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Milo is overwhelmingly right wing - he's a Trump supporter ffs (although I wonder if he's doing so ironically) , but find his opinions on the rise of Islam and the idiocy of the regressive left to be remarkably on point.
https://youtu.be/0OAnm0RpPkE
One of the things I find particularly interesting is that those most invested in the rise of victim culture and identity politics are exactly the same people who feel that mocking Christianity is something to which the concept of 'free speech' entitles them to.
What's interesting is how that concept of 'free speech' is suddenly done away with when it involves a threat to their investment in the political correctness of the victim-hood narrative. Silencing of speech is allowed if it would offend someone who ostensibly lacks power. Offending someone who's a member of an ostensibly powerful political class is permitted because.... well... it just is.
This, despite the fact that - for example - white, male janitors are rarely known for their possession of political power. And yet, offending white males of all stripes is okay and not to be policed because white men are apparently a homogeneous group who all possess identical privilege and power.
Which is FUCKING ironic, because it looks just like the regressive left is using Peon's ecological fallacy (similar to feminism) as a justification for censorship. So I have to laugh when a certain unrepentant and unthinking lefty tries to pretend that political correctness is simply an artifact of viewpoint, rather than a poorly-justified power move by leftists with a lack of intellectual honesty.
Yiannopoulos regards the rise of Trump as a reaction to the regressive left. I don't think that's completely true, although certainly the reaction of ordinary men and women to the social game-playing of chardonnay socialists is no doubt part of it. Trump is a reaction of the working class to the excesses of the political class on both sides. Against the lying corruption and self-serving stupidity of (mostly) Republicans, to the social engineering and victim-hood indulgence of the left.
The right are corrupt and arrogant enough to think the people no longer matter. The left are hopelessly mired in their own worldview and arrogantly think they know BETTER than the people. In both cases, it's - ironically - a political class who has lost touch with reality and thinks their causes are the only ones which matter.
That's the story behind the rise of Trump and Sanders. And at this point, I'm thinking Trump may be a better option than Hillary. Because if there's one organisation that needs to be taught about the importance of democratic principles, it's the fucking Democratic party. And their thumb-on-the-scales approach to the nomination race is a picture-perfect representation of their attitude towards ordinary men and women. "We know what's best for you, we can't trust you with this decision."
Anyway, back to the Dangerous Faggot. Milo is an interesting dichotomy as he's a gay man who's completely opposed to the culture of the left. What surprises me is that more gay men aren't lining up against the Islamic culture which singles them out for death (on a personal level. Jihad involves the death of non-Islams en masse on an impersonal level).
To clarify my own position, I believe in socialised medicine, regard Government regulations as critical to markets which work well for consumers and regard the social engineering of the left as a real problem which must be eradicated. I also think money needs to be removed from politics, believe that concentration of media power is an ongoing issue which must be addressed and that abortion rights are a subset of the wider issue of reproductive rights which sees women provided with options while men are lumbered with responsibilities. (Anyone who can't see that is as fundamentally intellectually dishonest as it's possible to be. This is not even an open question, you have to be a complete liar to assert otherwise.)
I am also fundamentally on-board with the principle of free-speech within limits - those limits being that which is necessary to the health of the body politic. (Yes, deciding what DOES and what DOESN'T fall outside those limits is a difficult exercise - this is why we have reasoned debate in the first place).
I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing examples of the tide turning against the nonsensical propaganda of the left. I'm sick to death of the lies, fake piousness and almighty-dollar worship of the right, but I'm also sick to death of the deceptive, disingenuous, intellectually bankrupt pseudo-morality of the left. I'd like to think that people who are actually able to think might not be the minority I fear they are.
I don't participate here often because so much of what passes for debate here is so fucking stupid. The Conservative/Liberal tribes who throw rocks at each other are so unbelievably easily manipulated that their vote is as worthless as their arguments. What I want to know is if there's a group who can actually rub two brain cells together and actually think about what's going on in the world. If people exists for whom solutions to problems are more important than the testosterone buzz they get when the think their tribe has won something.
Because frankly, if the level of discourse in this forum is a representative sample of how America thinks, then we're all fucked and Trump will be President.
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