Right-Wing Discussion Thread XVII: The Snark Enlightenment

[FelrikTheDeleted]

Boxing is pretty good.

Hello Felrik; I haven't seen you around here in quite a while. How's your life been?

Pretty meh all things considered, finally able to vote, not that I’m particularly happy about it. Thanks for asking. What about yours?

[FelrikTheDeleted]

Boxing is pretty good.

Very much so. Really anything like that is imo.

True, true. Whilst I like boxing, it’s probably my favourite sport and pastime, other combat sports are pretty good. I find the grappling in MMA pretty interesting.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

Hello Felrik; I haven't seen you around here in quite a while. How's your life been?

Pretty meh all things considered, finally able to vote, not that I’m particularly happy about it. Thanks for asking. What about yours?

Things have never been better, at least for me. I move into my dorm on Friday of this week, and classes begin Monday of next week. I bet that my freshman year of university will be great! My prospects are looking rather bright. As to my current (but likely not final, tbh) politics since we've last interacted... well, some inspirations are in my sig. Have your politics changed at all, mate?

[Salus Maior]

I too subscribe to Shire-ism and Tolkein’s rural aesthetic. I wish Britain could just be a collection of villages of thatched cottages and stone chapels where most people either farm or run small artisan shops. Where everyone goes to church on Sunday and play cricket on Saturday afternoons in the summer or rugby in the winter.

*sigh* That would be ideal.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

I too subscribe to Shire-ism and Tolkein’s rural aesthetic. I wish Britain could just be a collection of villages of thatched cottages and stone chapels where most people either farm or run small artisan shops. Where everyone goes to church on Sunday and play cricket on Saturday afternoons in the summer or rugby in the winter.

*sigh* That would be ideal.

Wait. Are you a Brit? Tbh, I've forgotten.

[Jack Thomas Lang]

*sigh* That would be ideal.

Ugh, don't even think about it. The genie is out of the bottle, and such an idyllic society would be impossible nowadays. Thinking about it is just painful.

[FelrikTheDeleted]

Pretty meh all things considered, finally able to vote, not that I’m particularly happy about it. Thanks for asking. What about yours?

Things have never been better, at least for me. I move into my dorm on Friday of this week, and classes begin Monday of next week. I bet that my freshman year of university will be great! My prospects are looking rather bright. As to my current (but likely not final, tbh) politics since we've last interacted... well, some inspirations are in my sig. Have your politics changed at all, mate?

Good to hear things are going well. As for politics, no, not really, I’m still the same trad Cath I suppose

[Washington Resistance Army]

*sigh* That would be ideal.

Ugh, don't even think about it. The genie is out of the bottle, and such an idyllic society would be impossible nowadays. Thinking about it is just painful.

I wouldn't say it's impossible, you'd just need to have an authoritarian state to maintain it.

[Jack Thomas Lang]

I wouldn't say it's impossible, you'd just need to have an authoritarian state to maintain it.

If Pol Pot couldn't do it, the others don't have a chance. Imagine trying to force millions of suburbanites into villages and a rural lifestyle. In most cases, they don't have a shared geographical identity or faith.

[Salus Maior]

*sigh* That would be ideal.

Wait. Are you a Brit? Tbh, I've forgotten.

No, I'm American. But I think I have more in common in terms of my political and religious outlook with Brits than Americans. Probably because both my parents are from the Commonwealth.

[Kowani]

Ugh, don't even think about it. The genie is out of the bottle, and such an idyllic society would be impossible nowadays. Thinking about it is just painful.

I wouldn't say it's impossible, you'd just need to have an authoritarian state to maintain it.

“Gets invaded in a month.”

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

Wait. Are you a Brit? Tbh, I've forgotten.

No, I'm American. But I think I have more in common in terms of my political and religious outlook with Brits than Americans. Probably because both my parents are from the Commonwealth.

Which part of the Commonwealth? Since you're American, I'm going to guess Canada, but I could be wrong.

[Salus Maior]

No, I'm American. But I think I have more in common in terms of my political and religious outlook with Brits than Americans. Probably because both my parents are from the Commonwealth.

Which part of the Commonwealth? Since you're American, I'm going to guess Canada, but I could be wrong.

New Zealand and Canada.

[Washington Resistance Army]

I wouldn't say it's impossible, you'd just need to have an authoritarian state to maintain it.

If Pol Pot couldn't do it, the others don't have a chance. Imagine trying to force millions of suburbanites into villages and a rural lifestyle. In most cases, they don't have a shared geographical identity or faith.

Tbf the only reason Pol Pot didn't last was cuz he wasn't strong enough. Also he was batshit.

[Salus Maior]

I wouldn't say it's impossible, you'd just need to have an authoritarian state to maintain it.

“Gets invaded in a month.”

Nobody's saying it wouldn't.

Like I said, it's an ideal, not a reality unfortunately.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

Which part of the Commonwealth? Since you're American, I'm going to guess Canada, but I could be wrong.

New Zealand and Canada.

Ah. Do you have any (reasonably close) family currently residing in New Zealand, by any chance?

[Washington Resistance Army]

I wouldn't say it's impossible, you'd just need to have an authoritarian state to maintain it.

“Gets invaded in a month.”

You'd do well to remember I believe in mass WMD usage lol

[Salus Maior]

New Zealand and Canada.

Ah. Do you have any (reasonably close) family currently residing in New Zealand, by any chance?

Yep.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

Ah. Do you have any (reasonably close) family currently residing in New Zealand, by any chance?

Yep.

Neat. Have you ever been to New Zealand yourself?

[Kowani]

“Gets invaded in a month.”

You'd do well to remember I believe in mass WMD usage lol

With a rural shire-esque society you expect to have the infrastructure for that? Pssh.

[Jack Thomas Lang]

Honestly, the closest we can get to the rural ideal are suburban "villages". I envision a community of houses, each residence growing food in the backyard, organised under local councils. Even then, the distribution of employment and cultural/religious differences put paid to that idea.

[Washington Resistance Army]

You'd do well to remember I believe in mass WMD usage lol

With a rural shire-esque society you expect to have the infrastructure for that? Pssh.

I don't believe every aspect of society should be like that. For the common folk, yes. But industries of war must be maintained to defend them.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

“Gets invaded in a month.”

You'd do well to remember I believe in mass WMD usage lol

I just figured out your politics. Right-Wing Posadism.

[Salus Maior]

Yep.

Neat. Have you ever been to New Zealand yourself?

Yep.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

Neat. Have you ever been to New Zealand yourself?

Yep.

What's it like there? I've heard that it's generally a pleasant country. Is that the case?