about it is stop discrimination. The integration of the US armed forces and schools was probably the single biggest step forward in US race relations. I think things are going pretty well overall. Even the rhetoric from contemporary white nationalists has a last-gasp, rearguard feel to i...

the aspect of immigration thats front and centre for me is the contradiction between private ownership, environmental protection and high immigration. this particular dystopia is really bad in austalia right now - we have hardly any wild forest left, many creatures are on the edge of extinction, so...

The problem is the children who have been sold to coyotes, who want to keep them undocumented so they can be resold to pedophiles. Undocumented adults too are preferred for the slavery trade along with the homeless. No paper trail. That is why Obama started seperating the children. I question how m...

This is another topic entirely imo, but I think its the crucial political question we are presented with. We can argue about the origins of racism all day, but regardless of the origins what do we DO about it? Should I be able to rant all day online about how e.g. the Swiss are inferior and dangero...

you always, ignore all the messy middle and focus on worst case scenarios and then push the whole spectrum of behaviour into a fear of that worst case scenario. which in my opinion makes the place worse - if any racists do want to turn their gibberish into reality, we have laws against murder and a...

A popular defense method online is to claim that your statements are simply jokes or irony, and being offended or objecting to those statements is not only wrong, but shows that you don't get the joke. In fact the 4chan trolls who were instrumental in starting this online movement are masters of th...

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Impressive pier jumping, I'll give you that.

I don't know what that means. I'm always behind on the latest terminology. I just learned "virtue signaling" but I haven't figured out "intersectionality" yet.

the real problem with the legal side of this is that their is no line in the sand that can be policed Why not? I can't legally make claims about you in public that harm your reputation or your ability to practice your livelihood. I can't even make false claims about how wonderful my products are wh...

The APA is a body of functionaries who wish to control all normative questions. To do so, they must constantly campaign to advertise that, as a body, they are on the right (usually the best financed) side of any issue which is currently fashionable. It has always been the case since its founding in...

A popular defense method online is to claim that your statements are simply jokes or irony, and being offended or objecting to those statements is not only wrong, but shows that you don't get the joke. In fact the 4chan trolls who were instrumental in starting this online movement are masters of thi...

The most troubling issue at the moment seems to be physical and sexual abuse of minor children interned by the US government. But I think the quick solution there is not expecting guards at for-profit concentration camps to be saints, but rather to not have said camps at all. One of the major argum...

I think we've all seen people with bigoted parents who ended up having children with very... whatever you call non-bigoted views. Likewise, some of the most liberal/progressive parents you can find may have inexplicably alt-right children who are otherwise well-behaved but disappear onto the Interne...

their is no difference between refugees and immigration, except for a technical aspect of one arriving unannounced and the other organising it through official channels. you can argue a perception that all refugees are exceptional escapees from horror and thats probaly true in war torn middle easte...

I step over horror stories to get into the shopping centre. I lock the doors and drive through horror stories to get to work and back. I develop excellent ignoring skills to keep on walking past all the charity muggers waving tins in my face as I move through the mall. "Sometimes there's a man...

I think we are naturally attracted to people who resemble us and avoid people who differ. Belief is a mental construct which develops to justify the biological fact. In general, that's my take. For example, being a very queer individual, I take this to extremes and find most women unattractive. Wha...

Relevant to our original topic: the fact that many in this movement are misguided teens or cynical trolls, it stands to reason that their philosophical terminology might not always be accurate or coherent.

The problem with identifier "alt right" is that there is little agreement on what it stands for, which renders it pretty much useless. True enough, this is also the case with other identifiers like "neo-marxist" or "post-modernist". It seems to me the best way out is t...

Ah. Gavin McInnes is of course not a neo nazi. Any other examples or is this just another of your many false claims. That's certainly what he's been claiming since Charlottesville, which was organized by a (now former) member of his gang, and attended by many members of his gang, in which the march...

Men who like other men? What's next, whites who like blacks? Chinese people marrying Jews?

Who gives a flip about citizenship and rule of law anyway? Isn't that what racist people care about? This is fair, since I personally don't care about either of those things. "Don't give that person water, they aren't a citizen." "Don't save that drowning man, its against the law.&qu...

I step over horror stories to get into the shopping centre. I lock the doors and drive through horror stories to get to work and back. I develop excellent ignoring skills to keep on walking past all the charity muggers waving tins in my face as I move through the mall. "Sometimes there's a man...

if righties do it, then its dog whistling, if lefties do it, then its virtue signalling. i mostly hope the cultural marxists and cultural relativists fight unto the death and truly make the world a better place. "Virtue signaling" is another one! Bit circular though, given that pointing o...