Anybody who confuses liberal democracy with fascism usually isn’t worth debating, but I’ll fight the windmill anyway. “Dude.”
If I’m not mistaken, this web site is Communist, so it figures that most people who hang out here think everyone who’s not a Communist is a Fascist. This misses the obvious truth that Communism and Fascism are opposite sides of the same coin, in that both are competing forms of totalitarianism based upon collectivism. Communists criticizing Fascists is sort of like K-Mart criticizing Wal-Mart. Ask the Poles.
What on earth do you mean by “corporate news”? CNN? BBC? The Guardian? Fox News? PBS? NPR? The Australian? Deutsche-Welle? Expatica.com? El Pais? Jane’s? Drudge? Le Monde? Yeah, I get my info from all of those sources and a lot more. Where do you get yours?
“The CIA created Al Qaeda.” Really? That’s a popular coffee shop conspiracy theory, but I’ve never heard anybody explain it. Is there any evidence to back it up, other than that a fairly insignificant rich son of a crony-capitalism construction magnate (OBL) and a few CIA agents were in the same country (Afghanistan) at the same time during the 1980’s? That’s the closest thing to a connection I’ve ever heard of. Any other evidence that you’re aware of?
I don’t care if you expect a 14-point reply or not. I’ve got work to do.
You have a lot of handy Hitler quotes. The one about faith is the most interesting, especially since the SS incorporated a lot of the occult into its rituals and ideology before removing all of the crucifixes from Catholic parishes in occupied France. And murdering not a few priests, by the way. I don’t think any serious historian would argue that Hitler was a religious man. Yes, historically, the religious have killed a lot of people, but those numbers pale compared to what the godless did in the past century. People are flawed, and Christianity has certainly cleaned up its act in the 20th C.
People who compare Bush to Hitler are intellectually lazy. They say “Look! Bush gets photographed with children! Bush gives speeches! Hitler did those things, too!” Right, and so did Churchill (the real one), FDR, Tojo, Stalin, JFK, Pope JP2, MLK, Mao, Fidel, and the mayor of my hometown. I guess they’re all the same, huh?
Amigo, you’re not engaging in debate. You simply attack what I say because you “can tell” that I watch “corporate news” ergo I’m a “fascist.” Then you wrap up with an ultimatum: either I’m supposed to agree with whatever it is you believe (still not sure what that is) or I have to accept that I’m a “fascist.” I decline both offers. I’m a free man. I live in a free country. I want others to enjoy basic liberties, too, even people like you who deny and slander the liberty and prosperity they enjoy. (How many North Koreans will participate in a web site debate this year?)
Since you seem to have everything all figured out, let me ask you this: how do YOU think the free world should have responded to 9-11? And I’m asking specifically about actions here, not a bunch of gobbledy-gook about increasing global understanding and promoting abstract concepts like peace and justice.
You have the floor.
– Mike
PS – the link you posted wouldn’t load in. It sounds like a link to Dubya doing a strip-tease, which I’d rather not see anyway.
Hey name-caller,
Anybody who confuses liberal democracy with fascism usually isn’t worth debating, but I’ll fight the windmill anyway. “Dude.”
If I’m not mistaken, this web site is Communist, so it figures that most people who hang out here think everyone who’s not a Communist is a Fascist. This misses the obvious truth that Communism and Fascism are opposite sides of the same coin, in that both are competing forms of totalitarianism based upon collectivism. Communists criticizing Fascists is sort of like K-Mart criticizing Wal-Mart. Ask the Poles.
What on earth do you mean by “corporate news”? CNN? BBC? The Guardian? Fox News? PBS? NPR? The Australian? Deutsche-Welle? Expatica.com? El Pais? Jane’s? Drudge? Le Monde? Yeah, I get my info from all of those sources and a lot more. Where do you get yours?
“The CIA created Al Qaeda.” Really? That’s a popular coffee shop conspiracy theory, but I’ve never heard anybody explain it. Is there any evidence to back it up, other than that a fairly insignificant rich son of a crony-capitalism construction magnate (OBL) and a few CIA agents were in the same country (Afghanistan) at the same time during the 1980’s? That’s the closest thing to a connection I’ve ever heard of. Any other evidence that you’re aware of?
I don’t care if you expect a 14-point reply or not. I’ve got work to do.
You have a lot of handy Hitler quotes. The one about faith is the most interesting, especially since the SS incorporated a lot of the occult into its rituals and ideology before removing all of the crucifixes from Catholic parishes in occupied France. And murdering not a few priests, by the way. I don’t think any serious historian would argue that Hitler was a religious man. Yes, historically, the religious have killed a lot of people, but those numbers pale compared to what the godless did in the past century. People are flawed, and Christianity has certainly cleaned up its act in the 20th C.
People who compare Bush to Hitler are intellectually lazy. They say “Look! Bush gets photographed with children! Bush gives speeches! Hitler did those things, too!” Right, and so did Churchill (the real one), FDR, Tojo, Stalin, JFK, Pope JP2, MLK, Mao, Fidel, and the mayor of my hometown. I guess they’re all the same, huh?
Amigo, you’re not engaging in debate. You simply attack what I say because you “can tell” that I watch “corporate news” ergo I’m a “fascist.” Then you wrap up with an ultimatum: either I’m supposed to agree with whatever it is you believe (still not sure what that is) or I have to accept that I’m a “fascist.” I decline both offers. I’m a free man. I live in a free country. I want others to enjoy basic liberties, too, even people like you who deny and slander the liberty and prosperity they enjoy. (How many North Koreans will participate in a web site debate this year?)
Since you seem to have everything all figured out, let me ask you this: how do YOU think the free world should have responded to 9-11? And I’m asking specifically about actions here, not a bunch of gobbledy-gook about increasing global understanding and promoting abstract concepts like peace and justice.
You have the floor.
– Mike
PS – the link you posted wouldn’t load in. It sounds like a link to Dubya doing a strip-tease, which I’d rather not see anyway.