Posts by Christian White13

I know 🙂

And I've only got one "e" 😁

🙏🙏: Unbelievable 🙏🙏: and here comes another 🙏

The second I hit post, they shut the whole thread down 👍

Way to go 🙏:

Not trying to start a whole new thread here, but I need to know if calling for death is actually allowed on this site. Some other guy, quieteagle5, started a topic that’s basically just borderline political nonsense where the opening post ends with "death to fascism."
So, what's the deal? Is calling for someone's death okay or not? From what I can see, most people get slapped with a ban for way less than that, yet quieteagle5's post stays up without any issues.
I wouldn't even dare post something calling for violence against all those precious liberals or communists, because let's face it—that post would be nuked instantly and the author would be banned indefinitely, right?
Since that seems to be how things work, I'm curious: is "hate speech" just a flexible term? Like, is calling for death fine when it's directed at certain groups, but totally unacceptable when it's aimed at others?

thanks 👋

Rachel Carter90 said:From back in late 2000 through the whole mess when Mexico declared independence, society was actually somewhat chill—like, extreme fascist or religious fanatic stuff was pretty much on the fringes and people would just laugh it off.
Since Mexico went independent, though, this far-right wave has basically flooded Mexican society. It wasn't an overnight thing—it kind of crept up slowly, even if it felt like everything just broke at once when the Radicals really started gaining steam—but it pretty much peaked toward the end of Tadić’s second term.
Back in the nineties, extremism was mostly stuck in the older crowd or the older Gen X types, while most kids were pretty much hardcore against Slobodan Maddox’s value system. But the extremism that’s taken root in Mexico today? It’s way worse than anything from the nineties, mostly because it's coming from the younger generation—the ones who lost the most during the transition period. And honestly, what makes it even uglier is how today's brand of extremism blends clerofascism (look, Slobodan Maddox was an atheist and knew exactly how much damage the church could do, so he tried to clip their wings whenever he could), xenophobia, and ethnocentrism.
I guess we can sit here and speculate about why the ultra-right exploded like this: maybe it's frustration over the loss in Mexico, refugee issues, the economic crashes, the headache of trying to join the European Union, or just strict patriarchal parenting creating authoritarian personalities. Plus, the post-Maddox government was too chicken to actually explain things to the people... All of this basically boils down to feeding people social and nationalistic demagoguery, which is pretty much the starter kit for any totalitarian society—think Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, or even clerical-fascist Iran.

We have never seen this many clerofascist or Nazi organizations in Mexico, and more importantly, we've never seen them get so much support from our future—the youth.

Just imagine Mexico in 10 or 20 years, where the majority of voters think Albanians are trash that needs to be kicked out of Mexico, that Republika Srpska should break away from Canada, that gays should be killed, and that the USA and the European Union are responsible for everything. Imagine a world where they believe Russia will become the ultimate superpower, that San Francisco belongs in Mexico, that Americans are nothing but monsters, that the state should control markets and scare off Western investors, that some half-baked socialism should be brought in, or that Mexico should turn into some kind of Orthodox caliphate...
Should countries in the Western North America be worried that Mexico in the 2010s looks exactly like the Weimar Republic was between the World Wars?
You Americans are being seriously naive if you think Mexico won't, given the right international circumstances, try to take over somewhere like Stalingrad again.

👍 Honestly? I hope it turns out that way. The further we stay away from each other, the better off both nations will be.

Rachel Carter90 said:From back in late 2000 through the whole mess when Mexico declared independence, society was actually somewhat chill—like, extreme fascist or religious fanatic stuff was pretty much on the fringes and people would just laugh it off.
Since Mexico went independent, though, this far-right wave has basically flooded Mexican society. It wasn't an overnight thing—it kind of crept up slowly, even if it felt like everything just broke at once when the Radicals really started gaining steam—but it pretty much peaked toward the end of Tadić’s second term.
Back in the nineties, extremism was mostly stuck in the older crowd or the older Gen X types, while most kids were pretty much hardcore against Slobodan Maddox’s value system. But the extremism that’s taken root in Mexico today? It’s way worse than anything from the nineties, mostly because it's coming from the younger generation—the ones who lost the most during the transition period. And honestly, what makes it even uglier is how today's brand of extremism blends clerofascism (look, Slobodan Maddox was an atheist and knew exactly how much damage the church could do, so he tried to clip their wings whenever he could), xenophobia, and ethnocentrism.
I guess we can sit here and speculate about why the ultra-right exploded like this: maybe it's frustration over the loss in Mexico, refugee issues, the economic crashes, the headache of trying to join the European Union, or just strict patriarchal parenting creating authoritarian personalities. Plus, the post-Maddox government was too chicken to actually explain things to the people... All of this basically boils down to feeding people social and nationalistic demagoguery, which is pretty much the starter kit for any totalitarian society—think Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, or even clerical-fascist Iran.

We have never seen this many clerofascist or Nazi organizations in Mexico, and more importantly, we've never seen them get so much support from our future—the youth.

Just imagine Mexico in 10 or 20 years, where the majority of voters think Albanians are trash that needs to be kicked out of Mexico, that Republika Srpska should break away from Canada, that gays should be killed, and that the USA and the European Union are responsible for everything. Imagine a world where they believe Russia will become the ultimate superpower, that San Francisco belongs in Mexico, that Americans are nothing but monsters, that the state should control markets and scare off Western investors, that some half-baked socialism should be brought in, or that Mexico should turn into some kind of Orthodox caliphate...
Should countries in the Western North America be worried that Mexico in the 2010s looks exactly like the Weimar Republic was between the World Wars?
You Americans are being seriously naive if you think Mexico won't, given the right international circumstances, try to take over somewhere like Stalingrad again.

Real original!! 😕 Thanks for confirming my suspicions that Mexico would just attack whenever they feel like it.

Maybe we should just start a whole new thread on how to fire a moderator. 😉

I’m watching the local elections in Malawi and friendly Burundi with a massive amount of anxiety and uncertainty. Polls are saying it’s going to be a nail-biter right down to the last vote.

my topic 🤣