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Better described as horse's arse theory.A beautiful summary of horse shoe theory. Long live the centrists!
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Better described as horse's arse theory.A beautiful summary of horse shoe theory. Long live the centrists!
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."Just as the sun will rise in the east and set in the west, the extremist will argue that it is not they, but everyone else, who is extreme.
- FK, 2022
No one said anything about the autobahns. The works programs certainly did help end unemployment. Government spending tends to lower unemployment during depressions. It's not socialism but to say unemployment wasn't a policy focus of the Nazis is incorrect. They implemented their own programs on top of the Weimar programs.Not that much. There's a bit of mythology about this. First is the "they built the autobahns" thing. The autobahns were actually already under construction when the Nazis came to power (not that building infrastructure is in any way necessarily "socialist"). Then there's the idea that they ended unemployment which they sort of did but only by a simple conjuring trick.
The German military didn't have 5 million in its ranks at the outbreak of the war, let alone when they reached full employment in 1937 or whenever it was.They expanded the German military from its restriction to 100,000 (Versailles Treaty) to five million which just happened to have been more or less the number of unemployed when they took power. They also destroyed the trade union movement and drastically reduced wages so that in 1938 Germans were still consuming less calories per person than they had been in 1928.
Collectivist means that individual rights are secondary to the state. The working class were in a better position in 1938 than in 1933.The economic "recovery" benefitted the employers and the middle class but was built on the immiseration of the working class, achieved with the aid of terror. So what does it mean in the light of this to say they were "collectivist"?
So the USSR wasn't "kind of socialist"?Nazi ideology is collectivist in the sense that it argues for the subsuming of individuals to the state, but that's not "socialist" any more than the collectivist ideology of (to bring up another random example)
Bismark acknowledged his social programs were state socialism.Catholicism is. Having a shitty social program is not socialist either - unless you think Bismark, the inventor of the old age pension, was socialist.
Bringing up wartime governments is weird. It's a red herring. The US government was heavily involved in arming the allies in WWII, I certainly wouldn't call the US government socialist.Finally, I never said they were a "hands off government", just that government intervention in the economy, something that was the a characteristic of the allies during WW2 as well, is not socialism. I would call it state capitalism. Though, again, the extent of this in Germany has been exaggerated - they never nationalised any of the main German corporations for instance.
The weird identitarian s**t isn't left wing. The fake left hates the working class.I agree with you, though you could say the far left go after white people and the far right go after poor people, you're pretty much talking about the same groups.
Eat a snickers, campaigner !Just as the sun will rise in the east and set in the west, the extremist will argue that it is not they, but everyone else, who is extreme.
- FK, 2022
"Social media unmasking laws will show ethno-nationalists why their grandpappy wore a hood." - Some dude online.Just as the sun will rise in the east and set in the west, the extremist will argue that it is not they, but everyone else, who is extreme.
- FK, 2022
Oh for crying out loud… no meaningful epithets…..they are friggin loud, misunderstood…and not very well read …."Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
- Mrs Goose, dunno
Stickle ack theory…refusesBetter described as horse's arse theory.
Um smart is as Gethelred does….torch.."Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
- Mrs Goose, dunno
I blame the hard left for the rise of this s**tNeo-Nazis in the Grampians: 'Just white men on a bushwalk'
Media coverage of Neo-Nazis may be providing a platform to promote far-right extremism as acceptable political discourse.independentaustralia.net
This probably deserves it's own thread given these groups are getting more and more open about their real views.
These groups are forming and breaking up, under names like The Lads Society and Antipodean Resistance. They've tried to put themselves forwards as basically conservative, "Australian values" groups but not neo-Nazis.
But, they are. They always have been. Now they're waving the flags openly.
People that used to be reasonable being pushed into the arms of these fringe groups that slowly introduce nazi and hard right propaganda to them.Why?
How so? Why aren't those "reasonable people" being pushed into the arms of the Greens or Labor? Why is it neo-Nazism that they turn to and not environmentalism or labourism or anarchism?People that used to be reasonable being pushed into the arms of these fringe groups
People that used to be reasonable being pushed into the arms of these fringe groups that slowly introduce nazi and hard right propaganda to them.
Notice i said the HARD left. Some of the completely unreasonable s**t they are coming out with these days is insane.
So the hard right start them off slowly with what seems like sensible talking points in comparison and then it goes from there.
How so? Why aren't those "reasonable people" being pushed into the arms of the Greens or Labor? Why is it neo-Nazism that they turn to and not environmentalism or labourism or anarchism?
Are HARD lefts in the room with us right now?
Here you go. I'm a staunch centrist. But if you have a normal conservative person, and they hear crazy stuff on the hard left, then try to enter a discussion and get ridiculed and mocked, they then attempt discourse with people who will welcome them with open arms. The brainwashing will then go much more smoothly.
It's an idealogical arms race
hahaha a normal conservative. Let me know when you find one.
Probably about 40-50% of this country.