On baked's rv trip, people that he is with go buy meth, but get their phone stolen, then buy it back from the meth dealers. They also buy cocaine. Go check out his thread. The meth event is like page 81-84
Seeing how they argue with popular apologists such as WLC, I'm guessing they are militant beyond belief and won't accept an ounce of chance, even though Evolution is essentially a massive lottery where things aligned because there are so many simultaneous events happening. Chance of me winning the lottery is tiny but chances of the lottery being won is 100%. Many also hide behind the "agnostic-atheist" position which I think is contradictory. A religious person can be agnostic. They can't even accept the very definition of God and how this entity can simultaneously be omnipotence and omnipresent (many of them call this a contradiction, it's not a difficult concept because God is all powerful).
An atheist would at least have a core belief though, which is "God doesn't exist". Ones that don't care enough are apatheists. It's difficult to sample religious beliefs because of definitions, which differs from culture to culture. It's said that countries like China are 50% atheist, but I can assure you that's not true at all (communism itself is a cult). Folk religions are huge in Asia. This figure is true only if we define religious as belief in an Abrahamic religion (a concept of a powerful all-knowing ever-present God), which inevitably makes Hindus and Buddhists atheist, lol. This isn't a definition I can personally accept. Japanese praising Hinokami or their war criminals and Chinese praising Tudigong or Mao are still religious. Fengshui is also an important concept in Asia that's based on folk religion.
In a pragmatic sense, this could be argued. I have to say though, the very thought of God being a tangible visible human-like form with a big old beard and a robe, really needs to be put into the bin, God is the Father above all of course, and as a concept its helpful to picture Him this way, but this lends itself to idolatry, which the key danger being idols are arbitrary and easily disassembled. Containing Him within a concept like that opens the door for a layman argument about sky-daddies and arbitrary nature of figures in general.
Few modern Japanese people still actively worship Shinto deities, except for the elderly (which admittedly they have a lot of). They are just classed as Shinto because of heritage. They even adopted Christmas as a secular festival.
Yeah, it's more or less a spiritual thing nowadays. There's still temples throughout and the youth would still visit them.
Also fascism hasn't been popular since 1945, which is a bit more important.
Fascism is the natural state of man.
It didn't exist until after WW1. Mussolini was a socialist originally before he adopted it postwar.
2 of them (Mussolini and Gentile), but yes. They wrote the Doctrine of Fascism which established the ideology.
Congrats Nick you faggot, you now sound like that debateelimination sperg who shat in many posts here.
That discord message is old copypaste from chapocel reddit. Can't provide link since whole subbredit got nuked tho
I think his point was fascism and communism as a cohesive ideology didn't exist until philosophers envisioned it.
No, I get that. My point is that he's using a very loose definition of "fascism" as applied to Nick, but a very specific definition of "fascism" when challenged on it. Doubtlessly, Mussolini's fascist ideology hasn't been very popular since 1945. But what about the sort of loose ideology of the sort Fuentes espouses? As a general premise, I'd reckon that "god and country" or "blood and soil" are quite popular indeed. Tellingly, people are never polled on this sort of thing.
Nick has openly said he'd follow Mussolini and Franco if they were around so it's a valid comparison. I'm not talking about more broad forms of nationalism here because they're obviously still significantly more popular, but Nick clearly isn't very popular at all.
