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18th May 2022, 10:50 PM | #321 |
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You do know that most blacks have been brought up immersed in the the culture in this country, right? And I'm pretty sure there are more native born hispanic folks than hispanic immigrants.
Your issue targeting the evil immigrants is misplaced. You don't like how the culture around you is shifting. Too bad, you can't stop it from happening. And immigration while being an easy political target is not the cause of the shift. |
18th May 2022, 11:00 PM | #322 |
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If you look across the world there is a correlation between poverty and the number if children people have. If you want a group to stop having children give them more money and get them out of poverty.
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18th May 2022, 11:05 PM | #323 |
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When I hear about "replacement theory," I'm always reminded of the old Vietnam era meme, "we had to burn the village to save it." There are many ways in which our culture is greater in potential than in practice, but when I think of those ideals, I think of things like human rights, freedom, tolerance, diversity, democracy. And of course jazz. Replacement theory is a suicide bomb wrapped in a flag.
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18th May 2022, 11:25 PM | #325 |
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18th May 2022, 11:52 PM | #326 |
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19th May 2022, 01:21 AM | #327 |
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If there is one thing that unites the crazy believers in the replacement theory and the crazy liberals on this forum, it's that immigrants will automatically become Democrats.
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19th May 2022, 01:38 AM | #328 |
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19th May 2022, 02:04 AM | #329 |
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19th May 2022, 02:11 AM | #330 |
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Who knows what is inevitable.
Another person who came to the conversation holding a stick man with a bunch of bad opinions that are then attributed to the people you are arguing with. This is the problem with the world at the moment. You don't listen to what other people think. That this place had the gall to put skeptics in its name is a joke. This is one of the most unquestioningly dogmatic places I spend any time. |
19th May 2022, 02:16 AM | #331 |
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I would say whether they stay democrats is more what is in doubt. My concern is more that if everybody is broken up into these identity groups, then they can just be politically played off one against the other. It's like the Amazon thing about diversity being great because it made unionising less likely.
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19th May 2022, 02:24 AM | #332 |
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Well setting your self righteous whinging about "no one listening to what you think," We listen to what you articulate and based on it have a fair idea of what you think. You reinforce our notion of what you are thinking with your subsequent posts of "No you misunderstood my point" in which you inadvertently only confirm what we deduced, but with different words.
Your problem seems to be more that we see no reason to validate the inherent racism and hold it up as some sort of reasonable counter to what you see as threats to your notion of the ideal society. I have listened, understood, and consider your ideas garbage. |
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19th May 2022, 02:51 AM | #333 |
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Why would I want to be empathetic about racism fuelled paranoia? I do understand the world view that instill bigotry...it's just that i don't feel the need to validate or coddle it.
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19th May 2022, 02:56 AM | #334 |
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Ideally, the query by the OP deserves just a one word answer..."No"
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19th May 2022, 03:10 AM | #335 |
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19th May 2022, 05:00 AM | #338 |
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One of the fantasy of some of the replacement boys is that they are living out the events of one of the movement's dystopian novels like The Camp of the Saints or Submission in which they, the faithful and true, are frustrated by cowardly, unaware liberal elitists who endlessly apologize for mainstream, white culture and side with the fictional invading, culture wrecking, hordes of Muslims, Mexicans and blacks.
Some of these these replacement boys need to get lives. ---------- Dope Clock II: It's been 329 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth. |
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We've had multiple talks on this board in multiple contexts about the Democrat Party's assumption of minority votes and how often that's come back to bite them.
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19th May 2022, 06:44 AM | #347 |
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I actually cannot wrap my head around how anyone can openly, shamelessly admit to and advocate racist ideas. That's kind of like openly, shamelessly admitting to and advocating pedophilia. I mean while I can conceive of a mentality so diseased as to harbor either kind of pathology --- racism, and/or pedophilia --- but I totally cannot even conceive of a mentality so utterly depraved that it isn't even ashamed of it.
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19th May 2022, 07:21 AM | #350 |
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I think maybe you have been very sheltered. I would say Warp12's ideas are better expressed than the average person holding those views, but they are not at all uncommon. More than that, Warp12s ideas aren't really the same as the caricature that they are typically presented as when they are attacked. You are used to living in a world where something like your ideas enjoy cultural hegemony so you don't have to deal with the reality of how most people think or what the genuine challenges are to your world view.
Warp12, and my ideas are far more discouraged than advocating paedophilia. It's been perfectly acceptable to do that in elite circles for decades. You don't lose your tenure for that, unless the unenlightened public create too much of a stink. |
19th May 2022, 07:21 AM | #351 |
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I strongly recommend watching "The mosted hated family in america" a documentary by Jon Ronson about the west burrough babtist church.
Oddly, not at all racist but they do have repugnant views otherwise. While I don't have much Sympathy for Fred Phelps, pretty much everyone else involved was trapped in that situation by his **********. The Teens especially were just ******. I distinctly remember one of the girls who was applying to college when asked about dating and marriage just responded by laughing and saying, she couldn't imagine anyone marrying her. Anyrate, lots of extremists have similar stories. They're raised with those bad ideas or in a lot of cases teens/young adults searching for meaning landing on gross ideas and getting stuck there. Orwell had an essay about it, the challenges sociallists had in recruiting such people on account of Fascism offering meaning in a way that socialism didn't. Its probably why the Commie countries all basically turned towards nationalism eventually. A few generations before Fascism the cause of such people was anarchism. Then there's folks that just seem meant for extremism. I recall reading an article about a Hungarian zionist extremist who had been a Nazi until he found out his grandparents were Jews. |
19th May 2022, 07:29 AM | #352 |
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One of the primary reasons why they turned to nationalism is that the ideology they started with was causing chaos and collapse. Revolutionary ideologies about upending the hierarchy are good for causing the collapse of the system you want to overthrow, but not good for having a stable country afterwards. The un-nationalistic, globalist strain of Communism that Stalin threw out then weirdly turns into the neo-cons.
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Just a small correction - you mean Louis Theroux and The Most Hated Family in America.
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