The Sage Garden

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I think Hifly deserves more entries here. Especially the way he tries to make being anti-gay come across as some sort of "intellectual" stance that non-anti-gay people are just too stupid and backward and uncultured to understand.

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Russia's trend towards reactionary nationalism is the direct result of shock therapy imposed by the Western puppet Yeltsin and Clinton breaking his promise to not expand NATO so as to surround and directly menace Russia.

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Russia's trend towards reactionary nationalism is the direct result of shock therapy imposed by the Western puppet Yeltsin and Clinton breaking his promise to not expand NATO so as to surround and directly menace Russia.

Amazingly, Snowstalker is right on this one. The hardships of the 1990s transformation, which wasn't wholly successfull (to put it mildly) and the geopolitical changes did play a major role in Russian sentiments.

So Bill Clinton is the main person to blame for Russia's anti-gay wave?

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It's amazing how many logical fallacies are at use in such a short post.

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Want to get China on our side? Promise them all of Siberia if they would side with us against Russia if it were to actually come to anything. If it was the US/Europe/China/Japan agianst Russia they would probably be more likely to back down.

This isn't the 18th century; military conquest isn't actually a legitimate diplomatic instrument anymore.

Tell that to Putin.

Or Obama, or Bush, Clinton, etc.

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I opposed the Iraq War.

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All human systems are, at their core, ideological constructs. To reject the system, one must reject the ideology.

...that doesn't even make sense.

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Capitalism is on balance far more immoral than homophobia.

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China and Vietnam have been at war for 1,000 years. This specific incident is part of Obama's "Asian Pivot" to contain China/expand American influence in the Pacific.

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Normally I wouldn't consider that post Sage except for that he blames Obama for that specific incident.

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I guess we can expect a leftist anti-war backlash soon then.

Why?

Obama using the CIA to give info to a regime with questionable human rights record. Obama sending troops to kill Muslim boogeymen. I mean, I'm all for it personally but that's what I imagine people are going to start saying.

Shouldn't good leftists also hate the idea of theocratic fundamentalists victimizing young girls and depriving them of the right to a secular education?

Obviously Boko Haram are disgusting reactionaries, but the fact that Obama is sending ground troops to fight Islamists in an oil-rich country with a spotty human rights record and a government clearly unable (or more likely, unwilling) to deal with the terrorists on their own leads one to many questions.

Are you able to comment on any issue without somehow mentioning how horrible Obama is?

Not when Obama is invading an oil-rich nation under the pretext of fighting Islamist terrorists.

Only True Leftists define "invade" as sending some special forces with cooperation of that country's government. By that logic the US is invading Canada if it carries out joint training operations with the Canadian military.

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The same reason liberals were against those yellow ribbons during the Iraq war; it's all meaningless guff that helps people feel good about about themselves.

This exactly. And it's disappointing that liberal activism is now (well, arguably has always been) consistently a force in the bidding of The Empire's interests. More blood for oil!

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Circumcision is not a Christian ritual. In fact the New Testament even discourages ritual circumcision.

If you disagree with the hygienic reasons as to why in the US many non-Jews/Muslims are circumcized that's one thing but it's not something you can blame Christianity for. It's worth noting in some of the countries with the highest Christian ovservence rates in the world the circumcision rate is close to zero.

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Agreed. They're quite annoying even when they don't get the facts this blatantly wrong.

My personal favorite was the radical feminist who argued that circumcision was yet another tool of the patriarchy...and responsible for increasing the rape rate.

To traininthedistance btw.

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Most circumcision in the US is not for religious reasons. Simple as that.

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As stated before the circumcision rate in the countries with the highest levels of Christian observance in the world (think ones like El Salvador and in central and southern Africa) is close to zero.

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Except most circumcision in the US isnot rreligious.

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Pretty much everyone knows what my view of group identity is, and I would never support a practice to be allowed on those grounds. In fact my position is basically that it should never be legal for only one ethnic/religious group to do something but not others.

But in the case of circumcision I believe it should be legal to everyone for the health and hygiene benefits, so this is not an issue.

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It's a shame I can't remember where to find the DU radical feminist accusing circumcision of being yet another tool that the patriarchy uses to subjugate and oppress women and claiming it increases rape rates, as not only does it fit for being pure sage, it's also possibly the single most f[inks]ing moronic thing I've ever read.

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After seeing the garden with so many new posts, I thought maybe Snowstalker went on some more tangents about Ukraine. Instead I find this?

The worst is that Snowstalker is making some pro-ISIS posts that would qualify that are getting ignored.