Oh Gosh... introductions, don't say anything stupid... kill nuns?

Hi, so I've joined a political forum, that's what people do right? When they've had somewhat of a political awakening and wish to converse with other redundant opinionated "surfers", is that the word? Surely not, it's way too old-fashioned, there's new words like "poster" or "avatar" or we could be really generous and call ourselves virtual activists, hypothetical dissidents, would-be socialists or radicals. Whatever your convictions, I wish to be fed. Hopefully there is a decent mix from around the world too? I'm 26, from England, and I write, kind of.

I read a lot, I get most of my political knowledge (if you can call it that) from people like Orwell, Hunter and Burrroughs, so suffice it to say my vision may be somewhat skewed, like say, a jackal on acid (that's me being generous again). That aside I have started reading more academic essays - one recently which has really induced me is Benazir Bhutto's Reconciliation. It deals which Islam's hijacking, the West's contradictions and double standards when "supporting democracy" and the challenges ahead for the Muslim world as well as a critique of the "Clash of Civilisations" theory.

I won't ramble on about myself any longer... here's to a landing of sorts.

 

Politics is simply not those of us who are concerned about the things which politicians to toss go?

 

Hello and welcome to the forum, JC!

 

Welcome. Nice that you read a lot that would put you way a head of some of the posters here. If you like a lot of racist,Muslim hating,Socialist,communist hating threads and posts then you have come to the right place. Seems to be mostly Americans on here with a few Brits and a few others from around the world as far as I can see.

 

Welcome. Quite an introduction.

 

Cool I want the nuns in spain that traded 300 000 babies of the poor dead as well ,good start comrade ,george orwell will Stand you in good steed ,lots of double thinking speaking around here ,1984 ,cool ,animal farm cool ,homage to catalonia Masterpiece,burmese days cool ,keep the aphadisra flying total crap,oh well even orwell had his probs.

i am a near 50 year old Trotskyist,and what is concidered "Left wing ' around here with our American friends is well lets say the equivilant of the Liberals in Britian.


So i am not much understood around here i think the US political spectrum hasn't qite fit me in yet ,ho bloody Rah for that .

Don't use big words always ask their ages and see if their mothers know what they are doing try not to hurt the young ones.
Londons burning and war is decleared ,Clash cool.

ps if they get savage come get me ,and the Zionists have been quiet lately,smashed them collectively ages ago ,its better now.just religious nutters of the near normal type.

Keep killing nuns in the frount of your mind and you will be Ok!

 

Welcome to PF - and take note of what Philxx says (with due allowance for hyperbole). This is a largely American, and conservative, board, and there a few right wing Septics who make Thatcher the Milk Snatcher look like a 'make love, not war' hippie from the sixties (or seventies - whenever all that happened). But by and large, you will find a very sensible collection of people from a wide range of political spectra. And finally it is always promising to see another Brit (or Aussie) on here. I grew up in the UK, but have spent the last couple of years finishing my schooling in Australia, and have just started reading law at Sydney university. So I am a sort of pretend Aussie as well as being English. So welcome again, and I look forward to reading your opinions - you appear to be much better read, and much better informed, than me.

 

Thanks for the warm welcome, I have taken a while since introducing myself, mainly because the site went down. So I joined another one which looks a lot like this one. And well that was that. But that one seems to have dried up slightly temporarily, mainly down to Zionists and pro-lifers running out of things to say

Thanks Again.

 

Cool Phil, I have read all those you mention except Burmese Days, it's on the list, at the moment Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky are taking up of my time. I watched "The Lady" too which I thought was a great film, and I was happy to see Aung San's victory recently.

Salutations to a fellow nun hunter!