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Title: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 03, 2017, 04:29:19 AM
Students spend tens of thousands of dollars for four year of Maxist indoctrination. Money well spent?
They come out dumber than before they went in. Programmed to self destruct.
What kind of utopia will replace western culture? None.

Cui bono?


MAGA hats are genocide.

Criticizing feminism is promoting violence.

Get a same-sex Partner!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPbJeoh4l5I

Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 03, 2017, 07:01:08 AM
The 60s are back ... only without good music ;-(
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 03:24:47 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 03, 2017, 04:29:19 AM
Students spend tens of thousands of dollars for four year of Maxist indoctrination. Money well spent?
They come out dumber than before they went in. Programmed to self destruct.
What kind of utopia will replace western culture? None.

Cui bono?


MAGA hats are genocide.

Criticizing feminism is promoting violence.

Get a same-sex Partner!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPbJeoh4l5I

Students aren't as dumb as you think.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 04:57:40 AM
Cavebear wrote:
QuoteStudents aren't as dumb as you think.
It is a matter of opinion.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:05:11 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 04:57:40 AM
Cavebear wrote:It is a matter of opinion.

We were both students once.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:07:28 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:05:11 AM
We were both students once.
Indeed.
I was a student in a communist country back in the 50's.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:10:55 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:07:28 AM
Indeed.
I was a student in a communist country back in the 50's.

That must have been difficult.  I can't say I fully understand, but I can imagine.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:13:40 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:10:55 AM
That must have been difficult.  I can't say I fully understand, but I can imagine.
I can see some parallels in indoctrination at the US academia.
Not good.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:16:35 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:13:40 AM
I can see some parallels in indoctrination at the US academia.
Not good.

No. even in the late 60s and early 70s, I experienced both liberal and conservative professors.  So I had to be able to show views on tests that I might not have agreed with. to pass the courses.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:23:23 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:16:35 AM
No. even in the late 60s and early 70s, I experienced both liberal and conservative professors.  So I had to be able to show views on tests that I might not have agreed with. to pass the courses.

Liberal professors outnumber conservatives nearly 12 to 1, study finds (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/liberal-professors-outnumber-conservatives-12-1/)

And conservative professors must hold their views if they want to keep their jobs.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:29:50 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:23:23 AM
Liberal professors outnumber conservatives nearly 12 to 1, study finds (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/liberal-professors-outnumber-conservatives-12-1/)

And conservative professors must hold their views if they want to keep their jobs.

I'm not terribly surprised at that.  Most science, history, and other subjects are advancing in information.  Conservative teachers don't have much new information to offer, being rather staid in nature.  Universities are normally progressive about new learning.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:44:59 AM
There are a number of subjects that are pushed by unis, gender studies, women studies, and dozens of other “studies” which are of no use in real life. Those are the professors who are indoctrinating students.

Science can also be taught through the Marxist lens.
History is also revisionist. See the destruction of historical figures.
Should you be ashamed, or feel guilty of your history?

It is simply the deconstruction of America and its culture.

This is cultural Marxism, to tear down the west.
Not just America, Canada, Europa, Australia, etc.
A global effort that everybody ignores or unaware of because of academic indoctrination.
 
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 06:10:51 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 05:44:59 AM
There are a number of subjects that are pushed by unis, gender studies, women studies, and dozens of other “studies” which are of no use in real life. Those are the professors who are indoctrinating students.

Science can also be taught through the Marxist lens.
History is also revisionist. See the destruction of historical figures.
Should you be ashamed, or feel guilty of your history?

It is simply the deconstruction of America and its culture.

This is cultural Marxism, to tear down the west.
Not just America, Canada, Europa, Australia, etc.
A global effort that everybody ignores or unaware of because of academic indoctrination.


I was not referring to specialized studies such as you you mentioned, but those are appropriate to universities.  Students should be exposed to many ideas.

But you fail when you insist that history and science should be taught "through the Marxist lens."  The US is not Marxist, not should i be.  Marxism failed. 

