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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3465 on: July 28, 2016, 12:30:32 am »

Liberalism is right wing regardless. Especially the neo-liberal school of thought which dominates the EU.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3466 on: July 28, 2016, 03:02:27 am »

The Pope says the world is at war, obviously he emphasis it isn't a religious war, no, it's a war for money, against christians and atheists, it's a war for natural resources, against jews, it's a war for domination of people, against Yzidis, Buddhists and Hindus, it's definitely not a religious war. pope is smart and knows that if he says it's a religious war against Radical Muslims that totally do not represent Islam, lotta more christians gonna be beheaded in Africa and the Middle East (the few that remained in the region) by Jihadists that totally do not represent Islam.

From the bit that WSJ allows me to read (stupid paywall), it seems like he meant that we have all forgotten how to live in peace, or something, dunno.....

"We" have all forgotten? how the hell are "we" responsible for these last acts of atrocities?! 
He means we as in humanity I would assume.
So because these Islamists were humans, we are all to blame for their actions?

It would be nice if we could read the whole thing so that we'd know exactly what he meant and not leave it open to interpretation.

What the pope said, pulled from the WSJ article (the paywall can be circumvented by accessing the page from a google search rather than clicking the link) :

“This holy priest, who died just at the moment that he offered the prayer for the whole church, is one (victim). But how many Christians, how many innocents, how many children?” the pope said, also making a reference to attacks on Christians in Nigeria. “Let’s not be afraid to state this reality. The world is at war because it has lost the peace.”

The pope added that the current violence was over economic and political interests rather than religion. “There is war for money,” he said. “There is war for natural resources. There is war for the domination of peoples. Some might think I am speaking of religious war. No. All religions want peace; it is other people who want war.”
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3467 on: July 28, 2016, 03:26:44 am »

Liberalism is right wing regardless. Especially the neo-liberal school of thought which dominates the EU.
People should start organizing political views by goal instead of change.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3468 on: July 28, 2016, 03:30:08 am »

Liberalism is right wing regardless. Especially the neo-liberal school of thought which dominates the EU.
Liberalism... is... right-wing? What?
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3469 on: July 28, 2016, 03:42:59 am »

Liberalism is right wing regardless. Especially the neo-liberal school of thought which dominates the EU.
Liberalism... is... right-wing? What?
I guess it's a difference between European and American definitions. In Europe, left wing is communism.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3470 on: July 28, 2016, 04:44:24 am »

What Americans call liberals EU would call social democrats / greens (although a lot of green parties are actually rather neo-con) / socialists
What EU calls liberals, Americans would call conservatives, with neo-liberals being the same as neo-cons
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3471 on: July 28, 2016, 05:13:40 am »

Yeah. And it's not just a matter of Europe being "more to the left" either. The classic three pronged ideology map has the socialism prong on the left and then the two others - conservatism and liberalism - on the right.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3472 on: July 28, 2016, 05:16:34 am »

The classic three pronged ideology map has the socialism prong on the left and then the two others - conservatism and liberalism - on the right.
That sounds very American
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3473 on: July 28, 2016, 05:35:17 am »

Au contraire, my Amy, thinking liberalism isn't right wing is very American.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3474 on: July 28, 2016, 05:38:00 am »

So what's authoritarianism? Left? Fuck me, this is completely nonsensical.

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3475 on: July 28, 2016, 05:48:10 am »

So what's authoritarianism? Left? Fuck me, this is completely nonsensical.

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The questions I'd like definitively answered are, was the female Muslim eyewitness who reported that the shooter shouted 'Allahu Ackbar' during the attack correct? And was the attacker (who was a second-generation immigrant) a Muslim himself?
Tbh I think it's funnier if he was larping as a nazi
Makes his shouting match with balcony dude even funnier "I'M GERMAN" "No you're not" lmao, /int/ shitposting gone violent

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3476 on: July 28, 2016, 05:57:40 am »

So what's authoritarianism? Left? Fuck me, this is completely nonsensical.

Neither and all. Any one of them could be authoritarian. Authoritarianism is not a prong of it's own in this model but a modifier, so to speak. You could have authoritarian socialism (communism), authoritarian conservatism (Franco's Spain), or authoritarian liberalism (basically every 19th century nation before the workers' movements gained influence).
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3477 on: July 28, 2016, 05:59:38 am »

Authoritarian liberalism doesn't sound very liberal
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3478 on: July 28, 2016, 06:14:29 am »

That's a meaningless statement.

Being wage slaves working 12-18 hours a day for pennies isn't particularly free either, but it's still liberal.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« Reply #3479 on: July 28, 2016, 06:27:08 am »

Yeah because liberalism as in personal freedoms, etc., is distinct from economic liberalism, which often involves wage slavery

What I don't get is putting both liberalism and conservatism on the same side of the spectrum
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