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johncwright

The Truth About Radical Christians

Dec 30, 2009 17:10

Some of the comments on YouTube concerning this spoof were from people who did not know it was a spoof, or who nodded and agreed that "USA does have a real problem with christian identity groups and superpatriot groups committing terrorism ( Read more... )

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whichferdinand December 31 2009, 00:32:01 UTC

The enemy will continue to blow up planes and skyscrapers

[The] West cannot possibly prevail in this struggle. We must either adjust and adapt to the reality as it is, or grant the Jihadists the hegemony they seek.

The Jihdadist strategy for achieving world domination by blowing up planes and skyscrapers is so much worse than even Donald Rumsfeld's strategy for achieving same.

Although it seems that people on the right tend to be sanguine about both, really they're not all that good. So I wouldn't suspend civil liberties or grant the Jihadists the hegemony they seek just yet.

jordan179 December 31 2009, 00:37:03 UTC

The Jihdadist strategy for achieving world domination by blowing up planes and skyscrapers is so much worse than even Donald Rumsfeld's strategy for achieving same.

What are you talking about? Do you even know who Donald Rumsfeld is, or the position he held under George W. Bush? In particular, are you aware that he hasn't been the Secretary of Defense for three years?

whichferdinand December 31 2009, 00:45:25 UTC

What are you talking about?
Mostly the viability of the strategy of blowing up planes if your goal is world domination. Also I'm making a joke about Rumsfeld.

Do you even know who Donald Rumsfeld is, or the position he held under George W. Bush? In particular, are you aware that he hasn't been the Secretary of Defense for three years?
Yes and yes.

Motions the frog's eye cannot see johncwright December 31 2009, 01:55:14 UTC

Frogs have evolved a mechanism in their eye such that motion which does not fit the profile of a fly or other food in motion does not register. The frog does not see and disregard the motion: the optic nerve actually does not transmit the signal at all ( ... )

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dirigibletrance December 31 2009, 09:13:26 UTC

You're talking about fringe left groups that have no support in society outside of the media or the state of California ( ... )

Happy to hear it. johncwright December 31 2009, 15:03:13 UTC

"I have managed to convince most of my "Leftist" friends living here in my little Dallas suburbs that keeping and bearing arms is not just fine, but something every adult ought to be doing. I'm not exactly brimming with personal charisma, but if I've managed to do that, then clearly society is not as brainwashed by progressive dumbassery as you say it is ( ... )

baduin December 31 2009, 22:56:41 UTC

"In America, if you are on the Right and are more afraid of Obama than you are of the enemy, you resist giving the government any power to investigate or shut down enemy schools and churches for fear that this power will be used immediately against you. You assume (perhaps correctly) the laws and institutions cannot or will not be able to tell the difference between Christians and radical Jihadists ( ... )

botticelli_s December 31 2009, 23:26:24 UTC

Where the hell is "surlyone" when you need him?!?

mindstalk January 1 2010, 19:54:40 UTC

If you are on the Left, you are more afraid of Bush and the CIA and the military-industrial complex than you are of the enemy. Your whole life has been devoted to stopping one and only one problem: racism, which you see as the paramount source of everything bad in life.

Hahaha! Oh lord. How do you expect to be taken seriously after emitting something like that?

Know your enemy, or you'll be a fool when you talk about them.

Rather than "racism", let's try this: genesiscount January 2 2010, 06:22:46 UTC

In my experience and observation, most progressivists, in truth, do see the cultural dominance of Western capitalism as a greater obstacle to ultimate human equality than the jihadists ever will be, simply because the (perceived) inequalities enshrined in Western culture are (seen as) far more widespread, entrenched, and culturally accepted than the ones the jihadists seek to impose ( ... )

Re: Rather than "racism", let's try this: mindstalk January 3 2010, 15:10:52 UTC

One could argue with what you say, but it is in fact a lot closer to the truth than Wright's "your whole life has been devoted to stopping one problem, racism". Along with the "Far Left" having room in their brains only for Class Struggle.

When in fact, just in identity-politics leftism, you've got sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, heternormativeness, and classism, as concerns. And the relegation of economic concerns to the Far Left is absurd; moderate liberals are going to be concerned about a mix of economic egalitarianism and reasonable concerns about racism, sexism, and homophobia, plus secularism, without being Marxist or otherwise extreme... and even people further to the left can usually juggle more than one more extreme lens at the same time.

Re: Rather than "racism", let's try this: genesiscount January 3 2010, 16:11:14 UTC

"One could argue with what you say, but it is in fact a lot closer to the truth than Wright's "your whole life has been devoted to stopping one problem, racism". Along with the "Far Left" having room in their brains only for Class Struggle. When in fact, just in identity-politics leftism, you've got sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, heternormativeness, and classism, as concerns."I think Mr. Wright's point would probably be that the issues you all identify as separate concerns actually, in practice, all turn out to be superficial variant labels for one basic underlying drive: the overthrow of one particular group seen as the source-of-all-evil Oppressor ( ... )

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