Comments on: Leftists, Rousseau, and Islamicist totalitarianism: brothers under the skin https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: ligneus https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21434 Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:35:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21434 For a superb book on the right and left split vis a vis Rousseau and Edmund Burke, see Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt.

]]> By: Curious https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21433 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:36:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21433 Ymarsakar, since the left is very parochial, but the right is very cosmopolitan, I was wondering – what are your cosmopolitan bonifides? Speak more than one language? Ever visited another country? Another state? Another county? Commuting from your mom’s house to the local community college does count. Know anyone from another country? Another culture, another religion? Read publications with actual scholarly insights, written by people who actually know what they’re talking about, rather than blogs? Watch foreign movies (anime porn doesn’t count) or television (even if something’s filmed in British Columbia, it doesn’t count)? Read any foreign newspapers, books, journals, or magazines? Ever dated anyone from a different race, culture, or country? Ha! I guess I at least know the answer to the last one.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21432 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:41:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21432 Did you say something? I successfully skipped it without reading or understanding a word except “skip”. Or was it skip, nevermind. Mission Accomplished.

]]> By: Anon https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-23361 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:33:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-23361 “prejudiced and racial and are mentally degraded folks”

????????

Racial? Mentally degraded? Nice work, Adolph. Adolph Hitler, that is!!

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21431 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:46:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21431 A lot of folks that think they are citizens of the universe, Neo. A lot of folks, did they ever come to you for help?

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21430 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:45:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21430 LInk

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21429 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:43:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21429 Since the Left are all composed of narcissists, they got nothing on universal, except universal lies and universal pathological problems.

You didn’t get it?

Neo and Bookworm are some of the most cosmopolitan people I know. While folks that are prejudiced and racial and are mentally degraded folks like you, are some of the most parochial folks.

]]> By: Anon https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21428 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:18:36 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21428 “Cosmopolitan,” from the Greek cosmos, for universe, and polis, for city. Hence, “universal city.” It’s usually THE LEFT who gets accused of preferring a universal humanistic, rather than national or ethnic, basis for identity. And you’re attacking THE LEFT for being against this? Gotcha. Then again, you’re an idiot and 12, so no one really expects you to be consistent or coherent.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-21427 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:46:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-21427 Steve I was waiting to see if anyone would give you props for Bush’s new admission of the need for more troops.

But I’m not surprised it didn’t happen – the peanut gallery is always more loyal to the cause than their king himself.
unknown blogger | Homepage | 12.20.06 – 11:03 am | #

Steve’s ego is already big enough as it is, no need to inflate it.

Anonymous – chomsky always seems persuasive when you don’t know the other side of the story. He is masterful at picking and choosing his data to give the false impression that the balance scales are weighted entirely on one pan.

I read him as well, Assistant. And I share your conclusions. Chomsky basically uses the controlled source method, at least in the piece I read. He said that the New York Times reported that Afghanistan was X, and then he said on the other hand my view is of Y. Except Y was based upon the New York Times as well. So they were basically the same thing, but it appears like it was balanced. Like he had “many” sources and views to draw upon.

#1 First of all, I am not a leftist, I am a republican conservative Catholic. I find it odd that people conclude that anyone who disagrees with them must be a “leftist.”

James Baker would say he is a conservative. Wouldn’t he?

To people in the moderate majority like Neo, or just me, I think anyone to the extreme is of the Left. Go far enough left and you’ll hit the David Duke right.

Yo,unknown blogger! Thank you!
Steve | Homepage | 12.20.06 – 11:53 am | #

See what I’m talking about with the ego. People really really need to stop scouting around for congratulations and praise. It is really really, bad on a personal development level.

It is about steve, steve thanks Unk for steve. Steve didn’t thank Unk for protecting America or supporting American freedom or supporting Bush’s policies. There’s a difference.

By the way…OT for this thread, but did you notice that none of the generals in Iraq share your desire for “more troops”? Seems like they don’t think that’s the answer. I’d bet they’d go for revised ROE, myself.
stumbley | 12.20.06 – 12:35 pm | #

Things have changed stumb, even if steve has not. Basically the generals need to focus on counter-insurgency and if they need more troops for that, Bush should give it to them. But steve doesn’t base it upon “winning” or “conditions required for victory on the ground”, but upon Steve being right and being praised for right and for the President to “cave in to steve’s demands”. Weird way to look at things, Stumb.

Well, yeah…either that or die. Your choice.
stumbley | 12.20.06 – 1:10 pm | #

He prefers the third option, stumb. Which is, you and the US Marines die, for him, while he lives.

Usually THE LEFT is castigated precisely for being cosmopolitan and urban,

Look up the definition for cosmopolite. The Left is urban, but that is it.

Guess THE LEFT can’t win,

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2006/12/19/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist/#comment-23365 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:53:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2006/12/leftists-rousseau-and-islamicist.html#comment-23365 The concept of making refuge status hereditary is two-sided blade: if you take it seriously, all the world Jews can be considered refuges entitled to right of returning to their homeland after 20 centures long exile, and not only to modern Israel, but to much larger territory of historical Erez Israel.

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