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@No-Quarter said in Erdogan in the US:
I don't like the idea of labelling myself as 'left' or 'right' as people will immediately assume my position on a variety of completely unrelated topics based on whose side I am on. I try to look at each issue in isolation and draw my own conclusions rather then blindly follow a particular politician or party.
That means that no matter who I vote for I am unlikely to agree with everything they say or stand for, and I think that is the best position to be in as you will be more likely to want to hold them accountable.
Yep, I'm very left on social issues & freedom of rights, and WAY right on military, crime and economic issues. it amazes me how people cannot look at both the Democrats & GOP policies & not see some are utterly insane & other bits are great. Its not banket shit on either side.
In the US religion plays a huge part. A massive chunk of the GOP base will back anyone who adheres to their religious view re marriage, abortion & seperation of church & state, so that clouds it. There are a lot of similarities there to the (comparitively) more democratic religious theocracies, like Turkey or even Iran
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@No-Quarter said in Erdogan in the US:
@Siam google it, it's what celebrities do all the bloody time. He was answering your last question.
I think there's an element of truth in what you are saying. Religion is very much a 'group think' mentality and that applies to Democrats/Republicans or Left/Right too.
I don't like the idea of labelling myself as 'left' or 'right' as people will immediately assume my position on a variety of completely unrelated topics based on whose side I am on. I try to look at each issue in isolation and draw my own conclusions rather then blindly follow a particular politician or party.
That means that no matter who I vote for I am unlikely to agree with everything they say or stand for, and I think that is the best position to be in as you will be more likely to want to hold them accountable.
In the States right now half the population absolutely hate Trump and will do everything they can to protest his every action, whether what he does is good or bad, purely because they are on the left. And the other half of the population will support his every move and turn a blind eye to the bad stuff, purely because they are on the right. That's not an environment for any kind of healthy debate or discussion.
ahh ok thanks mate
Wondering if that ain't too broad a brush though (this virtual signalling thing and labelling folk as left or right.)
As you say it's never that simple, and rather disingenuous.Also this virtual signalling term seems a bit wanky if all expressions of opinion are deemed to be subterfuge to elevate your impression of yourself, but people (specially those yanks it would seem) love to fit everything into good and bad boxes, with seldom "it depends on context" considerations. An urge to simplify everything I guess - all drugs are bad, never hit a women, black lives matter etc
A good rule of thumb is to walk away from anyone beating the "all or nothing" drum, but most sane people will realise that i guess.
Back tot he thread though, by christ those Dutchies get some stuff spot on don't they? They seem quite good at accepting shades of grey
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This recent incident is eerily similar to this scene from the Bader Meinhoff Complex:
I assume that's pretty much how it went down in real life. Would be nice if Erdogan went the way of the Shah but without the Islamic nutcases replacing him.
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@gollum said in Erdogan in the US:
In the US religion plays a huge part. A massive chunk of the GOP base will back anyone who adheres to their religious view re marriage, abortion & seperation of church & state, so that clouds it. There are a lot of similarities there to the (comparitively) more democratic religious theocracies, like Turkey or even Iran
I don't think it is so much a case of 'following' as 'dismissing' (if that makes sense)
When it comes to religious based views people are loath to support someone whose views threaten their own and fair enough.
It does mean that people get adversarial rather than look for ways to work together as a society though. By being scared of having someone else's viewpoint thrust on them they try to impose their own view back. -
@Siam said in Erdogan in the US:
@No-Quarter said in Erdogan in the US:
@Siam google it, it's what celebrities do all the bloody time. He was answering your last question.
I think there's an element of truth in what you are saying. Religion is very much a 'group think' mentality and that applies to Democrats/Republicans or Left/Right too.
I don't like the idea of labelling myself as 'left' or 'right' as people will immediately assume my position on a variety of completely unrelated topics based on whose side I am on. I try to look at each issue in isolation and draw my own conclusions rather then blindly follow a particular politician or party.
That means that no matter who I vote for I am unlikely to agree with everything they say or stand for, and I think that is the best position to be in as you will be more likely to want to hold them accountable.
