| Aeolus451 said: Trying to protect your borders from illegal immigration and potential terriorists (nothing wrong with throughly vetting people who come from countries where terrorists are active) is not far-right. To the left's pov maybe but not in general. |
I never specifically said that protecting your borders was a far-right mentality. But the xenophobic approach that is taken, was.
Every country has a requirement to protect it's borders.
If anything, my country is better than yours at it, we are surrounded by sea which is a natural border... And when boats enter our borders, we capture them and implement fascist right-wing ideals. We stick them in a concentration camp on a remote island with minimal support.
Or we turn them back... And hopefully the boats dont sink and hundreds don't drown in the process.
| Aeolus451 said: I'm all for any news that backs up their claims but I won't trust any of it until I dig further into a story of theirs and check it against other sources. It's no secret that each and every news outlet is biased in some way but what matters is their agenda behind what they're reporting. For example, you can't trust BBC's reporting on immigrant crime or CNN's reporting on anything related to politics or Fox's reporting on environmental related issues or what young people think. How about MSNBC's Mr. Maddow's reporting on Trump's tax returns? lmao. In truth, whenever a news story breaks, I check the main news outlets and some of the alternative ones/pundits to try and get the complete story. Too many try to spin something or omit information they don't like so you have to check it out throughly. I stay away from the far-right or far-left stuff because they're too biased to be even a little objective. I watch a good bit of content from The Rubin Report, Louder With Crowder, Sargon Of Akkad, Gavin Mcinnes, Laura Southern, Ben Shapiro, Blaire White, Milo Yiannopoulos, Joe Rogan and Theryn Meyer. I watch a bit of The Young Turks or Laci Green for contrast or to get a bead on what's going on the other side of things. |
You obviously don't fall into the stereotype which is great to see and have a mix of left and right news souces, which means you have multiple differentiating sources. Even a few comedians.
If you soley relied on something like Infowars, then there would be an issue.
| Aeolus451 said: I'm a right leaning libertarian and I did vote for trump. Mainly because I honestly believe he's better for the whole of the country compared to what Hillary offered to a few groups of people. |
I can't stand trump. But I also can't stand HIllary. I think the USA was stuck between a rock and a hard place the last election.
Now whether he is better for the entire country remains to be seen.
But thus far:
His wall got downgraded to a fence in places.
He hasn't repealed and replaced Obama care.
He filled up the swamp twice as high.
He has given tax breaks to the rich and big business and tax rises for some middle/low-income tax thresholds.
Backtracked on the hard stance against China.
Backtracked on Russia. Tensions have thus risen.
He insulted my own country.
His threats against Hillary, corruption during the campaign never materialized...
He has actively attacked women on Twitter.
But I do like his position on Syria after the Chemical weapons fiasco and I do like him calling out North Korea's bluff and leveraging the Chinese connections to increase pressure on the North as well.
But that can also backfire. (Unlikely. But I digress.)
| barneystinson69 said: This. People who think "far-right" should see holocaust deniers, Adolf Hitler (who was actually on the left economically), ect. These are the true "far-right". |
Hitler was a fascist. Right-wing.
But you are right, he did implement social/left-leaning economic principles, which did great things for the empire.
But how he got there is the interesting part, which is very right-leaning.
Before Hitlers rise to power, the world was experiencing the Great Depression, unemployment rates were high.
Antisemitism (Hating the Jewish religion and it's followers which is not that different from hating the Islamic religion and it's followers.) was on the rise, when Hitler got into power, he essentially drove millions of Jews out of Europe which left a massive jobs hole which sent unemployment rates plummeting.
That is how the Nazi's kickstarted their economic turn around. Not because of left-leaning economic principles.
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