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So would you agree that there are exceedingly few fascists? I think very few on the right especially in America want dictatorial power in the government or forcible suppression of opposition, or strong regimentation of society. Hell, you want those last two yourself.

@DirtbagLeft i would say that the libertarian principle you are lacking in entirely is in freedom of choice. You want a world where the entire economy runs exactly the way you want it enforced by law where non participants are starved and killed. To eradicate opposing views and religions and...

Crowder has over 4 million subscribers. He’s mainstream.

I argued that the Netherlands hit much of the enlightenment political ideals in the Dutch Republic, and they predate the enlightenment itself.

Yeah, but when his argument around enlightenment ideals is that they took awhile to be realized while I successfully displayed realizations of enlightenment philosophy predating the enlightenment, and yet socialism has had literally millennia and never once successfully been implemented, it has...

Gish gallop, yes. He’s silly. It doesn’t make any sense at all and I can’t understand how people think that. My favorite thing out of all this though is the idea socialism was actually theorized in the BC era but still has not been achieved. Kinda says a little bit about it’s ability to succeed...

I thought he mostly just explained why it’s cool he lets his girlfriend sleep with other men, how he planned on killing people for saying mean words, and generally just makes kind of silly arguments. You are waaay to invested in these silly youtubers and their importance. Also apparently White...

They have a GDP equal to Texas. They are ridiculously overplayed.

Yeah that ones a bit silly. I’m pretty sure basically zero of the Jews who founded Israel wanted Jesus to come back given that, ya know, he might be a little bit mad about the whole nailed on the cross thing. Also they don’t believe he was the messiah. What he is talking about is one specific...

I just call them all pretty gay personally.

It’d be pretty hard to like all of them, given you have The Leviathan on one end and The Rights of Men on the other. Not a lot of people like both libertarianism and enlightened despotism.

I just don’t get the whole enlightenment values. The enlightenment literally started with a guy justifying an absolute monarch without using religion and declaring that a king is ordained by God, and instead by social contract theory and the state of nature. If I supported the reinstatement of...

That’s not the point. I’m sure I can dig through and find minute differences. I just find it funny you paint with very broad strokes like saying neo-Nazis say “Nazism died in the 40s” when like, they don’t at all. Thats something some right wingers who are not Nazis say, like myself. At the same...

Control of the economy by the state. They also had a damn big union. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front https://mises.org/library/business-under-nazis here’s a pretty solid bit on what made the Nazis socialist.

Why is it bad? And you keep saying “the enlightenment.” As I said previously the enlightenment is insanely broad. I know you are talking to a bunch of people but I’d like you to address my points and not just call me dumb.

Spain was led by the Falangists not fascists. For someone so intent on the definitions of your political ideology you sure are keen to throw everything else into one pool. One half was not Anarcho-Syndicalist. The downfall of the Republicans came from the fact they were deeply divided in their...

Lol, I did just fine with my degree. Just because I don’t embrace dialectical materialism doesn’t mean I have no knowledge of history. But please, actually point out where I’m wrong, don’t just go “you’re dumb.”

Because it’s compatible with human nature. Socialism, at least the anarcho non state side of things, is an impossibility. I got a degree in it, as worthless as that is. But successful implementations of enlightenment ideals preceeded the enlightenment. The enlightenment worked off of actual...

The difference with that is that we have functional examples of successful implementation of enlightenment values and democracy. We do not have a single successful implementation of a non-statist socialist government that has survived even a few years. You are left with either socialism is...

Me agreeing with the first is why I dispute the second. The government prioritized privatizing and socializing based on how much control it gave them over the economy.