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Nationalistic socialist regimes almost always poison the ground beneath themselves. Especially when they try to confiscate and nationalize major sectors of the
by megaman22 8y ago
Nationalistic socialist regimes almost always poison the ground beneath themselves. Especially when they try to confiscate and nationalize major sectors of their economies. The history of the last century is so replete with instances of this being attempted and going disastrously wrong.
I can't reply for some reason, but: Ataturk should be forever revered for being one of the very few who was able to steer a country through the narrows between Charybdis and Scylla into a functional state.
- duxup 8y agoYup, Turkey is swimming in debt... and the water is getting deeper.
- duxup 8y agoI don't know what you're saying there.
- dang 8y agoPlease keep generic ideological battles off HN.
- Bizarro 8y agoInteresting that dang is making his own political comment here. Notice that when a comment is ostensibly the same tone, but one with that dang agrees with, dang is nowhere to be found. dang, do your bosses know that you're still making political comments on the forums?
- dang 8y agoI know it feels that way, quite convincingly, but I think you're just empirically wrong about this. I post such replies with boring consistency, and you can't conclude anything from them about what I disagree with. That feeling isn't reliable. It's called the Hostile Media Effect and both sides of every controversy experience it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hostile%20media%20effect%22...