@rozenglass
Yeah. I fear that democracy is already starting to implode in EU. But my fear as an Eastern European still lies with what is happening with US, because throughout my whole life, I've seen Europeans here emulate whatever happens there, either intentionally or because we're subconsciously copying US like it's our big brother.
If US goes down the communist rabbit hole, we're sure to return to what you describe. If US recovers, relearns what free speech and freedom in general means, then we'll redress some of our issues too. US has been a lifeline for Europe for close to a century now.
I was lucky enough to not live myself under a dictatorship rule, but the ravages of that dictatorship, and the lessons from it, are still everywhere to be seen by those who can open their eyes to see and learn from it.
You mentioned school uniforms. Communism here theoretically ended when the 90s started. We still had the uniforms mandatory nationwide a few years into the 2000s. Some highschools still enforce it to this day.
Then there's the systemic corruption that became a thing because of the twisted mentality communism brings along with it. There are countless scars here that are no wear near close to healing, and some morons in the west are trying to experiment with the same madness again.
I find it hilarious how much fear mongering there is in America about Nazis, but those same people say nothing about the horror of Communism, especially as pretty much every major communist attempt devolves in the same thing: a slightly different form of national socialism dictatorship, that sometimes chooses a different class of people to politically persecute.
I see University aged Americans say "true communism has never been tried" or "we'll do it right this time" and it's just horrifying to me.
@rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
Personally, what I'm actually interested is liberty, human rights being protected, and a fairly stable society overall. I'm not necessarily married to democracy per se. If someone conceives a system that is better able to guarantee what I'm looking for, I'm open to hearing it. But I already know that nothing derived from marxism can do that. So seeing representative democracy has the better track record, I'm sticking with that for now.
As for US, I think they've been trying to tack on more and more on top of what used to be a bare-bone democracy. More specifically, some of them have been looking at promises that socialism makes on paper. And it destabilized things as this hybrid creation grew in size. Some Americans now want to take things back a little, to regain stability, and the others are going full gas out of panic. Which has basically caused everyone to panic.
@WhitestTemplar @rozenglass
Yeah, I was about to say earlier, we're ultimately not biologically set up for grand countries of hundred of millions of people under one government. And in a sense, we do form tribes in western nations. You have a tribe of work colleagues (or a tribe of schoolmates in University), you have a tribe of neighbors, maybe a tribe of a hobby you follow. That's realistically how we actually function from day to day.
But somehow, for better or worse, there are elements that unite these small tribes we have in a larger cultural framework, elements such as language, a shared religion for some, a common history, etc. So it became useful to have a central government that protects the borders surrounding this large cultural framework. But these governments now encompass things that really should remain at that small tribe level.
A common thing that has annoyed the hell out of me for the last decade... I keep having the expectation that as adults, we can talk through things. If two people get into a fight, they're the ones that should deal with it, make up, apologize, or whatever. If I insult you, and you don't like it, you explain to me how it bothered you, maybe I fell sorry and apologize, things that you learn as a fucking kid.
But instead, the world transformed in a way where two people upset with each other no longer talk it out like adults. Instead some grand authority, whether it's Twitter/Reddit mods, or your jobs HR team, intervenes and levies out punishments. They chastise you, tell you how evil you are. But you never get to talk it out, you don't even get to say your side of the story, so instead of understanding the person you hurt, how you hurt them, and growing as a person, you only really have reason to become resentful. So next time, you're likely to be a bigger asshole.
I give this example, because it feels like the most simple of human interactions are now subjected to this weird, ad-hoc, governmental system. Communication no longer feels like it's between two people. It's through the approval of self-appointed mini-governments, and tyrannical ones at that. I feel like we're unironically inching closer towards "oy, you have a loicense for that speech".
@demonofustio @rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
If you don't want democracy, I understand and have no desire to change your mind. But I promise you, whatever you might want out of a governmental system, you won't get from national socialism, or any other Marxist derived ideology. They're simply worst at creating prosperity long term than a basic democracy+capitalism combo.
@WhitestTemplar @rozenglass @demonofustio
Yes it is. The whole of fascism is. They looked at Marxism/Communism, thought the idea is neat, but realized unless you get global communism, you'd get invaded and eradicated (both ideologically, but also in the classic territorial sense of the word). And they thought doing global communism was unrealistic, so they added a strong nationalistic bend to it, to protect the society from the outside.
It's likely that the whole reason we're getting "globo homo" now, as people like to call it, is because they saw that even nationalist socialism fails at protecting its borders, so the only solution left is trying what the fascist thought impossible, going full global communism.
Indoctrinate the whole planet with the same ideology, have everyone march in lockstep, have everyone agree to the "greater good", and you get your perfect worker ants that work as your slaves.
