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There's some irony in Germany using censorship for the purpose of ensuring people don't get into reading materials that might convince them to become... fascist
by mikestorrent 29d ago
There's some irony in Germany using censorship for the purpose of ensuring people don't get into reading materials that might convince them to become... fascists who censor people
- p-e-w 29d agoThere is no irony. The German government is proto-fascist, and has been for a while, as are several other European governments. Apparently the UK now arrests more people per capita for online speech than China does.
- zmgsabst 29d ago[flagged]
- ahartmetz 29d agoMentioning evil Soros is like a 100% reliable political crackpot indicator, even though this here is a quite original take. He is usually an evil Jewish globalist, i.e. a nefarious leftist. I think he seriously pissed off the right people in Russia who are now throwing whatever shit they can think of at the wall, and some of it sticks. They do not try to be consistent at all, anything that will convince someone is fine.
- zmgsabst 27d agoI’m American — I just view politics through form rather than propaganda. Eg, the concept of “left vs right” arises from USSR propaganda distancing themselves from fascists, who believed in similar practices. You should also respond to the substance of what I said, rather than engage in ad hominems.
- ahartmetz 29d agoI would like to see your definition of fascism under which the German government is proto-fascist.
- p-e-w 29d agoAn authoritarian state that exercises oppressive power through legalistic institutions in league with a corporate oligarchy.
- panarky 29d agoGermany has its problems, but it's consistently in the top 15 most democratic nations in the world. Calling a solidly democratic nation "fascist" is a rhetorical reversal straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
- antonkochubey 29d agoGermany’s last officially fascist government was democratically elected
- panarky 29d agoCitation needed.
- sekh60 29d agoFor Hitler? He won the most seats of all the parties in the Reichstag in 1932 with 37 or so percent of the vote. That majority would normally have gotten him appointed as Chancellor (by tradition). He used violence and backroom dealing to get from that majority to become Führer, but without a doubt Hitler did get his foot into the door democratically.
- panarky 29d agoHe was never democratically elected.
- p-e-w 29d ago> Germany has its problems, but it's consistently in the top 15 most democratic nations in the world. According to what? Some think tank’s “democracy index”, carefully constructed to preserve the illusion that Western countries are free and democratic? That’s begging the question.
- ajjahs 29d ago[dead]