HARMONIC'S PROFILE

Let me begin by expressing my absolute shock. Two responses dedicated to the subject, without getting hostile and name-calling. Wow! I guess it is possible.

author=NTC3
Tell me what's gonna happen to a person wearing a hammer and sickle hat in the wrong place in America, then. Somehow, I think they'll find a range of "wrong places" to be much larger then those in MAGA hats.

Well maybe, but that's not really happening and difficult to prove. What is happening now is MAGA hats being assaulted. I'd rather deal in what's real than what-ifs.

author=NeverSilent
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I'm not wanting to trudge through the swamp of exceptions and anecdotes. The big picture is that there are two sides waging cultural war at the moment. Yes, of course there is a sliding scale on an individual basis. Some of you here might be surprised to learn that I do not wear a swaztika armband at all times. The way I see it:

Globalism vs Americanism
Communism vs Capitalism
Social Justice vs Meritocracy
Racial segregation vs Cultural unity in spite of race
Out group preference vs In group preference
Moral relativism vs Moral absolutism

The globalism vs Americanism thing - I just don't see how lefties and righties will ever agree on this, particularly since it empowers the left to import more and more people from cultures that are accustomed to getting free things from corrupt governments, people who have no interest in becoming a part of America and don't like our society, and you can justify this by calling opponents to mass immigration racist. The two sides have different goals. Lefties generally want to do away with national sovereignty and import everyone and anyone, give them welfare and voting rights, so they can outnumber and defeat the right. The right sees this as a threat to the safety and well being of our neighborhoods. How can these two possibly reconcile? That's in group preference vs out group preference. The same insanity that leads American feminist movements to tout Sharia law as the answer... a hyper-patriarchal system that would have women's rights be set back hundreds of years. It's a fanatical dedication to the out group there, because the in group is their political enemy.

How can I possibly see eye to eye with someone who uses the word "privilege" constantly, and therefore begins from a state of skew, and starts me at a position of owing the world something because of my race and gender, something I cannot change? It actually makes me very afraid to know there are so many people out there who see too many of me as a bad thing. They want my quality of life to suffer because social justice, not realizing that life isn't a zero sum game and assigning privilege to people based on their race and gender is a horrible, repugnant and ineffective solution to anything. It's really shitty knowing that so many people are rooting for me to lose because of something I cannot change. And if I don't like this whole privilege argument, I'm the racist.

When you're talking about the highest of high altitude goals, like peace and prosperity, then yes of course we have common ground. And a clean healthy environment is another. (No, Captain Planet villains aren't real) We all want a clean, nice place to live, and to get along. But when you get into the nuts and bolts just a little bit from there, it diverges severely. Especially when there is an attempt at a conversation, and Antifa comes to shut it down, violently. I do think there is progress to be made by keeping the conversation going, despite these severe divides. When the words stop, the bullets start, and no one wants that.

...Well, except Sarah Silverman.

author=Dyhalto
You're the one who keeps coming here with bones to pick, man. Go read the past few pages since you left. Despite some heated discussion, it's been keeping civil.

Whatever. It doesn't matter what I do. You're going to say that no matter what.

And you're going to get away with it because you're in the majority. And you're going to get away with posting memes from the 1990's.

I'm asking for you to justify the left's propensity to burst into riots and violence lately. You cannot even attempt to do that. All you can do is be shitty. You have no arguments, you have no thoughts. Only being shitty. No arguments have been made. Only HUR DURR IT'S HARM LOL. Childish.

That's why I was out before. I have to be a lot more patient and mentally tough than you to survive on this board. I bring to you very commonly held opinions, but do you see any little yesmen cronies saying "yeah, what he said" to anything I say? It's happened, but rare. Conversely, almost every time I post, I get swarmed. This handful of bots who automatically respond to me like you do are exactly like Antifa. Not brave enough to take someone one-on-one or privately. Need to use safety in numbers and do it publicly, because a lack of intellectual honesty/rigor can be compensated for by sheer numbers.

God almighty, how easy would it be to be a liberal on this board. Of course you're getting along, because there's absolutely no disagreement. How easy would it be to just come on here and talk about how Trump is orange and Hitler. Echo chamber doesn't even begin to describe it. Effortless. It takes a lot more willpower to bring up a dissenting opinion. You should try your opinions on Breitbart or 4chan /pol/. Let me know how that goes. You would definitely get treated better (a pretty low bar to surpass), but you certainly will not be in the overwhelming majority like cozy RMN.

By the way, Sarah Silverman is a celebrity. A big one. 10 million twitter followers. ONLY here. ONLY here are people guffawing at the idea that Sarah Silverman has fallen completely off the deep end, and her status as a highly popular celebrity makes her behavior (literal calls for armed revolution) a bit problematic.

I already know your response. You're going to dismiss everything I just said, and you're going to construe this honest post as more fight picking. The accusation is more important than the truth here.

Then Ratty will come in here and go "yeah, what he said!" Useless.

author=Solitayre
*Checks last few pages to see if anyone here is doing or calling for such things*

Nope!

Strawman. I never accused anyone of doing that. Soli, you'd be the first person to point out that someone else is strawmanning or being delusional. You'd also be one of the first people to give someone shit for posting really dumb image macros. Come on. Or is this more of the same complete and utter lack of this board's ability to even converse with a right-winger with a modicum of respect?

Man this is getting silly. Just because Trump won doesn't mean you can throw together Antifa riots, beat people up, set fires to college campuses, call everyone you don't like a Nazi, and have celebrities quite literally call for the military overthrow of the government. I am morbidly curious as to how these things will be justified...

Nice map, BL. Like a lower res Chrono Trigger feel.

Liberty: That's my fave thing about BoF2 is morphed Katt.

author=BadLuck
R3P stuff

I'm late to the party but since this is my favorite 2k3 game I have to know - are you remaking/finishing this?