The Greens: Humanity's greatest enemy

[CountDeMoney]

Good night CdM, don't every get out of the right side of the bed. 

Don't goof on somebody's risky personal behavior when you engage in risky personal behavior yourself.  That's just being snooty.

[Ed Anger]

A Brit joking about American diets. Hilarious.

[dps]

Anyway, I'm not a fascist.  I'm not even really totalitarian, since I don't advocate for any kind of ideological indoctrination, coerced political orthodoxy, or state interference with speech.  So

I favor rounding up people.

Doesn't the typical American diet do that already?

Ah, crap, I was gonna make a math joke.  Now it's too late.

[Ideologue]

Anyway, I'm not a fascist.  I'm not even really totalitarian, since I don't advocate for any kind of ideological indoctrination, coerced political orthodoxy, or state interference with speech.  So

I favor rounding up people.

Doesn't the typical American diet do that already?

That one was pretty good.  Although it's not like Brits aren't fat fucks, too.

[Jacob]

I fully admit being guided by a certain deep-seated contrarianism and a tendency to feel uncomfortable being hemmed into any one political program.  But my honest feelings on certain issues -- many owing to my experiences participating in the legal system such as it is -- have moved me into heartfelt positions that are jarring for many American left-liberals or "progressives."

I'd be curious to hear about those.

[Jacob]

Yeah, if you cherry-picked a lot of things I say (cough JACOB cough)...

That sounds like a cry for attention

[Jacob]

I do wonder, after my enforced exile in EUOT, how they got the idea we're all right-wing maniacs when even our leftiest of members hover on the fringes of a sort-of Peguyesque socialism

They still remember on us EUOT?

[Ideologue]

Yeah, if you cherry-picked a lot of things I say (cough JACOB cough)...

That sounds like a cry for attention

[MadImmortalMan]

Good night CdM, don't every get out of the right side of the bed. 

Don't goof on somebody's risky personal behavior when you engage in risky personal behavior yourself.  That's just being snooty.

All behavior is risky now. Anything you do might be illegal. Or cause for search and seizure under the Patriot Act or some shit.

[Martinus]

I support "gift taxes" though. Anything that breaks up the family as a cohesive economic unit is a plus in my book. 

[Martinus]

Well, yeah. Generally my views have ended up Very Old Labour. Labour in 1948: nationalisation, nukes and NATO. Needless to say the zeitgeist of the left has moved on a little.

I'm not far from that. I think I'm what you would call a soc-liberal before WWII.

My biggest beef with modern extreme left (be it Syriza or Greens) is their desire to withdraw from all international collective defines systems. They hate "Western imperialism" so much, they are happy to leave all the weaker states to the mercy of bully states, like Russia.

The second part is their unrealistic attitude to energy policy - which also plays straight into Russia's hands.

It makes you wonder if Putin is actually paying them off.

[Martinus]

It's funny that soc-liberalism's English wiki entry lists it as a part of the liberalism movement, whereas the Polish wiki entry lists it as a part of the socialist movement.

[MadImmortalMan]

I support "gift taxes" though. Anything that breaks up the family as a cohesive economic unit is a plus in my book. 

OMG Pat Buchanan was right!!!!1111   

[Josquius]

Yes... The greens.... They are a party I would love to vote for but

1: they never run anywhere in my area let alone my seat
2: alongside their nice ideas is a lot of pure insanity that would destroy us all

[Admiral Yi]

Which ideas do you like Squeeze?