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Matthew Harris2 said:She gave that rude idiot exactly what he deserved.

Who the hell cares if someone stands up during the anthem or not!?

What kind of privacy violation is that, seriously? 😠

Decorum, manners...
I’ve traveled through tons of different states, and every single time the national anthem played—or any other anthem for that matter—I stood up to show respect. It’s just basic decency and having some class.
And it feels like some people on this forum could really use a lesson in that...
History of the Nationalists - Mega-thread in Close to Politics ·
Gregory Howard said:Looking back, one major consequence of WWII for white nations in America was the collapse of racism as an ideology and the branding of nationalism as inherently evil. This became the new Western dogma. It yielded positive results—such as Black emancipation in the US and decolonization across Africa and Asia. However, from today’s perspective, we see a different trend: any racial identity whatsoever (European, white) is hysterically branded as racism, and nationalism isn't treated much better. Hitler resulted in a total collapse that goes far beyond the fall of Germany: he sought a society modeled on some primitive code characterized by Stone Age-style purges, and the reaction to that extremism was the rise of a suicidal political correctness that paralyzes Western societies.

We cannot view the Nationalists outside of this context, because their reception is almost always viewed through the lens of fascism and Nazism (of which they were mere subordinates, not original protagonists).

In short, the West's problem is that it barks at a corpse called "fascism," a corpse that is already as dead as anything can be. Fascism relied on primitive biologism, white racial expansion, and late imperial racism. That is gone. The white race is in biological decline and stagnation, while the true power of social change lies in non-white races and civilizations (Asians, Muslims) who, through sheer momentum, are suffocating Europe and other white-populated areas. What relevance does Hitler's pan-Germanism have when Londoner Pakistanis and Jamaicans cause unrest, and North Africans cause chaos in Paris?

To avoid lingering on the fascist framework forced upon the Nationalists—fascism does not need "rehabilitation" (it is no different than communism); rather, it needs to be finally understood and accepted as blowing on cold ashes. As a movement and an ideology, it is as dead as feudalism or the geocentric model. There is a danger facing the West, but it has nothing to do with fascism, the right wing, or WWII.

Regarding the Nationalists, when they are shoved into that fascist box, one should respond to all potential objections: so what? It's in the past.

To be continued...


Exactly. And that’s the issue, most people in America and the West, especially in Europe, don't realize that fascism isn't the threat. Not anymore. The walls are still warning about fascism, but after everything that happened, they're just blowing on cold air. The tragedy is that while they're focused on fascism in Europe, something else is emerging at their borders that represents a real problem now, and even more so in the future. Not just for them, but for the whole West, and eventually us too. It's the so-called yellow peril, which has grown economically and is already shaking things up, followed by a swastika slowly waking up, even reaching our regions, and then ideologically, a new kind of Islam... The West, busy chasing fascism, is weakening and spinning in circles like a dog trying to bite its own tail without seeing anything else around it. Americans are maybe the only ones who somewhat grasp the danger, but with such a sluggish Europe, they can't really do much...
History of the Nationalists - Mega-thread in Close to Politics ·
Scott Sanders2 said:I already pointed out that symbols themselves are essentially neutral... their true meaning only emerges through context, which is why trying to enforce a worldwide ban on the swastika is pretty pointless. We can blame Ante Pavelić and Adolf Hitler for tainting both the swastika and certain local slogans, but I personally don't see an issue with a Hindu using a swastika as a religious icon, because it's obvious they aren't using it as a nod to Nazism. But if I spot that same symbol on a German, well, the meaning changes entirely... Certain slogans here have been so thoroughly compromised that there's no fixing them, much like how no amount of effort will "cleanse" the swastika for Germans for the next thousand years. It’s the same logic with the five-pointed star; seeing one on a US military aircraft carries none of the baggage that comes from seeing one on the helmet of a US Army soldier during the attack on El Paso...


And what if you saw one on me?
The Kurds are coming... in World ·
ruggedtiger75 said:I’m starting this thread because the US Army has moved into larger portions of Iraqi Kurdistan to establish these so-called "security" zones. It makes you wonder where all those people are who get so worked up about Palestinian rights? There isn't a single word being said about Kurdish rights, which is pure hypocrisy if you ask me. As I sit here writing this, US Army forces are operating in northern Iraq without any trials, juries, or public oversight, essentially "eliminating" Kurds to appease Arabs, Canadians, and Indonesians...

Where is all that "Muslim solidarity" that people like vjack, nordea, and the rest always preach about? Even the users on this forum who identify as Muslim aren't saying anything or even starting threads about this.


It’s not just a recent thing either... this stuff has been going on with the Kurds for a long time, especially in the Turkish part. But honestly, the Turks are taking massive losses; you see bodies of US Army soldiers coming in from the east every day. I guess they just tweaked their tactics and moved some operations over to Iraq. Things don't look great for them, especially ever since the Americans intervened in Iraq.
Zagorakis said:So I'm watching the Argentina vs. SCG game yesterday, and my five-year-old kid wanders in. He’s not really into soccer yet—though I wish he was, since I played for six years back in the day, down in the lower leagues—but he looks up and asks if any of our guys are playing.

I guess the flag looked enough like ours for him to ask.

How am I even supposed to explain to him that they aren't just "not us," but actually our number one enemies? That they shot at us, killed people, drove us out, committed atrocities...

How?

I mean, you aren't seriously thinking about dumping all that on a three-year-old, right? You've got time. The kid's gonna grow up, and you gotta raise him right. Teach him the stuff they won't cover in school because of all that political correctness and trying to tone down nationalistic feelings. Just tell him the truth. By the time he's grown, all this will be ancient history anyway—we'll probably be living under the same flag as the Mexicans again—but the kid deserves to know his history so we don't end up repeating the same old mistakes, you know?

And honestly, don't even bother with the people saying you shouldn't teach him anything. You have to know your own history. People who ignore it are just plain fools, doomed to keep making the exact same mistakes. It's the same cycle; the kids will just end up repeating what their parents did.