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user-inactivated  ·  2514 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which The Daily Beast determines that GOP state senator Robert Fisher is *still* running /r/TheRedPill

A. S. Wanna hear a funny thing? Part One is "unavailable" while Part Two is just fine.

Thank you for the wonderful and concise story of the two major American parties.

    But the Southern Strategy recognized that Southern racists would rather vote racist than Democrat and gave them a new home in the Republican Party.

This is absolutely fucked. I understand that it's perfectly rooted in the history of the country, but by any human standard, it's FUBAR.

And I find it very difficult to believe. I imagine I'd have the same amount of trouble reconsiling existence of a pure-bred neo-nazi whose only desire is to selfishly promote "Aryan ideals". They must have some shard of humanity in them. They can't be whole what people think of them, right?

I don't know. The longer I live, the more I get the impression that humanity's main coping mechanism is diving head-first into extremes: political, religious and what-have-you. If live is stressful enough to cause people to do that, though, I have no idea why I'm not an extremist... though maybe I am, in the way I try to see something good in everyone.





kleinbl00  ·  2514 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Humanity's main coping mechanism is rallying in tribes. Those tribes are defined by the exclusion of other tribes. Our instinct is to band together with those who are like us. The grand human project is expanding the tribe large enough to include everyone and sometimes, it's one step forward, two steps back.

I'm almost done with this book. Yesterday's read was all about the Italian partisans and the death of Mussolini... and that under the Fascists, anyone who wasn't a Fascist was an ally. Staunch anti-communists would join the Communists to fight because regardless of what you think of Communists, they weren't Black Shirts. Plenty of people were willing to align with Hitler over his economic ideas while completely ignoring what a rabid, apocalyptic anti-semite he was. And, of course, he was merely the most extreme.

A gentle reminder: Russians are not innocent.

user-inactivated  ·  2514 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    A gentle reminder: Russians are not innocent.

Last year, I was doing some sort of a municipal-level questionnaire. They said they were doing it to send it around possible employment sites around the city once I'm done with the education. The guys I did it with (it was male-only, and there was a point about serving in the army) thought it was some sort of a government-control checking-up.

Point is: they still asked me about my nationality. The black-on-white was there, even though the lady who came to explain the procedure to us said it didn't matter whether I filled it.

My mother is passively aggressive towards Jews: they're the "clever, cunning fellows". My father... don't even mention the "browns" (read: Uzbek, Tajik, Azerbaijani, Dagestani etc. etc. etc.) around him.

But at least - thank goodness we're taking the peoples of Dagestan in with us, right?