Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered."Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"
- Name: beepbeepitsme
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I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Like Arthur Dent from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", if you do not have a Babel Fish in your ear this blog will be completely unintelligible to you and will read something like this: "boggle, google, snoggle, slurp, slurp, dingleberry to the power of 10". Fortunately, those who have had the Babel Fish inserted in their ear, will understood this blog perfectly. If you are familiar with this technology, you will know that the Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation. It excretes energy in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said; or in this case, what was read. The Babel Fish, thanks to scientific research, reverses the problem defined by its namesake in the Tower of Babel, where a deity was supposedly inspired to confuse the human race by making them unable to understand each other.
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13 Comments:
Wahay! I'm a liberal airhead!
Communists have killed far more people than fascists. In other words: I would rather be a fascist than a commie, any day.
I scored a 2.8 aka "liberal airhead."
:)
Yeah, no real shocks how I scored either. Hello to my liberal airhead friends. :)
Re the troll:
How about we avoid being either?
The world doesn't need repressive regimes.
It doesn't need fascism nor any other totalitarian regime.
Like many conservatives, you trot out the same hoary chestnuts.
"Better dead than red."
"Better a fascist than a commie."
All the while you are getting your panties in a twist about damn commies, you should be trying to avoid being either a fascist or a communist.
But anyone historically who has called their opposition, communists or socialists; these people HAVE been fascists and they have gone on to repress not only their own populations, but the populations of other nations around the globe.
So instead of playing the "either or game", how about you understand what a logical fallacy is and recognise that politacal ideology isn't about 2 choices.
(The logical fallacy of false dilemma (also known as falsified dilemma, fallacy of the excluded middle, black and white thinking, false dichotomy, false correlative, either/or dilemma or bifurcation), involves a situation in which two alternative points of view are held to be the only options, when in reality there exist one or more alternate options which have not been considered. )
Does anyone know why in any description of fascism such as the one in your post, none appear to reference economic policy?
Just something I've noticed over the years - communism, socialism, capital-a Anarchism - these always have a bit about economic policy inserted prominently into the description, but fascism never does.
"Corporatism" most certainly does not count - particularly when placed right next to "authoritarianism".
Alternate options? As you don't trust the democratic process and think people are too stupid to form majority decisions, I'm truly curious to hear some alternate options that you might have, beep. Please, do tell......
RE dikki :
"Corporative state, economic system inaugurated by the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in Italy. It was adapted in modified form under other European dictatorships, among them Adolf Hitler's National Socialist regime in Germany and the Spanish regime of Francisco Franco. Although the Italian system was based upon unlimited government control of economic life, it still preserved the framework of capitalism. Legislation of 1926 and later years set up 22 guilds, or associations, of employees and employers to administer various sectors of the national economy. These were represented in the national council of corporations. The corporations were generally weighted by the state in favor of the wealthy classes, and they served to combat socialism and syndicalism by absorbing the trade union movement. The Italian corporative state aimed in general at reduced consumption in the interest of militarization."
http://www.answers.com/topic/corporatism
RE the troll:
Please show where I claimed NOT to trust the democratic processes?
I said that the majority of people are stupid.
You must be in the majority.
Excellent response, Beep.
Corporatising trade unions sounds incredibly radical for a reactionary political structure.
1.6--a whining rotter. I'm sure that's compatible with liberal airheads. Yay us!
Thank whoever, I am a liberal airhead. For a minute, I thought I might actually be a fascist. By the way, I finally got around to blog rolling you.
"You are a liberal airhead". Okay, I take it!!!
Thanks, Beep!
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