How's the forum doing? Check-up.

[Fife]

Look if you don't like the uniform you can start your own Right Wing Death Squad. Gloves are a good idea though.

Socks are super important.

Real important.

[Speaker to Animals]

Question is, how do we defuse the situation ?

I wonder if we even should? We might need this right now. People coming together to defend one another from leftist violence might be a galvanizing moment, and in any case, the democratic leaders of Berkeley would have to order the police to intervene when their little pet dogs are getting beaten unconscious on the streets.

On the other hand, there could be lots of fatalities. But it wasn't our really our choice. Our choice is to hide and let these people trample over our democracy or go out, not be intimidated, and if necessary, fight back.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

Look if you don't like the uniform you can start your own Right Wing Death Squad.

[Speaker to Animals]

Look if you don't like the uniform you can start your own Right Wing Death Squad. Gloves are a good idea though.

You can't call yourself a death squad and roll around in cargo shorts. That just makes you a Somali pirate or something. Sad!

[Mercury]

Personally, I think Social Justice killed the Left. It's just such a flawed concept, with unavoidable illogical conclusions that no one but the true radicals can even attempt to defend or promote.

I have another theory...

I gleaned this from a book on developmental psychology.

That is that social justice is a "level" of psychological and moral development.

In this level we start to question our "native" values and begin to see that there are other value systems out there that may also be valid... and therefore the level of judgement of the "other" and idealization of the "not-other" can be called into question.

"Social Justice Warriors" get stuck at this level.... and take it one step further... they throw out the "native values" altogether and idealize the "other". They believe their native culture is the enemy... the tyrant... the oppressor... They idealize the oppressed and the downtrodden.

A further step beyond the step mentioned above is to reconcile one's native values into a system that can include other value systems but not idealize them. This step allows us to realistically see our native culture in a non-idealized way, "warts and all" but not to dismiss it... to uncover it's inherent value... and work to protect it and improve it.

This is interesting. Please say some more about it, if you will.

Is it normal/common for an individual to get "stuck" at one of these levels, or should these levels generally be considered like phases that will be outgrown?

[Fife]

Look if you don't like the uniform you can start your own Right Wing Death Squad. Gloves are a good idea though.

You can't call yourself a death squad and roll around in cargo shorts. That just makes you a Somali pirate or something. Sad!

[Montegriffo]

Oh look your results are in:

Reading carefully between the lines, I see a divide... and I know this takes finely honed observational skills...

1) Those who want a forum for purposes of edifying discussion outside the MSM and like thinking outside the box... even across ideological lines.

2) Those who want a forum to plan cult activities, design trendy uniforms and spam memes for the purposes of world domination...

Group 1) seems vaguely dissatisfied.

Group 2) seems pretty pumped about the state of the forum.

AmIRite?

I think you got it right on the nose there Dr Y. The MHF is fast becoming a cult.
Jonestown here we come. Don't drink the punch....

[TheReal_ND]

Look if you don't like the uniform you can start your own Right Wing Death Squad. Gloves are a good idea though.

You can't call yourself a death squad and roll around in cargo shorts. That just makes you a Somali pirate or something. Sad!

The fuck you just say to me?

[clubgop]

So is this going to be our new uniform? I want my shield to have Thor's hammer and lightning bolts, though.

Molon Labe and the Laconic lambda for me.

[Fife]

Look if you don't like the uniform you can start your own Right Wing Death Squad. Gloves are a good idea though.

You can't call yourself a death squad and roll around in cargo shorts. That just makes you a Somali pirate or something. Sad!

The fuck you just say to me?

Oh you ferocious bitch!

REI links, RIGHT NOW, or some bitch is getting her eyes scratched out.