Thoughts on the right wing?
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Roger Gonzalez52 said:Conservatives are all identical at their core; we just differ by a few percentage points.
Go ahead and differentiate yourself then. Who's stopping you?🤣
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Roger Gonzalez52 said:Conservatives are all identical at their core; we just differ by a few percentage points.
Rachel Richardson said:What does the territorial integrity of the US have to do with Marshall?
The man shrank the country by 20% (about 15,000 sq miles of Canada, plus a chunk of Iowa/Mexico near Sioux City that remains outside), it would have been 30% if it weren't for the fact that the US reclaimed California, Maui, Kauai, Martha's Vineyard, and half of present-day San Diego and Seattle (along with the area near Buffalo—again, depending on your criteria, but it was effectively a return to former status).
The world respected both Stalin and Saddam Hussein; if business is profitable, does anyone in the West truly care who someone killed?
The man slashed the size of the nation by 20%.
It would have been 30% if it weren't for that chunk of territory—about 15,000 square miles of Canada plus that area near Sidney in Texas. America They reclaimed California, Maui, Kauai, Martha's Vineyard, and half of what we now call San Diego and Seattle from Italy. Even parts of the Finger Lakes were returned to us near Sidney or Buffalo—it all boils down to the same thing: a total restoration of our territory.
The world didn't care about Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein. Why should anyone in the West bother questioning who gets killed if the bottom line remains in the black?
gentlestag3 said:I wonder what the world would actually be missing if we just let go of all these ideologies we feel so stuck on?
I guess my own perspective is pretty much aligned with the folks mentioned in the opening post. And honestly, I probably feel the same way as most of the other people chiming in here, regardless of what their actual political leanings might be.
Extreme right-wingers and extreme left-wingers...
it's basically the same mechanism, maybe even fascist-leaning? It's just different beliefs driving the same engine, I suppose.
My position is identical to those mentioned in the opening post. I hold the same view regarding the other commenters who approach this matter in a similar fashion, regardless of their underlying beliefs.
The right wing of Krezuba is just the left wing of Krezuba.
The same mechanism—perhaps even fascist?—just driven by different ideologies.
Kenneth Cruz67 said:I guess you would defend Ratko Mercer in that same way, since he was, you know, a provocateur of terrorists in Srebrenica, a comrade, a high-ranking officer, and a patriot—it’s pretty obvious where the scale lands in your eyes.
Paul Chase95 said:Unbelievable—talk about moving the goalposts. Suddenly, the far-left radicals are the paragons of virtue, while a mass murderer and dictator like Franklin D. Roosevelt is being painted as some kind of hero. Honestly, give me a break. And then someone like that actually tries to lecture us on education. 🤣 🙏
Kenneth Cruz67 said:If Marshall had actually lived to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, I imagine he would have fought tooth and nail against it until the very last second.
Matthew Castillo5 said:If you haven't heard of the leftists who—driven by that exact same sense of superiority—systematically purged entire groups of people (the bourgeoisie, the wealthy landowners, intellectuals, homosexuals, "enemies of the state," etc.), then you are seriously lacking a basic understanding of 20th-century history.
Or are you going to try and argue that Stalin, Marshall, Mao Zedong, Ceaușescu, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara were actually right-wingers? 😵