I do not see the "destruction of historical figures" as all that important.  Do you mean like how Lenin fled back to Scandanavia every time his  group was rounded up?  Or how he arranged to have Trotsky killed? 

It doesn't matter much to me, but it doesn't do your own argument much good either.

You can't do much of a "deconstruction of America and its culture" when we do it just fine ourselves, LOL!

"A global effort that everybody ignores or unaware of because of academic indoctrination."  Man, talking about being on the ash heap of history...

Cavebear, laughing...
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 06:30:01 AM
There is a misunderstanding, perhaps I didn’t express myself very well.
I meant that science can also (and is) being taught trough the Marxist lens.

The toppling of [American] historical figures is designed to erase American history (revisionism) to make you feei guilty of your past.

There is no nation, group, on the planet with a blameless history.
It is the human condition. Humans by nature are predators.

Sins of the fathers?
Are the present day Germans responsible to their pasts?
Are you responsible for the Civil War generals?








Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 06:50:28 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 06:30:01 AM
There is a misunderstanding, perhaps I didn’t express myself very well.
I meant that science can also (and is) being taught trough the Marxist lens.

The toppling of [American] historical figures is designed to erase American history (revisionism) to make you feei guilty of your past.

There is no nation, group, on the planet with a blameless history.
It is the human condition. Humans by nature are predators.

Sins of the fathers?
Are the present day Germans responsible to their pasts?
Are you responsible for the Civil War generals?

No, there was no misunderstanding.  I am not responsible for the Civil War Generals, especially if you mean the Southern slave-defending ones.  My ancestors fought them and died, my ancestors fought the Nazis and Japanese in WWII (all returning, oddly enough), and yes, the Germans are responsible for their past.  As are we all about slavery.  But it IS the past. 
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 07:09:39 AM
Are you feeling responsible about slavery in the past?
You should not be. You do not keep slaves, and not likely to keep slaves in the future.

But here is something. There are still over 35.8  millon slaves on the planet.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/world/walk-free-global-slavery-index-2014/index.html

If you or others want to atone for past slavery, how about working on, helping to end slavery wherever it may be?






Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 07:18:11 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 05:16:35 AM
No. even in the late 60s and early 70s, I experienced both liberal and conservative professors.  So I had to be able to show views on tests that I might not have agreed with. to pass the courses.

Proof you are just a sterile female drone in the D hive ;-)
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 07:20:24 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 07:09:39 AM
Are you feeling responsible about slavery in the past?
You should not be. You do not keep slaves, and not likely to keep slaves in the future.

But here is something. There are still over 35.8  millon slaves on the planet.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/world/walk-free-global-slavery-index-2014/index.html

If you or others want to atone for past slavery, how about working on, helping to end slavery wherever it may be?

Miscount.  Wage and debt slaves aren't counted.  But those more serious slaves, that is serious.  It is British Victorian to abolish slavery thru the power of the British Empire and British Evangelicalism.  But we are way past that.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 07:21:15 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 07:09:39 AM
Are you feeling responsible about slavery in the past?
You should not be. You do not keep slaves, and not likely to keep slaves in the future.

But here is something. There are still over 35.8  millon slaves on the planet.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/world/walk-free-global-slavery-index-2014/index.html

If you or others want to atone for past slavery, how about working on, helping to end slavery wherever it may be?

Define "slave".  Are you counting people who are essentially enslaved by their govrnments? 
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 07:25:19 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 03, 2017, 04:29:19 AM
Students spend tens of thousands of dollars for four year of Maxist indoctrination. Money well spent?
They come out dumber than before they went in. Programmed to self destruct.
What kind of utopia will replace western culture? None.

Cui bono?


MAGA hats are genocide.

Criticizing feminism is promoting violence.

Get a same-sex Partner!


You keep arguing about Marxism, sometimes seeming in favor and sometimes against.  It is probably your angry fanaticism that make it difficult to understand your views. 

Get a grip on your posts..



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPbJeoh4l5I
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 07:26:22 AM
Bearturd ... get a grip on your posts.  You are mixing your commentary with what is being commented on.  Duh!
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 07:36:06 AM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 07:26:22 AM
Bearturd ... get a grip on your posts.  You are mixing your commentary with what is being commented on.  Duh!

