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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith Wrong again. The adaptation of Socialist ideas in the "East" led to authoritarian forms (Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism).

Democratic socialism and social democracy, by contrast, developed and governed in Western Europe (e.g., aspects of Nordic models).

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith You are talking about the Nazis and their position on the political spectrum. So you need to take European meanings into consideration.

You also invariably come to wrong conclusions when you apply modern terminology to practices and ideas of the Nazi era.

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith You are projecting a narrow, contemporary American perspective onto the entire course of history. That doesn’t work.

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith The "unwanted" were mostly the racially unwanted, see primary sources like the one linked).
German women were heavily discouraged to have an abortion. Since 1943, any medical person involved could face capital punishment.
https://t.co/x8MLmb89VD

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith I'm not. Traditional (Burkean et al) conservatives are another strand that favors organic society, tradition, hierarchy, family, religion, and ordered liberty over individualism.

Your outlook is focused on the American experience. Nothing wrong about it - but it's a narrow one.

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith Nice try to redefine right-wing – yet, from a historical perspective, individualism is a core element in only a few currents within this political spectrum: namely, in classical liberalism, economic conservatism, and libertarianism within the Anglo-American context.

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith The Nazi movement was not secular; Hitler considered himself a Christian; healthcare served racial hygiene, and abortions were rejected.

If being right-wing means being nationalist, more importantly being "völkisch" (racist in this context), then the Nazis were its peak.

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith No, Hitler was also not a fascist. He didn't place the state above the individual but the "Volk", which translates, in the case of Nazism, to "Rasse".

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@Khaledhzakariah There's a madness to it that can neither be explained rationally nor argued against to change captured minds.

If we don't find something to believe in that is worth fighting for, the fight against Islamisation is already lost.

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@starkicus @TheAliceSmith From "Mein Kampl":

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@ConceptualJames Yes, all those who describe Adolf Hitler as a leftist and the Nazi movement as communist.

Totalitarian systems have many similarities, especially in structure, methods and communication, but that does not make them identical per se - goals, for example, distinguish them.

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@luisbaram We are capable of using reason on every subject but fail to either separate this thinking from emotion, needs, and wishes, so they intermingle, or they influence or even overwhelm the result.

What reason is and how far we go on the path to truth with it are separate questions.

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@guidoquelle Nun bin ich aber neugierig: Was macht den Besten aus?

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@LibKonservLesen Wir können Kästner zugute halten, dass er nach '45 nicht den Widerstandskämpfer mimte.

Wohl kaum einer von uns weiß, wie er/sie in so einer Situation agieren würde; Corona war so etwas wie die erste zehenhohe Hürde in der Frage, wie viel staatliche Bevormundung wir akzeptieren.

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@LibKonservLesen @RichardZahnhaus Nannte Klaus Mann ihn nicht spöttisch "unseren schlauen Jungen"?

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@Devon_Eriksen_ No, we are not pack animals; terminology matters to avoid false analogies.

Our primate substrate leads to community patterns that distinguish the descendants of this tree from classic pack animals, like wolves or African wild dogs.

Your main points remain valid, though.

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@Kristof_Poland If you haven't already, broaden your horizon beyond representative democratic systems.

Modern variants of the ancient Attic democracy promise greater resistance to the most serious threats facing a system built on parties & elections.

Of course, they have their disadvantages.

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@ravenunreal I think, once again, the most profound answers will be likely kept under wraps .. or they can't be adequately expressed in words.

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@ravenunreal I'd rather be capable of listening to the whole world for 10 seconds .. without going mad, deaf and being overwhelmed.