Originally posted by RobtardI've noticed with the ****wit kids here Rob.
It's why we're at where we're at now with these milquetoast boys, pbot. They can't get off their mother's titty, they're dimwitted from shit testing/schooling and over-coddling and they think having enough "likes" or whatever nonsense on their social media outlets is of utmost importance.
Originally posted by Emperordmb
Actual liberals such as myself believe in freedom of speech. People who are actually proper reflections on the political principles of either classical liberalism or social liberalism hold free speech to great importance.Illiberal progressives who call themselves liberals don't. There's a difference.
You're committing the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
But here's the Political Science-y definition from Dictionary.com (emphasis mine):
"a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties."
So, yes, by this definition, maximum individual liberty guarantees from the government does seem very much fitting with your personal definition.
It's not quite libertarianism but it's close.
That student banned from class for saying there are only two genders? His college just backed down
At least sometimes common sense prevails.
Neo-Nazi wins GOP congressional primary in Chicago unopposed, congratulations surt
Jones's campaign website contains a section called "The Holocaust Racket" in which he argues that there is "no proof such a so-called 'Holocaust' ever took place anywhere in Europe against the Jews" and that Jews are "directly responsible for the murder of at least 300 million people."
Jones in February told the Chicago Sun-Times that he's a former leader of the American Nazi Party.
Off Topic, but did anyone know that John Brennan was a communist sympathizer and voted for the communist party?
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.html
Originally posted by EmperordmbCommunism is an economic system that counters capitalism. There is nothing in Marx's communist manifesto that promotes genocide whatsoever.
And now I'm guessing we're about to hear something about how being in favor of one genocidal unethical political ideology is okay but the other isn't
Stalinism and Maoism are examples of separate entities that bastardized communism.
Originally posted by Silent MasterNo. Communism is defined in the Communist Manifesto and is a term invented by Karl Marx right? Nowhere is genocide or murder or killing or anything of that order promoted in the original text.
In other words, no true Scotsman
Ethnic cleansing is a central message of Nazism, meanwhile...
The two are a false equivalence
Originally posted by Firefly218
No. Communism is defined in the Communist Manifesto and is a term invented by Karl Marx right? Nowhere is genocide or murder or killing or anything of that order promoted in the original text.Ethnic cleansing is a central message of Nazism, meanwhile...
The two are a false equivalence
You mean like this false equivalence?
Originally posted by Firefly218
Churchill should’ve wished Hitler a happy birthday right? Maybe the Persians could’ve just congratulated Alexander on his road victories :facepalm:
Originally posted by Blindside12That was a joke you took too seriously... And it's not a false equivalence. Russia cyber attacked America in 2016, Germany bomber attacked Britain during ww2.
You mean like this false equivalence?
So Churchill being friendly with Hitler after an attack can be likened to Trump being friendly with Putin after a (granted much smaller and more covert) attack.
Churchill and Hitler were engaged in actual war. America and Russia are engaged in cold war.