She's like, super, really, like woke. She has like, super, tippy top, like, super grammar and super sentence structure, totally.
OOTB's Political Thread . ..
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She wants a bigger government. Bigger government = more corruption. I agree that most politicians don't call attention to it, because most of them are taking advantage of the issue, but making the government bigger is only going to make this issue worse. "A" for effort, but "F" for execution.
Hitler claimed that he was protecting German liberties by killing 6 million Jews.
Liberty is a word that means a million things to a million people. Good luck making your plan practical at all.
Well, at this point, it's all talk from her. I was just impressed by the talk. If she's been bought-off, then she's just being hypocritical and disingenuous.
Liberty means liberty. You can attempt to bastardize it any way you want, but it still ultimately means the same thing.
Godwin's law makes an appearance.
It's subjective... just like "Free." History has proven that. It could be argued that you're "bastardizing" the word. You have your ideal version of how "Liberty" exists in society. It's not universal, however.
No, it isn't. Society has agreed upon a definition for it. That's why we have dictionaries. Can I arbitrarily switch the definition of "cats" and "dogs"? Would that be accepted by society?
I dunno how much of that is a "law." It happens often enough, that's true. But, that event in history is useful. It had better be useful to show how human attitude and behavior can go to extremes if left unchecked or unchallenged by precedent, and we'd better recognize it way before it gets anywhere close to that extreme again. Otherwise, it must not have been "wrong" to have occurred.
Comparing "Liberty"- an idea- with Cats and Dogs, makes me really question whether or not you understand what Liberty is, was, was intended to be, could be, has been under the best conditions, and so on.
I wonder how many people the US has killed post WWII? Is it okay because they were mostly brown people?
I'm saying that the word "liberty" has a definition. All words have a definition. One person can't arbitrarily change that definition. You can twist and obfuscate all you want, but it means what the definition says it means.
The way it is manifested and recognized is subjective. It's a lot like religion and religious liturgy. Liberty is an idea.
The US was bringing them "Freedom and Liberty"... get with it.
Yeah, people look at it in subjective ways, but it still has a definition. You can look at it however you want, but I'm guessing you would be wrong. Words just can't mean whatever you arbitrarily want them to mean. Communication would completely break down.
Fascism is a form of government which is a type of one-party dictatorship. Fascists are against democracy. They work for a totalitarian one-party state. This aim is to prepare the nation for armed conflict, and to respond to economic difficulties. ... It stands for a centralized government headed by a dictator.
There's a standard definition. No mention of "corporations" there.
And all it cost them were their valuable resources, amirite? Sounds like a fair trade.
Fascists opposed both international socialism and free market capitalism, arguing that their views represented a third position. They favored corporatism and class collaboration, believing that the existence of inequality and social hierarchy was beneficial (contrary to the views of socialists),[13][14] while also arguing that the state had a role in mediating relations between classes (contrary to the views of liberal capitalists).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism
From that link... the second sentence:
" Historians and other scholars disagree on the question of whether a specifically fascist type of economic policy can be said to exist."
I added the entire paragraph. It mentions corporatism specifically. My original response may have been a little simplistic, but it wasn't wrong.
I was trying to demonstrate to you how those "words with distinct definitions" are manifested in ways that are counter to what they're SUPPOSED TO MEAN.
We live in a fascist/socialist/capitalist society. We need a term for that. Fasocapist? Capisofasist?
Yeah, I'm not arguing that people don't twist language. Look at the Democrats. They call themselves "liberals" and that couldn't be further from the truth. They're authoritarian, the exact opposite of liberal.
It's a burden sometimes, but my shoulders are broad enough to bear it.
You can't just invent definitions to suit your extreme political bias.
From the Oxford English:
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
You're a little late to this party. I know you're probably busy, but this was already covered.
But, that is Fascism, in simple terms.
Anytime people are burning books? You're a step closer to burning people in ovens.
None of it is. It's a phrase.
It can be in limited circumstances, but @NoleSoup4U essentially arguing for smaller government has nothing to do with Hitler killing Jews. It made zero sense for @dadika13 to bring it up.
Gotcha. Yeah... don't waste it where it's not needed. Don't use dynamite to get rid of fire ants in your yard.
Just to be serious about this. I wouldn't consider my response completely right, because I left out a lot of other issues. Like I said before, it was a simplistic answer, so I understand why people would call me out on it. However, I still don't think it was wrong, just incomplete. If it were an answer on a test, it probably wouldn't be marked wrong, but there's no way I would be getting full points for it.
