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2005-08-16 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-08-16 01:55|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "communism was fine in 'semi-barbaric' Russia but would have been a screaming outrage in a civilised country. He should have been alive today." He has fixed his archaic Leftist politics. Pity he didn't fix his archaic language structure. Nitpicking aside, he gets it. I wonder how representative he is and what effect further atrocities unfolding will have.

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-16 08:43|| 2005-08-16 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I also note that the world is divided into "left" and "right", with no mention of those who don't fit into that scheme. Ironically, those who embrace dichotomies as their world view have more in common with each other, than whatever the dichotomy is that they embrace. It could be described as a form of mental retardation, of either an intellectual inability to grasp "shades of grey", or the emotional unwillingness to do so. The extremists of this "polar world-view" also have a high incidence of schizophrenia and paranoia. Again, the actual division they embrace is almost unimportant: Moslem-Infidel; Leftist-Rightist; even the very exclusive dichotomies, such as "Us vs. Them", "our team vs. the other teams", "our tribe vs. not our tribe", "our ethnic group vs. their ethnic groups".

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-16 09:23|| 2005-08-16 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 too right, anonymoose.

I might be extreme right on refugees, Iraq and Islamism, but extreme left on nuclear power and nuclear waste.

And I might be in the middle on health care and education.

People aren't left or right about everything, they just make up their minds on issues according to the facts before them. I hate that dichotomous view, too.

Has anybody got a working link to the Ayaan Hirsi Ali rant on Islamism and Iraq? It was on LGF, but the link won't work. Great rant on how women will have LESS rights under then new Iraq constitution than under Saddam as they've let Islamic considerations taint it.

They have refused to state that men and women will have equal rights in the constitution.

That constitution is FUBAR. We should have insisted on some basic groundrules: separation of mosque and state, equal rights for woman and men being two of them.

Posted by anon1 2005-08-16 12:49|| 2005-08-16 12:49|| Front Page Top

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