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Grayson

Captain Obvious wrote: »

So you complain about being labeled as racist for your view yet in the same post label everyone who disagrees with you as terrorist sympathisers.

We are though. Last week we got together and blew up an Abrakebabra for cultural appropriation.

It's still open but it's more hygienic.

Autochange

Too much left or right politics would be the end of us all. The younger generations seem to be more liberal then as they grow a little older they get sense

Doltanian

Autochange wrote: »

Too much left or right politics would be the end of us all. The younger generations seem to be more liberal then as they grow a little older they get sense

If your not a socialist at 18 you have no heart, if your still a socialist at 30 you have no brain. I myself admit to having socialistic beliefs in my teenage years until I took a trip to the USA when I was 21 and it opened my eyes to the world, and further travels around 20+ other rich and poor countries on different continents reaffirmed my beliefs in Conservatism and just how wrong the left-wing are. People are not equal and will never be, there is racial and national differences and no amount of ridiculous propaganda from the hardleft will ever change that.

Wibbs

Doltanian wrote: »

People are not equal and will never be, there is racial and national differences and no amount of ridiculous propaganda from the hardleft will ever change that.

Eh... Wut? Let's avoid the hoary old route of shouting "isms" at you D, but history shows this to be a highly dubious supposition. EG Look at Greece today. The poor man of Europe, fecked and hardly a shining light of success. Go back a couple of thousand years and they pretty much invented the western world and because of that the modern world in general. Same "race" different outcome. Iragi's today? Country again is pretty buggered, yet way back when they were pretty much the progenitors of civilisation. The Turks were at it even earlier than them. Same "race" different outcome. In the period after the Western Empire fell where had about the largest collection of learned scholars in Europe? Our soggy island in the Atlantic. Fast forward a few centuries and we were portrayed as unthinking violent brutes. The Romans viewed what we would call "Germans" as at best quaint savages, at worst utter barbarians and Germany worked out pretty well. Same "race" different outcome. Geography and historical happenstance is a far greater pressure than population type.

Yeah_Right

jmayo wrote: »

Ahhh.
At the risk of getting slapped by mods, I think the zealous modding here is doing us all a great disservice.

One poster, god bless them, has managed to get some sort of agreement from both posters seen to be on the left and those seen to be on the right.

I say they should be commended for uniting us rather than sanctioned.

Hell even Grayson is now by all accounts a right winger.

Also this is After Hours where we are also meant to have some leeway, and the odd bit of entertainment.

PS Grayson you will now have to make your own uniforms, get your own shirts, armbands and flags.
This is not the left, you are now on the right.
Free market economics deem you provide your own paraphernalia.

I agree. I've found myself thanking some posts then I realised who wrote them and I was thinking WTF!?! :eek: we've agreed on something? Maybe there is a chance for peace in the Middle East.

conorhal

Wibbs wrote: »

Eh... Wut? Let's avoid the hoary old route of shouting "isms" at you D, but history shows this to be a highly dubious supposition. EG Look at Greece today. The poor man of Europe, fecked and hardly a shining light of success. Go back a couple of thousand years and they pretty much invented the western world and because of that the modern world in general. Same "race" different outcome. Iragi's today? Country again is pretty buggered, yet way back when they were pretty much the progenitors of civilisation. The Turks were at it even earlier than them. Same "race" different outcome. In the period after the Western Empire fell where had about the largest collection of learned scholars in Europe? Our soggy island in the Atlantic. Fast forward a few centuries and we were portrayed as unthinking violent brutes. The Romans viewed what we would call "Germans" as at best quaint savages, at worst utter barbarians and Germany worked out pretty well. Same "race" different outcome. Geography and historical happenstance is a far greater pressure than population type.

TBH that's not really true. 'Greece' didn't invent the western world, the city state of Athens did. Greece was not really a country but a series of city state with varying types of ruling methods, Athens after the Persian wars simply dominated many of them through tribute. What Greece then had a lot in common with chaotic states today was a lack of unity which was ultimately it's undoing. Spartan paranoia and the resentment of the other city states eventually undid Athens and Greece became a backwater because the poor Greeks never really got their act together as a nation.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Permabear wrote: »

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Roscommon is an odd choice, seeing as Ballaghaderreen is one of the places in Ireland with a substantial number of refugees.

Wibbs

conorhal wrote: »

TBH that's not really true. 'Greece' didn't invent the western world, the city state of Athens did. Greece was not really a country but a series of city state with varying types of ruling methods, Athens after the Persian wars simply dominated many of them through tribute. What Greece then had a lot in common with chaotic states today was a lack of unity which was ultimately it's undoing. Spartan paranoia and the resentment of the other city states eventually undid Athens and Greece became a backwater because the poor Greeks never really got their act together as a nation.

True enough C. Though I personally would give Sparta a nod for much influence on the "Greek mind" albeit indirectly. Yes they had no great thinkers the way Athens did, but many of the same Athenian thinkers were often to be found praising some aspects of Spartan culture(not the more freedom of women bit, that disgusted them). Aristotle gave Sparta the nod on a few aspects of their culture(free education, service to the whole) as did others, but also saw them as morally corrupt and corruptible. I would say their later influence is more down to the idea of Spartan culture, but it held some sway, particularly in the military field*.

What still amazes me is how small a population Athens had at any one time. A sold out GAA final in Croker type size. That so few could influence so many for so long is staggering to me. Never mind that Athenian women were pretty much out of the picture and same for the slaves and the vast majority of Athenian men were just everyday people. The entirety of Athenian thought and influence through those centuries could likely fit in an average sized school classroom of today. Crazy.





*which was often romantic BS anyway. QV that very entertaining but beautifully daft 300 flic. Spartans didn't fight without armour and it wasn't just 300 soldiers fighting on the day. Or that Leonidas died halfway through and Sparta had two kings, one for fightin' one for politicin'.

Red_Wake

Doltanian wrote: »

Autochange wrote: »

Too much left or right politics would be the end of us all. The younger generations seem to be more liberal then as they grow a little older they get sense

If your not a socialist at 18 you have no heart, if your still a socialist at 30 you have no brain. I myself admit to having socialistic beliefs in my teenage years until I took a trip to the USA when I was 21 and it opened my eyes to the world, and further travels around 20+ other rich and poor countries on different continents reaffirmed my beliefs in Conservatism and just how wrong the left-wing are. People are not equal and will never be, there is racial and national differences and no amount of ridiculous propaganda from the hardleft will ever change that.

My last trip to the US made me more left wing if anything - cannibal capitalism is the best description for it.