That starting point kinda makes the rest of us the conservatives of the community.

It makes the rest of us the liberals, certainly. But a lot of the turf battles between .world and .ml tend to be on US political orthodoxy running up against any other country’s reported histories. People getting sucked back into the argument over whether the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 was worth defending, for instance, is the baseline for what defines a “Tankie” (evil Khruschevist authoritarian villains) versus “A rational centrist” (not all CIA-backed color revolutions are bad, people!)

So it’s less a question of right versus left and more a question of nationalism versus internationalism.

If you want to feel challenged, look into who we defederate from.

One of the benefits of .world is that admins generally don’t bother outright banning anyone for their political views, even when they’re taken as “extreme”. You can head over to these other sites, but don’t expect to post very long before you’re given the boot.

Admittedly, Reddit’s political subs were much the same. Easiest thing in the world is to say something on a political sub of any flavor that will get you banned, whether its /r/progressive or /r/libertarian. If that’s the kind of sub someone is looking for…

But I don’t really see them as challenging so much as insular. Structurally closed communities where appealing to the whims of the moderators is more important than any actual ideological tenant.

Leave it to the Macron government to do the right thing in the wrongest way possible.

Hey now, they blacklisted Katie Halper for talking about Palestine.

Never say The Hill doesn’t have standards.

I understand that the hill published this, but it was an opinion article.

Authored by a far-right talk radio host who fully endorses mass deportation and execution of liberal dissidents, sure.

Hey now! He was convicted of all 34 indictments he was charged with!

And sure, those charges were delayed for years. And they were a fraction of the 91 indictments he could have been tried for. And they had to be brought in a municipal court, by a local DA, because nobody above Alvin Brag was willing to bring a case to trial.

And then the court never bothered to issue a sentence, because it would have been rude to punish a newly elected President.

But they did something!

I mean is anyone surprised?

I am genuinely surprised that we made it four years under his first term without getting this far in, but we’re speed running to military dictatorship inside six months.

If you actually read the article it is absolutely swimming in reactionary revanchism. There’s everything from the author defending Trump’s association with the Charlottesville rioters to whining about MSNBC sound-bites to referring to immigration during the Biden Presidency as a “Border Invasion”.

This isn’t even the boilerplate Politico “Lying when their lips are moving” false-equivalency. This is Derek Hunter, a talk radio frothing fascist and senior columnist for Townhall.com, doing exactly what his corporate handlers pay him to do.

“People in the Middle East have been fighting for thousands of years, so you shouldn’t be surprised this is happening,” I yell from the cockpit of a US aircraft as I release the MOAB onto a mosque holding an Eid al-Fitr ceremony.

We delivered the car to spec. We have a hamster on a spinning wheel in the engine block now. You can upgrade the engine as part of our enhancement package, which costs an order of magnitude more money for a linear scale in performance.

Shouting from a helicopter “Please disperse because we’ll come to your house and murder your families if you don’t” sounds like an actionable threat. And helicopters are difficult to fly on a good day. Would be a shame if someone up there had an accident.

in 95% of cases you can match up the spoken word with the written word.

I’d be curious to know if that’s actually true.

How’s the percentage of that for Chinese?

If you know your radicals? We’ll say “also 95%” just to be annoying.

But how do you learn the radicals? Same way you learn all the standard English pronunciations. Repetition.

Easy to sound like a big man when you’re shouting from behind a few hundred marines.

But that’s sort of the crux of the issue. Miller has the Miller-tary at his beck and call while Mayor Bass will be lucky if half her LAPD don’t turn and open fire on her because they say they smelled weed. The folks with the guns seem absolutely gleeful in stomping their boots on the necks of LA residents.

The thing with English is you just have to learn phonetics by hearing, not by reading.

Sure. And you could say the same about Chinese, which is a fairly simple language to learn if you never want to be literate. But as so much of our communication is via text, the literacy angle is an insurmountable part of language learning.

Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing.

A lot of these conservative groups have their heads fully packed with eugenics and social darwinian philosophy. The goal is to just keep popping kids out and come-what-may. Eventually, a large enough population will produce some ubermensch. And then you breed the ubermench to get your prodigies and your messiahs.

It’s Genetics meets Calvinism. If you succeed, its because you’ve got the Purest Blood. If you fail, it is because you have trash DNA and should be cleansed to make way for the superior people who will follow.

You can say whatever you please, but we all know it is hot air.

White Christian Conservatives are some of the most insulated-from-consequences people in the world.

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As someone who has learned four different languages and studied a dozen more, English is on the harder end of the spectrum to grasp phonetically. The nice thing about English (and other Romance languages) is the alphabet. Compare that to Chinese, with a laundry list of characters to absorb or Arabic which omits a bunch of vowel sounds, and you experience a lot of trouble.

But compare English to Spanish or German and you’ll find it to be unusually confusing and difficult. Pronunciations, secondary meanings to certain terms, and the haphazard grammar all make English a game of learned reflexes rather than logical progressions.

That’s not special to English, but it is more pronounced in what is effectively a mongrel outcropping of assorted Western European dialects.

English is THE easy mode language of the world

English isn’t easy at all. It’s an obnoxiously difficult, confusing, and contradictory mash up of half a dozen Mediterranean languages.

If you want an easy language, learn Esperanto. If you want a business language learn English.

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Hispanics - particularly Hispanic men in the military - have long been loyal supporters of the Republican Party and the Trump Presidency. A lot of these guys are from families that fled countries undergoing left-wing insurgencies and joined the US military with an eye towards flipping their home countries back to conservative governance. In particular, you’ve got a lot of Cuban and Venezuelan ex-pats aligned with the capitalist opposition parties. You’ve also got a lot of Nicaraguans and Columbians with a family history opposed to the Sandinistas and the FARC rebels. And that’s before Marine Training beats anything resembling modern liberalism out of you.

The Trump anti-immigrant attitude puts them in a weird place, since they’re nominally aligned with his political attitude but physically exposed to his dragnet against anyone with an unseasonable tan. Also, heaven help you if you’re a queer Hispanic with conservative politics.

But go down the rooster of the Jan 6th gang. Check out who some of Trump’s most loyal supporters are in the House and Senate, particularly in Gulf states like Florida and Texas. You’re going to find a lot of Hispanics. The Marines are a hotbed of reactionary politics and fascist attitudes, second only to the holy roller Christian nationalists in the Air Force.

Did he? Of the sitting Joint Chiefs, only one of them was appointed by Trump in the last six months. Everyone else is a Biden nominee or unappointed acting member.