The Fuck's Going On Here
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It's his constant retardation nowadays where according to him, the "equality" that Locke/Hobbes/Rousseau/etc. mention is basically akin to the communist "equity."James, I went to 4 years of online school.
The liberalism = communism take is bizarre coming from someone that did the whole classical liberal song and dance for years. After spouting off about all the 18th century thinkers who developed philosophies of liberty for a decade now you can’t turn around and say the philosophy is communist when that whole system kicked off over a hundred years later.
Besides, there’s tons of bleeding heart liberals that are capitalists and business owners. How does his thesis of liberalism = communism square that?
Which allows commies to push the ideal of "liberalism isn't able to make things equal. This you must support us to get 'true equality.'" according to his interpretation.
The big issue is he's being retarded over this; none of the old liberals, not even Rosseau argued for a "total equality/equality of outcome" that he seems to be going on about. From what I know, the 'equality' they go on about is a general "equality under the law/equality of opportunity/'equality of humanity'".
Also, I can't wrap my head around why he seems to think the liberals talking about "man in a state of nature" was them thinking literally; and not a thought experiment. When some of them have even said the thing was effectively a thought experiment. This would be like taking "Schrodinger's Cat" or the "Vaush and the coconuts on the island" thought experiments and saying "well since the experiment was never actually conducted, any ideas drawn from it are false." It basically sounds like the "Imagine you didn't have breakfast yesterday" with Carl failing that.
I'm not gonna lie, but it feels to me like Carl is desperate to link Liberalism to communism, so he can espouse liberal values while still keeping himself endeared to the dissident right sphere he's shifted to because AA and other right-wingers he's surrounded himself with/read and considers himself knowledgeable about. Honestly, it seems to be why in that debate, he came off to me as a kinda "Everything bad is liberalism!"/"Liberalism is the devil!" preacher than anything.
I mean, Carl's had a real stick up his ass about how "the British Empire was a definite good!" because Hong Kong and them spending more money on some of their colonies than taking out from them. (Ignoring just how much they took from their crown jewel India and all the shit that went down there since the days of the British EIC.) I really just think Carl thinks being Bri'ish is naturally great; which I wouldn't mind, a healthy love and respect for one's homeland is a good thing. He's just retarded about it to a stupid extent; though I believe that is partly thanks to Bri'ain fucking itself harder than a $5 hooker and all the main leaders/main politicians/media seeming to hate the shit outta Bri'ain and the Bri'ish.The problem is Carl has the automatic assumption that Britbongism good due to his elitist smugness unlike what Nietzsche has said in striving for refining culture and positive values and he is closer to a neocon ethnonat type considering his gay obsession with Assyria, Mesopotamia, Rome and the like, we wuz aryanz shit. I can understand if Britbongistan is getting fucked demographically but Carl would have you think Brits invading other countries to spread Britbongism George Bush style is good which is counter to the kind of closed tradconism Enoch Powell advocated for. It also does not help that Carl is such an aristocratic smug bastard about it to other people, nobody would want to assimilate into Britistan if they meet people like Carl.