In the States right now half the population absolutely hate Trump and will do everything they can to protest his every action, whether what he does is good or bad, purely because they are on the left. And the other half of the population will support his every move and turn a blind eye to the bad stuff, purely because they are on the right. That's not an environment for any kind of healthy debate or discussion.
ahh ok thanks mate
Wondering if that ain't too broad a brush though (this virtual signalling thing and labelling folk as left or right.)
As you say it's never that simple, and rather disingenuous.Also this virtual signalling term seems a bit wanky if all expressions of opinion are deemed to be subterfuge to elevate your impression of yourself, but people (specially those yanks it would seem) love to fit everything into good and bad boxes, with seldom "it depends on context" considerations. An urge to simplify everything I guess - all drugs are bad, never hit a women, black lives matter etc
A good rule of thumb is to walk away from anyone beating the "all or nothing" drum, but most sane people will realise that i guess.
Back tot he thread though, by christ those Dutchies get some stuff spot on don't they? They seem quite good at accepting shades of grey
Virtue signalling you plonker, not virtual
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Erdogan in the US:
I assume that's pretty much how it went down in real life. Would be nice if Erdogan went the way of the Shah but without the Islamic nutcases replacing him.
In this instance Erdogan IS the Islamic nutcase, Turkey was secular & heading more secular pre Erdogan, under him its heading toward the Iranian model fast. He's a full on religious fricking nutter
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@Rancid-Schnitzel
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@Siam said in Erdogan in the US:
@Rancid-Schnitzel
whoops - genuine dyslexiaDyspepsia isn't pleasant.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Erdogan in the US:
Virtue signalling you plonker, not virtual
if only you could see through my webcam at times there is a bit of virtual signalling that goes on.....
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I like these guys for no other reason than they fuck off the goat fucker immensely
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@Duluth said in Erdogan in the US:
This video was released today showing the view Erdogan would have had of the incident
It looks like instructions were given from the car before the security went over to the protesters
What an asshole.
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@gollum said in Erdogan in the US:
The bit I loved about that was she refused to get out of the car so they brought in a truck & told her they were going to load her car onto it & drive it out of the Netrherlands.
She exited the car
not sure how i missed this. What happened?
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@JC said in Erdogan in the US:
@gollum said in Erdogan in the US:
The bit I loved about that was she refused to get out of the car so they brought in a truck & told her they were going to load her car onto it & drive it out of the Netrherlands.
She exited the car
not sure how i missed this. What happened?
Copied from the cesspit that is reddit....
"Erdogan wanted the Turkish population to vote to give him more power (basically he's trying to become a dictator) He wants Turks in other countries (like the Netherlands) to vote as well, and to ensure they'd vote for him, he sent out government officials to convince the Dutch turks to vote for him.
The Dutch government did NOT appreciate him spreading his dictator message in Holland and explicitly forbade erdogans minister to come to Holland. erdogan threatened the dutch government and sent her anyway. The Dutch authorities told them she would be denied entry at the airport so they went to Germany and then went by car. Dutch intelligence got word of this, went to intercept them, but they sent multiple convoys as decoys, and she got through all the way to the Turkish embassy in Rotterdam (the other side of the country, at the coast)
She finally got stopped in the city itself, her body guards got out, trying to intimidate, etc. They had a lot of turks already out there and even though she was forbidden to do so she tried to talk to them anyway, the entire thing turned into a riot circus, and armed police was requested because of fears that these bodyguards would become violent. In the end she was forced back to germany under police escort.
Mission accomplished, Turkey knew very damn well what would happen, forced the issue anyway, and afterwards got to play the victim card, calling the Dutch Nazis." -
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
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@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
Yeah , there is some decent stuff on there but the subreddits populated by angry virgins are best avoided.
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@jegga said in Erdogan in the US:
@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
Yeah , there is some decent stuff on there but the subreddits populated by angry virgins are best avoided.
Probably a bit harsh calling it a cesspit then a bit like calling the fern a cesspit over the US politics thread.
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@mooshld said in Erdogan in the US:
Reddit is a cesspit? I read some interesting stuff on their. Especially in the running and MTB communities.
If its not a cesspit, you are not looking at the right subreddits
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