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@ebuc
I think, perhaps, the greatest evil
of the plague that we call P.C.
Is how it drops a shade on us,
until truth we no longer see.
It tells people we’re all the same,
that all cultures are just as good,
say we shouldn’t be proud of ourselves,
that only bigots ever would.
But truthfully, look at our cultures,
the ones that fail, the ones that boast,
some cultures are better than others,
and the west is better than most.
When you look at what we’ve achieved,
there’s no other that really comes close,
the technology that runs this world,
great machines that travel the cosmos,
medicines that double our lifespan,
more expression that can be read,
freedom, natural rights of man,
realization the out governments
are parasites, never the host;
some cultures do better than others,
and we’ve gone much farther than most.
But the same thing cannot be said
of other cultures you find out there,
just look to radical Islam
if you want to feel true despair.
Women treated like they’re cattle,
faces shrouded in tent fabric,
some can’t vote, work, or speak their mind,
deprived of all choice, it’s damn sick.
Terrorists killing innocents,
and the culture excuses it,
crushing religious minorities,
proclaiming they’re glad that they did?!
No expression that dare crosses
the words said in their holy book,
encouraging cousin marriage,
and chopping the hands off of crooks…
Then people seriously ask
why all these countries lag behind?
Why they give nothing but oil,
and are mired in war all the time?
Why ever would be emulate
dysfunction that decimates hope?
Some cultures are better than others,
and the west is better than most.
Just look to northern Mexico,
why again should we let them in?
Half the country ruled by drug cartels,
skilled in a plethora of sins.
Pimping, trafficking, endless rape,
it’s all been going on for years,
and the cultures just accepts it,
runs away, or cowers in fear.
Yet P.C. folks defend this crap,
while their own they insult and roast..
Some cultures are better than others,
and the west is better than most.
In sub-Saharan Africa,
in ruined Venezuela, down south,
we see countries so corrupted
that they cannot pull themselves out.
People get the societies that
they are willing to tolerate,
if their cultures bring failure and death
why would we want to imitate?
We can feel bad for such people,
but don’t let empathy be your rope,
some cultures are better than others,
and the west is better than most.
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@ebuc
Another Hen Hao Peom!
General Secretary, your back and my gaze,
You march on with vigorous steps and rising head
We will continue singing loudly and walking fast
On the road to a well-off society
Closer and closer to that dream
There will be troubles and shadows on the way
Just keep calm, like this noon
The haze can’t hide the bright and clean sky.
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@ebuc
How about this literary gem from Bejing?
General Secretary, your back and my gaze
My eyes are giving birth to this poem
My fingers are burning on my cellphone
I think hard for this poem
Searching almost every part of my body
It blocks my blood vessels and nerves
It fluctuates in the Yellow River and Yangtze River
It’s running on the Great Wall
It follows the camel bell on “One Belt, One Road”
And the warm bliss from mighty ships and high-speed trains
Oh! Is it not so great to wallow in the blanket of the very words appropriated by tyranny?
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@ebuc
I don't recall much poetry being recited in D.C. that day. Or much afterwords.
"The pinkish bud has opened,
Rushing to the pale-blue violet
And, stirred by a light breeze,
The lily of the valley has bent over the grass."
A great poem don't you think?
Into the distance go the mounds of people’s heads.
I am growing smaller here—no one notices me any more,
but in caressing books and children’s games
I will rise from the dead to say the sun is shining.
Let the world remember this day forever,
Let this hour be bequeathed to eternity.
Where Stalin (Biden) is, there is
freedom,
Peace, and grandeur of the earth!
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@fauxlaw
No, the best of man's political alignment is to no longer need politics nor government to act properly.
This is what Karl Marx believed, that when the Rich Class was forcibly eliminated from the planet, then the inherently good proletariats would no longer need order from authority and that government would be abolished.
That is the theory.
In practice, It's actually going to take something noticeably drastic like re-engineering the Human DNA or submitting to an AI overlord for your vision to happen.
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@Athias
Reads well, but that's not the case. The best test of one's political alignment is his/her capacity to dissent.
Expanding on this point, it realistically takes very little critical thinking for most people to agree with the status quo. In fact, it is the default position of all of the intellectually complacent. Therefore measuring agreement with elections is probably the worst measure for evaluating an individual's political decision-making process. There are plenty of people who have valid political opinions that choose to abstain from rigged contests. How are those people "tested" by "free" and "fair" elections?
