No it's actually not. The most important facet of fascism is transferring state powers and functions to unaccountable private corporations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Also: intense nationalism
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No it's actually not. The most important facet of fascism is transferring state powers and functions to unaccountable private corporations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Also: intense nationalism
I'm guessing Yoshi was thinking Totalitarianism?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Seriously. MFer needs to read up about Krupp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Hitler didn't just will all of the force under him into being.
(no seriously, read up on Krupp. It is kind of fascinating. Apparently you can trace the existence of the panzer, tiger, and other massive German weapons all the way back to the US rail system and Confederate military via just that one family)
No, he's probably thinking of communism. The US government shifted all US hatred for fascism to communism during the cold war.Quote:
Originally Posted by Will
It is an amazing testament to how stupid the average person is. In one war the Germans are evil incarnate. In the next, they are our allies and the russians are now evil incarnate.
We shifted gears so smoothly that we made members of the SS into french and German military and police.
Bullshit. It's completely the opposite. It creates a huge amount of regulation so that all business runs exactly the way the government wants it to. It's one of Stanley Payne's principles: "Organization of a new highly regulated, multiclass, integrated national economic structure, whether called national corporatist, national socialist, or national syndicalist."Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
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Originally Posted by Will
I'm not "thinking of" anything. Fascism and communism are not that far apart, which is why many people think of the political spectrum as a circle and not a line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Fuck it. No one really wants to talk to you about this. You're a hate monger and believe in big government when it suits your hateful intentions. Who gives a shit if you're happy with the name for your particular brand of hatefulness.
*backs away slowly*Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Why wait? I addressed that in the initial post. We're waiting till our parents are dead so we can be there for them at their last. After that, we sell everything and jet. I'm not sure why I'm a coward?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
This, the Random News thread, and many of the posters within them, disappoint me. There's a lot of dumb being slung.