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originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: Asktheanimals
Did you not read the article , that ultra nationalist right wing groups are organising, promoting and co opting these nationalist/ patriotic rallies in an attempt to sway people to their extremist views.
What is happening is we are being told extremists are coming to get us from outside the west, but we have a bunch of extremists brewing here at home already. The last lot of European extremists made a grand mess of things more so than any muslims
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: TechniXcality
I'm talking about a different kind of extremism which right wing extremism. While yes I am against Islamic extremists, Right Wing Extremism is also as bad as the other. I agree that we should take a stand against the Islamic extremists, at the same time we should also stop the right wing extremists. Electing Right Wing Extremists is just gonna destroy what we fought for as well.
In fact here in the US, we have Right Wing extremists here in the US calling for a Christian Theocracy and that is as bad as an Islamic Caliphate.
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: johnwick
I'm sorry that you are blind to the causes of those and that you've been brainwashed to think billions of people are evil.
originally posted by: Reallyfolks
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: Bluntone22
Very true. The West has been operating under neoliberalism for quite some time, regardless of what party is in control, that is just one of the facts that we need to wake up to and stand against. That doesn't change the fact that it is right-wingers losing their minds over taking in the refugees caused by those neoliberal policies.
Regardless of which party you vote for, you should be asking yourself what is this person (people) going to do out there in the world that could later come back and bite us in the ass.
In the meantime, there's nothing to do right now but accept responsibility for letting it go on for so long... and that means making sure the refugee's get to safety.
But why should people who took no direct action take responsibility?
Not sure about you Kali, I can say without doubt when in the military I was not in the middle east as far as anyone is concerned, I never gave an order to the military to engage the middle east, I never had a hand in crafting policy towards the middle east, and I was never offered to vote on a referendum as to the actions we should take in the middle east. I am a write in voter and have never supported either party. I have absolutely no responsibility for the issue nor fixing it.
Now if you took action leading to the mess you need to step up and make amends. But I'm guessing most people are in a category with me. That is the problem. Thinking we had some responsibility for the mess so you have determined we are responsible to fix it. It's false, completely false and people get tired and being assigned blame for things they had nothing to do with so they can also be responsible for fixing it. Seriously, it's not only false it's an outright lie.
originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: johnwick
Sorry to go of topic but isn't serving in the military a kind of brainwashing ?
Anyways it appears that most of the groups organising these protests are right wing ultra nationals whose parties are affiliated with fascist extremism whilst not outright declared they exhibit these behaviours where ever they go.
People can still be nationalist and patriotic with resorting to extremist views , do they suddenly lose their morals and decide enough is enough , I will resort to extremism to resolve this issue and then become exactly what they are trying to prevent from coming to europe.
originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: Reallyfolks
I did edit my last post as it was only meant as a joke , I know some people wont see it that way however and I dont want the thread to descend into chaos!
I know plenty of people in the military and they are all rational , moral human beings, they just know how to kill people more efficiently than the rest of us!
originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: VictorVonDoom
Odd that after so many years of war in the middle east we have displaced millions of muslims and no one has created them a country to flock to after war?