@WhitestTemplar @rozenglass @demonofustio
>Bro, people still owned shops and shit in Nazi Germany
Up until the state decided to declare whatever you sold was "degeneracy", or decided you had to change what you made or sold for "the greater good". They were less overt than communists, but if you think people were actually in control, you're deluded. If anything, they were closer to how China does things today. They infiltrate CCP members in a big company's board to "nudge" them. And if you refuge the nudge... you disappear. Get called a traitor or threat to the nation, and... goodbye. And let's not pretend Hitler didn't stoop to declare people who disagreed with him as a threat to the country and have them arrested.
Just FYI, pretty much every communist country was basically a nationalist-socialist in effect. Nationalism was employed by all of them to keep population in order.
So yeah, in practice fascism is closer to communism then you realize. But it's ironic to see a proponent of nazism telling me I swallowed propaganda.
@charliebrownau @rozenglass @demonofustio @WhitestTemplar
Not a libertarian.
@demonofustio @Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
>Country prevents you from speaking truth.
You seem to be speaking just fine to me.
>Being racially aware is racist.
I've seen people like you, you're not "racially aware", you're full blown racist.
>Being questionable about the holocaust make you anti semitic
Sure, and? It's not illegal to be anti-semitic in US. What, you can't cope with someone calling you names?
>Not hiring a certain threshold for DEI hire doeant gove you kick back from us govt
Why do you need kick backs from a government you seemingly despise?
>Not getting out on time from work results in write up
I'm confused, are you saying staying over schedule gets you punished at work? That's a weird complaint to have. Maybe I misunderstood.
@Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @rozenglass @demonofustio @WhitestTemplar
1) not to the same degree. Not even close.
2) they try, but then you vote in a Trump-like figure, and then he fucks up all their plans, and they screech like maniacs for 8 years straight.
I'm not saying democracy is perfect. It's not. Nothing is, because humans are imperfect. But it still has more tools to improve things than any authoritarian system does.
@LivingSpaceStudios @rozenglass @demonofustio @WhitestTemplar
If you could read, you'd realized that the first "they" refers to the people who came up with fascism in the first place. After that (since we all know fascism failed miserably), I talk about the next generation of Marxist wannabes, a separate group of "they", that analyzed all previous iterations of Marxist derived ideologies and regimes, and realized that global communism really is the only way to achieve it.
So no, I'm not talking about "globalist nazis", nor am I talking about Zionists.
But in your primitive mind, I'm sure you're unable to make a distinction between Communists in general and Jews wanting to have their state in the Middle East.
@LivingSpaceStudios @rozenglass @demonofustio @WhitestTemplar
You just continue to prove your ignorance.
1) Antifa has nothing to do with Israel.
2) There was never such a thing as a Palestinian government, Palestinian state, or even a Palestinian people. The Palestinians of today are literally the result of Arabs getting pissed off that Israel exists (because their religion is deeply antisemitic) and inventing a new nationality overnight to play identity politics. Remember when a few trolls came up with Kekistan and memed about it for a while? That's literally what "Palestine" is, only they actually took it seriously.
>Also your response doesn't really address the obvious fact that White National Socialists and Jewish Marxists are obviously two distinct groups
You could say that they're as distinct as Pepsi and Cola, but they taste somewhat similar and they both ultimately lead to cancer.
@demonofustio @rozenglass @LivingSpaceStudios @WhitestTemplar
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@WhitestTemplar @rozenglass @demonofustio
As for prosperity for who, the average person still has it better off than any socialistic model. Even national socialism has you sacrifice yourself for "the better good of the nation". But the better good of the nation usually just means whatever whims the dictator has. And you don't even get the illusion of choice in the matter.
@demonofustio @rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
>you need to read the screechings of a deranged mad man.
No thanks. I'd rather read reality, not the conspiratorial mutterings of someone who couldn't cope with the fact that he was a shitty painter.
@alyx
> They're simply worst at creating prosperity long term than a basic democracy+capitalism combo.
That's kinda not true at all, though. @demonofustio @rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
@adiz @demonofustio @rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
History has proved otherwise.
@alyx If by "history" you mean, essentially, just the last century or so. And, therein, Marxism has consistently beaten it insofar as fast, effective development for the greatest number of people. In either case, both systems have demonstrable failure and breakdown within the time-span of approximately 100 years. @demonofustio @rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
@cowanon @charliebrownau @demonofustio @WhitestTemplar
I'd never though I'd say this... but based.
@demonofustio @rozenglass @WhitestTemplar
Maybe you missed an earlier response I did, but the whole of fascism is derived from marxism. You can cope and say it's a distant cousin of communism, but for Christ's sake. It's literally in the name. What, you think the "socialism" in "national socialism" is just for show?
@homesteader_surfer @rozenglass @demonofustio @WhitestTemplar
>nationalist socialist predates marxism
Oh boy... How do you even argue with someone who is THAT wrong. I remember there being a saying that went something like "you're not even wrong". That's basically you. You have a long ways to learns before you can get at the point of being just wrong.