Lets talk socialism for a change
 

True or False:

*Socialists killed the Jews because the Jews didn't fit in with their democratically elected central plan

*Socialist policies have eliminated all sense of nationality and heritage

*A Socialist government cannot fix its own problems because it cannot possibly allow itself to shrink, and hence solve its own problems

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All European life died in Auschwitz

By Sebastian Villar Rodriguez - Spanish Writer, September 23, 2005.

I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth
- Europe died in Auschwitz.

We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In
Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the
chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people
who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art,
international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are
the people we burned.

Under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves
that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million
Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack
of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support
their families with pride.

They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in
filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the
government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred,
creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and
superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and
their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their
determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death,
for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our
children and theirs. What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

This is a translation of an article from a Spanish newspaper.

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True or False:

*Socialists killed the Jews because the Jews didn't fit in with their democratically elected central plan

*Socialist policies have eliminated all sense of nationality and heritage

*A Socialist government cannot fix its own problems because it cannot possibly allow itself to shrink, and hence solve its own problems

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(1) The Nazis were not socialists by any standard definition of that word. The socialists and communists during the Weimar Republic were in fact the Nazis biggest opposition. Why they killed the jews is a complicated issue.

(2) It is demonstrably untrue that socialist policies have eliminated a sense of nationality and heritage. Look at Russia or much of Eastern Europe. These are highly nationalistic countries with rich heritages.

(3) The third point assumes that fixing problems must involve shrinking government. This maybe be true in the AC cyber fantasyland, but here in the real world we have a slightly more nuanced perspective that allows for the possibility that all problems may not simply require us to retrench the state.

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Riddick's point is that Europe needs another holocaust (by all means, correct me if I am wrong).

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Yeah, what sam said.

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True or False:

*Socialists killed the Jews because the Jews didn't fit in with their democratically elected central plan

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*A Socialist government cannot fix its own problems because it cannot possibly allow itself to shrink, and hence solve its own problems

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(3) The third point assumes that fixing problems must involve shrinking government. This maybe be true in the AC cyber fantasyland, but here in the real world we have a slightly more nuanced perspective that allows for the possibility that all problems may not simply require us to retrench the state.

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The third point is merely circular logic at its worst.

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*A Socialist government cannot fix its own problems because it cannot possibly allow itself to shrink, and hence solve its own problems

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(3) The third point assumes that fixing problems must involve shrinking government. This maybe be true in the AC cyber fantasyland, but here in the real world we have a slightly more nuanced perspective that allows for the possibility that all problems may not simply require us to retrench the state.

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The third point is merely circular logic at its worst.

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Exactly my point. Government causes or proliferates problems and then tries to fix them, only further causing and proliferating problems.

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I would bet that's not what DVaut meant...

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Riddick's point is that Europe needs another holocaust (by all means, correct me if I am wrong).

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Only a State could desire and carry out Holocaust.

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I predict this will soon turn into a typical AC thread.