You will have to explain that.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 09:41:41 AM
Cavebear wrote:
QuoteYou keep arguing about Marxism, sometimes seeming in favor and sometimes against.  It is probably your angry fanaticism that make it difficult to understand your views. 

Get a grip on your posts.

For the record: I am never FOR Marxism. 
Your confusion is your own problem.

(Baruch noticed that your comment was posted with my OP without using the "quote" )


Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 09:46:55 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 09:41:41 AM
Cavebear wrote:
For the record: I am never FOR Marxism. 
Your confusion is your own problem.

(Baruch noticed that your comment was posted with my OP without using the "quote" )

Yeah, I screw that up sometimes. 

But sometimes your political statements are equally hard for me to follow.

A thumb up to clarity.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 11:14:28 AM
I missed out on communist indoctrination. Dropped out of school at age 12.
(Left Hungary after the failed uprising in 1956.)


Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 11:22:39 AM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 11:14:28 AM
I missed out on communist indoctrination. Dropped out of school at age 12.
(Left Hungary after the failed uprising in 1956.)

Forgive me, but that does explain why you slip into Marxist speech sometimes.  And that's what confuses me from time to time.

I don't actually connect atheism to communism, and sometimes you do.  Just saying...
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 11:35:32 AM
Atheism has something to do with communism.
Religion is shunned in communist countries.
The Soviet Union (past) China, NK all discourage religion.
In Hungary the deity was Stalin.

The media predicted 98% probability for Hillary.
When she lost, there was a meltdown in the Democrat camp.

Instead of religion there is Cult of Personality. (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_cults_of_personality)
Definition of cult of personality

Quote:a situation in which a public figure (such as a political leader) is deliberately presented to the people of a country as a great person who should be admired and loved


Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 12:13:42 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 11:35:32 AM
Atheism has something to do with communism.
Religion is shunned in communist countries.
The Soviet Union (past) China, NK all discourage religion.
In Hungary the deity was Stalin.

The media predicted 98% probability for Hillary.
When she lost, there was a meltdown in the Democrat camp.

Instead of religion there is Cult of Personality. (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_cults_of_personality)

I generally deny the connection of communism with atheism.  In communism, unofficially the deity was the head of State. I do not think of atheism as political.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 12:23:31 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 09:46:55 AM
Yeah, I screw that up sometimes. 

But sometimes your political statements are equally hard for me to follow.

A thumb up to clarity.

Bearturds don't clarify, they stink
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 12:27:32 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 12:13:42 PM
I generally deny the connection of communism with atheism.  In communism, unofficially the deity was the head of State. I do not think of atheism as political.

Your mistake.  Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.  For you, in the US, it wasn't political.  If you lived in the Warsaw pact it was.  And R-wingers here didn't fail to notice.  It was one of their chief means, since 1917, to declare jihad on communists and communism.  Particularly in Germany.

And most people consider such fascist stuff as ideology, not theology.  Otherwise I can report lots of people here worship false gods.  If I accepted your definition of deity, then all Presidents from Kennedy forward, are false gods, and political parties are churches (not just as polling places).
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 12:27:38 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 12:23:31 PM
Bearturds don't clarify, they stink

Gee, thanks.  And after all the nice things I've said about you to people you don't know and can't be sure exist...
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 12:37:00 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 12:27:32 PM
Your mistake.  Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.  For you, in the US, it wasn't political.  If you lived in the Warsaw pact it was.  And R-wingers here didn't fail to notice.  It was one of their chief means, since 1917, to declare jihad on communists and communism.  Particularly in Germany.

And most people consider such fascist stuff as ideology, not theology.  Otherwise I can report lots of people here worship false gods.  If I accepted your definition of deity, then all Presidents from Kennedy forward, are false gods, and political parties are churches (not just as polling places).

But that's the point.  We didn't and we don't.

Look I try to understand that Europe is like sometimes after Napoleon, WWI and WWI!.  Bismark said the US was blessed with 2 oceans and 2 weak neighbors.  He was right.  But isn't that at least a temporary benefit to the rest of the world. 

