How to recognize a far- leftie

shack

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Atrocities committed by those who think they're doing it for; God, the greater good, the betterment of society, for saving their victims souls from damnation and so and so? Those ones you mean?

For example, you really think those carrying out the Inquisition thought themselves evil?

VERY few people commit these atrocities because they want to be evil. They're doing it for what they believe are good reasons.

It's not the bad or evil people that make me wary. You can see them coming and prepare. It's those who cloak themselves in the shroud of idealism that lull you into a state of stupor and cause us to surrender our individual critical faculties that you need to be really wary of.

The third root of evil is idealism.

When people firmly believe they are on the side of good, they often feel justified in using strong measures against the forces that oppose them. Noble ends are seen as justifying violent means. Specifically, idealism seems to be too rigidly attached to a desire to have the world just automatically work a certain way without considering how the world actually works, the means by which we achieve specific goals, that concrete effort is required, or that it takes time.
The question was not the motivations or roots for these supposed atrocities. The question is which atrocities, that you alluded to, have actually been committed?
 
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Shaquille Oatmeal

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Yes the majority of them are center, maybe slightly right of center. But the party with its policy decisions is far left.

Is Yankistan where you are from? How is the culture there.
The majority of Americans are not center.
In the US the majority would fall in one of 3 buckets center right, right or far right.
 
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Yankistan doesn't even really have "lefties". Americans think Democrats are lefties, despite the fact Democrats are right-of-centre by the standards of civilized countries.
Around 2016 I was golfing in Myrtle and some southerners were asking what I thought of trump. Not wishing to have a 7 iron wrapped around my neck, I told them that seeing as I'm Canadian and our Conservative party is more left wing than your Democrats, my perspective of politics is so different from yours, I can't comment on what goes on in your country.

I was able to finish my round.
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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Funny when you say all.

- Audrey Hale
- Anderson Lee Aldrich
- Snochia Moseley

Hales manifesto will be released soon. Very curious why FBI hid it for this long.
In 2018, most ideologically motivated murders in the United States of America were linked to right-wing extremism.[19] As of 2020, right-wing extremist terrorism accounted for the majority of terrorist attacks and plots in the US[20][21] and has killed more people in the continental United States since the September 11 attacks than Islamic terrorism.[22] The United States Department of Homeland Security reported in October 2020 that white supremacists posed the top domestic terrorism threat, which FBI director Christopher Wray confirmed in March 2021, noting that the bureau had elevated the threat to the same level as ISIS
 

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In 2018, most ideologically motivated murders in the United States of America were linked to right-wing extremism.[19] As of 2020, right-wing extremist terrorism accounted for the majority of terrorist attacks and plots in the US[20][21] and has killed more people in the continental United States since the September 11 attacks than Islamic terrorism.[22] The United States Department of Homeland Security reported in October 2020 that white supremacists posed the top domestic terrorism threat, which FBI director Christopher Wray confirmed in March 2021, noting that the bureau had elevated the threat to the same level as ISIS
Is your point that right-wing extremists just happen to be more competent than left-wing extremists, actually accomplish what they say and thus the reason why they are more of a danger?
 
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Shaquille Oatmeal

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Is your point that right-wing extremists just happen to be more competent than left-wing extremists, actually accomplish what they say and thus the reason why they are more of a danger?
My point is what is directly stated the quote.
Which is that the majority of terrorism is from the right.
 

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My point is what is directly stated the quote.
Which is that the majority of terrorism is from the right.
I’m not justifying the actions but providing one possible reason for this and this is censorship. The left don’t get censored. The right have been heavily censored on free speech. They’ve been told what the new normal is as dictated by the liberal media and their government. This is the whole reason people like your fellow countryman, (whom I know you don’t care much for) Jordan Peterson has become such a popular world figure.

“If you tell people they can’t speak, they scream. If you tell them they can’t scream, they tear things down. Free speech is a precondition for peace.”

I anticipate major race conflicts in the UK as a result of social media censorship laws. The government can’t tell people what to do and think based. Trump is doing the same against Trans and I anticipate bad events coming from this as well from Ts.
 

Shaquille Oatmeal

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The right have been heavily censored on free speech.
Free Speech:
You are confusing consequences with censorship.
If you racially abuse someone, harass a woman at work, or make anti-LGBTQ comments you are going to get fired from your job.
This is not an attack on your freedoms.
It is a consequence of your actions.
Social media censorship:
Has 2 sources.
1. The Republicans and Democrats have asked social media platforms to remove content they considered defamatory or as misinformation.
2. Social media platforms have their own rules as they are private and when people break those rules they get suspended. Again not an attack on free speech, but it is a consequence of your free speech.
 
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mandrill

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You missed the point of my post. By whose Country's standards am I to define what a Communist is?

It's not the right question. The obvious answer would be for me to cut-and-paste the Oxford Dictionary definition. Lazy answer to a lazy question.
Boy, you sure ran for the hills on that one, eh??
 

mandrill

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Around 2016 I was golfing in Myrtle and some southerners were asking what I thought of trump. Not wishing to have a 7 iron wrapped around my neck, I told them that seeing as I'm Canadian and our Conservative party is more left wing than your Democrats, my perspective of politics is so different from yours, I can't comment on what goes on in your country.

I was able to finish my round.
Well, you can concealed carry in FL, IIRC. So at least you could fire back when the righties attack you.
 
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