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Originally Posted by xerxes
The board, certainly does teaches a lot:
not only via technical historical points provided by people like yourself, Shek, OOE, Ray, Archer, KB, mr Lukins, Zraver and others and Dalem (for the LOTR lore among other things), but it also certainly teaches to keep one's leftism (in my case) in check by applying rightism in order to keep centered. But how do we keep ultra rightism in ourself (not in my case) in check???
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I actually come from a socialist background, I grew up with socialism and still hold many of it's beliefs close to my heart. That doesn't stop me learning from economists like Shek and libertarians like Gunnut, liberals like Astralis and republicans like Bluesman. When you get past the prejudices that we all so dearly harbour, wisdom is found in the strangest places
and you might just make a friend or two along the way
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Originally Posted by xerxes
I am really sad to say that certain ultra right wing opinion here or in America for that matter are very VERY much intune with the ideas of conservative Pasdaran in my own nation. Or in Quebec for that matter with the French and their hardline ideas. The samethings are being said by each sides, but with different words.
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Agreed, closed minded extremists are a part of every ideology, whether liberal, libertarian, communist or toalitarian. They simply associate with a distort whatever political force is pre-eminent in their society. The same groups who support neo-nazism would just as happily sign up to AQ in a different environment, the only consistency is their contempt for the hoi polloi, the 'sheeple' as their western liberal versions like to call them
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Originally Posted by xerxes
have a nice weekend
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You too matey