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Why do you think the US has the right to police states throughout the world?
LOL. I, too, sometimes forget HN is an American majority community and get enraged by the occasional foolishly bold comment like parent's. But then the reality sets in... I am on American soil here on HN! What was I expecting?
I wonder which has the higher correlation to instability: 1 formOfGovernmentX - ie democracy, socialism, dictatorship, etc 2 On america's shit list ?
Cuba and North Korea both seem to have more than their fair share of stability, despite topping the American shit list for decades.
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Also, Hitler was a national socialist.
The name of his party was the German National Socialist Workers Party, but other than, maybe, "German" and "National", those words had about as much connection with their common meanings as the "Democratic" in "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
For instance: "All citizens must have equal rights and obligations", "Abolition of unearned (work & labor)income. Breaking of rent slavery", "Nationalization of all associated industries","Profit sharing of heavy industries","Expansion on a large scale of old age welfare","Provision of a law for free expropriation of land for the purpose of public utility". "Enabling of every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education", "State to support all outstanding intellectually gifted children".
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Brexit is inconvenient; Syria is a humanitarian catastrophe. There are several orders of magnitude of difference.
Plus Brexit was achieved by the most democratic of processes, Syria's government was overthrown from a foreign country, because someone else had all good contracts - how are the two comparable eludes me.
Unrestrained equality leads to dictatorship. Unrestrained liberty leads to dictatorship. Democracy requires a balance between equality and liberty, and the political pluralism that is inherent in the vying for power. Partisan fanatics who breathlessly wait for the total victory of their side would do well to remember this.
Unrestrained equality leads to dictatorship. Unrestrained liberty leads to dictatorship. Democracy requires a balance between equality and liberty, and the political pluralism that is inherent in the vying for power. Partisan fanatics who breathlessly wait for the total victory of their side would do well to remember this.
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> There's also an even clearer historical tension between property rights and right-wing authoritarian dictatorships This is true. However right-wing authoritarian dictatorships aren't usually ideologically driven, and don't pretend that what they're doing is just "for the good of the people". Most left wing ideological governments usually go down the bitter road to the end, and do things for political rather than fi…
>However right-wing authoritarian dictatorships aren't usually ideologically driven How is that even a logically coherent sentence...
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Sorry, you'll have to explain what you mean instead of referring to dark mysterious stories that we don't know.
Why am I not surprised? The only way you couldn't know about the Podesta emails is if you really, really, really didn't want to know.
I lived in Venezuela as the son of a diplomat in the late 80s. It was a wonderful country. As a middle schooler (grades 6-8) I rode my BMX bike all over Caracas with my buddy with no fear in the world. The funny thing is, at that time, Venezuela was known to have suffered quite a decline from it's heights in the late 70s and early 80s when it was on the cusp of being a 1st world country thanks to the oil boom and (re…
Were you living there in 1989 for the Caracazo?