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• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We never are. The Foreigners are always worse.

  ??? No.

  I’ve been reading this since the Reagan Administration. It’s also Big Government. It’s always Authoritarianism. The remedy is always some flavor of Deregulation or States Rights or (Capitalist) Anarchism or A Return to The Constitutional Principles.

  I can’t tell if you’re asserting we’re past this point or we’ll never get to this point.

  Real Literal Reaganism

  I can’t tell if you’re asserting I’m siding with Reagan or the post is siding with Reagan, but both are hilariously off-base.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ??? No.

    Yeah. Evil Foreigners Are Always Worse. From the Coolidge Era to the modern day, the Exotic Asian and the Angry German and the Primitive African are always and forever doing something more scary and vile than the good hearted, well-bred, noble, chivalrious, handsome (white) American.

    Any argument to the contrary is Whataboutism and can be automatically dismissed.

    I can’t tell if you’re asserting I’m siding with Reagan

    You’re echoing his talking points, practically word for word.

    Reagan issued long winded diatribes about the existential threat of authoritarian government and the fundamental virtues of individualism, liberalism, and laisse-faire capitalism.

    He was surrounded by economists and pundits saying the same.

    Always and forever, we were the City on the Hill. The Beacon of Liberty and Justice for All.

    Even when we were bombing Grenada or funding nun rape in Nicaragua and the Philippines. Perhaps, especially then.

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    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I do hope you’re trolling, because it’s really funny that you make a reference to Whataboutism fallacies and then immediately invoke a kind of Slippery Slope Strawman yourself.

      No, saying despotic tyrannies are bad does not mean that one must embrace laisse-faire capitalist individualism, and it’s weird that you felt the need to say otherwise.

      “We must embrace the boot on our necks lest people do naughty individualist things with their liberties. Send me to the gulag next so that I may not sin.”

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        you make a reference to Whataboutism fallacies and then immediately invoke a kind of Slippery Slope Strawman

        You always know a guy who is fresh out of Reddit when they sound like an LLM listing off Logical Fallacies.

        No, saying despotic tyrannies are bad does not mean that one must embrace laisse-faire capitalist individualism

        Exactly! And which countries are run by despotic tyrants? Always and forever the ones we don’t like.

        Send me to the gulag next

        American Gulags First!

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