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> to call the Federalist society, the editorial board of the WSJ, and basically all conservatives "fascists" is just obscene If the shoe fits. Suppose that so

> to call the Federalist society, the editorial board of the WSJ, and basically all conservatives "fascists" is just obscene If the shoe fits. Suppose that someone were to hook you up bodily to 220 volts. Would it make a difference to your subjective experience whether said voltage were coming out of a mains socket, an auto inverter, or a generator turned by a team of mules? Likewise, many of us languish under the thumb of arbitrary authority, and don't give a rat's ass whether it is of state or corporate origin. Unlike the inhabitants of traditional autocracies, we are allowed some degree of choice regarding which miniature dictatorial hell we are to be imprisoned in from 9 to 5 - but the difference ends there.

hvs 17y ago
I think a group that killed 6 million Jews is a little different than the job that you go to every day.
- asciilifeform 17y ago
  The key portion of this phrase is "a little." I reject the notion that evil is a scalar, with Nazi Germany as a permanent and unbeatable record-holder, and that the only measure of a society's evil is the rate at which it fills up mass graves. Godwin's Law, I piss on thee. The popular preoccupation with the most picturesque Nazi atrocity has prevented any lessons from being learned from their lesser crimes. Crimes which continue to be committed, by people who do not speak German. Crimes which are unforgivable though they may fall short of murder.
  - hvs 17y ago
    Crimes like employing you? Crimes like creating the greatest prosperity in the history of the world? Just because you don't like your job doesn't make it a "dictatorship". Living in the U.S. and complaining about "dictatorship" is ridiculous if you actually look at what it is like to live in a real dictatorship. And it minimizes what the people that actually live under it have to deal with.
    - TheSOB88 17y ago
      Sure, we live in prosperity, but at what cost? I'm sure the slave children working for Nike agree with you.

hvs 17y ago

I think a group that killed 6 million Jews is a little different than the job that you go to every day.

asciilifeform 17y ago
The key portion of this phrase is "a little." I reject the notion that evil is a scalar, with Nazi Germany as a permanent and unbeatable record-holder, and that the only measure of a society's evil is the rate at which it fills up mass graves. Godwin's Law, I piss on thee. The popular preoccupation with the most picturesque Nazi atrocity has prevented any lessons from being learned from their lesser crimes. Crimes which continue to be committed, by people who do not speak German. Crimes which are unforgivable though they may fall short of murder.
- hvs 17y ago
  Crimes like employing you? Crimes like creating the greatest prosperity in the history of the world? Just because you don't like your job doesn't make it a "dictatorship". Living in the U.S. and complaining about "dictatorship" is ridiculous if you actually look at what it is like to live in a real dictatorship. And it minimizes what the people that actually live under it have to deal with.
  - TheSOB88 17y ago
    Sure, we live in prosperity, but at what cost? I'm sure the slave children working for Nike agree with you.