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I am on the Left, and if I am objective, a lot of very extreme lefty people seem to really like censorship when convinient. X does not censor the way they like, so clearly it is a National Socialist website now. You will notice they will claim anyone who does not think like them is a National Socialist or a Nationalist Socialist sympathizer. Disagreeing with people is not "hate" and people not agreeing with me or saying things I do not like is not hate. Free speech includes dissenting opinions and none of us should pretend to be the morality police since I too see calls of violence from the Left but for some reason that is fine when we do it. Do not like hypocrisy, does not matter what side it comes and all sides are guilty of it at some point. That just reality.
Elon, despite the silly claim that he is one, is not a National Socialist. National socialism is a full on political framework like socialism. Who here, aside a stupid hand gesture can point out the exact National Socialist policies that Elon follows? Endless ad hominems do not make a person a national socialist, at least not among adults and for the record, I do not like Elon.
But it makes sense why hate get brought up a lot since "hate speech" laws were introduced by Stalin.
Objectively speaking it is far more open today than it was before. If anyone actually bothered to read the Twitter files, which I assume most people here have not out of ideological bias they would see how much it censored as per the Biden admin requests.
If people do not like people's opinions then do not follow them or look them up. This has worked for me for decades or just do not pay attention to them.
How do you do, fellow leftists?
Nobody refers to the political philosophy of national socialism when they call someone a Nazi.
When someone gets called a Nazi, it refers to nationalistic, racist and faschist ideals and/or behaviour. You know, the stuff that was actually portrayed by the Nazis, rather than a political philosophy they named themselves for.
So they aren't National Socialists. I doubt t most people actually even know want a National Socialists actually even follows in policy outside memes.
Just a label that gets throw around just to antagonize anyone who disagrees with them. No wonder the term seems to be getting watered down. I see people calling everyone right of them a Nazi, these days.
Nationalism on its own is not a Nazi only trait. Everyone who knows history know that is vague. North Korea, China and The Soviet Union/Russia today are highly and extremely Nationalistic, are they National Socialists? In top of this, I do not know if you have travelled but Chinese people are among the most racist people I ever met. Remember when Disney has to hide Flynn's picture from the Star Wars posters or when they covered the face of Black Panther from their posters too?
Facism comes straight out of Marxism. Literally the father of Facism Giovanni Gentile defined it as Marxism + Nationalism. Where people are white canvases and the State gets to turn them into National Socialists via school and indoctrination. The only differences between National Socialists and "International Socialists" aka: Socialists, is that regard is the Socialists/Communists in practice want to seize the means of production while the NS want to not own it, but to dominate it via policy to the point that they're essentially one and the same. There is a lot of other overlaping things, too.
If we were to take that last point then the USA has been slowly leaning into Facism for the last quarter of acentury at least, moving forth regardless if the president was on the Left or the Right. So both sides are ever closer to Facism. If we are objective.
You're on the left eh? Interesting.
Been a Liberal my whole life. Just not a member of the cult mentality that some in the left seem to be part of, these days. We do exist.
For the most part, Canadian Liberals โ USA Progressives. For the crazy ones, you have to look at the recent convention of the NDP.
Then you're not on the left dumbass
He's a at the very least a nazi sympathizer, otherwise known as a nazi
Again, what National Socialist policies does he push?
"Yes"
Elon: hails from the OG apartheid state, in his free time boosts racist stereotypes about black people, far right influencers and far right political movements, one of which is literally the remnants of the Nazi party and does the Nazi salute for the whole world to see. This guy: totes not a Nazi
You really do not know the whole picture in South Africa, eh? And what is happening there.
If you are American, I do not blame you. It does not get enough coverage there.
Allow me to help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8pEGA1yhUk