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gerland commented on The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning vox.com/2015/2/11/8016017... · Posted by u/haltingproblem

4ggr0 · 5 years ago

https://www.quora.com/Was-Hitlers-Nazi-party-left-wing-or-ri...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/05/right-need...

gerland · 5 years ago

Have you even read this quora answer? It pretty much tells outright that the nazi party was not right wing.

Edit: I would recommend less Twitter and Netflix and more L. Wittgenstein.

gerland commented on John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future' theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/agronaut

fendy3002 · 5 years ago

In buddhism there is the four noble truths, a teaching about living life and facing death.

In short, what many people afraid in death (or in life generally) is the fear of losing, either losing their possession, losing their loved ones or how those loved ones will feel when losing you, losing your ability to do your job, etc.

In the teaching, if someone is able to overcome that fear (suffering / dissatisfaction), he / she can accept death as a cycle of living and live more relaxed life.

gerland · 5 years ago

Do not go gentle into that good night.

gerland commented on The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning vox.com/2015/2/11/8016017... · Posted by u/haltingproblem

4ggr0 · 5 years ago

Why would the Nazis not be rightwing?

gerland · 5 years ago

Depends how you define right wing. Were the nazis totalitarian? Yes, but so was the CCCP. Were they socialists. Definetely yes. Were they catholic, or even christian. Not at all. If you say that the republicans are right wing, then it's hard to put nazis on the same plate. The meaning of the term right-wing changed a lot in the last 100 years. If you trace back to Spain during the Franco reign, then you will quickly realize, that a lot of the people fighting for republic were in fact far left (including notably some anarchists). Basically the whole republic concept was considered to be a lef-wing thing (and it was for the time). Were nazis right-wing? At that time yes. Are nazis right-wing in the modern meaning of right-wing? Definitely not, those two have nothing in common.

gerland commented on The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning vox.com/2015/2/11/8016017... · Posted by u/haltingproblem

the-dude · 5 years ago

The article touches on the 'moderate left', which was seen as a bigger threat than the right ( were the Nazi's rightwing? I dare to question ).

However, since the fall of the USSR, the 'moderate left' in Western Europe seemingly have lost interest in the classic ideals, bowed to neo-liberalism and found alternative ideals.

So maybe he was not wrong after all.

edit: posted under wrong parent before. I deleted and reposted.

gerland · 5 years ago

The problem with far left (or far right) formations, is that their biggest oponent is not the far right. It's the moderate left. Almost no one from far left starts outright supporting far right, but a lot of people "seep in" to more certer oriented views as they age. Also the only way to get into places of power in a "attention economy" is to be more radical than all the rest. Most people do not have any political views at all. The "silent majority" is a myth. Those are people that will just bend to anything that is mainstream, while complaining about this at home. The reason for that is that they do not have an integrated political view that is sufficienty important. It's just a third rate thing, while for the radicals it's the most important thing in the world. Political environment is developing based on movement. If there is no shift, there is no place for people to make careers, that's why no one who is seriuous about being a politician will stick to defending the center. An attack position will always yield better result than a defensive one. You do not have to have answers to all the possible problems, in reality you do not have any answers at all, just prove that your oponent does not have answers to SOME problems. It's a game that we cannot avoid playing and a game that makes everyone lose in the end.

gerland commented on Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly joindiaspora.com/posts/7b... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

Der_Einzige · 5 years ago

Good old "actually I'm not a fascist, I'm a super fascist" evola...

gerland · 5 years ago

There is nothing more than one can say about Evola that wasn't said before. You can pretty much go to his page on Wikipedia and the first few paragraphs sound like a hit piece. I will say that everything is true, even the things that I know for sure are not. It does not matter, in the end there he is, popular as never before. "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

inb4 > Churchill was a fascist, let's tear down his statues.

gerland commented on Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly joindiaspora.com/posts/7b... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

dredmorbius · 5 years ago

The first is Ted.

Who is the second? Evola?

Any specific elements?

gerland · 5 years ago

Yes, Evola. The first few chapters about nihilism are probably the most relevant. Keep in mind that if you want to strawman this on, it's very easy. Filter out the Kali Yuga, etc. stuff if this is not to your liking and the rest is still pretty informative.

gerland commented on Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly joindiaspora.com/posts/7b... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

gerland · 5 years ago

"Industrial Society and its Future", "Ride the Tiger". Good night.