Cult Icon Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 On 7/20/2016 at 5:42 PM, 17 Moments of Spring said: http://www.conservativebookclub.com/book/liberal-fascism I have significant personal experience and education to judge these matters. I have thumbed through this book before. It is quite bad. But I appreciate its effort (attacking intellectual brainwashing by the mass media and universities). However it is misguided due to the fact that the author is a conservative ideologue. What I do not like is intellectual pigeon holing and dishonestly, which is prevalent throughout US political culture and extends down to the way americans are educated . Political bias is heavily embedded in education curriculum in the church, public schooling, liberal arts universities, and journalism schools. The former is conservative and the latter are progressive. Worse yet, the definition of what is left and what is right is very narrow and rigid. This is not all-inclusive of course. One of the my favorite professors (history) once talked about how his textbook was corrupted by a board of education with elements modified into propaganda for secondary school kids. I can usually instantly tell what a person's political views are by asking whether they went to church or if they graduated from a liberal arts college. Based on political and economic history, it definitely seems that prior generations of peoples were more cultured in certain areas that modern peoples are now impaired in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchkiki Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 Beware the the blonde blue eyed terrorist in the back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj3 Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 1 hour ago, frenchkiki said: Beware the the blonde blue eyed terrorist in the back! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchkiki Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 Marine LePen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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17 Moments of Spring Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Quote Speaking to Polish television, a former member of Poland’s counter-terror police and an academic expert on information warfare and terrorism have articulated their concern about the intellectual and spiritual collapse of European civilisation, remarking it is “at the end of its existence”. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/30/polish-experts-europe-end-existence-western-europe-practically-dead/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17 Moments of Spring Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 On 2016. 07. 24. at 2:18 AM, Cult Icon said: Based on political and economic history, it definitely seems that prior generations of peoples were more cultured in certain areas that modern peoples are now impaired in. Quote Critical Theory was the notion, promulgated by the cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School, that simply states there is nothing — no custom, institution, or moral precept — that is beyond criticizing, and destroying. “Who will save us from Western culture?” famously wondered Georg Lukács, one of the Frankfurters’ founding fathers. It is license to vandalize, and the fact that it was so swiftly embraced by American academe after the war remains a national disgrace. ... Via the medium of “political correctness,” a fascism of the mind that seeks to prevent thought by preventing discussion. If you can’t say it, the Leftist reasoning goes, after a while you can’t think it, either. One would have thought the sudden collapse of their beloved Soviet Union would have disabused them of this notion, but no. ... Further, the Left has cast aside much of the mufti it was forced to adopt in the United States — “tolerance” being its principal mask — and can finally be seen for what it is really is: a totalitarianism masquerading as beneficence. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423707/subversion-101-heroism-after-critical-theory-nr-interview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 On 8/11/2016 at 11:13 AM, 17 Moments of Spring said: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423707/subversion-101-heroism-after-critical-theory-nr-interview Hmmph, what does critical theory have to do with what I wrote? I have heard of critical theory but do not know much about it. What I do know is that peoples of earlier times were of a completely different mind. This is reflected by their writings. While they lacked access to wide range of information, they appeared to have meditated, read everything they could get their hands on, and wrote a tremendous deal. They appeared to have memorized entire dictionaries and utilized a vocabulary that is seemingly far in excess of what is possessed by the median person today. There is a certain unstructured creativity in their use of language and they express concepts that are alien to modern peoples. Today, writing and thinking have been heavily regimented and commodified for the sake of efficiency and simplicity. In certain ways, the intellectual standards have been greatly lowered. Interestingly enough I find the thinking of academic philosophers and marxists to be a throwback to these earlier times. In a way, they reject the present and in fact treat it with contempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanni Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 I don’t really like the (Brazilian) audience at the Olympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syria Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 40 minutes ago, Sanni said: I don’t really like the (Brazilian) audience at the Olympics. +1. Brazilians were so disrespectful to Romania's players when we played Brazil at both handball and tennis. I live in the Balkans and I see some the most hostile crowds all the time but this was just something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanni Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 8 minutes ago, Syria said: +1. Brazilians were so disrespectful to Romania's players when we played Brazil at both handball and tennis. I live in the Balkans and I see some the most hostile crowds all the time but this was just something else. I’m sorry to hear that. It seems to be an epidemic in all kinds of sports especially if a Brazilian is competing. Maybe there haven’t been enough big sporting events (excluding football) in Brazil, which may have led to the public being uncultured. I don’t want to insult any Brazilians that may read here but the audience at the Olympics really isn’t giving the best impression of the Brazilian people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syria Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 ^ I agree. Anyway it's no big deal but it was quite upsetting at times. TBH I was actually pretty happy when Brazilians won medals in other sports because it's nice when the host nation wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanni Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Yes, it's always good for any sporting event when the host country does well. Keeps the spirits high hopefully. And if athletes weren’t able to perform to the best of their abilities at home, when would they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Unpopular opinion: I strongly suspect that a regular workout schedule ages women, and damages their skin. It is not just the loss of fat, which thins out the face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchcockBlonde Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 6 hours ago, Cult Icon said: I strongly suspect that a regular workout schedule ages women, and damages their skin. It is not just the loss of fat, which thins out the face. Orrrrrr every woman is different, just like every man is different, and their body chemistry greatly affects what a workout does to them and these generalised opinions are cockshite so of course no one else thinks that?When I stopped distance running training, my skin got bad fast. How about you start a workout regime and show us your face and we can judge what it's done to you? I'm proud of the work I did then and I don't give a fuck if you think it aged me or thinned me or damaged my skin or whatever you thought it did. That's not an unpopular opinion, that's just wrong and idiotic. Pipe down darling. (And calling me a childish name in my private messages after I was nice to you and gave you the name of the singer in my signature without letting my personal feelings about you cloud my judgement, that's really cute, you're such a lovely person and it is such a pleasure to know you.) Popular opinion, since apparently we're using this thread for all the wrong things: I'm tired of shite. I'm tired of sexism. I'm done with it. (And mods, if you want to give me warning points or ban me for this post, you're not going to hear any arguments, hence this pre-emptive message. Probably for the best.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Would it be sexist if I said that I suspect the same thing for men? I'm curious about these personal feelings. I wasn't aware that little ol' me had such an 'impact'. You can yell at me in PM if you want. Keep in mind, I don't seek to offend people on the board at all. From one loudmouth to another, I think you're cute too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchkiki Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Body builders men/women look way older than their age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cult Icon Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 8 minutes ago, frenchkiki said: Body builders men/women look way older than their age. Yep, that and gym rats. Also men who do a lot of manual labor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stromboli1 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Share Posted August 16, 2016 Aging is genetic, but has other factors too. Just an observation, but Northern Europeans for the most part age terribly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stromboli1 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Share Posted August 16, 2016 4 hours ago, frenchkiki said: Body builders men/women look way older than their age. That's because of the steroids & HGH. Athletes that use HGH for long periods of time have huge fucking heads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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