Discussion and Debate Community Thread

[Gaidin]

In all things, but especially when it comes to expectations, one has to be realistic.

Like I said, ironically. She's white. Treat her white.

We are, after all, America.

[enoch]

Like I said, ironically. She's white. Treat her white.

We are, after all, America.

It’s a misconception that being white is enough. Turning whites into boogeyman is convenient and allows everyone but old white rich men to shirk accountability.

It’s being white and in the Upper Classes that gets you the special treatment outside of small towns whose dynamics are more complex. If you live here you should know this.

If she complied she wouldn’t have gotten hurt. End of story.

[Prodromos]

The Problem of the New Right

Interesting essay.

[Condottiere 40K]

1. To understand politics, you just need to identify vested interests.

2. The real issue with the Loveland arrest is that the police officer is an obvious sadist, and you have video taped proof.

[enoch]

Every expression of Authority is Sadism.

[Condottiere 40K]

You mean patriarchal oppression.

[enoch]

You mean patriarchal oppression.

The patriarchy is real in an unorganized sense but authority and moreso the desire for supremacy is the problem. The belief that constructs and the intersubjective are real ruins the humans imo.

[Prodromos]

Texas Senate passes Constitutional Carry

Pending final approval, the measure – already passed by the Texas House – heads to a conference committee for the two chambers to hash out their differences, unless the House accepts the Senate amendments. Then the bill heads to Gov. Greg Abbott, who said last week he would sign the permitless carry bill into law.

House Bill 1927 would nix the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun. The Senate initially approved the bill in an 18-13 vote, less than a week after it sailed out of a committee created to specifically to tackle the legislation.

Texas is the 21st state in the nation to pass Constitutional Carry, and the fifth state to do so this year.

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2...y-state-n44788

The passage of Constitutional Carry in Texas may be one of the biggest surprises of the year in terms of pro-2A legislation. Gov. Greg Abbott threw his support behind Second Amendment Sanctuary legislation before this year’s legislative session began, but he didn’t publicly embrace Constitutional Carry until a few weeks ago when the House was poised to pass the bill. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had expressed doubts that the bill had enough support in the Senate as recently as last week, but when the roll call was held on Wednesday, every Republican senator ultimately voted in favor of the legislation.

The right-to-carry revolution is still making progress across the country, and Texas joining the ranks of the Constitutional Carry states would be a huge step towards the full recognition of the right to keep and bear arms. We’re not quite at the finish line yet, but it is in sight and it looks like the biggest hurdles for the bill have now been overcome.

So cool

[Cyclops]

Texas Senate passes Constitutional Carry



Texas is the 21st state in the nation to pass Constitutional Carry, and the fifth state to do so this year.

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2...y-state-n44788



So cool

I'm sorry this is something that is so bizarre from outside US politics. Guns seem to have been fetishized by most factions into this totemic illogical mess.

To me a gun is a tool, to me if a tool is dangerous you put safety measures in place. Removing a certain kind of safety measure because of ZOG/30-50 feral hogs/what not is just mindboggling.

Connecting a specific type of firearm to the constitution is such a weird place to end up. I feel like the gun sellers have the state and Union by the balls.

Boilerplate caveat of course we never had a Waco in my country and HM is still in charge. Maybe my chains make me blind to the shining light of freedom?

[enoch]

I'm sorry this is something that is so bizarre from outside US politics. Guns seem to have been fetishized by most factions into this totemic illogical mess.

To me a gun is a tool, to me if a tool is dangerous you put safety measures in place. Removing a certain kind of safety measure because of ZOG/30-50 feral hogs/what not is just mindboggling.

Connecting a specific type of firearm to the constitution is such a weird place to end up. I feel like the gun sellers have the state and Union by the balls.

Boilerplate caveat of course we never had a Waco in my country and HM is still in charge. Maybe my chains make me blind to the shining light of freedom?

The majority of Americans believe in reasonable gun control measures. It is a sadness nothing is ever done because we are in too deep. Couldn’t get rid of all the guns if we tried.

[Coughdrop addict]

I'm sorry this is something that is so bizarre from outside US politics. Guns seem to have been fetishized by most factions into this totemic illogical mess.

To me a gun is a tool, to me if a tool is dangerous you put safety measures in place. Removing a certain kind of safety measure because of ZOG/30-50 feral hogs/what not is just mindboggling.

Connecting a specific type of firearm to the constitution is such a weird place to end up. I feel like the gun sellers have the state and Union by the balls.

Boilerplate caveat of course we never had a Waco in my country and HM is still in charge. Maybe my chains make me blind to the shining light of freedom?

Personally I think the Republicans want to keep America flooded with guns because mass shootings benefit their party.

Every time there is a mass shooting the Republicans can play both sides; to half of their base they can say "See how dangerous the world is? Better get some more guns.", increasing the profits of the gun makers who then given the Republicans a nice kickback. To the other half of their base they can say "This was obviously a false flag using crisis actors so the Democrats can take your guns. Better vote Republican.", keeping themselves in power to cut more regulations to increase corporate profits at the expense of the health and safety of the American people for some more kickbacks. Since the Republicans send their kids to expensive private schools with metal detectors and live in heavily-patrolled gated communities, they assume the violence and death their actions cause won't affect them.

