@KaiserLoengramm The normies will see it as 'integrity'. So maybe it's about virtue singalling? I've seen it before and noticed it's easier to move in many circles that way.
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Captain eggman
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There’s a common pattern I’m finding with those on the right who say we need the right and left to come together in various capacities, where they will give passes to the moderate Dems or leftists to different degrees and say we must come together on the “transcendent things.”
These exact same people who say this will also absolutely viciously attack those on the right for a lack of purity, and commonly call out many on the right as traitors or subversives to something or another. This is a consistently repeated pattern. Demanding some kind of absolute purity out of right wing figures, but saying that we must overlook the fact we have absolutely no shared worldview with the left.
I think many of these people aren’t even really conscious or aware of these complete and total contradictions either. I cannot wrap my head around this view or why they are even saying this though. It makes absolutely no sense.
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@KaiserLoengramm well if you happen to need any more poorly thought-out RW takes I'll volunteer as tribute.
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I grew up on Online Right politics. I was a teenager during GamerGate. I have been following and aware of much for some time even if I didn’t have a voice or a platform. One thing that used to be a phenomenon back then was “internet blood sports.”
You’d have generally inter-right wing figures come on to debate one another. They were often complete dumpster fires, but you’d also have many moments where people were shown to have not actually coherently thought out positions that, when challenged like this, were exposed in a way that only happens during a live discussion rather than a back and forth on text or just pontificating on your own platform.
The IBS scene died pretty badly, most of the hosts ending up turning into lolcows or dying out. But I think this was actually in many ways quite useful. Several people who were involved with this came away for the better. It’s a way for iron to sharpen iron, to hash things out like this. I think we ought to have more of it, and it would probably do us a lot of good.
Debates against leftists I think are mainly worthless, but if you have something of a shared worldview, you can actually find out exactly where your points of disagreement are, and test your ideas and beliefs against someone else. When I do this, I come away for the better almost always.
So what do you think? Do we need more debate on the right? Poll below.
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@OMGTheMess we can fight then prosecute or fighters for fighting too well
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Lots on here recently saying our ADF is shite and can’t fight
Untrue. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight.
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Not to blackpill, but Australia right now is really fvcked, just most people don't realize how bad it really is.
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Captain eggman 리트윗함
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- George Orwell, 1984
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@ChavuraStephen I've been thinking about Chesterton's point that the modern man turned intellect from a faculty into a virtue.
I can't remember the exact line but I think it's from 'Eugenics and other Evils'
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25 years ago I thought intellectuals were important and salutary. Now I see them as pernicious to a large degree. They seem utterly detached at best and contemptuous at worst from so much that is salutary, except perhaps their own little bits of intellectual turf. Of course there are many exceptions, but good intellectuals seem to spend a lot of their time fending off the damage done by the rest. Perhaps Satan, the inventor of critical theory - "Did God say?" - was in that respect the first intellectual? I'm reading Phillip Rieff's Triumph of the Therapeutic right now. He says this: "The social type most obviously so detached is the intellectual. By our time, the detachment of the late nineteenth-century intellectual from a predominantly middle-class culture has been rendered general; the sight of vast numbers of middle-class intellectuals manques is terrible indeed, and culturally self-destructive."
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When I'm the restored Roman Empire and have a restoration casus belli on the whole of Al-Andalus:
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1am and it's all finished; ECG and blood tests came back totally normal. Going to follow up with my GP but so far it appears to have been a fluke.
Huge thanks to everyone for your prayers. And a special thanks to the cute Chinese doctor who assessed me.
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@ChavuraStephen he's a consistent gateway drug to ending up in Church
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JP is definitely not a philosopher, but he’s an extraordinary man who has made an incalculable contribution to Western civilisation. I’m so grateful for him. God bless him, his work, and his family.
Lukas Not Podolski@OtitoNosike
I have never understood, and still do not understand, why people loathe Jordan Peterson. For me, he is the most compelling philosopher of the 21st century. His ideas have reshaped how the modern man, particularly in the West, sees himself. And this is not even limited to the West. Any sensible young man can recognize the value in his thinking; lessons that, if practiced as he presents them, have the power to turn one’s life around.
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@TheOtherPaul2 Mate just checked this again after a few hours and saw the deets. You should get to hospital ASAP.
If it's pericardiac/heart related they'll likely want to put you on steroids, which will reduce the chance of pernament damage to your heart
If you have ivermectin handy take it.
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For details: Sudden weakness in upper body, weaker heart feeling, breath slowed down, face got a touch yellow (according to mum), and my forehead started to sweat after lying down. I was standing and walking initially but it required slightly more effort.
Lasted only a minute.
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Had a brief possible medical episode. Scheduled an appointment and blood test for tomorrow.
Pray it was just a one off.
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@StrewthQueen nah mate that's just Canberra and Melbourne CBD try polling somewhere real
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Australians creeping towards One Nation despite public opinion polling consistently aligning with Greens policies is why we'll never be a real country that actually cares about its people
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@JosephKrakora the rationalistic reductionists took over the protestants and then switfly proceeded to blow their own brains out.
I say this as a non-Catholic with no intention of going Catholic. I just expect Rome to do quite well until the prots work out it's not all about cerebal sertility.
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@KishoMoririn If God is indeed the maker of heaven and earth and all goodness flows from Him, then to judge rightfully belongs to him. To hand it over is only to accept one's right place in the comos.
The good thing is He is compassionate and gracious. He is not aloof or uncaring.
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@MrWHOsecond2 I really don't understand much about Japan so I apologise if this question seems rude: Are you saying you would not want your Emperor to know Christ?
Please help me understand.
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@Hokuto_Ide This is true for many western 'Christian' countries too. Though I have noticed there seem some particular aspects that our Japanese brothers and sisters seem to have far more difficulty with.
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日本人のキリスト教徒ですが「日本人がキリスト教のことを良く知っている」は単純に事実ではないです。断言できます。せいぜい間違いの多い断片的な情報をかじって知った気になっている程度です。
梓弓@Ma_R8
日本を良い国にしたいから布教したい、みたいな事を言う無意識の差別意識を発露するタイプのキリスト教徒は、日本人は神の教えを知らないから教えれば改宗するはずと誤解しているが、彼等が思うより日本人はキリスト教の事をよく知ってて、その上でスルーしてる。
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@skyfoil_exe As someone not a member of the Roman Catholic church, I am looking forward to the day when we can get past the grudges of the wars fought in the reformation.
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No one hates Catholics more than Protestants - not even Atheists.
That is something I've learned and witnessed since becoming Catholic and it's not just an internet thing either.
skyfoil.exe has stopped working🇻🇦🏴@skyfoil_exe
Former Protestant here. My craving for Christ lead me to the Catholic church. Protestantism could not fulfill my desire for Christ but the Catholic church does.
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@MrWHOsecond2 @nekomimipalau Very few Christians would want him to submit by force. But if you believe Christianity is the truth and his soul is in mortal peril, why would you not kindly and graciously try to convince him?
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