Checkmate, fascists.

lol

@Bookworm Communists use guns too.

Soldiers fight for their country, ISIS for some old, crappy book

Different message, same methods.

They do the same things.

In fact the term use by the soviets for the police was "Militia" not Police Officers

The PRC's stand in for a national police force is the "People's Armed Police."

Again an agency of the Chinese Communist Party, not the PRC state

everything is cyclical i guess, especially in politics

@Dennafen "sensible", known to everyone else as "extreme centrists" 😏

there's nothing worse than centrists with no values and that change their opinion on everything based on "common sense" and context

I see it as more of a 3D grid. On x axis authoritarian vs libertarian and on y axis humanist vs classical moralist and on the z axis tribal vs non-tribal

Extreme centrist here, principles are the foundation of my defining belief: neutrality in all things

all is a very strong work i know, but i feel it is justified in this situation

Neutrality is the absence of principles (strongly held beliefs)

There are two types of centrists: Those who consider themselves balanced and those who claim to be neutral. The former group believe their principles are balanced between two extremes and the neutral group lack principles to begin with. There is actually no way to be neutral if you are a centrist. You will always be left of one group and right of another.

The problem with "balanced" is that they call everything "extreme", while not understanding any of those said "extremes"

Don't get me wrong though, there's a lot of people that end on the center because they have some values from the left and right. But most that claim themselves to be "balanced" or "neutral" don't hold any values

Radical alt-centrists rise up

Ben makes some hyperbolic statements here I would like to get Europeans take on his broader points though

https://youtu.be/pM8yHL-lrC8

mate...

thats 53 minutes

at least point to a short part of it

otherwise.. see ya in 1 hour

@anonymous

Lol valid point I just assumed people would skip irreaivsnt stuffs naturally

I do, I skip the ads 😏

I'm 18mins in, I have no idea what statements you think are wrong

the nationalism talk is pretty basic, if you don't care about your country, you won't have a country for long

That's my view also but wantated to hear out anyone that could make a case for Macrons line of thinking on the issue

has there ever been a study that compared likelihood of nationalist sentiment to income? there has to be a positive correlation between being a globalist and being higher on the class spectrum.

@anonymous I have no idea what Macron means. This is the problem when people try to redefine words however they please

@Atkins atleast from an American perspective it seems like globalist ideology comes from academic left and and corporate right both groups are very affluent

here we go

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/7115/text

^ would make it illegal to manufacture your own firearm

unless you obtain a serial number from a licensed dealer

which is considered a commercial firearm transfer

the plain reading of that also makes blocks of metal illegal

That is a fundimental attack on military research