Why is this subforum so right-wing?

Are you an ancap?

Either a wealthy city state built by capitalism of become a wildman in America. Literally those are my ideals, gangster banker city states and pioneer frontier life. Cities like London are the most degenerate government funded hellholes on the world, I'd sooner live in Iraq with all the terrorism and violence.

Either a wealthy city state built by capitalism of become a wildman in America. Literally those are my ideals, gangster banker city states and pioneer frontier life. Cities like London are the most degenerate government funded hellholes on the world, I'd sooner live in Iraq with all the terrorism and violence.

Something like Monaco? Or Liechtenstein? Don't know much about them so can't say

Yesss. I will be happy when the West falls from power.

Nightmare. China will care about themselves only.

Regardless I don't think it'll happen in our lifetime. US is still lightyears ahead of anyone militarily.

Cannot wait. They're like effective sociopaths, you can understand them easily. The West has too many hang-ups. SJW's wouldn't get far in China at all.

/pol/ has taught me they're all soulless, and I agree. I have no doubt they will annex Siberia/Mongolia once they get strong enough.

What I mean about defensive is that the left is basically deing as a strong political and economic force and to hold any real left position is to place oneself on the fringe which means you have to be able to argue against so much that so many consider common sense which then makes you start to doubt yourself.

I feel your pain.

For quite some time I was on the left, a Trot, indeed, and spent many fruitless hours arguing against people on the right who used dreadful weapons like common sense.

Then I decided to join them.

Come and join us on the dark side. You won't be cool or "right on" any more. But you will, at least, be thinking and espousing common sense.

It is intellectually liberating, believe me.

If it puts your mind at ease, there are a range of political views in the staff.

Well a lot of the common sense is common sense in the way it used to be common sense that the earth was the centre of the universe. Economics obsession with equilibrium for example. I imagine it was hard being Galileo.

I actually don't believe you

ie the policy which had held the US together since the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

And of course the rest of the world abolished chattel slavery by incremental action and without 750,000 dead on the field of battle.

I would respect them if they did it and I would respect Russia if they nuked them for it. I hate the way the West claims moral superiority and tries to play world police, White people always criticise the British empire for its treatment of Africans and Asians, but actually it was the same mentality which made White people do that, which makes us create the UN or play peacekeeper in Africa. We think the rest of the world is stupid and that if we micromanage them enough they will be like us and it will make them better people, when it fact that's the reason they hate us. It's all the same Biblical White man's burden ******** from the moment we took the first slave to the moment we sent UN peacekeepers to rape Black people in the Central African Republic.

As much as people love Lincoln for freeing the slaves, is he not quoted as saying something along the lines of 'if i could win this war without freeing a single slave, i would'.

I'm not surprised at much of what pre-civil war US did given that children often take after the parent.

Ukip: Rueue
Tories: Dystopia, Financier, Adam, Jarred (SL), Mad Vlad (best mod ever, his attitude to people was hilarious), The History Bore
Lib Dem: Airmed
Green: Miser (SL)
Labour: Probably a few

As @ChaoticButterfly says, common sense is often wrong. Its often right, too, but my point is that you shouldn't rely on it. There are many rigorous arguments to be had to support any view; go out and find them.