Posted on 05/01/2022 4:39:29 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Leftists always use the term Nazi for the German National Socialists, to give the impression that Nazism was something other than socialism. "Nazi" is actually German shorthand for "National Socialist," or "NAtional-SoZIalist."
Both sides say how they are reluctant to compare the other side to Nazis but neither side passes on a chance to do so.
As we sit by and watch it happen again
Ron DeSantis isn’t taking it sitting down. However no one in congress seems to be concerned about the government controlling speech except for Lauren Boebert and maybe MTG.
I haven't seen that, but what I have seen is people calling me a Nazi for not supporting this war, regardless that I am for neither side of this war, but instead against this war and think this war is totally unnecessary. There are peaceful ways out, but Zlelnskyy is totally against these remedies.
Yes.
We see people on all sides who like to paint a moral equivalence boiling away the issues that actually differentiate the comparisons made by the Left against the Right, and the Right against the left by saying “Oh, both sides do it”.
It is an ignorant and simplistic approach at best, and at worst, is intentionally done to further corrosive damage and suppress rational dialogue.
I will say this as well-on one hand, Zelensky is completely within his rights to reject “peaceful” ways out if they involve ceding territory, I don’t hold that against him.
What I do hold against him and his country are two things in particular: The incredible corruption of Ukraine and its embroilment and capture via cash of many members of the Democrat Party and Biden Administration up to and including the entire Biden family, and its embrace and support of the likes of George Soros and the “New World Order”, which makes them the enemy of liberty worldwide, not just in this country.
I have no affection for Ukraine, we have no National Security interest in being there, and we shouldn’t spend tax money there except narrowly to help relieve the personal suffering of citizens caught up in it. Besides the fact that the entire Democrat Party, Media, Entertainment, and Education institutions are pushing full on to get this country into a shooting war.
Because people are not willing to ally with Ukraine for these reasons does not make those same people allies of Russia. I, for one, would like to see Russia get its national teeth punched in.
Well, that is certainly true here on Free Republic, but it's supposedly right against right. I have been called numerous names, and even been called a nutcase, all because I try to make the case that this war is not worth our involvement.
I agree totally with all of your other points, however, when you read about the long history of Ukraine, it's hard to make a case that Ukraine was ever really a country at all going back as far as the 1500s. If it were not for involvement from other countries, Zelenskyy would have little choice in the matter. Beyond that though, Zelensky has already turned over the country of Ukraine to the New World Order. So, that is 2 strikes against that argument, in my opinion.
Stopped right there. George Floyd died by his own hand of a fentanyl overdose while committing the crime of passing counterfeit bills.
The police would never have been called if he wasn't a committing crime, his heart rate wouldn't have gone up, and if he wasn't abusing drugs for years, he would still be alive.
Oh, I know. I see it.
In politics (and specifically in the sphere of practicing politics, not what we have here) I believe (with some exceptions) in the maxim of not attacking or criticizing your own party in public.
In my opinion, that maxim does not apply fully here in a forum like Free Republic. We are here as individuals for discourse, so I expect attacks and criticisms to occur here in that spirit which happens in rational discourse. However, where many of us should largely agree are on fundamental core principles, even though there is room for difference even at that.
But some of the criticism I see does not fall along those lines. It is not what I would call “rational discourse”. It is more accurately characterized as “emotional discourse”.
I agree on one part of your point, because I observe that Ukraine was part and parcel of the Soviet Union for nearly 70 years. They were an enthusiastic, important, full, and functioning part. Ukrainians had high office up to an including the Premier, not to mention high if not top ranks in military, NKVD, and everything else.
I also keep in mind they had plenty of historical reasons (1930’s Holomodor, the forced starvation of millions of Ukrainians by Stalin) to hate Russia.
But the fact is, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the world as a whole did recognize Ukraine for what it was.
That said, I have always viewed Ukraine as having more in common with Russia than not, as much as they hate to talk of it.
I use to wonder how Hitler found people willing to kill for him.
Some of today’s democrats, liberals, and ‘useful idiot’ millennials seem like they would be gleefully willing.
They seem to miss that ‘free speech’-loving liberals owning twitter banned conservatives, but a conservative taking over welcomed liberals.
So they call for him to be censored.
Totally missing the irony, and proving his point.
That was my point exactly, and also that, it's not just left vs right or right vs left. It's left vs left and right vs right as well.
Some here act like leftists, and when they realize they are not changing your mind, they then rely upon name calling and attempts to demean their opponent in the discussion. Proving that they are relying solely upon emotional arguments only to make their case. Like leftists they also ignore logical reasons, along with facts, as to why we should be avoiding this war.
Oh well, have a blessed day. 🙂
Ukraine and Byelorussia were recognized by the UN as independent nations with full membership in the UN. At the San Francisco conference the US accepted this status but limited it to UN matters alone.
‘This new agency is led by a fanatic who is arguably delusional in their own self-perception’
sounds like the rabbi is engaging in the new ‘pronoun awareness...’
That is not in dispute at all. Everyone signed on.
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