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I'm about to finish Confessions of a Mask, I'll post a review once it's done. I also bought this book
“Rise and Reign of Mammals”, is by Steve Brusatte, and American paleontologist, his book about dinosaurs was good.
Also @kaamrev it's pass 4pm at Cape Town so you can't complain about timing. Most euros are awake too and soon so will the West-Coastcels
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Master and Margarita, aditionally im writing an essay about it. I find that writing an essay about the book while I read it makes you think more about it and makes you less forgetful
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Are you studying literature or something?
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No, recreational study. I am also preparing myself for a university degree
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I pray that once you get some proper education, you will finally outgrow your communist phase
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Did you have a pro-Apartheid phase? I think all neurodivergent teenagers have some edgy political phase
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I was never a white-supremacist, I never thought I was racially superior to the other races, but I spent much time with Stormfront, who venerated totalitarian regimes. And I did have an intense need for some boer/afrikaans/white nation state or sense of self worth.
Look at me longposting on rDrama, I've always had an intense need to express something of note to others. But it's kind of hard to be a nationalist, when your nation cant even keep the lights on or the sewage refineries running. You joke about Volkstaat, but like many afrikaans teenagers, seeing the constant decay and wishing to make it better.
But I grew disillusioned when they (stormfront tier fools) would support dictators like Putin who supposedly held up western civilization, who upheld white civilization while all the arab and black savages was reducing european nations which they inherited and so on.
Right wingers would support people like Orban who fricking sold the ground beneath their feet to the fricking Chinese. Look at
@QuadNarca posts. I grew disillusioned at Putin peepeeriders when he invaded Chechnya, and especially in 2014 when he invaded Ukraine teh 1st time. Men and right wing strongmen were just warlords conjuring up an image of strength, while they permitted corruption to fester in their favor. Even back in 2014, we knew russia was an international reputation for corruption to rival the ANC, and was a shadow of the former Sovier threat it once was.
I saw how rightwingers and other afrikaners who wished some segregation, some separatist movement, some volkstaat, fell into this wingcuckery trap. To support blindly, because they were all angry. I mean I was angry too, but i believed in keeping our leaders responsible,
These stormfronters peepeerided russia and Putin, who i saw as a mere warlord enriching himself, yet they saw him as some moral bastion - similar to the insanity of fricking Magatards supporting russian raping Ukraine. That conservative republicans would support russia! Their cold war foe
A similar degeneracy seems to develop in all right wing circles and i quickly jumped ship both online and IRL, so my rightoid wingcuck phase passed pretty quickly
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Where are these people?
A lot are done with those subsidies because they'd rather have those billions spent on Americans, but supporting Russia is pretty far-fetched.
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Cope magatard
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Really? From all the giga-r-slurred takes from Stormfront that was the straw that broke the camel's back?
I hate Russia simping but it's funny it never took over in my region. The reason is that Putin has strong ties to Latin American left wingers like Maduro, Ortega, Morales, the Cuban Regime and Lula. Not because of ideological affinity but because he inherited them from the USSR, so they help Russia keep a foot in the !americas to exert it's influence, this makes Latin American right wingers anti Russia and more prone to supporting the US and ironically the MAGA movement. Bolsonaro was accused by media of being a Russia cuck because of a meeting with Putin (like it or not Brazil needs Russian fertilizer so that's realpolitik), while Lula, the biggest Russia cuck gets a pass from journos.
Now that's just sad, and judging by your drama-ventings the future doesn't look bright for these youngsters
looks like migrating is becoming the better choice for them.
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It's about keeping to principles fool
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You're very intelligent and eloquent imo and the fact that you were willing to change your own views is a good thing. Everyone has r-slurred phases at some point.
Rightoids have good points but like you said, many of them fall for the illusion of strength and confidence.
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I am no bastion of intelligence lol, I'm a complete r-slur
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The key to life is finding balance. I'm definitely right
wing but I also hold some left wing views. If you go to far in one direction with anything, you'll find yourself 
in a very dark place
Extremism is a cult irrelevant
of what the extremist values are for
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What's your most left-wing ideal? The whole left-right dichotomy is so diverse anyways. I'm generally centre-right mostly on economic issues and a general believer in democracy.
Occasionally I have my extremist moments which tend to last 15 minutes. Like after the floodings in RS the journocels at UOL wrote articles about “See, that's why we need Big Government and why Small Government right wingers are wrong, small government will kill thousands in floods
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Ignoring small government types in this country don't want to dismantle infrastructure or emergency services but rather focus on cutting useless spending, the level of wingcuckery to make a fedora point over a tragedy is disturbing and disgusting. Reading stuff like that makes me wish we were living through the “lead years” in the 70s, when the “Division of Censorship of Public Funs” reviewed journo articles before publishing censoring them and when journos were exiled, arrest without warrant or murdered by the government. Then I take a deep breath and go back to my senses
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My most left wing position is probable related to the necessity of traditional unions to protect the rights
of skilled labor. Collective bargaining and cooperation between 
skilled workers to ensure upper management treats and pays workers fairly. I despise the entity they've become in the United 
States 
however. Especially government unions.
Honestly it's hard to call something right
or left wing these days with regards to modern 
political 
discourse. The values change darn near daily.
Tolerance (before it became acceptance) would
be another I guess. There 
was a period 
of time I remember when the left truly was a proponent of civil 
liberties but those days are dead and gone sadly.
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Aristotle should
have killed 
himself 
at 30; might have saved millions of lives 
taken by Alexander the great 
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What?
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Thoughts on Behemoth?
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Is that a book I never read it
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It's the name of the demonic cat on Master and Margarita. What's his name on the translation?
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Im only on chapter 5 yet, no spoilers
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Ah ok, I don't remember when they named dropped the cat
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I really enjoyed this for book club.
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You should read some of Vladimir Sorokin's books right after
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