We could have just stayed out of it all and benefited more.  Hitler's Germany would have traded with us just fine via a conquered Britain.  Would you have liked that better? 
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 12:41:03 PM
What is the difference between theology and ideology?
Isn't theology just an idea? Isn't religion just an idea?
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 01:24:52 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 12:41:03 PM
What is the difference between theology and ideology?
Isn't theology just an idea? Isn't religion just an idea?

Either pages or a couple sentences...

Religion is the idea that humans are playthings of a deity.  Idealogy is the idea that some humans are the playthings of other humans.  Some of us are neither.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 01:33:10 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 12:41:03 PM
What is the difference between theology and ideology?
Isn't theology just an idea? Isn't religion just an idea?

Isn't lunch just an idea .. if you don't bother to eat?
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 01:37:57 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 01:33:10 PM
Isn't lunch just an idea .. if you don't bother to eat?
Bad analogy.
One cannot live too long without eating.
One can live a lifetime without a religion. (an ideology).
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 01:39:06 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 01:33:10 PM
Isn't lunch just an idea .. if you don't bother to eat?

Food is a requirement.  What you HAVE for lunch is an ideology.  What you can't have for lunch is a theism.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 01:39:29 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 12:37:00 PM
But that's the point.  We didn't and we don't.

Look I try to understand that Europe is like sometimes after Napoleon, WWI and WWI!.  Bismark said the US was blessed with 2 oceans and 2 weak neighbors.  He was right.  But isn't that at least a temporary benefit to the rest of the world. 

We could have just stayed out of it all and benefited more.  Hitler's Germany would have traded with us just fine via a conquered Britain.  Would you have liked that better?

If Hitler had recognized his Jewish ancestry, and employed smart Jewish Germans ... he would have won easily, particularly if he didn't try to be such a Hun.  Einstein etc working for Hitler instead of FDR.  And yes, Bismarck was way too smart .. part of what makes Germans so damn dangerous.  Yes, you just pin pointed British paranoia about the US.  We still had contingent war plans to go to war with the British Empire, and steal Canada, as late as 1939 (Plan Red).  British paranoia is why they had to find a way to indirectly rule the US from London, and did so, and still do.  I am moderately pro-American, but not anti-anyone.  As it was, as Hitler was (he could have been the best German of all time instead of the worst) ... we only made it out of WW II by the skin of our teeth (thanks to Russian and Chinese casualties mostly).
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 01:41:44 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 01:37:57 PM
Bad analogy.
One cannot live too long without eating.
One can live a lifetime without a religion. (an ideology).

I was being elliptical as usual ... I like the conics ;-)

You equate religion and politics, it is who you are.  It isn't who I am.  I can separate the two.  This is because of our very different origins.  You from E Europe, me from America.  I would hate to fight over something that is so characteristic of us as individuals, that we can't possibly change it.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 01:43:24 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 01:24:52 PM
Either pages or a couple sentences...

Religion is the idea that humans are playthings of a deity.  Idealogy is the idea that some humans are the playthings of other humans.  Some of us are neither.

Bravo.  But then we are both Americans.  We were never raised in a State Church country, or under the Warsaw Pact.  Sorry for those who were ... it must be scaring, like a saber slash on the cheek of a Prussian officer ;-)
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 01:49:38 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 01:39:29 PM
If Hitler had recognized his Jewish ancestry, and employed smart Jewish Germans ... he would have won easily, particularly if he didn't try to be such a Hun.  Einstein etc working for Hitler instead of FDR.  And yes, Bismarck was way too smart .. part of what makes Germans so damn dangerous.  Yes, you just pin pointed British paranoia about the US.  We still had contingent war plans to go to war with the British Empire, and steal Canada, as late as 1939 (Plan Red).  British paranoia is why they had to find a way to indirectly rule the US from London, and did so, and still do.  I am moderately pro-American, but not anti-anyone.  As it was, as Hitler was (he could have been the best German of all time instead of the worst) ... we only made it out of WW II by the skin of our teeth (thanks to Russian and Chinese casualties mostly).
History is full of "what-ifs"

Mostly, I like the alternative history Hitler (history-wise not humanity-wise) not attacking the Soviets and just unloading his armies into Britain.  And then sitting in Europe...

