That's an interesting philosophy of life. Also goes against our Constitution, but I don't expect that I'm going to find middle ground on this board. I was just pointing out factual inconsistencies with posts above.
it comes with a lot of life experience. Just about every Nazi ever is dead. Just about every boogeyman Neo-Nazi (there is a large difference) is afflicted with some kind of idiocy that makes them both espouse their beliefs and be completely inconsequential for it. I deal with a lot worse issues in the world than what CNN tells me is bad. One could, should one be on a different board and so inclined to get into arguments, say something to the effect of "Portland rallies and protests should be wiped off the map for its love of Antifa and socialist principles, which--whether they come from Marx, Engles, Lenin, Trotsky, Kruschev, Mao, Kim, Merkel, Castro or Trudeau--have a foundation in oppression and have no place in a Republic based off of Freedom." But I have an ability to be unaffected by both that nonsense and those who are the target of it, because there are people who are really hurting and need real help, not whatever national media or national politicians' outrage of the moment is.
I find how deathly serious people take Nazis to be pretty funny. The modern ones, anyway. A bunch of virgins wielding tiki torches and dressing up like catboys online. If it's causing you stress, go read some Miguel Serrano. Read about Hitler flying into the middle of the Earth and the Aryans being a race of celestial aliens destined to conquer the Atlantic. I guarantee you'll never take them seriously ever again.
crandc and I have talked about these things in the past, so I know where I stand on that, but I don't think I've heard from you (at least not with this username). One of the more interesting modalities of the Nazi party was to control the news media and industrialize propaganda. I'm sure you know of Goebbels and Volkischer Beobachter the like but there's an interesting parallel to something that happened in this very thread, where someone was/is convinced that something happened that actually didn't, and is actually using it to propogate and underpin further thought and action. Perhaps that's due to modern media utilizing some of Hitler's principles above for their own purposes. Or in another example, that you, I believe, were stating that someone's freedom to protest should be taken away if there was someone in the same protest who thought differently than you think they should! I'll admit--I care less about those labeled as Neo-Nazis and more about the uneducated masses who espouse socialism, rights of the individual without responsibilities and who don't care about the level they've been manipulated--because when Neo-Nazis do something horrible (even non-binary ones from non-binary homes) they are subjected to our justice system. But when (another Hitlerism adopted by Socialist leaders like Mao and Stalin) "enemies of the state" are identified and persecuted solely because of ideas, you're on a path that leads nowhere good.
I’m not going to engage with you anymore on this topic. It’s better for both of us if I just ignore you.
The solution here is education. It's a slower, longer term solution, but it's the only way to really prevent this. We've allowed the quality of our education system to slide because it relied on vast numbers of women being pigeon holed into teaching for a meager wage instead of the much more lucrative positions that are available to them now. We need drastic change in our education system.
Heard similar stuff from conservatives, that I wasn't taking Islam as a threat seriously enough in the 2000s. It's sort of a high status thing to pretend that 4chan dorks are the biggest threat to domestic safety right now. I'm not really buying into it.
That’s great but I’m not going to waste my time trying to educate every right-wing fascist on this web forum. I tried already and it failed miserably. So I’m just cutting my losses. Have fun at the nazi bar.
