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I sometimes feel like most Dark Enlighteners would be happier if they just moved to the deep south instead of living in an urban area where they might face the trauma of seeing a Mexican person, or hearing someone make a joke about how dumb republicans are.
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Curvature of Earth posted:Sometimes I call myself an anti-monarchist just in case someone mistakenly thinks I want a king to rule America. Honestly the bigger commonwealth countries mostly seem to be doing way better than us so I'm not sure this is so great a position anymore.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Honestly the bigger commonwealth countries mostly seem to be doing way better than us so I'm not sure this is so great a position anymore. Australia and the UK are uh Not doing so hot Let alone "way better than us" Like, the current PM of the UK has been suggesting socialist policies, with a nationalist bent. A sort of National Socialism, if you will.
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Oct 25, 2016 04:00
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https://mister-mean-spirited.blogspot.com/2016/10/time-to-take-black-pill.html MMS gives us the latest version of the speech he gives himself in the mirror when he needs to stop hysterically crying
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Oct 25, 2016 04:03
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I Killed GBS posted:Australia and the UK are uh Having a functional social safety net and universal healthcare and a high[er] minimum wage and reasonable worker protection laws and stronger unions is completely cancelled out by the latest politician in power being a bad person, sure cool, I'm sure "but the PM suxzorz!" will be great consolation when i'm dying of preventable illnesses due to inability to pay
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Oct 25, 2016 04:13
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Being adopted is a character flaw. Admittedly, adoption gave us Brietbart, Jeff Dunham, Karl Rove, and Nancy Reagan, but I still think they're being unfair.
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Oct 25, 2016 04:23
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I sometimes feel like most Dark Enlighteners would be happier if they just moved to the deep south instead of living in an urban area where they might face the trauma of seeing a Mexican person, or hearing someone make a joke about how dumb republicans are. Feel like this is the origin story of Moldbug. Sheltered white dude moves to Cali for school, has to live in Oakland cuz he's poor, has to live next to black people... tada, Moldbug is born.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Having a functional social safety net and universal healthcare and a high[er] minimum wage and reasonable worker protection laws and stronger unions is completely cancelled out by the latest politician in power being a bad person, sure cool, I'm sure "but the PM suxzorz!" will be great consolation when i'm dying of preventable illnesses due to inability to pay I'm sure all the people in the Australian concentration camps for refugees will be deeply moved and willing to sacrifice themselves for your good health.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Having a functional social safety net and universal healthcare and a high[er] minimum wage and reasonable worker protection laws and stronger unions is completely cancelled out by the latest politician in power being a bad person, sure cool, I'm sure "but the PM suxzorz!" will be great consolation when i'm dying of preventable illnesses due to inability to pay You don't have the slightest loving clue what's going on in the UK, do you?
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Brainiac Five posted:I'm sure all the people in the Australian concentration camps for refugees will be deeply moved and willing to sacrifice themselves for your good health. Don't worry those are all off-shore so they don't count! I Killed GBS posted:You don't have the slightest loving clue what's going on in the UK, do you? I have a best friend there who would basically be dead if she lived in the US and she was married to someone else, also a best friend, who is literally now dead because of conservative cutbacks at the NHS please do not loving school me on this I know it at a very goddamn personal level.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Don't worry those are all off-shore so they don't count! Go bathe in the blood of young women over it, Bathory.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Don't worry those are all off-shore so they don't count! That makes your claims that things are better there even more baffling, not less
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I Killed GBS posted:That makes your claims that things are better there even more baffling, not less Was it not clear that if they lived in the us both of them would be dead, probably sooner? Like I'm not saying the UK doesn't have huge amounts of problems I'm saying they have taken the literal bare minimum steps to address them while we've just kinda sat around with our thumb up our asses
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ate all the Oreos posted:Was it not clear that if they lived in the us both of them would be dead, probably sooner? Like I'm not saying the UK doesn't have huge amounts of problems I'm saying they have taken the literal bare minimum steps to address them while we've just kinda sat around with our thumb up our asses What part of the US? The state I live in has better coverage for most disabled people than the NHS does right now. It's only going to get worse as Brexit hits too.
