Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[The Brain]

AFAIK the primary use of the left-right scale (which itself has a lot of problems even on a good day) is as a tool to bash or defend people/movements you dislike or like. As such details about where to put this or that person or movement doesn't strike me as extremely interesting.

[Syt]

The nazis weren't right.

They were wrong.

[Razgovory]

AFAIK the primary use of the left-right scale (which itself has a lot of problems even on a good day) is as a tool to bash or defend people/movements you dislike or like. As such details about where to put this or that person or movement doesn't strike me as extremely interesting.

Don't like where your ideas are placed on the spectrum, huh?

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

AFAIK the primary use of the left-right scale (which itself has a lot of problems even on a good day) is as a tool to bash or defend people/movements you dislike or like. As such details about where to put this or that person or movement doesn't strike me as extremely interesting.

Don't like where your ideas are placed on the spectrum, huh?

Do you proudly own Mao and Stalin? No, you won't even accept Bernie.

[Valmy]

Man you have to be one crazy paranoid fucker to believe that stupid shit

[Josquius]

Do you proudly own Mao and Stalin? No, you won't even accept Bernie.

That's the thing though. Nobody would claim Mao and Co weren't left wing. People on the left will say historic communist dictators don't reflect their views, they were doing socialism totally wrong, etc... But they won't try to claim they were actually right wing.
On the other hand it is a huge thing on the right to insist the nazis were actually left wing.

The idea that the right = pro-capitalist is fairly new and more Anglo-American in origin.

Fairly new as in mid 19th century onwards.

[Razgovory]

AFAIK the primary use of the left-right scale (which itself has a lot of problems even on a good day) is as a tool to bash or defend people/movements you dislike or like. As such details about where to put this or that person or movement doesn't strike me as extremely interesting.

Don't like where your ideas are placed on the spectrum, huh?

Do you proudly own Mao and Stalin? No, you won't even accept Bernie.

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Eddie Teach]

Your knee-jerk defense of defining politics by a faulty metric.

[Razgovory]

Your knee-jerk defense of defining politics by a faulty metric.

And because of that I should be be defending Mao?  It's a spectrum.  Every person who is on it is on it with everyone else.  That doesn't mean I should "own" every other human being on the spectrum.  Not only are you tedious, but you are one stupid motherfucker.

[Eddie Teach]

Why don't you apply these thought processes to Brain's post and your response to it.

[Razgovory]

Why don't you apply these thought processes to Brain's post and your response to it.

I took my own thoughts into the consideration when I posted the first time.  I would ask where you are going with this bullshit, but I ceased caring what you have to say.

[Eddie Teach]

I would suggest not replying then.

[Syt]

[Liep]

Can't blame a Trumpist for thinking all politicians have secret plans they will only make public if elected.