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Hoser 路 2017-04-06 13:07:00 路 #53
(03-29-2017 01:07 PM)Lunostrelki Wrote: Hitler was hypocritical because he was a powerful orator and man of will, not logic or planning. He ran Germany into the ground, not just because he started World War II, but because he dicked around with the markets and created a dysfunctional regime that required his personal hand in everything. The Nazi regime would have collapsed if it didn't loot the rest of Europe.
The more I read the more I'm convinced that Nazism is really just an idealized form of communism, mixed with the stupidest aspects of German romanticism. You have all the ingredients of state control, extreme loyalty to a political party, devotion to a godlike leader, command economy, "bad" classes that can have all their rights taken away for some abstract pseudo-philosophical reasoning, that frankly existed in Stalinism and Maoism and had their roots in Leninism.
The idea that Nazism and communism are on the opposite ends of a political spectrum is clever Marxist propaganda, designed to demonize only specific aspects of the Third Reich鈥攕pecifically its racism and genocide of Jews and homosexuals (but nary mention of the other victims who made up a vast majority).
Last time I read this, I was too drunk to understand it. Ironically, I lashed out at the author and questioned his coherence of thought.
I apologized privately, and I just wanted to go on the record to say that, fully sober again, I see that he makes a good point and supports it.
It truly is hard to know who to believe when it comes to world or even local politics. So many "facts" turn out to not be facts, and so many "reporters" and "historians" are actually subversive enemy agitators.
That's why we need the free exchange of ideas in the marketplace of thought. Let the conflicting views battle each other, standing or falling by their merits. Battling each other, however, is just what the [unequivocally evil] powers that be want us to do, and I regret falling for their ploy.
Uruz 路 2017-04-06 13:18:00 路 #54
(03-29-2017 09:02 AM)numanist Wrote: I just got done reading Mein Kampf and I saw some hypocrisy. For one, he said that Great Britain would make a great ally, and he also says that Russia would make an impossible alliance. In the end though, Hitler made a pact with Russia to split up Poland, and Great Britain went to war with Germany. He also spoke very ill of the French saying they were the mortal enemy of Germany. Ironically though, there are reports that Hitler conceived a child with a French woman. That being said some of his musings are quite agreeable and timeless.
How about the many proposals of peace for UK? Nothing? They wanted war. How about not killing all the soldiers at Dunkirk? Rudolf Hess, nothing?
Well I don't exactly look highly at people outside of Europa but I would not really care if there were some halfies of me running around the third-world.
Hoser 路 2017-04-06 13:25:00 路 #55
(04-03-2017 11:30 PM)Armogan Wrote: Hoser, yes Hitler was a great guy, just misunderstood. Sure, but what do I know, I wasn't there right.
I wasn't there when the Allies landed on D-Day, or know how horrifying it could have been on Omaha and Utah beach. But I'll just assume thousands/millions of men, historical documents, photos, video recording, etc. all are fake in order to present things in a misleading light.
Many people believe that he was not necessarily misunderstood, but rather greatly misrepresented. I used to consider these people kooks and losers until I started reading some of their points and viewing some of the "historical documents, photos, video recording, etc." that reveal a side to WWII previously swept under the carpet by the winning side.
This is why I suggest that viewing "The Greatest Story Never Told" be a prerequisite to participating in this discussion. Yes, it's one-sided (it has to be, considering how well versed we all are on the other side), but it's not propagandic. I'd compare it to a good trial lawyer using evidence, and weaknesses in his opponent's evidence, to make a strong case in which the facts do all the persuading.
I listened to an interview with the film's maker, and he mentioned that his greatest satisfaction has been hearing from so many people people who've had their worlds turned upside-down by the realization that we've been duped, overwhelmingly lied to, by our governments before, during, and since the conflict.
Watch it and find out for yourself which version of history you believe the facts and testimonies support, then let's have a grown-up conversation about it.