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Count Chocula posted:In Australia that makes me a Republican (one who wants a republic instead of a monarchy) (which is a minority position). Most republicans aren't Liberals, who are conservatives. The most compatible existing states for DE types is Saudi Arabia and the Gulf kingdoms. Especially now that the Saudis are increasingly in favour of privatization, nativism and investing in tech industries. Of course there's the ideological hurdle of the peninsula being the birthplace of Islam and Arabian identity, but I'm sure they can pseudoscience their way out of it by claiming that the Arabs there are pureblood and superior, compared to the inferior miscegenated Arabs of North Africa and the rest of the Middle East.
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The UK has a lot of good things that are currently endangered by both the current government and a rising tide of nativism. It's gonna get worse before it gets better but hopefully they won't destroy everything worthwhile about the country.
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Antivehicular posted:Yeah, pretty sure modern constitutional monarchy is the exact opposite of what alt-right monarchists want. It'll be just like their animes! 
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Oct 25, 2016 04:54
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I Killed GBS posted:What part of the US? The state I live in has better coverage for most disabled people than the NHS does right now. It's only going to get worse as Brexit hits too. I'm talking federally but "most states" would probably also be an acceptable answer. Where do you live, I can look up specifics. Maxwell Lord posted:The UK has a lot of good things that are currently endangered by both the current government and a rising tide of nativism. It's gonna get worse before it gets better but hopefully they won't destroy everything worthwhile about the country. Yeah this about sums up what I think of it I guess.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I sometimes feel like most Dark Enlighteners would be happier if they just moved to the deep south instead of living in an urban area where they might face the trauma of seeing a Mexican person, or hearing someone make a joke about how dumb republicans are. Joke's on them, the deep south is where all the Messicans are going!
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The deep south is chock-full of black people. White people have a tendency to erase that population.
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Don't worry guys, Scott A, SSC variety, still has relevant opinions (archive) on those horrible alt-righters as compared to those erudite and respectable Dark Enlightenmenters, who are totally not alt-right! Of course, you'll be pleased to know it's all about leftists publicising them.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I sometimes feel like most Dark Enlighteners would be happier if they just moved to the deep south instead of living in an urban area where they might face the trauma of seeing a Mexican person, or hearing someone make a joke about how dumb republicans are. The scam they're trying to run involves having serfs to do the work. They're cosseted nobility, you can't expect them to labor.
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Oct 25, 2016 11:34
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The alt-right is giving traditional and "scientific" bigots a bad name!
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Oct 25, 2016 11:39
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Being adopted is a character flaw. Stop posting fanfic arguments!
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://mister-mean-spirited.blogspot.com/2016/10/time-to-take-black-pill.html Oh, he desperately needs some pills all right. Real ones, from his shrink.
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Woolie Wool posted:Oh, he desperately needs some pills all right. Real ones, from his shrink. I knew he must have written an anti-psychiatry thing, and I managed to find it http://mister-mean-spirited.blogspot.com/2012/10/drat-it-you-should-be-depressed.html Man could fill out a crank bingo card all by himself
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I knew he must have written an anti-psychiatry thing, and I managed to find it http://mister-mean-spirited.blogspot.com/2012/10/drat-it-you-should-be-depressed.html Privilege is why Mr. Mean Spirited spends his days posting furiously on his internet blog instead of being homeless and living under an overpass, asking people if they've heard about the reptilians.
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divabot posted:Don't worry guys, Scott A, SSC variety, still has relevant opinions (archive) on those horrible alt-righters as compared to those erudite and respectable Dark Enlightenmenters, who are totally not alt-right! Of course, you'll be pleased to know it's all about leftists publicising them. 