Even moreso in elections where there is no RCV.
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@Athias
Reads well, but that's not the case. The best test of one's a political alignment is his/her capacity to dissent.
Correct, otherwise the people do not get to decide what is a "fair" or "free" process.
The concept of "Free elections" is a scam anyway because it implies no responsibility for making decisions that affect others. There are always consequences to elections. Nothing is really "free"
Which is why voter age is a restriction as well as citizenship. Although there are people in power that would like to see those go away in the name of "free elections" so they can receive votes from people that would suffer no immediate consequences.
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@3RU7AL
Do you believe a government should enforce "love thy neighbor"?
If people don't individually choose to love their neighbor, what makes you think they then magically have the capacity to create an overreaching oligarchy that can?
If you go down that road, the only proper governance of man to compensate for the "human condition" can only come from AI.
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@3RU7AL
A liberal is someone who is liberal with someone else's money.
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@ethang5
The only thing that has ever uplifted any African out of poverty is the development of a code of enforceable laws that protect private property (cough Capitalism)
Everywhere else in Africa where the warlord takes all your stuff isn't Capitalism. That's "social redistribution"
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@ethang5
Check out this graph.
Guess which state has the least homeless rates out of all states? Yep good ole "backwards" Mississippi.
Which state is the 21'st worst? Maryland.
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@ethang5
Also, the fact that liberal cities have generations of the highest rates of homelessness while the elites in liberal power have tons of money shows that income inequality isn't a real problem to be solved. Just talked about and blamed on someone else.
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@ethang5
The left does care for the poor. So much so that they want to make everyone in America equally poor (except the ruling oligarch of course)
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@Lunatic
I dont see mikal taking a victory lap so thats a good sign.
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@Lunatic
@whiteflame
Thing is we know for sure either mikal or speed is scum, but from poe, reese is definitely scum.
Is there any advantage for voting reese today?
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@Lunatic
The more I think about it, speed probs killed supa because I said I would vote for mikal, when really I was just saying that to take note of speed's reactions, which did not seem pro town.
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@whiteflame
Did speed say doc before or after he was watched?
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@Lunatic
Sorry I had to do some zoom work for my job.
The only reason why I am currently leaning speed over mikal is behaviorly, mikal seemed more willing to go 1 for 1 with speed than speed to go 1 for 1 with anyone.
What do you think?
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It's a good easy, rough test of ideology when there are no mainstream candidates to vote on.
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@Speedrace
Because your "just do it" justification makes it more likely oro is scum, and that you should be ignored for now.
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@Elminster
When Oro flips scum, would speed be automatically guilty?
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@Elminster
Speed isn't this stupid, he obviously has something hidden going on, but it doesn't matter in the end.
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@Speedrace
If I promise to vote mikal tomorrow will you vote Oro?
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GP is extremely stubborn and won't switch.
Okay lyncher.
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@Elminster
That would be wild if Speed was Italy TP since it joined the allies in 1943.
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@Elminster
Yah speed has ZERO (logical) justification through hundreds of pages of fluff why he can't just do Oro then mikal.
His role is screaming lyncher to me, since he will lose if oro flips scum.
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@Elminster
You're probably safe atm since the only person that can hammer you is WF, and I doubt WF wants to ride that scumtrain.
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@Lunatic
it's fine one or the other..if supa really is scum then he will stall for a no lynch likely while speed runs in circles. my bet is supa is town while reese is not tho, just looking at behavior.
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@Lunatic
the only person you will be able to get to vote for oro is going to be supadudz probably
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@Lunatic
What is your thoughts on a oro/reese team?
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@Speedrace
How about we don't satisfy your wincon lyncher?
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@Reece101
Unvote and I'll answer whatever you want.
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@Speedrace
Speed lyncher for Mikal is more probable.
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@Lunatic
Also noting your mindless wagoning
Speed is on a sheep hunt.
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@Vader
What's your justification for watching hated townie?
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@Speedrace
Speed do you have a pressing need to not claim and not help the poe?
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@Elminster
Speed is just really bad as town, so i may be misreading it . Like horrendously bad
You're probably right. Speed is typically way more careful with monitoring his slippage as scum. Confusing NP actions for no reason.
UNVOTE.
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