If anyone thinks that a social media campaign like this is going to change reality on the ground, they've been reading samantha powers' tweets about Ukraine.
Since I don't have any experience with the Nazis, I'm skeptical about this whole enterprise. I don't see how flaunting the fact that the German people in their own homeland are being replaced by people from other ethnicities and other cultures is showing "love" anymore than it would be showing "love" to confront Native Americans with the fact that they have been replaced by people of a different ethnicity and of a different culture.
Both skin/hair coloration and language ethnicity are easy surface markers that allow sick toxic narcissists of the world to play games with the lives of their narcissistic supply people. And that will always be true.
You have genuine ethic and nationalist far right purity tests, and genuine far-right fascism in many quarters in Europe, but you also have further Left groups with similar fascist roots.
Atop that you have this kind of more mainstream sanctimony and bien pensant Left-liberalism (aside from all of Europe's other issues).
Hence you can end-up on a see-saw which devolves into violent conflict (among all the reasons people go to war).
It also makes it hard to be moderate, to be a genuine defender of liberty whether you're religious or not.
It makes it easy to end up with a huge, dysfunctional political union and Eurostate.
I suspect this is why Hitchens was so sensitive about being called a fascist, and why he was so dogged in seeking it out.
I also suspect it's why many progressives in America constantly seek opposing interests to be extremists, activists etc.
Like seeks like, and they follow their ideas where they lead.
The rest of us can get sucked in and have to deal with the consequences.
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If anyone thinks that a social media campaign like this is going to change reality on the ground, they've been reading samantha powers' tweets about Ukraine.
How's that working out?
"We destroyed hate with love..."
Self lovers. Just another kind of Nazi.
Since I don't have any experience with the Nazis, I'm skeptical about this whole enterprise. I don't see how flaunting the fact that the German people in their own homeland are being replaced by people from other ethnicities and other cultures is showing "love" anymore than it would be showing "love" to confront Native Americans with the fact that they have been replaced by people of a different ethnicity and of a different culture.
Both skin/hair coloration and language ethnicity are easy surface markers that allow sick toxic narcissists of the world to play games with the lives of their narcissistic supply people. And that will always be true.
A "Wild tolerance party." Sounds horrible, which I guess was the point.
Maybe we can mass-troll the Democrats like this.
You have genuine ethic and nationalist far right purity tests, and genuine far-right fascism in many quarters in Europe, but you also have further Left groups with similar fascist roots.
Atop that you have this kind of more mainstream sanctimony and bien pensant Left-liberalism (aside from all of Europe's other issues).
Hence you can end-up on a see-saw which devolves into violent conflict (among all the reasons people go to war).
It also makes it hard to be moderate, to be a genuine defender of liberty whether you're religious or not.
It makes it easy to end up with a huge, dysfunctional political union and Eurostate.
I suspect this is why Hitchens was so sensitive about being called a fascist, and why he was so dogged in seeking it out.
I also suspect it's why many progressives in America constantly seek opposing interests to be extremists, activists etc.
Like seeks like, and they follow their ideas where they lead.
The rest of us can get sucked in and have to deal with the consequences.
So hate has been destroyed in Germany?
Great. Go to work on exaggeration and grandiosity next.
Yes, nothing "destroys" Nazis like social media.
Is Iran next?
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