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I actually find this talking point so braindead that, to this day, I still have a hard time believing that people genuinely believe it. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

You don't understand. What I'm saying is that you shouldn't care about it. Do you care if the North Korean dictator is left-wing? No? Good, you shouldn't. The same way you shouldn't care if Nazis were right-wing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'd argue that you should very much care about the political alignment of extremist leaders, because it show you where an ideology can ultimately lead to if left unchecked. As the poster above said, it doesn't mean that all right-wing people are nazis, but knowing the nazis were right-wing shows you where a right-wing government can end up if the wrong set of conditions happen to come along. This is important information, as you can spot the warning signs as they appear and (hopefully) nip it in the bud before it gets to that point.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    They are behaving like Nazis regardless of if the Nazis were right-wing or left-wing. Nazi behavior can happen in the left or the right. As I already said, discrimination, murder, superiority complex, racism and exploration has also happened in left-wing systems.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Of course bad things happen at the extremes of both sides, but I'm going to have to object to "regardless of if the Nazis were right-wing or left-wing." I don't think there's really room to equivocate on that - nazism is right-wing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    It is. Just like fascism, these are terms associated with the right-wing. But that's not my point... My point is that whatever affiliation the right or left had in the past does not necessarily represent the current affiliations. The fact that the US right-wing is turning to white supremacy is unrelated to Nazis being right wing. That is just a reflection of their systemic racism.

    What I'm saying is that it is irrelevant if Republicans are trying to associate the left with Nazis, because even if such association existed, it is not a valid argument to say that the left today is ruled by Nazis, or that the right can't behave like Nazis. That's just a fallacy, the same fallacy that they use to point out that voting left will turn us into North Korea or an authoritarian left-wing dictatorship.

    I can't believe people aren't getting this. It's like they don't understand I'm actually pro-left with this argument, somehow they think I'm protecting Nazis and Republicans because I'm not shouting "REPUBLICANS BAD!"

    Going back and pointing out how Nazis were right-wing is something that will bite the left in the ass because there are plenty of examples of the left turning into shit too. So instead of comparing with past examples, just analyze their current positions. Is the right currently behaving like Nazis? Yes. Do you need WWII Nazis to be right wing for this to be a fact? No. So even if they convince people that Nazis were left wing, how does that disprove that RIGHT NOW they are the racists and white supremacists?

    I'm just saying, don't play their games.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like you're being deliberately obtuse. You're right in that by itself trying to define the nazi party of the past in terms of present day left/right ideology is reductivist, and unproductive in discourse. But you're ignoring two important facts in the present day right/left dynamic. First that literal modern day nazis have shown a distinct preference for right wing ideaology. Second is that fascism as an ideology is a chameleon that latches onto present day conflict to unite people through oppression of a weak other, which is the basis for present day right wing policy. As such the comparison becomes apt because the fascists of the past are a model for the fascists of the present.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    OK, by that same logic the left-wing dictators and collapsed systems of the past are a model for the present. So is the right justified to push fear with those past examples to show how bad the left is?

    Do you see that's just the same flawed logic they use to scare people away from the left?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Do you care if the North Korean dictator is left-wing?

    Kim Jong-Un is right wing. So were Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Xi, and Che Guevara. In fact, they were all moderate Republicans whose ideas are 100% in line with the current Republican Party platform. There's no daylight at all between any of them and Ronald Wilson Reagan.

    Before you respond, remember that you don't care what their politics are because it doesn't matter.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Dafuq, North Korea is left wing. OK, so was the Soviet Union also right wing when they marginalized minorities through Russification?

    "if it is bad, it is right-wing".

    And yes, my whole point is that the fact North Korea has a left-wing dictatorship doesn't mean that all left-wing parties will become dictatorships. You finally got my point, damn, it took you so long.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    North Korea is 100% a right wing country, right wing policies and a dictator. You can't argue with that fact.

    Stalin claimed his government was left wing and Marx based but it was revealed that he was right leaning, a dictator and instilled right wing policies.

    https://www.salon.com/2021/08/14/republicans-claim-to-fear-left-wing-authoritarianism--but-theres-no-such-thing/

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ah ok, as I said, "everything that is left wing is good and paradise. Everything right wing is pure evil".

    In a left-wing state the state always holds the power... So once that state becomes corrupted and uses that power to keep all workers equally poor, then it is suddenly right wing? Show me what were the capitalist principles in the Soviet Union? Was there a free market, private incentive, private property, competition, minimal state intervention, entrepreneurship, individual rights and freedoms? NOOO THERE WEREN'T. It wasn't a right-wing state.

    You guys are insane. Lemmy became an echo chamber for your delusions. It's really sad to see people this radicalized.

    A dictator is a dictator, who the fuck cares if they are right or left wing? A racist is a racist. A murderer is a murderer. They can be found in any side of the political spectrum, but you're too biased to believe the left can be corrupted... You are too blinded by what is right and what is left and are totally unable to see there can be combinations of ideologies.

    You say dictators are right wing because they don't follow some left-wing principles? Then I could argue that all dictators are left-wing because by definition the right strives to minimize government controls, and a dictatorship is authoritarian, which goes against right-wing policies... But I'm done arguing. This is my last Lemmy comment. You are so blinded by the left vs right argument you can't see beyond that. This degree of fanatism can't be healthy, I don't want to become radicalized like you people. This self imposed blindness is sad and pathetic. Good bye.

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