[Prodromos]

I'm sorry this is something that is so bizarre from outside US politics. Guns seem to have been fetishized by most factions into this totemic illogical mess.

To me a gun is a tool, to me if a tool is dangerous you put safety measures in place. Removing a certain kind of safety measure because of ZOG/30-50 feral hogs/what not is just mindboggling.

Because that's akin to acknowledging that words can be used to hurt people and concluding from this that everyone should be required to get a government permit before they can speak. Such 'safety measures' involve stripping innocent people of their rights in order to prevent bad things that may or may not happen in the future, and that's hard to square with justice, due process and individual rights.

[Lord Thesaurian]

Third Wave Antiracist tenets, stated clearly and placed in simple oppositions, translate into nothing whatsoever:

When black people say you have insulted them, apologize with profound sincerity and guilt. But don’t put black people in a position where you expect them to forgive you. They have dealt with too much to be expected to.

Black people are a conglomeration of disparate individuals. “Black culture” is code for “pathological, primitive ghetto people.” But don’t expect black people to assimilate to “white” social norms because black people have a culture of their own.
Silence about racism is violence. But elevate the voices of the oppressed over your own.

You must strive eternally to understand the experiences of black people. But you can never understand what it is to be black, and if you think you do you’re a racist.
Show interest in multiculturalism. But do not culturally appropriate. What is not your culture is not for you, and you may not try it or do it. But—if you aren’t nevertheless interested in it, you are a racist.

Support black people in creating their own spaces and stay out of them. But seek to have black friends. If you don’t have any, you’re a racist. And if you claim any, they’d better be good friends—in their private spaces, you aren’t allowed in.
When whites move away from black neighborhoods, it’s white flight. But when whites move into black neighborhoods, it’s gentrification, even when they pay black residents generously for their houses.

If you’re white and only date white people, you’re a racist. But if you’re white and date a black person you are, if only deep down, exotifying an “other.”

Black people cannot be held accountable for everything every black person does. But all whites must acknowledge their personal complicity in the perfidy throughout history of “whiteness.”

Black students must be admitted to schools via adjusted grade and test score standards to ensure a representative number of them and foster a diversity of views in classrooms. But it is racist to assume a black student was admitted to a school via racial preferences, and racist to expect them to represent the “diverse” view in classroom discussions.
I suspect that deep down, most know that none of this catechism makes any sense. Less obvious is that it was not even composed with logic in mind. The self-contradiction of these tenets is crucial, in revealing that Third Wave Antiracism is not a philosophy but a religion.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/j...the-neoracists

A breath of fresh air.

[Cyclops]

Because that's akin to acknowledging that words can be used to hurt people and concluding from this that everyone should be required to get a government permit before they can speak. Such 'safety measures' involve stripping innocent people of their rights in order to prevent bad things that may or may not happen in the future, and that's hard to square with justice, due process and individual rights.

I think it's more like having a car. I don't see a car or a gun as my political identity, but my voice is.

Automatic rights to own and carry weapons seems primitive. The argument about "protecting individual liberty" is not persuasive. I think it's about money.

i know US constitutional haruspexy has taken words to weird places, but honestly how is a "well regulated militia" created by near carte blanche handgun possession?

While I agree the Feds shouldn't be trusted I think you can do more to protect yourself from a dictatorship by joining a political party than joining the flood of gun owners drowning in firearms.

[enoch]

A breath of fresh air.

I suspect that deep down, most know that none of this catechism makes any sense. Less obvious is that it was not even composed with logic in mind. The self-contradiction of these tenets is crucial, in revealing that Third Wave Antiracism is not a philosophy but a religion.

Tbf to LT this is one of the best descriptions of religion I have ever read.

[Prodromos]

Latest survey on Americans' perceptions of foreign countries

https://news.gallup.com/poll/331082/...oric-lows.aspx



"6% have an unfavorable view of Canada"

[Septentrionalis]

Latest survey on Americans' perceptions of foreign countries

There is something wrong either with the methodology used here or with Americans' perception of the world, if eleven percent view North Korea favorably.

[Gaius Baltar]

There is something wrong either with the methodology used here or with Americans' perception of the world, if eleven percent view North Korea favorably.

The polling by news organizations is notoriously inaccurate here in the US. The science of statistics apparently has been mangled by the procedures that they use and I would suggest such information is mostly worthless, if that.

[Prodromos]

There is something wrong either with the methodology used here or with Americans' perception of the world, if eleven percent view North Korea favorably.

Most of that 11% is probably composed of tankies and people who got North Korea confused with South Korea.

To be honest I'm surprised it's only 11%.

[Coughdrop addict]

There is something wrong either with the methodology used here or with Americans' perception of the world, if eleven percent view North Korea favorably.

Most of those 11% are just idiots who happened to catch NK propaganda when it agrees with their worldview. I once knew someone who was a huge NK fangirl. Her reasoning was basically:

Obama=Bad

NK doesn't like Obama

Therefore, NK=Good.

And since NK is so secretive it's easy for these morons to project their own desires and prejudices onto the nation, and claim any conflicting information is propaganda from whoever the bad guys are.