sakinago
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What? I never said antifa were the Nazis, where did you get that? I said antifa was the communist counterpart to the nazis. I know what antifa stands for. Nor did I ever say that progressives re-branded to "liberal" over 100 years ago, they did that much more receantly, during and after Reagan. And no, a European liberal would very much disagree with an American liberal. If you say you're liberal in Europe, that means your more like a libertarian, vs the progressives today in the US who identify as "liberal." And where does libertarian fall on your spectrum pogo, pretty far right?From the church in Mississippi, to the stabbings in Portland, the majority of terrorist acts in this country are committed by right wing extremist white males.
America's Biggest Terrorist Threat? The Far-Right White MaleAlt right violence is the biggest threat we have in the country today.
The Trump administration may deny it, but the numbers are there.
The number of violent attacks on U.S. soil inspired by far-right ideology has spiked since the beginning of this century, rising from a yearly avarage of 70 attacks in the 1990s to a yearly avarage of more than 300 since 2001. These incidents have grown even more common since President Donald Trump’s election.
Your own article admits it has to ignore 2 big Muslim extremist attacks to get its number. Also the definition of far right the author uses is the European definition. Which the European spectrum isn't so much of a spectrum, but more of a circle, or horseshoe. With fascism and communism at either tops, and what we consider libertarianism at the bottom of the U. This differs from the American spectrum, in that anarchist is far right, then libertarian, then conservative, moderate R, moderate D, progressive, socialist, national socialist, communist at the far left. Remember, NAZI stands for NATIONAL SOCIALIST. Socialist being the operative word there, and is not far off from communism. The only difference is communism has complete control of essentially everything, fascism has control of most with a little bit of ad lib ability. Which doesn't mix well with anything past moderate R. Stop calling it right wing.
Get OVER it. Naziism was extreme right wing. Always was, always will have been. Sorry, Winston Smith and his Memory Hole are part of a work of fiction. You don't get to rewrite actual history. And btw those elements who style themselves "Nazis" or neoNazis today are still far right wing. That's just the way it works.
I don't care what the name was, Nazis were never "socialists". The actual socialists in Germany at the time, they competed with, assaulted with the brownshirts, and eventually sent to Dachau as the first "guests" there. Unless you're actually willing to appear so naïve as to suggest Hitler and his henchmen were some kind of altruistically honest life form that would never ever resort to propaganda.
Nope those guys were communist, and they called themselves...wait for it...ANTIFA. And they were the brown shirts of the communist party.
Oh fucking bullshit. Nazis were never called "Antifa" --- which btw is short for "anti-fascist". NOR did I ever even bring up "antifa"; I corrected your ridiculous rewrite of Nazis. And as far as both your naïve assumption that Nazis would never engage in disingenuous propganda AND those brownshirts (SA), you know what Hitler called them? The "Gymnastics and Sports Division". And their job was to beat up and intimidate socialists. That's historical record and there's diddlysquat you an do about that.
And is a European "liberal" the same as an American "liberal?"
"Liberal" is "Liberal". Why would it change depending on which way the Atlantic Ocean is?
The traditional (european) model was France and that whole revolution, and they had split the different parties, one on the right wing of the lawn, one on the left wing of the lawn. Which is where we the traditional right and left wing. In America the progressive movement relabeled itself, as "liberal" even though the original term "liberal" meant limited government, being maximum freedom.
WRONG. The Progressive Movement didn't even occur until over a century after Liberals created this country. They were around roughly three decades and never called themselves "Liberals". Two entirely different entities from two entirely different eras.
Where do you even scrape up these weird ideas? Lush Rimjob?
Which we know progressivism is for more government. I wasn't the one who changed history. And I'm not the one blaming the American right (which you would probably agree that a constitutionalist falls pretty far on) for people who support fascism, which is tyranny and pretty much the complete opposite of a constitutionalist. This is why it's important to re-tell history.
Do you mean "rewrite"?
If y'all want to use the the traditional European spectrum, I'm fine with that, but stop lumping in conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalist etc. with NAZIs. ITS RIDICULOUS, and completely intellectually dishonest.
NOBODY "lumped anybody in" with anybody. Those of you who live on Composition Fallacies seem to ass-ume somehow everybody else will go down the same fallacy hole. Again, a fallacy is a fallacy, doesn't matter what side it's on. I'd say this here strawman is what's "intellectually dishonest".