Recent content by vallorn

It greatly amuses me that it took less than a dozen pages for this to go from talking about the news, plans, etc to circlejerking the hateboners over a previous user. Funny how that goes.

Oh hey people are remarking on the Discord server where I explicitly let the Forum Mods have access and specific roles to keep a semblance of order. You're all welcome to join in on the Escape Pod, never said you weren't. https://discord.gg/W8nebheDA (link has a 30 days timer to keep bots from...

I'm pretty solidly in the camp of eating meat, but I've experimented with stuff like Beyond Meat or other vegan alternatives to see how they compare and how they can be prepared. Honestly, not really impressed. Sure, some make for decent alternatives or have their own flavour and texture...

No, I'm using the terms as understood in the widely used political compass test. I don't just conjure new terms out of thin air after all. Really stickin it to the radical centrists there Saelune. Good job. Maybe you should go out and tell them what you think so they know what awful people...

Liberty is the opposite of Authority. Libertarian in this isn't the political theory of Libertarianism, simply the point on the sliding scale of people.

That's a pretty good way of viewing it at this point. Best thing any of us can do is protect others from being sucked into that black hole of pure ideology (sniff [http://freeotegi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Slavoj-Zizek.jpg]) whence no fact can escape.

Ok now you're just wrong. Saelune, please read history books before trying to cram everything through your narrow "left good right bad" lens, Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's not based on the same ideology as yours, and it's important to understand the potential pitfalls...

They aren't inherently Left Wing, but they are Authoritarian, and that's not analogous to Right Wing. You can have Libertarian Left or Right, and you can have Authoritarian Left or Right. Stalin, Trotsky, etc all truly believed in their Socialist utopia, their methods were in order to remove...

War is War. It's an ugly mess and some things involved are unavoidable. Furthermore, you seem to have snorted something nasty because your numbers are completely bonkers So nowhere near the "Half a million in the first 6 months", in the space of Five Years there was 1/5 of that. For a...

I dunno man, it sounds a lot like the whataboutery that Soviet sympathizers used to do on the regular. EDIT: Also, it's not limited to Xinjiang, you've heard of the Chinese militia groups being used to attack protestors in Hong Kong right? Or the CCP's threats to invade Taiwan if they...

"At least china didn't invade countries" No, they just started mass imprisonment, KGB style surveillance programs, reeducation camps where citizens are beaten, starved etc. Don't get me wrong, I'm no war hawk, but when you begin rounding up your own citizens and putting them in camps...

Because the Chinese don't count the many dissapeared or people in concentration... sorry... "reeducation" camps as prisoners. No you're correct there, TPP allowed for that. Xinjiang, their treatment of autonomous regions or states like Taiwan, or Hong Kong, and massacres like Kunming (2014)...

Thing is, on a forum you don't really get to say "this discussion is concluded" simply because of the way the platform operates. People have memories, and will bring it up in future no matter what you say. It's better to let a healthy debate play out than to try and kill it and start a Streisand...

*Glances at the Great Firewall* Keep telling yourself that sweetie. Socialism has a GREAT track record of free expression.

On that we can agree. Also redheaded, and dark skinned Bowsette is the best design.