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>>13748640
It applies to thinks I find good and bad and I think my opinions and beliefs are better than yours. Your opinions (i.e. refutation of the notion of degeneracy and relativism) disqualify you from even being taken seriously. Moreover, your ineptitude was on full display by your inability to sustain a line of argument by switching to a fallacious "what about this" tier argument. You got it backwards. That is what would fly in a debate club. Not here. Please go back to www.reddit.com and do not return. They can decide on things democratically there. You'll like that.

>>13659075
Whenever I ascend to, and assume its office (estimation, 20 years). Thereafter, I shall abolish congress, all courts, the constitution, the sum total of the fifty states and their respective legislatures and replace them with a hierarchical structure based on intelligence and virtue, modeled after Plato's Republic.

>>13656433
Impossible for a cumbrain. Easy for the chaste.

>>13649938
Practically everything written before "The Enlightenment"

>>13623488
>>13623488
A good argument for what? You see, you proved yourself to be an imbecile with your very first sentence, that you just use concepts for simple parroting in simple scenarios for social leverage and you let this slip out on full display. Nonetheless, representative republic with universal suffrage is a democracy where the masses pick the leaders of government, a circus that has led to the deterioration of the very nation that set it up to begin with. The same criticisms of democracy are indeed applicable to a representative republic. To defend it as a valid form of government, already shows you lost ground and conceded to popular consensus as being a barometer for governance, moreover, you are fine with a divided people, and a directionless ad hoc nation.
> and I use it against people in favour of abolishing the electoral college and people complaining about the fact that Hillary got more votes than drumpf.
Ah! This is what the argument is for? Great non-sequitur leap. The fact that you make this connection goes to show your limited midwit brain's processing power. At this point, the fact that an entire nation is torn between two candidates it really doesn't matter does it? Even if you had an excellent candidate, within this limited framework he has at best 8 years, in which the powers of the head of state are severely limited, where there is extreme infighting, where hardly anything will be accomplished, and after his term is up, in another decade, all that work and effort will be undone, just so braindead idiots like you could debate it all over again in the morning. No. I reject this framework. I reject this useless quarreling. In fact, I am quite amused at your post and how you think. Imagine puffing yourself up to relay to other equally inferior minds to pointlessly bifurcate this electoral distinction, just to give a little civics lesson instead of getting to the point of rural vs urban divide and how city culture leads to hivization of mind, culture and person. Even if you could grasp the truth, your city colleagues and suburban socialites would be dearly offended, so no room for polite conversation there.

>American Revolution and the Founding Fathers
Enlightenment trash. The American and French revolutions are why the world has gotten so bad in so short of a period of time.

>>13621512
Why yes, I wake at 3:30am every morning, beginning with vigils followed by going outdoors to linger in deep contemplation, and at 4:12 am, I am at peace thankful for the day ahead—my good man, please, how could you tell? Why no, I am not triggered at all. I am happy to relay these facts to you.

>>13617474
The Enlightenment is by definition THE bluepill as it is the mother of classical liberalism which bore both contemporary and neoliberalism. All of these exist and operate in the same sphere of poisoned thought; secularism, individualism, total autonomy, malum prohibitum bugman morality (muh consent), reason being turned to passions, democracy, pluralism— all directly to blame for rapid deterioration of the social and cultural spheres of human existence in mere decades culminating in our current death spiral where abominations like homosexuality are embraced and celebrated, where the entire household is forced to work just to live in a sardine sized lot and where they pretend they have "control" over their pathetic lives with birth control preventing a child to what they see as a miserable world (product of their enlightenment anti-nature ideology), where human dignity has been erased, where all that remains is a hollow vain culture of consumerism where your superficial distractions can make you be ignored. No my friend, it is you that have taken the literal bluepill and it is my prognosis that this case is so terminal that you cannot see outside the paradigms it has setup. I'm afraid to say that you are not gonna make it.

The Confessions. A masterpiece, but lit-chicks do not know what it is within the parameters of a postmodern hellhole that not only excuses but encourages fornicatio, and would be appalled to discover that it is the antithesis to their very milieu and mode.

>>13606946
Thomas Aquinas.