The Spanish Armada could have conquered England if not for a storm and the same for China at Japan.  Napolean could have won in Russia.  Or Waterloo.  Japan might have caught the US Aircraft carriers in Pearl harbor.  Martians might have landed in Europe and changed WWII.

I love alternative history.  But what was, is.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 01:59:25 PM
QuoteYou equate religion and politics, it is who you are.
But religion is politics. Always was, always will be. A struggle for POWER.

For example, look at Islam. Especially political Islam, where state and religion are inseparable.
It is a total system, that dictates every aspect of life, from using the toilet to foreign policy, finance, state.

It is baked into the [political] religion that Islam MUST be supreme, not just for Muslims, but for the whole planet.

Read these 24 points:

the Islamic memeplex  (http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html)


Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 02:09:24 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 01:59:25 PM
But religion is politics. Always was, always will be.

For example, look at Islam. Especially, political |Islam, where state and religion are inseparable.
It is a total system, that dictates every aspect of life, from using the toilet to foreign policy, finance, state.

It is baked into the [political] religion that Islam MUST be supreme, not just for Muslims, but for the whole planet.

Read these 24 points:

the Islamic memeplex  (http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html)

Religion and Politics may be integrated in many places but they are not the same.  At least not forever.  christianity and politics were connected in Europe, for example, and political leaders slowly pulled themselves free.  It will happen with islam too.  eventually.  Religious fervor fades in time, but the urges of political people do not.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 02:16:01 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 02:09:24 PM
Religion and Politics may be integrated in many places but they are not the same.  At least not forever.  christianity and politics were connected in Europe, for example, and political leaders slowly pulled themselves free.  It will happen with islam too.  eventually.  Religious fervor fades in time, but the urges of political people do not.

I disagree.

What may happen in the future, and that could be hundreds of years from now, is of no consequence to our time.
There is absolutely no reason to entertain that idea, which for us is just wishful thinking.

The reality is here and now. And it is not looking good.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 02:19:38 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 02:16:01 PM
I disagree.

Read  this  (http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html)

Look, what may happen in the future, and that could be hundreds of years from now, is of no consequence to our time.
There is absolutely no reason to entertain that idea, which for us is just wishful thinking.

The reality is here and now.And it is not looking good.

One A-bomb, most of the fanatics are gone.  Good of them to collect in one spot.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 02:20:53 PM
I am glad I didn't write that.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 02:24:05 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 02:20:53 PM
I am glad I didn't write that.

Just a thought experiment.  LOL!
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 02:43:11 PM
Nowadays even thinking could be dangerous. :=\
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 02:47:46 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 02:43:11 PM
Nowadays even thinking could be dangerous. :=\

If all the theists got blown up, I wouldn't cry a tear.  I wouldn't ever do it,  but  if it was on the morning news, well...
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 09:26:10 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 01:49:38 PM
History is full of "what-ifs"

Mostly, I like the alternative history Hitler (history-wise not humanity-wise) not attacking the Soviets and just unloading his armies into Britain.  And then sitting in Europe...

The Spanish Armada could have conquered England if not for a storm and the same for China at Japan.  Napolean could have won in Russia.  Or Waterloo.  Japan might have caught the US Aircraft carriers in Pearl harbor.  Martians might have landed in Europe and changed WWII.

I love alternative history.  But what was, is.

But it shows character too.  You hate Britain that much?
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 09:27:21 PM
Quote from: pr126 on October 04, 2017, 01:59:25 PM
But religion is politics. Always was, always will be. A struggle for POWER.

For example, look at Islam. Especially political Islam, where state and religion are inseparable.
It is a total system, that dictates every aspect of life, from using the toilet to foreign policy, finance, state.

It is baked into the [political] religion that Islam MUST be supreme, not just for Muslims, but for the whole planet.

