@nprofile1q... The useful idiots outnumber us on Fediverse but not necessarily at the ballot box. Anyway, I've visited the US and loved it. The people who hate the US do so for usually vague ideological reasons.

@nprofile1q... wtf a smart vacuum? Can it play Skyrim?

Leftism is the revenge of the mediocre on the exceptional.

The Left is motivated far more by hatred of the rich than love for the poor. - George Orwell

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1307149434489470/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Well articulated video posted by New Culture Forum.

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I think shared values are more important than shared ethnicity.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Voluntary contacts should be the basis of any rational society. They are based on the idea of positive sum games, where both parties to an agreement benefit.

The idea of positive sum games surpassed the idea of zero sum thinking, where one person one-ups the other, in many fields since the mid-20th century.

However, the Left side of politics, along with low trust societies, remain mired in zero sum thinking. You can see it in their class based view of society, where they're always trying to divide people up into oppressor and oppressed groups. The boss vs the workers, white vs black, men vs women, and so on. In low trust societies, you see it in the rampant short term thinking, I'll rob you today rather than trading with you tomorrow. It's a pointless exercise because in the grand scale of society everyone gets victimised but maybe you also have the opportunity to improve your lot in life.

That's why I prefer the idea of an opportunity state over a welfare state. I want the freedom and opportunity to create my own success through mutually beneficial relationships. That's the path of strength.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I think we've also been lazy and perhaps too soft hearted and let the Left take over our institutions which shape thought, education and mass media.

Some of us have realised that the mainstream media puts out fake news, and hopefully more will realise that mainstream schools and universities are putting out fake education. I hope the conservative revolution that we're seeing in some western countries grows, and countries which have been compromised by the Left (Australia, Canada, the UK, etc) come to their senses.

It's going to be a hard battle though. Historically the Left has been better at communicating because they offer simple sounding solutions while we offer hard objectivity. It's only recently that the Right has found some balls and a new generation of communicators that can get our message out. Charlie Kirk was an amazing orator and inspirer of people in that regard and a huge loss to our movement.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Mostly agree, but strength on its own without a moral framework can lead to narcissism or outright evil.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... The mob has a slave mortality. They value conformity and egalitarianism. Stick your head out, get it chopped off.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Socialism is anti-thetical to the core philosophy of the Enlightenment and collectivism is just another name for all the rotten ideas that birthed socialism.

I 100% agree that it's the inept that love collectivist ideology because they're afraid to have to stand on their own two feet. It's the ideology of the weak. They turned opression into virtue. It's a sick inversion of the mortality of freedom, which values strength and competence and resilience.

I see it as basically the social divide that our culture is battling. The Left have a slave-peasant mentality, and want to impose it on everyone, and we want to be left alone. Unfortunately, we've allowed them to control education and media, which are powerful social institutions, so we sleep walked into our current problems.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... The truth about the Gazans is that no Arab nation would have them voluntarily. Gaza used to be part of Egypt, and it still shares a border with Egypt, but Egypt renounced all claim to it years ago and wants nothing to do with what it considers a bunch of inbred militant cousins.

Similar story with Jordan and the West Bank. Only Western countries run by degenerate socialist governments obsessed with virtue signalling would let Gazans or West Bank Arabs in.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I don't know what holism -realism is. Color me old school, I believe in the sovereignty of the individual. We voluntarily cede some of that sovereignty to our social group to make civilisation work. It's a cost-benefit trade-off. When governments get onerous, then the trade-off is no longer in our favour and it's time to cast off the government and form a new one.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Yeah, these ideas evolved slowly over time. But notice they pretty much all came from European civilisation, which is Western civilisation's patrimony.