The founding fathers were short-sighted brainlets, puffed up and drunk on a poisoned perverted 'philosophy', whose consequences persist to this very day. And by persist, I mean metastasized; they have festered, grown, and purified, tainting society from its leadership, to its institution, to culture, to family itself. These "Fathers" based their philosophical and moral tenants on a thick-neck thinkers, who rejected hitherto some 2100 years of philosophical and intellectual development from their pride and arrogance—The Enlightenment and indeed remains a tragic misstep in philosophical development. And what do these Founding Flounders have to show for their 'contributions'? Liberalism and its modern incarnations (make no mistake, classical liberalism and contemporary liberalism are both branches of the same tree). Democracy that pulls the state apart. Unchecked immigration. Consumerism. A population that hates one another. Homosexuality is not only tolerated but any criticism of it ostracizes you. A factum non genitum, artificial "state", is not to be commended, but rather, rebuked to the highest degree of detestation and anyone who expresses any admiration of the founding fathers is a brainlet. All of their works should be taken and burned and their state, and all likemannered states dismantled (virtually all nations in the world). Anyone who supports or expresses admiration for the Founding Father's is a pleb, and 99.9% of contemporary criticisms of them, are in fact, rooted in the very ideas they advocated, and are but another continuation of the same garbage they laid out. Caecus caeco dux. Plato would weep if he saw that the name of his Politeia, applied to such an antithesis of its name.

>tfw I'm unironically a manichean in 385 a.d.

>>13573273
I pity you being this much of a brainlet and failing to see that consumerism, in point of these loose fact, validates your conclusions which is why it serves as an ephemeral ember to take away from this idea that, we are not "special" [sic]—requiring distraction after distraction, all transitory, to drown out this thought and more importantly, that of your own mortality. No. Rather, I emphatically and utterly reject the idea that existence is not unique, much less in respects to being masked by the immensity of scale of the universe, which shows a flawed if not diseased thought process from the start, which need not be explained to my fellow friends here. You forget that, all of these exists only within our a priori consciousness— the nails of Kant, hammered sharply and succinctly into even the minds of brainlet's in Schopenhauer's aphorism: "The world is (my) idea". Indeed, without a conscious observer, the enormity of the universe matters not! As it would have no existence at all. Hence, experience of reality is more important than the grandness of reality itself, its preeminence transcends all.

What did I think about Plato's Republic. I thought it was great, of course.

>>13539631
That's not at all the argument that was posited. In point of fact, the more children that are produced by so-called state dependents, the more costly it is to society, with each additional child receiving at nearly $200 a month in SNAP benefits, and potentially even more if they are under age 5 and the parents are cohabiting, which means the wife and her children are further eligible for WIC benefits, which is more than enough to feed everyone sumptuously. This expense is further multiplied if the child has disabilities like autism, granting at least $700 extra month in SSI. As such, the cost of a welfare-family is becomes quite onerous. And do you know who pays for it? Society. Unlike dumb double digiters, who can't manage their expenses and invariably have the family unit collapse through numerous infidelities diverting even the disability income to fruits of such affairs and thus dooming the generative off-spring to rather take up work rather than follow in their parents foot steps, the unit is contained, and such a chad would instill scorn toward the society that endeared him to do all this, so in reality, it is not just one contagion but potentially many. You, cannot see a point of the individual abstracted by society, which is why you think further decay to the self and the human condition is more and more warranted.

The only way in which a sodomite abomination like you (I just wanted to call to everyone's attention that you are low IQ by the way, most obviously through thinking something as despicable as sodomy isn't inherently wrong, which is why you use a Team Fortress meme, and relate to it, so it speaks volumes really about your intelligence, or rather lack of it, further put on display by your fallacious summary analysis of the meme contained in the OP), the only way which a wretched homosexual would be more costly is through your health expenses with antiretroviral therapy, which if you consider even with today's excellent prognosis, is but a short-run expense presumably resulting in death in but another 15 years. In otherwords, the expense is self-limiting. Whereas, Chad and Co, will not only produce children, but they will produce children following in their footsteps. The cost of the non-contributing chad, is immense. And when the rotten machine of society finally collapses, who do you think is going to take control? The uranists who said 'manducemus et bibamus cras enim moriemur', or the intelligent chad who, rather than go down with the ship of society, chose to plunder its treasury for his own sustenance, withholding all his talents to all but his own progeny, so they and him would be setup for success on but a small but nice life boat chugging along, slowing down and impeding the larger ship from successful voyage but setting up the life line for potentially ever.

>>13482264
>It's free, of course

>>13473082
>Should I get one of those extremely specific oil rig licensures and be a sort accelerationist hermit at sea?
How does one get in on this?

Why, no, I regret to to inform you that the best reader fuel is not coffee. In point of fact, the best readerfuel happens to be cerebrolysin and it must be intramuscularly injected.

>why yes, I do own and have read all nearly 50 volumes of Marx-Engels, all 45 or so volumes of Lenin, and all 13 volumes of Stalin—much to my long ago initial surprise, they were not contradictory, but additive and perfectly compatible with one another.