Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?

• crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hitler was not left leaning. He was supported by the old guard and the industrialists like Krupp until he out grew them and then turned on them. At the end of the day he was an autocrat, a totalitarian. Think was Gaddafi liberal? How about Suddam? They both had extensive social programs, but they were not left leaning. In the Weimar Republic it was the right wing courts that tried to censor and throw people in jail, and often let the right wing activists off the hook for similar offenses. Left and right wing groups can both censor and throw people in jail, ie USSR, but generally this is in service of totalitarianism, the ideology at that point is just a husk to keep people in line while people vye for control.

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  • adm@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He’s not worth more than 3 words from me. Thank you for standing up for truth. I know it’s a loosing battle on the internet.

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  • Bigred1367@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Who does that remind you of sir? Kind of reminds me of the today’s left with throwing political opponents in jail and letting the supporters of the left off the hook.

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  • Bigred1367@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well according to Hitler that his party was neither left nor right wing. He claimed it as a “syncretric movement”. It was essentially his own little sick movement.

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And why do you take the word of a man who was infamously one of history’s greatest liars?

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      • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        proudly so, even.

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    • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Consolidation of power to a tiny coalition of privileged cronies with conditional impunity as long as they backed the leader. That’s not “conservative” or “liberal” or “right” or “left.” It’s just…autocratic. Have you read The Dictator’s Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith? It’s a very illuminating reference and eschews the entire argument of “left vs right” in favor of a ruling-coalition size relative to the ruled population model and it appears to be quite accurate in predicting and validating the behavior of politicians and rulers, Hitler included.

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    • Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Radical centrism strikes again!

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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Exactly one political party in US history ran a candidate from a prison cell, do you know who it was and what the party was called?

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