FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Do communist governments and institutions have a unique tendency to suppress dissent?
No.
Not unless you engage in significant somersaults to exclude right wing regimes that engaged in significant censorship of dissent and say that they are therefore left-wing.
Power has a non-unique tendency to suppress dissent, regardless of its style or origin.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Relevant Prior post, which in turn links back to my first AAQC
My problem with ressentiment is that I so rarely run into someone talking about it as something they are suffering, rather than a double-reverse-uno in which they are obsessed with how someone else is suffering from ressentiment, and as such their politics should be dismissed as the politics of envy.
Historically this is the province of the left, but it is better understood as the virus of identity politics in general.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I haven't been posting recently, I've been lurking. Most of the stuff going around is boring right now I guess.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Yes, but more about the ridiculousness of the ongoing situation than about oil shortages or whatever.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Yes. I've had many Israeli friends, and many more Jewish friends who had lived and worked in Israel for a time. There are large parts of Israel where I'm confident that if you dropped me there, I'd navigate with no more difficulty than I have in any other Western city.
The existence of a large (13%) haredi population doesn't invalidate Israel's western status any more than the existence of a small (10%) Amish minority removes Lancaster County from modernity.
Yes, my definition of western is essentially a place I feel comfortable.
I don't think this is likely. The SPLC had a long history of goodwill, running back to the legitimate civil rights era sainted by so many in the American mainstream. A new organization will not have that long anchor of sanity, it will be a woke organization from the opening shot.
Moreover, I don't really have a valuable opinion on the charges themselves as law, I have a simple layman's opinion on them: they're weird. If I donated to the SPLC, I would expect my money to be used on normal things, not non-profit cloak-and-dagger nonsense.
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