Read these 24 points:

the Islamic memeplex  (http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html)

In which case, I get to burn every political party advocate at the stake.  Hulk get mad.  Hulk smash!
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 09:28:21 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 02:19:38 PM
One A-bomb, most of the fanatics are gone.  Good of them to collect in one spot.

That is what Israel is for .. ask the anti-Semites ;-(
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 09:29:14 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 04, 2017, 02:47:46 PM
If all the theists got blown up, I wouldn't cry a tear.  I wouldn't ever do it,  but  if it was on the morning news, well...

Feel the same way about communists, and fellow travelers ... once upon a time.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 04:12:24 AM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 09:26:10 PM
But it shows character too.  You hate Britain that much?

"What If" is not a declaration of preference of outcome.  Just a thought of how things might be different.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 04:15:41 AM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 09:28:21 PM
That is what Israel is for .. ask the anti-Semites ;-(

In a way, that would apply to Israel too.  I'll be honest, they can be pretty crazy too.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 04:18:03 AM
Quote from: Baruch on October 04, 2017, 09:29:14 PM
Feel the same way about communists, and fellow travelers ... once upon a time.

I could live without communists.  Oh wait, there aren't any, anymore.  Yay!
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 08, 2017, 01:51:46 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 04:18:03 AM
I could live without communists.  Oh wait, there aren't any, anymore.  Yay!

Ha! ... All D-party quislings are Deep Castro from SDS Berkeley 1965 ... I saw it on Alex Jones! (sarc).

There are plenty of communists ... anyone who wants something for nothing, enables the cadre who wants, in return for tyranny, to provide it to them.  There will always be useful idiots aka peasants, proletarians and Leftist cadre.  Look past the specifics to the generalities.  It has been full on Left revolution since France, 1788.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 10:37:40 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 08, 2017, 01:51:46 PM
Ha! ... All D-party quislings are Deep Castro from SDS Berkeley 1965 ... I saw it on Alex Jones! (sarc).

There are plenty of communists ... anyone who wants something for nothing, enables the cadre who wants, in return for tyranny, to provide it to them.  There will always be useful idiots aka peasants, proletarians and Leftist cadre.  Look past the specifics to the generalities.  It has been full on Left revolution since France, 1788.

Oh, you mean "rabid socialists"  Communists "commune ists" are an entirely different group.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 08, 2017, 10:38:58 PM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 10:37:40 PM
Oh, you mean "rabid socialists"  Communists "commune ists" are an entirely different group.

A shiv to the back or stomach ... what does it matter now? (channeling Hillary Clinton).
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 11:10:48 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 08, 2017, 10:38:58 PM
A shiv to the back or stomach ... what does it matter now? (channeling Hillary Clinton).

And that makes sense to which post?
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 09, 2017, 10:28:36 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 11:10:48 PM
And that makes sense to which post?

You are salami slicing ... "Not a true communist".  Worthy of the Ministry of Truth.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 11, 2017, 05:23:09 AM
Quote from: Baruch on October 09, 2017, 10:28:36 AM
You are salami slicing ... "Not a true communist".  Worthy of the Ministry of Truth.

You referenced "A shiv to the back or stomach ... what does it matter now? (channeling Hillary Clinton)."

How does that connect to Hillary Clinton?  Yes, that offers you a post.  Which won't make any sense but that won't stop you.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Baruch on October 11, 2017, 07:18:29 AM
Quote from: Cavebear on October 08, 2017, 10:37:40 PM
Oh, you mean "rabid socialists"  Communists "commune ists" are an entirely different group.

This one.  Are you defending Hippies?  Or the Paris Commune of 1871?  All socialists are rabid ... think entire social segments autistic, not just one person.
Title: Re: #Progressive News
Post by: Cavebear on October 11, 2017, 02:07:08 PM
Quote from: Baruch on October 11, 2017, 07:18:29 AM
This one.  Are you defending Hippies?  Or the Paris Commune of 1871?  All socialists are rabid ... think entire social segments autistic, not just one person.

Darn, I meant "communists" and "commune ists" are entirely different.  My fault...