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What nonsense. The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. Read a book, FFS. Edit: Terms like "Totalitarian", "Fascist" and "Communism

What nonsense. The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. Read a book, FFS. Edit: Terms like "Totalitarian", "Fascist" and "Communism" have real, historical backgrounds. When they are casually applied where they don't belong, they derail the discussion (much like "Nazism", hence Godwin's Law) and prevent a real debate about real issues.

PavlovsCat 13y ago
The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. Read a book, FFS. How about we start small, and read the posts we're replying to, hmm? "Totalitarian", "Fascist" and "Communism" have real, historical backgrounds. Yes, and? Where did I mention any of these? Books may be too heavy to me, but I can parse single sentences from Wikipedia, such as this one from the page about totalitarianism: The term 'an authoritarian regime' denotes a state in which the single power holder - an individual 'dictator', a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite - monopolizes political power. However, a totalitarian regime attempts to control virtually all aspects of the social life including economy, education, art, science, private life and morals of citizens You see, the difference is basically that you put down slave uprisings, but don't care what color their underpants are, or wether they like you, or what they think - only in so far as that affects performance. Not sure where "making people wear flair", nodding to buzzwords or Japan fit in there, but at any rate totalitarianism, in comparison with simply controling the jugulars and assholes of golden gooses, is a silly and ineffective thing. It even sucks as strawman.
ferdo 13y ago
> The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. The US has the highest prison population per capita on the planet. It is most assuredly well on the road to totalitarianism.

PavlovsCat 13y ago

The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. Read a book, FFS. How about we start small, and read the posts we're replying to, hmm? "Totalitarian", "Fascist" and "Communism" have real, historical backgrounds. Yes, and? Where did I mention any of these? Books may be too heavy to me, but I can parse single sentences from Wikipedia, such as this one from the page about totalitarianism: The term 'an authoritarian regime' denotes a state in which the single power holder - an individual 'dictator', a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite - monopolizes political power. However, a totalitarian regime attempts to control virtually all aspects of the social life including economy, education, art, science, private life and morals of citizens You see, the difference is basically that you put down slave uprisings, but don't care what color their underpants are, or wether they like you, or what they think - only in so far as that affects performance. Not sure where "making people wear flair", nodding to buzzwords or Japan fit in there, but at any rate totalitarianism, in comparison with simply controling the jugulars and assholes of golden gooses, is a silly and ineffective thing. It even sucks as strawman.

ferdo 13y ago

> The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. The US has the highest prison population per capita on the planet. It is most assuredly well on the road to totalitarianism.