That’s why I call myself “so far left I got my guns back”. Even though I have no guns. If wanting everyone to have their needs met is anything other than basic human decency I don’t know what you’d call it.
Conservatives are just mean people with nothing better to do than hurt others. Like people who pull wings off bugs.
My formerly conservative mother is becoming more and more “apolitical”, because the right often wants to do things solely for the sake of hurting others, and the “reasons” looking more and more like just excuses to her my bullies made up to justify their actions.
First, equality in rights is not a left\right thing in the modern sense of “left” and “right”. Historically yeah, it was - when “right” meant parties of aristocracy and “left” meant parties of bourgeoisie, with peasantry split between them.
Second, humans in general very rarely actually mean it when they say something like that quote by Voltaire about free speech.
Third - I take it Khmer Rouge, DPRK, Soviet Union, Kuba under Fidel etc were all right dictatorships.
Four - it’s really funny when leftists act as if they’ve successfully managed to unload NSDAP into pockets of the “right”.
Also, can you tell me the very first line of the “first they came for the…” poem by Martin Neimöller? Who was it that the Nazis first came for? Go ahead and look it up, I’ll wait.
That’s a big different between the left and the right.
The right want certain people to have certain basic rights.
The left want everyone to have the same basic rights. Even if they are hated.
That’s why I call myself “so far left I got my guns back”. Even though I have no guns. If wanting everyone to have their needs met is anything other than basic human decency I don’t know what you’d call it.
Conservatives are just mean people with nothing better to do than hurt others. Like people who pull wings off bugs.
You should uhhhhh
Get some guns
Unless that’s illegal in your country… Because that means you’re probably okay in November if things go fashy elsewhere.
I live in Canada and guns aren’t really a thing here. But when we have an election I might get some because I loathe conservatives.
My formerly conservative mother is becoming more and more “apolitical”, because the right often wants to do things solely for the sake of hurting others, and the “reasons” looking more and more like just excuses to her my bullies made up to justify their actions.
This is obviously wrong.
First, equality in rights is not a left\right thing in the modern sense of “left” and “right”. Historically yeah, it was - when “right” meant parties of aristocracy and “left” meant parties of bourgeoisie, with peasantry split between them.
Second, humans in general very rarely actually mean it when they say something like that quote by Voltaire about free speech.
Third - I take it Khmer Rouge, DPRK, Soviet Union, Kuba under Fidel etc were all right dictatorships.
Four - it’s really funny when leftists act as if they’ve successfully managed to unload NSDAP into pockets of the “right”.
Have fun with what Hitler said to Strasser (amongst other things).
https://www.britannica.com/story/were-the-nazis-socialists
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18283879/nazism-socialism-hitler-gop-brooks-gohmert
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/nazi-socialism-rand-paul-strasser-hitler
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/putting-the-nazis-were-socialist-nonsense-to-rest/
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/29/greenes-ahistorical-claim-that-nazis-were-socialists/
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-socialism-and-the-falsification-of-history/10214302
Also, can you tell me the very first line of the “first they came for the…” poem by Martin Neimöller? Who was it that the Nazis first came for? Go ahead and look it up, I’ll wait.
Not being Marxist doesn’t mean not being socialist.
I remember most banalities without looking up.
Also it’s Niemöller.
Cool. You barely looked at the links.
Now, let’s look at two definitions of socialism.
Which specific means of production were community-owned and/or community-regulated in Nazi Germany?
So why do you think he said that the Nazis first came for the socialists if that wasn’t true?