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Originally Posted by Shuffle
Intelligent posting and correct historical facts do seem to be lost on someone like you.
Ah, I remember now. Me and TS destroyed you. You just kept doing cute little "fyp" things and thought it was argumentation.
Thanks for sharing this again. TS had a great post, said better than me:
There are a few axes of human belief/preference that matter
1. The legitimacy of centralized power vs individual sovereignty
Nazis and socialists are both on the left here and have very similar views. In fact, that's why the Nazi Party arose out of hard left socialist ideology, because they're almost identical. Left wing thinking seamlessly turned into fascist thinking with little effort. You just add racism. Nazism could never have arisen out of a right wing philosophy that champions individualism and the sovereignty of the individual. It's a philosophical opposite that's so strong it stays true even if you add racism. On the other hand, left wing thinking is so similar to Nazist thinking that all you need to add is a little racism to a leftist and boom, you have a Nazi.
2. Fundamentalism vs laissez faire
The degree to which other considerations were allowed to be trampled for the primal importance of the philosophy. Socialists, antifa, Islam, the modern Left, climate change denial deniers, and Nazis are all strongly fundamentalist, in which one particular philosophy/moral goal overrides all other considerations and manners and becomes all important.
Both Nazis and the modern left are fundamentalists who favor centralized power over robust individualism. Ultimately what killed all these 80 million people (fascism) and 200 million people (socialism) was the centralization of power in a noble fundamentalist endeavor. Such disasters arise from large numbers of individuals who support centralizing power, however innocent and noble it might seem to begin with.
Last edited by esspoker; 08-09-2020 at 05:13 PM.