Where are all the conservative socialists in the West?

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[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Fuck all intolerance
with exceptions for harming others through VOSTDaM.

Violence, Oppression, Suppression, Theft, Deception, and Manipulation

Live and let live via Natural Law.

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Natural Law

That would entitle me to form a tribe and try to take you out. THAT is out natural state. Do you want that?

"Fuck all intolerance" Tolerance is weakness.

[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

It's not weakness, it's courtesy. You sound exactly like the emperor from Star Wars: "Let the hate flow through you. The dark side makes you powerful".

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

The emperor of star wars is a caricature of what liberal-democrats see as evil. I see liberal democracy themselves as the ultimate evil.

[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

They're both evil.

No, the emperor isn't a political strawman. He's just an unrealistic supervillain the way a child would imagine one. People of all stripes see him as evil.

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I think that is the very definition of a political strawman. The emperor is evil as to make democracy look good. I myself despise (liberal) democracy.

[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Luke Skywalker is just a stereotypical hero. He's not a politician. That's not until the prequels, which reveal that the Jedi and the Galactic Republic aren't really all they're cracked up to be either.

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am not talking about Luke. I am talking about how I dislike how autocratic leaders are being automatically assumed to be evil.

[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Because humans are evil

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

With that attitude you wouldn't get far in life