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The latest Neoreaction a Basilisk bonus essay is up, and it's goddamn briliant: Theses On Trump 16.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Having a functional social safety net and universal healthcare and a high[er] minimum wage and reasonable worker protection laws and stronger unions is completely cancelled out by the latest politician in power being a bad person, sure cool, I'm sure "but the PM suxzorz!" will be great consolation when i'm dying of preventable illnesses due to inability to pay You haven't been keeping up with UK news have you? Social Security is being gutted and no longer actually provides a safety net seeing as how it can be cut for things like attending your own disability assessment because if you're capable of getting there, you're capable of getting a job etc. The NHS is also similarly being hosed and there is probably going to be a massive brain drain of doctors thanks to new contracts being forced on them, not to mention funding being cut to LHAs and general starve the beast tactics. Worker protections and minimum wage are no longer a problem because zero hour contracts, of which a huge amount of jobs now use, skirts these by hiring an employee to be an entirely at-will consultant who isn't even guaranteed a minimum amount of hours, let alone anything approaching protection. And the unions haven't been as strong as they should be since Thatcher and anti union laws were passed, such as the banning of sympathy striking. You seem to be viewing the UK with a sort of post war idealism, which coincidentally is how a lot of Tories view it.
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I had a kind of IRL run-in with the Dark Enlightenment. I found an Infowars.com bumper sticker stuck to a bus stop. So I peeled it off and threw it away, but I have to wonder how many people saw it before I did so.
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Rush Limbo posted:You haven't been keeping up with UK news have you? they already said that the point they're making is that even though all of that is true, the current situation is still better than the United States' (NHS is being gutted but still actually EXISTS, for instance)
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Zemyla posted:I had a kind of IRL run-in with the Dark Enlightenment. I found an Infowars.com bumper sticker stuck to a bus stop. So I peeled it off and threw it away, but I have to wonder how many people saw it before I did so. Donald Trump and Alex Jones love each other and Jones is just a mainstream Republican now. Sorry. 
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Rush Limbo posted:You haven't been keeping up with UK news have you? Yes I realize that compared to a lot of the rest of Europe (or hell even the UK like 40 years ago) poo poo's real hosed now but InediblePenguin posted:they already said that the point they're making is that even though all of that is true, the current situation is still better than the United States' (NHS is being gutted but still actually EXISTS, for instance) Like from where I am having something like the NHS at all seems like some kind of goddamn star trek futuristic idealism, here just having a public option whatsoever is massively controvertial. Sorry I'll stop arguing about this now. I concede that the UK is poo poo right now, let's just pretend I said Canada specifically when I was talking about the commonwealth because Canada seems to be doing kinda okay. Zemyla posted:I had a kind of IRL run-in with the Dark Enlightenment. I found an Infowars.com bumper sticker stuck to a bus stop. So I peeled it off and threw it away, but I have to wonder how many people saw it before I did so. There was a guy who would come to every single town street festival thing back when I lived in a shittier city in Florida wearing a guy fawkes mask with a megaphone and poster board he had lovingly made with INFOWARS.COM across the top and a bunch of pictures "proving" that jews did 9/11 or something, like it was his science fair project. He was... interesting.
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I took a job to set up some IT equipment for a kinda weird guy out in the middle of nowhere. His phone and browser bookmarks bar was full of infowars stuff. There was lots of polite smiling and nodding that day
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Rush Limbo posted:You haven't been keeping up with UK news have you? All of this is run-of-the-mill Tory ideas. It's not even comical hyperbole to call it "socialist policies, with a nationalist bent. A sort of National Socialism, if you will.", it's entirely factually incorrect. All it is is capitalism.
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Rush Limbo posted:You haven't been keeping up with UK news have you? I think you are going a bit far there. I do think the Tory government has been bad, and there is a lot to worry about for the future but things are not the terrible bleak wilderness you are projecting. The economy has been in the shitter for years and it wasn't the tories who put it there, but that said they have not cut the NHS as much as they have pretty much everything else. It is the weird belief that somehow the country has gone to the dogs that lead to many voting for brexit. Things are not that bad, and they are not that different than they were in what ever golden age you imagine we had been in before. Things can be bad and not going the way you want without it being the end of the world. If you get cancer then the NHS will treat you, if you loose your job you can sign on for benefits. Both of those things are not being done as well as they should be, but they are being done. Get a grip. I thought it was for the right wing fantasists to declare everything to be doomed.
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