MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 11^th, 2022 at 12:22pm:


The "fetish" was for an alternative to the failed capitalism of the Great Depression era.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 11^th, 2022 at 12:54pm:


Er ...you haven't explained why Hitler's attraction to German men was "homo-erotic".  In fact it was his genius communication skills, arousing nationalistic fervour. 

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Support among German men and women: Hitler achieved wide-spread popularity by 1938.

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"Not hard to imagine".... you are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now....

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 11^th, 2022 at 1:45pm:

You clearly have had no intergenerational link to anyone who has lived through a totalitarian regime - that's one way of learning the truth of those regimes without personally having lived through them.

The CCP has no interest in common prosperity, it's interested in hierarchical prosperity for its apparatchiks and for those (in the Chinese context) with enough guanxi with the CCP.

This is recently evidenced by the CCP's refusal to allow non-Chinese vaccines to be used China and incarcerating millions of them in covid concentration camps. One of the issues raised by the protesters is that CCP seniors were not required to be quarantined in the camps.

You have a fetish for men who wield absolute power.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 11^th, 2022 at 1:58pm:


My ideology is progressive, certainly; the past is a teacher, not a master. Truth about the past does not define the future.


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There you go, parrot, lying garbage.

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Covid caused consternation and death all around the world.

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Prove it, parrrot.  Rule by consensus meritocracy has nothing to do with a "fetish", even among those who jumped on the Thatcherite bandwagon. That's just ideological ineptitude.

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 11^th, 2022 at 1:21pm:


Do you think the CCP members got all turgid at the sight of 50 million dead Chinese peasants?

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 11^th, 2022 at 5:58pm:

And yet the CCP is maintaining the same totalitarian ideologies as Stalin, Hitler and Mao.

You're fixated on the CCP and its supreme leader, not progressivism.

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 11^th, 2022 at 5:58pm:

This is moronic beyond belief.

A mindless parrot accusing his challengers, whose challenges he is too stupid to answer, of being parrots!!! 

You are all mindless rhetorical puffery without any coherence.

Progress - where ar ed you heading and how will you know you have arrived. Where does the idea of progressing in that direction come from?

What dies define the future?

Where do  the ideas of consensus and meritocracy come from? How did they get combined?

What about the consensus on hierarchy- a principle we all live by and teach our children, in every age and political system?