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Why It's Time to Treat the Hammer and Sickle Like the Swastika
The Intellectual Takeout ^ | 8/8/18 | Richard Mason

Posted on 09/18/2021 9:58:21 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

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To: Impala64ssa

“If someone were to ask you to think of either extreme of the political spectrum, odds are you would immediately picture a swastika at one end, and a hammer and sickle at the other. “. Stopped right there. No I would not think that in any way. Only liars and fools think nazis are right wing. This piece is a completely ignorant waste of words. They are both far left purely evil forms of totalitarian regimes. They deserve no distinction.


21 posted on 09/19/2021 12:59:46 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

That’s the assumption that the Political spectrum is more like a circle than a line.


22 posted on 09/19/2021 1:04:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
“That’s the assumption that the Political spectrum is more like a circle than a line.“

Yes that’s yet another example of foolishness. The whole point of left and right is to provide a means to measure the amount of government. It’s a scale with total government on the left and zero government on the right. The circle nonsense is just a leftist lie. Imagine a scale to show the relative weights of things with heavy things on the left and light things on the right. If that scale were to be a circle then at some point very heavy things would have to become light and very light things would become heavy, which like all leftist ideas makes no sense whatsoever.

The fascism on the right nonsense is a lie created by the left so they could point to the right and say “see they are mass murderers to”. Nope that’s a lie. Only the left are the murderers. They are all awful evil people. Good people are on the right.

23 posted on 09/19/2021 2:12:22 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Impala64ssa

The author buys into the lie that Nazis are right-wing. I cannot believe people feel that way. Nazis are extremely left-wing and if a person bothers to look into it even superficially they would discover this very quickly.
I immediately discount anything else I read from a person that thinks Nazis are right wing. They are willfully ignorant, who knows what other lies they try to believe and force on the rest of us.


24 posted on 09/19/2021 2:44:02 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Impala64ssa

The truth is the Nazi’s were amateur pikers in the murder department compared to the commies.


25 posted on 09/19/2021 3:40:30 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Jyotishi
Thanks for posting this. I was vaguely aware that the swastika was a "good luck" symbol (forgive my over simplification). I wasn't aware of the detailed history.

Some modern parallels, IMHO, are the use of the rainbow to symbolize "pride", the appropriation of June (traditionally the month of weddings) as "pride" month, and so forth. Though of course, not as egregious as repurposing the swastika.

26 posted on 09/19/2021 4:08:23 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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To: Impala64ssa

There’s a historical quilt block that precedes the 20th century Nazis that looks much like a swastika.

I put one in a sampler I made that hangs in our main hallway. It raises eyebrows sometimes.

Too bad it has retained the negative connotation.


27 posted on 09/19/2021 4:17:07 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (“If TPTB can force you to take a shot, what CAN'T they force you to take?” - T. Carlson (paraphrased)
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To: Impala64ssa

Fascism is merely an offshoot of Marxism that permits private ownership of industry so long as it benefits the Party and the State.


28 posted on 09/19/2021 4:58:45 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Beyond time


29 posted on 09/19/2021 5:36:02 AM PDT by sauropod (Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
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To: BiglyCommentary
The truth is the Nazi’s were amateur pikers in the murder department compared to the commies.

Absolutely true, but that didn't stop our side from sending our manufacturing, our technology, our wealth, and our sovereignty to a communist nation, all to save $.10 on communist made paint brushes.

We are just as much at fault as any leftists.

30 posted on 09/19/2021 6:00:29 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Impala64ssa

The hammer and sickle is even worse than the swastika.


31 posted on 09/19/2021 6:10:55 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Nateman

The Nazis were socialists. They’re half a baby step right of the Communists. The difference between them is roughly the difference between maroon and burgundy.


32 posted on 09/19/2021 6:12:18 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Jyotishi

The Hindu fundamentalist Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) is a fascist organization, formed in alliance with the Fascist movements of Europe.


33 posted on 09/19/2021 6:14:45 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: mass55th

They’re two ever so slightly different versions of the same thing.

Like when two different singers do the same song.


34 posted on 09/19/2021 6:15:37 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Mises had similar things to say in his discussions of “Russian” socialism and “German” socialism.


35 posted on 09/19/2021 6:17:24 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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Searching for “RSS”, I found:

Why Do Christian Missionaries Dislike Modi And the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh?

https://www.hinduismtoday.com/magazine/why-do-christian-missionaries-dislike-modi-and-the-rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh/


36 posted on 09/19/2021 2:07:39 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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