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What fascists? All of our elected officials are either left-flavored neoliberals or right-flavored neoliberals. The only exceptions I can think of are one self proclaimed socialist (Sanders) and one libertarian (Paul). Certainly no elected communists.

Europe has a much greater variety of politicians (right and left) than America. The center/left/right paradigm doesn't make much sense here (as much as compressing all possible political positions into a 1-dimensional spectrum makes sense anyway.)


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King

As requested, as provided. Anyone who preaches the supremacy of the white race I think can be fairly characterized as fascist.

The majority of Republicans are indeed neoliberals, but there are and have been avowed white supremacists and fascists. Various republican-aligned groups in the US actually cooperated with the NSDAP.


While racial supremacism and facism obviously work well together (especially if you can confuse racial identity with national identity), they aren't actually related and King only seems to support the former. He seems like a rather revolting person from what I bothered to read of the Wikipedia page, but I don't see anything to support "the Republican has many fascists", unless you're going by a suffiently broad definition of "facist" as to include most of the US congress, Democrat or Republican, which doesn't seem to be what you're asserting.


The guy who was repeatedly reprimanded by his own party for it & stripped of his assignments? By this standard, the Democrats are socialists since they won't reprimand AOC. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-wh...

> Various republican-aligned groups in the US actually cooperated with the NSDAP.

If we're bringing up stuff from the 1930s, you're not going to like what the Democrats were doing from then until 70s.


Steve King isn't the only one, and as far as I know he is still a member of the Republican party.

When AOC shows support to a Marxist-Leninist State and party, and when she loudly claims for the seizure of the means of production, you'll have a point. So far, the most extreme thing she's advocating for is Nationalized Healthcare and investment in infrastructure. I don't really think you can equate that with complaining about the white genocide. Her policies and rhetoric are at the very most that of a left-leaning liberal anywhere else in the world.

So no, your argument doesn't really hold up.

If you're going to claim that the Democrats were collaborating with the Soviets, I'd like to remind you that Mccarthy was a Democrat.


> economic security for all who are ... unwilling to work.

goes slightly beyond investment into infrastructure


Economic security for people who are unwilling to work is a basic feature of most advanced economies. See the BS in Québec, the RSI in France, and so on. There was a time in the US when it was a thing too.


Regardless of whether it's implemented in certain countries, the idea that society must support those unwilling to work seems to be quite far on left side of the spectrum.

The "you don't work - you don't eat" idea is not "rightists". It's just a basic law of nature.


"You don't work - you don't eat" isn't a reality anywhere in the world today. It's not a basic law of nature, it's a delusion. The world doesn't actually work like that.

Do you think that the Republicans are quite far on the left side of the spectrum? Because last I've heard they haven't repealed food stamps yet.


The definition of fascist is not person you don't like.


Liam Neeson. Known for action/dramatic movies (much like Nielsen pre-airplane) and plays a great straight man.


Great call. He was absolutely hilarious in Life's Too Short: https://vimeo.com/141940661


Oh man I was thinking of him too. Just playing it straight with Police Squad lines.... hilarious.


The straight/sane man is the funniest, to me, character in any kind of comedy.


I disagree. Calling it the 'Great American Eclipse' is fair because it crossed over the entire country coast to coast making it accessible to just about every major population center by car. It was also only visible in America.

That's pretty neat.


The title really rankles me -it was a brilliant eclipse and it was an eclipse only viewable in America, I understand this completely but it still rankles possibly irrationally.

I am not opposed to calling things American when, like I am not opposed to calling the 20th Century the American Century but there is something deeply annoying in claiming an astronomical thing as one's country.

It's like a form of possession and maybe its the Sun but for some reason it really really annoys me to give the event an American adjective.


You should ideally be more annoyed at a century being called the American century because it's insulting to all the other people and nations who also existed and were doing their shit. On the contrary, the eclipse literally did not exist for those outside America.


But it is equally also not something you owned that is the only point I am making - noone is saying 'literally' it's the world's eclipse, it just rankles when someone takes possession of something they do not own - rational or irrational. Perhaps something more interesting to explore would be me and 10 others in the thread above think that way.



I managed 4 by stacking vertically as quickly as possible and then trying to fill out horizontally.

ꋇ𤆻𠇇𢊻𤅷𓎼𢊻𤅵𓎬𤶸𤶸𤞑𤇋邼𣊻𤅛綌𣽋𤇅邌邬𤪀𠆃𣚻胈𡚻𤇄䂸𤁋而䂸𢙋𣻄𤄜𠢻𤇠𠪻㰄耬𢢻𣻄缨𠠋𤇁𤢱𡢻𤇂值𤞒𥆱冻ꎜ𤭺𤪰𤪲𡢻㿅𠟛𔗀邼而耬𥆑㼼翇


Dang, I thought for sure I could get more than 4 with that tactic. ꉌ𤆻遜𣪻𤇇ꎷ𣹋郇ꎹ𠱋𣻅𤅡𡚻𤆻𤆒𠚻絀㬌ꊂ𣺻㣅𤮻𤪺𤂻𤇄肬𤆬𥆺𥆺𤪠𤄋𤆣𠚻胁𣚻𡫁𣚻𤇀𤙛𡚻𣛋𡛋𤇂㾺𣾔弌𣽋脧𡉫灛𤶻炼点冸𣈛䁛𠝋𠟋𤋁ᖠ


Me too! I thought I had it beat and then it through me a square: 𤆌𡊻𣾻𤇋𤆌𤆼𣾌𠳋𤇅𡊻𤅻𠆬𡊻聩𤶸𡊻𣉻𠝻𤇁𡊻𤄻炬𡊻𤀻倜𤦸䂺𠨫𤇄𠚻𤇀𡊻𤅛邬𡊻𤁛𤇅邌邬𤚁𤆄䲼𤅑𠆜邌𤪀憸𡈋𣸛𠯁𣈛㰈𤴊𤮸𤚸𣢄𤿠𡧅𢘍


I got to 8 with a very similar tactic: 惃𣺻怌𢚻𤇂䂸𤀫䀌㼌䂹𢈫𤦀𤄫悸𤆔纹㴈聘𢚻𠆌𣚻𓋇𣾻𔗀𤊻ꈇ䂹𤅷𔒌膸𤅻羱繨𢘋傺𢪻𤆻𣺻𤄛𤆔㾺傺肻𤆻𤆡𤆤𤆐𤆑暌䂻𡘫𣯂𤃅𣿇𤅋𤆱𢙋傺𠆜𤢀𤆴𣺡𣫇𣢰𤾳


There are geographical regions in League kinda, they're just country/continent size. I enjoy watching the American teams try to compete with other regions (Europe, Korea, China etc.) People generally just root for their region to do well.

As far as rooting for teams within a region, it usually boils down to finding your favorite personalities like that other guy said. Most of them stream on twitch for hours every day.

Also, all of the local regular sports teams I grew up rooting for never win anything so having no ties and getting to be a bandwagon fan in eSports cathartic for me haha


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