Message from @Arthur Konrad
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especially when applied to others
American wisdom is not much, no matter how much you lend it "Tradition" epithet
It's like somebody comes and says I should obey Montenegrin sense for organization, lol no way
This Whig tradition is nothing else but a constant buzz of individual biases in the spirit of politics
I'd never capitalize the word tradition
you know, turn the word into a noun - A hero in some ultra gay mythic narrative of primordial good verses evil.
Hmmmm not really
But I can't say anything to that because I'm above polemics
I'll say only thus - all healthy conceptions of statism in America have been thoroughly obliterated
yeah we are generally pretty averse to that sort of thing even if we are also centralized around the imperial federal government
but that didn't happen without a ton of resistance
You mean the same government which can't bother to build a proper railway
yes
1/3 bridges are in danger of collapse here
I'm writting a word or two on this but I can't say I'm going to like it, but I elaborated on statism and America
but you know we had to learn the lessons of centralization the hard way, unfortunately
UOC was right, if America is to be a union that union has to consist of decentralized and mostly autonomous states and within states, mostly autonomous communities
I think the single most prevalent trait of people in the dissident political right wing is to constantly complain about every single doctrinal or conceptual point that is outside their highly specialized, fringe, and unlikely version of a perfect political reality
it is easy to say that when there is only one single ruling reality allowed
sometimes it makes sense. some ideas are toxic.
some people are anathema
like for example, the perpetual need to mechanichally regulated things, or in other words, "ethnostates"
I hope you aren't using me as a proxy for such tendencies
then there are groups which have a pretty damn long list of "demands"
like Christians for example
Christians demand that the Christian world-historic perspective never be brought into question at all
No
Just general observation
@UOC that was to AK
ah
Sorry
Ever hear of defector syndrome @UOC
no, tell me
It's a habit of radicals to marginalize themselves by using rhetoric that only appeals to the already converted
I have been watching a PERFECT example of that taking place
Within the keto / low-carb diet communities that now exist online, there is this dude named Shawn Baker who is pushing this purely meat diet.
and since he's gained a little following his rhetoric has exploded into aggressive and very marginalizing stuff that would really push anyone on the fence away and never convince even normal low-carb people
much less true normies
yeah dude