Fair enough, don't get me wrong - I know for certain there are those liberal types who would commit violence to get their point across, but they are a minority as are the Trump supporters who are racists.
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Fair enough, don't get me wrong - I know for certain there are those liberal types who would commit violence to get their point across, but they are a minority as are the Trump supporters who are racists.
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I think the far left are starting to get a worse reputation than the far right. When someone says they hold left wing views, I think:
a) You hate Jews. [Insert comparisons to Nazi's here].
b) You hate free speech as anyone disagreeing with you is labeled a racist, sexist, homophobe.
c) Democracy is great only so long as the vote goes your way, otherwise, the side that lost "needs to be listened to and respected".
d) Christianity is evil, Christians are bigots, but Islam is great and should be respected.
e) Britain has nothing to be proud of and the sooner its history, traditions, and communities are replaced by multicultural diversity and historical revisionism, the better.
a) You hate Jews. [Insert comparisons to Nazi's here].
b) You hate free speech as anyone disagreeing with you is labeled a racist, sexist, homophobe.
c) Democracy is great only so long as the vote goes your way, otherwise, the side that lost "needs to be listened to and respected".
d) Christianity is evil, Christians are bigots, but Islam is great and should be respected.
e) Britain has nothing to be proud of and the sooner its history, traditions, and communities are replaced by multicultural diversity and historical revisionism, the better.
Caporegime
No. The Nazis were a fascist ultranationalist party. platypus has already corrected you on their misleading use of the word 'socialist.'
Every half decent historian will confirm this. Your opinion is not based in reality.
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Lol.
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i think the biggest problem we have at the moment is the death of moderates. You either a full left SJW or a full right mouth foaming immigrant hater. It seems politics isn't 'reasons why you should vote for my party' but 'look how bad the other side is, vote for us'. Which just devolves into a bunch of **** slinging between the two.
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I don't think we've gone away, we just get lumped in to groups we aren't part of.
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It's likely just the internet amplifying the opinions of both sides. Moderate opinions don't generate discussion.
Yep I'm a big believer in finding balance/middle ground between two extremes. I think the trouble at the moment is that the left have been running rampant in the west for years and now that things are heading back towards the middle they're crying fascism and acting like huge fascists themselves. Anyone situated anywhere to the right of the extreme left are branded fascists these days.
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Are you also under the impression that the Nazis were left wing?
Quite.
Caporegime
To be fair, the 'zi' in nazi comes from the German word 'sozialismus', or socialism.
To be fair, we've already covered this.
Caporegime
And the 'na', scorza?
I know, and the worry is I'm both a nationalist and a bit of a socialist, but definitely not a nationalist socialist
There was a lot of collectivism and command economy under the Nazi's
If you want to see an example of a full on Nazi state today, Look to China.
Caporegime
New Garrison out on this subject:
No, they are not rounding up everyone who's not Chinese and putting them into camps. Full on Nazi state today is North Korea
They are however forcing disparate peoples to be Chinese, or face being shut off from the world.
And if you dare tell them that Tibetans/Taiwanese/Hong Kong aren't Chinese, they go mental.
Caporegime
Leaving aside the comprehensively debunked claim that the Nazis were left wing, it is true that there's a distinctly anti-Semitic streak among the far left these days.
Man of Honour
I think that's worse than ever because most people get most of their information from businesses (Facebook and Google in particular) that are geared towards gathering data on their users and showing them only things like the things they've already seen and opinions like the opinions they've already chosen to watch to the end and, where possible, express their approval of.
It's extremely conducive to promoting bias and division and it's now running on a scale far beyond anything that has existed before outside of a handful of propaganda-laden tyrannies.