Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
Antifa don't really have any ideologies, doctrines or opinions, they just attack far-right and racial supremacists, etc. They're a kind of anarchists.

If you want to know what's really making America and the rest of the world into a shithole, then it's neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Neoliberalism has turned into an economic doctrine of "blaming the victim", where it turns around and say that the economic theory is sound, but the problem is you, because you didn't work hard enough or you're just playing the victim. Well, look where that has gotten us other than making everybody equally poor.

As for neoconservatism, well we know America's insane militarism and their militaristic doctrine of "Full-spectrum dominance" has actually turned many countries into an actual shithole, and they're the entire reason why there are so many refugees and immigrants that the rights complain about.
I agree that neoconservatism is bad but neoconservatism is the flipside to American's covert socialism in universities. Do you think all the neocons are backwards hicks? They're Ivy League educated Presidents who raid countries with major cultural achievements not for their resources but for their money itself. If we wanted oil, it'd be easier to raid South America or peacefully annex Canada than it'd be to wage a war on Middle Eastern countries where the economic value of the oil is significantly less than the value lost waging the war. Middle Eastern countries can make a lot of money with the same amount of oil as significantly less wealthy countries because they're older countries with gold-embellished mosques and long poetry traditions and, until recently, wine production (in Persia) as well as mathematics and sciences (al-gebra, al-chemie, etc.) They're not rich just from having resources. The cost of living in the desert would kind of offset that.

Neoliberalism is a half-truth. I still believe that there is order in the world and that it isn't a bunch of chaos and randomness so yes, I am going to tell people to not play the victim card, but at the same time I don't expect everyone to do everything for themselves. If your house is on fire, the fire department will put it out, not you yourself. If you're drowning, the lifeguard will get you out. Those measures are put in place exactly because those are expected risks. The world being absolute chaos with there being nothing anyone can do to influence their destiny or their lives is not an expected risk of any sort, just an excuse for paternalistic tyranny.