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Originally Posted by 5ive
Grunching and, uh, I'm not holding my breath on wil responding to Fly, but the lack of specificity, even when it's begged and pleaded for, is astounding.
There are a few topics I've been waiting (however, note again the above about breath-holding) over a year for specifics.
The most incredible was when wil was asked what positions/stances/beliefs did he hold in the present or past that would constitute him aptly labeling himself a "liberal" and the response was, "Derrr, uh, I like the freedom of the speech?"
I've referred to trumpism as small-N nazism, more simply just national socialism, and I'll be the first to admit I'm playing fast and loose, but only slightly. One of the obvious responses is that I'm disrespecting victims of the holocaust, to which I'd reply, touche, trumpism isn't responsible for a holocaust yet and surprisingly the Fakenews Fakery hasn't just invented a Fake report to convince you otherwise.
The failures of communism have been exemplified usually by Stalinism and sometimes Maoism and if we're being small-F fair and balanced the same should apply to national socialism, in that a holocaust of any form is not any sort of inherent tenet to the original Prussian-style nationalism and national-as-opposed-to-international socialism.
The point of this apparent non sequitur is twofold.
One, it's incredible and bordering on surreal how wil et deplorable al, and when I say "al" I mean allllll, like, tens of millions of mother****ers, seemingly don't even have a vague and cursory understanding of basic terms, like "left" or "liberal" or "right" or et cetera. There is no equivalent in any other topic of discussion about anything.
And two, wil et deplorable al voted for small-N national socialism, a simple fact both hilarious and disheartening. When I or somebody else dares to suggest that, hey, maybe sharing would be nice, and are met with something like, "Derrr, communism doesn't work and look at all the people Stalin and Mao killed," well, some small part of me hopes the Fat Hitler talk is appreciated on some small level.
Last edited by 5ive; 07-03-2017 at 10:52 PM.