YOU have no idea, because the comment in question could be interpreted both literally and figuratively. Better to have a cool historical artifact then the many things you have been rightly ridiculed for.
No, I actually have a pretty good idea of what you meant. You own a Nazi armband, and you’re also a bit cowardly to just own up to that instead of get all weaselly.
And I don’t think you collect these things as “cool historical artifacts” either. You collect ephemera of the Third Reich because the intellectual repression of the Third Reich is appealing to you. You want to live in a world where a dictator can control your access to information and certain ideas (political dissent) is grounds to get thrown in a KZ. You want to live in a world where due process is shredded in favor of purges. You want a world where your neighbors can rat you out for counter revolutionary activities and get rewarded for doing that. And you want to do all of this in the context of AI tools and digital information processing, so that the government doesn’t even need to designate persons of interest any longer; they can have their ear to everyone’s door regardless.
And ironically, you are just too fucking dense to get that if the Democrats were the sort of threat you imagine them to be, you’d not have the freedom to make these comments.
My views reflect bedrock principles of human nature and civilization, that have been tested through the centuries and millennia.
Logical fallacy: appeal to precedent. Just because something has been done a certain way for a while, doesn’t mean it’s the best way.
E.g. Slavery has been “tested through the centuries and millennia”; Britain did away with it in the 1700-somethings, and America finally got rid of it in 1864. And since that time humanity has been more productive than ever before, so we seem to do just fine without the time honored institution of getting to schedule other people as property.
Censorship in Nazi Germany worked beautifully.
I don’t think Nazi Germany lasted long enough for you to say that.
There is no fair debate here, no with mass media conglomerates being wielded by powerful, pernicious interests. The concept of "manufacturing consent" gets to the heart of it.
You’re not debating the Jewish Liberal Media Cabal, you’re talking to me, an individual. If you act like this discussion is beneath you, it’s not. If you can’t actually convince other people why they should give up their right to think for themselves you’re never going to be able to sell a return to political censorship. (And notably, in your imagination you don’t have to: you want these conditions imposed on everyone else without buy-in.)
Point three is even further beneath discussion.
“I’m not intellectually lazy and insecure in the merit of my beliefs, I just think this is beneath me.” It isn’t though.
This site has been dropped from Clouflare, and numerous ISPs. In the US we have lawfare waged against outspoken dissidents, the US government actively courting the tech industry to quietly censor counter-narratives, while the IRS is used to shake down and hem up political rivals. This is all while, and because, we have subversive elements using our own priniciples to hobble and bludgeon us.
Point being, the problem with free speech, is that real free speech has never been tried. We need more satanists holding black masses in government buildings. We need more private political campaign contributions, we need fewer privacy regulations and further normalization of degeneracy. Cum is cum, bigots.
I’m just gonna be pedantic here and note that freedom of expression doesn’t imply you can make other people do business with you. It doesn’t imply several things that piss you guys off, ie it doesn’t imply a right to a platform either.
Which of these is more sympathetic:
1. I have a right to be a seething cunt to people online because I want to be
2. I have a right to debate the merits of political ideas that the right and left wing party organs of my country would prefer to suppress by banning, deleting content etc.
I get that if we have 2, 1 will follow, but campaigning for free speech on the merits of making amhole jokes about Kevin Gibes isn’t really bringing out your best compared to (example) a discussion on why bad GRS outcomes are getting censored and bullied out of Reddit, where many trannies get their GRS information. It makes this community hard to love and hard to defend tbh.
