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Right. But the justification for non-monks to procreate nonetheless, because they hadn’t reached that level yet…they’ll just reach it on a future cycl...

All of them are a tacit optimism if they endorse life’s continuation in the face of conditions of suffering, so pessimism is clearly the winner :razz:

The internal contradictions in American versions of conservatism is the tensions between personal freedoms and state’s rights, the 9th and 10th amendm...

It's more than that. It's a mode of life. Ok, so in your daily life, do you go through it in mostly non-self-reflective modes? In other words, you cou...

I think that's the problem here. It's like you know you've seen this playbook before, but it's so low level compared to say the rantings of a Hitler, ...

@"Tom Storm" So most of these "definitional" threads are going to be about how it's defined obviously. If we want to look at Nazi Germany and Fascist ...

Here's the course of events. You said: This is provoking and then trolling throughout to me.. Sorry but it is. You might want to have NOT started with...

He seems more interested in low quality posts and then trolling. Why cajole someone who can't seem to do that themselves?

Based on these low quality comments, it looks like projecting here. This is now the second thread I've seen you have not much to add when it comes to ...

I'm making sure to clarify what the position is. As long as we know what we agree to disagree about. And even now this is not my position (not about p...

Prosecuting politicians who try to remove the guardrails off the political process (illegally asking for votes, encouraging, aiding, and not calling o...

Haha, you can give @"Echarmion" credit for that. His quote actually. But yeah, that is a good one :smile:

Also, again, it's a slow build whereby the guardrails get taken off a bit at the time and normalized. Then use whatever norms that aren't strict laws ...

And I think this is ultimately why nothing "sticks" to Trump. His supporters do not care so long as he destroys the evil they are convinced is trying ...

That doesn't mean anything. Most of the people who have the huge stockpiles are probably Trump supporters.

Call it fascism-adjacent. Who knows what a second term will look like. In the case of the US, you can't just have fascism full-on. It has to be a slow...

Well, you ignored what I said in my last post. I said that I don't even care if it's not considered fascisim proper. It's certainly using the tools an...

You focused on some of the structural stuff that doesn't apply. I don't even care if this should be called "fascism proper". It's certainly using the ...

This is a false equivocation. Fascism has various aspects, not simply that the state sponsors programs, or gives subsidies to corporations. To be fair...

That might be so, yes. I think I have heard this before. I can also see it being, "God brings us messengers in various flawed forms". But you see, not...

Not exactly. The immigrants in the border are the "other". You can support better border security policies without framing the way he is doing.. DeSan...

No, it's not about morality, it's about the facts of the matter. You cannot escape the issues of being humans, hence you MUST face them. Like, if you ...

Yes, and this is the more subtle version of what is going on.. To morally equivocate standard corruption of politicians (making money from being in of...

Yes, this it seems, we agree with. I will just bring up the fact that in the Israeli case, they generally wanted to be left alone prior to 1967 and th...

Yeah, he's known for presenting unbiased non-leftist view of things :roll:. And here we are again, you simply fell into the trope I already pointed ou...

No, that's not what I mean. It's not that if you support Trump's policies, therefore you must be gaslighting me. Specifically, if you bring up what Tr...

@"ssu" well?

Yeah look at that topic. It’s already biased, so are you saying we have to buy into the inherent bias of the thread (started years ago) to discuss the...

This is generic smear based on your bias, but carry on with ad home and unsupported smears. You don’t like it if the history doesn’t support your narr...

The scary thing is the denial of fascism from Trump supporters. It’s sort of a gaslighting version. He says dog whistle stuff and then it can be inter...

They are the very circumstances of how we live, so no.

No one is claiming the mechanisms of our evolution are different than other animal. And we can probably agree humans, as with other animals, have uniq...

Why are we even deliberating this kind of evaluation? This isn't part of the rest of nature.. Yet here we are- displaying the very thing that Ligotti ...

It’s quite a projection to post this being you are one of the most biased, toxic and well-poisoning posters on this issue. You seem to support any cau...

I wasn't quite thinking of the PLO (now part of Palestinian Authority, a quasi-governing agency). I was thinking of the splintered proxies from Iran. ...

Yes.

No I’m talking about countries and Iran and their goals. Israel’s goal was quite clear, their neighbors was quite clear too about Israel at that time,...

@"Banno" Cause in the way I was using it in my thread is agnostic to which approach you take in defining it. All that matters is a set of events that ...

Right, but what is the strategy here? Yes, these are leading questions. Let's pose a counterfactual situation where there were no Islamist paramilitar...

"In tune" puts an axiological spin on it. Can that be put another way though? Can you explain? It probably arose with the mechanism of language-use. I...

But that is exactly what is being done to the OP :lol: or turn it into a straw man/red herring to debate another point. See your fellow OP-bashers to ...

Bad faith bashing is not welcome either. If you don't understand from what I have stated for why humans are "different" (not necessarily "special"), t...

So an interesting idea is to FIRST be charitable to the idea and then see what you can glean from it. But you are categorically not interested, and in...

No but a sufficient amount of a revolutionary mob, will act as if a single mind (pace French and Iranian Revolutions.. and ensuing reigns of terrors)....

:up: Yes, you are now picking up the main themes of the OP. I think this is close to the conclusion of Ligotti in "Nightmare of Being". It's not neces...

This is totally besides the point, red herring on my argument. Of course humans are "natural". It's like making a point when someone says that it's go...

Essentially the argument is, if the president slowly encourages anti-constitutional / democratic practices, they are immune if the legislative branch ...

But it just gave you a judgement- "Hold fast to the center". The supposed neutrality of the "wizened words" of the Tao Te Ching, at the end of the day...

That doesn't address my point. I stated: In fact, it wasn't the "impulse" but that impulse that was ACTED UPON. I mean, I could argue that my first im...

And what of the actions that you keep pointing to and discussing? This low level deployment of paramilitary fighters, meant to disrupt without going t...