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Anteater
09-24-2020 11:38 AM
Aren't most centrists just classical libertarians?
OccultHawk
09-24-2020 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Anteater
(Post 2136671)
Aren't most centrists just classical libertarians?
No.
Lucem Ferre
09-24-2020 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by TheBig3
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The one upshot to having Bernie as the nominee would have been his army of the unhinged. I mean one of them already shot some Congressman.
They used to call abolitionists unhinged too.
The Batlord
09-24-2020 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBig3
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The idea that Centrism exists at the median between two opposing ideologies... that's only a belief you can hold if you don't think about it at all. Which isn't shocking, anyone on the political fringe believes whole-cloth things they agree with while simultaneously thinking they're objective.
But here, let me think for you: What would a person who did what you think Centrism is have for an ideology? Math? Would they quantify positions of all ideologies and make a spreadsheet to discover their positions?
Politics isn't like that. People aren't like that. For a bunch of music fans the emotional intelligence here is in short supply.
No, I'd think they were more materially and/or emotionally attached to the status quo, whether that be having some degree of ties to institutional power and/or wealth, or perhaps they've internalized American propoganda and can't imagine any other way of thinking, or maybe they just have acquired middle class status and are scared of rocking the boat and threatening what little they've accumulated. Just to list a few possibilities.
OccultHawk
09-24-2020 06:52 PM
French police investigate attack on woman, 22, for wearing skirt
Student says she was punched in face in Strasbourg by three men who said ‘look at that whore’
Spoiler for story:
French police have opened an investigation after a young woman said she was attacked by three men and beaten in public for wearing a skirt.
The government denounced the “very serious” incident as unacceptable, which came amid growing anger in France at physical and verbal abuse towards women over their dress in public.
The student, 22, identified only as Elisabeth, said she was punched in the face in the eastern city of Strasbourg on Friday afternoon, in an attack “by three individuals who complained about me wearing a skirt”.
She was walking home when one of the three exclaimed “look at that whore in a skirt”, Elisabeth told France Bleu Alsace radio. Two of them then held her while the third hit her in the face, leaving her with a black eye, she told the radio station. The men then fled.
She said there were more than a dozen witnesses but no one intervened or pursued the attackers.
A picture of Elisabeth’s bruised face was posted on the Twitter account of France Bleu Alsace and went viral, provoking fury among social media users.
“The facts as stated are very serious,” said the government’s spokesman, Gabriel Attal. “In France we must be able to go out dressed in the street as we want. We cannot accept that today in France, a woman feels in danger, either harassed, threatened or beaten because of how she dresses.”
The junior interior minister in charge of equality issues, Marlène Schiappa, visited Strasbourg on Wednesday to discuss the safety of women in public.
“When we witness street harassment, sexist or sexual assault against women in a public space, we must react, and call the police or the gendarmerie,” she told the LCI television channel.
President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government has in recent weeks begun using increasingly tough rhetoric on domestic security issues in what analysts see as a shift to the right.
On Thursday a man was handed a two-month suspended jail sentence in another case, for assaulting two women – one of whose outfit he claimed was too short.
The 18-year-old was detained on Wednesday and sentenced a day later under a special fast-track procedure allowed under French law.
The two women were waiting for a tram in Mulhouse when the man told the woman who was wearing mini-shorts: “Don’t you want to dress even shorter?” He subsequently pushed the young woman who fell to the ground.
In addition to the suspended sentence, the man was ordered to undergo 75 hours of community service and have citizenship classes.
This is going to be like when they bloodied up that lesbian woman (in London, I think) and just conveniently forget to report it was a bunch of muzzos who want to live in sharia law.
Marie Monday
09-25-2020 01:48 AM
I can assure you most European media are all too eager to report it when such people are Muslims. Shame on you for using that stupid Sharia cliché
OccultHawk
09-25-2020 02:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
(Post 2136716)
I can assure you most European media are all too eager to report it when such people are Muslims. Shame on you for using that stupid Sharia cliché
So you think it was a group of French dudes getting all worked up about her outfit?
The Batlord
09-25-2020 03:43 AM
It was probably chinks.
Marie Monday
09-25-2020 04:01 AM
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
(Post 2136718)
So you think it was a group of French dudes getting all worked up about her outfit?
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OccultHawk
09-25-2020 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted by elphenor
(Post 2136722)
was a group of extreme right wingers
Who the media won’t report on their ethnicity and likely religion as if WHY one WHO
is suddenly irrelevant in reporting.