• Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    289 months ago

    Adolf Hitler? Socialist.

    Franklin Roosevelt? Socialist.

    Joseph Stalin? Dare I say, he was a downright pinko!

    The entirety of WWII was just leftist infighting over Trotskyist revisionism. Just a big ol’ non-binary fuss over intercontinental ballistic tweets. Wake up, sheeple!

  • BarqsHasBite
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    9 months ago

    Simple reply is: More emphasis on National[ism]. Hitler didn’t even like the name, the party was formed and named before he joined.

    • @Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca
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      69 months ago

      Having recently read Rise & Fall, yeah. The party started out as a small nationalist club with socialist tendencies to attract the impoverished WW1 soldiers. But Hitler only cared about the nationalist part, and once they had any sort of public presence, Hitler squashed any attempts at doing anything socialist. For example at one point when they were a minority party, there was a vote to take land from the wealthy Junkers, which some members of the party wanted to vote for, because it wouls be popular with their voters. But Hitler refused, because he wanted the Junker’s support and money.

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      9 months ago

      That’s not the same logic though. His logic is “Noun A is part of noun AB, that does not mean noun AB is equal to or a subset of A.” While the way you’re interpreting it is “Noun A is part of noun AB, thus AB is not equal to and not a subset of A.” The important part is that his logic only dictates that the relationship between A and AB are independent of eachother, while your interpretation states that A depends on AB in an inverse manner. Ie: “We cannot say popcorn is or is not corn based on name alone,” vs “popcorn cannot be corn because corn is in the name.”

      Not taking a side on social justice, the logical comparison you attempted just bothered me. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

    • @onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      79 months ago

      Yes, because everything must always be literal and if something is not words just don’t have meaning anymore /s