I've always said that we shouldn't ban Nazis for the same reason we don't ban other Communists: fighting them in the forums and winning is better than silencing them. I beat Hortler's ass up and down the forum until he ragequit on his own. That is winning. That is why we are here. To win, not to exist politely and quietly in our little designated area.
Man it's almost like...a pair of ideologies so easily debunked by common fucking sense and easily stripped of their power by a simple rhetorical ass whoop'n..only gain traction when you make them forbidden fruit.
Viennese coffee house jesus christ do you see this shit? Viennese coffee house? I diddnt come here for a viennese coffee house, I diddnt vote for Trump the F bombing Pussy destroyer for a Viennese coffee house, we do not need nor should we want an environment where we "vehemently disagree but everything's relaxed then we drink coffee and go home happy".
I've seen this pipe dream chased after before and seen how it turns out. I'm too "old" to really be pissed by it and ya can't disuade someone whose tried it and succeeded at it before when said person doesn't realize the climate is different.
Just a matter of sitting back and watching it go, the way we both think it will go and then trying and make something of the aftermath.
Just because you can build a Viennese Coffee House, doesn't mean you can build one during a category 5 hurricane.
If you arent causing meltdowns and seething, you're literally doing something wrong, because that is the lunatic's and the degenerate's reaction to truth.
We need to stop coddling quite a few types of people.
I don't particularly disagree with what Zoe is trying to achieve by any means, it's admirable...but like I've said before. Reagan built his shining city on a hill by drowning crackheads in ruptured sewerlines and sending in the biggest, meanest junkyard dogs to clean up the streets.
You kinda..need to have a period of debreding before you can treat a septic wound in our culture in other words.
Respectfully, I fundamentally disagree with the coffee house ideal. It's not that I think it's wrong to build "now", I think it's wrong to build "period". There isnt a time when lack of strength in the face of what's wrong becomes acceptable, only a time when the fighting of those stronger than yourself makes weakness easier.
To put it more simply, I think lively, candid interactions between men should have a fundamental "roughness". Men arguing *should* be intense, aggressive, and at the same time coherent and composed. Men have to be rough to be men.
As to the Coffee house bit..I don't think Zoe means for it to be bearing your neck in the face of the enemy...At least I hope not.
If the site owner is seriously arguing that the Roman Optimates were willing to remain 100% high brow...No matter what and above the fray, then the owner has a shall we say...deeply naive take on history.
The Optimates were willing to shitpost..that's literally why they were called Optimates and they butchered, rule lawyered and flat out destroyed their opposition and were just as underhanded as the populari.