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Post by Clinton Cool on Feb 22, 2021 19:03:56 GMT
This is a fact but its also the kind of divisive crap used by people who see argument as a sport and is right up there with things like 'the nazis were socialists'. Now who used that line before now...oh yes, I remember. It is a fact, just as the Nazi party being a Socialist party is a fact, from their name through their policies even down to the fact that their flag was red. State ownership of business, high taxes, very much socialist territory.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Feb 22, 2021 19:06:58 GMT
Socialists often defend the various failed socialist experiments (Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge etc.) stating: 'they were the wrong type of socialism'. I think we can all agree that the Nazis were the wrong type of socialism.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 22, 2021 19:08:49 GMT
It is a fact, just as the Nazi party being a Socialist party is a fact, from their name through their policies even down to the fact that their flag was red. State ownership of business, high taxes, very much socialist territory. And of course their pet project, Volkswagen which, as any of us who studied German at proper school translates as "people's car". The whole basis of their hatred of Jews was their opposition to private wealth creation.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 19:08:58 GMT
This is a fact but its also the kind of divisive crap used by people who see argument as a sport and is right up there with things like 'the nazis were socialists'. Now who used that line before now...oh yes, I remember. It is a fact, just as the Nazi party being a Socialist party is a fact, from their name through their policies even down to the fact that their flag was red. Yes dear.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 19:11:35 GMT
Oh yes of course Germany is doing so badly they have no economy, they produce nothing and have no power in the world.
Just a dead end country who lost a major international war.
rule Britannia !
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Post by JohnV on Feb 22, 2021 19:11:49 GMT
The thing people seem to whitewash over is that numerous black Africans were involved in the slave trade, capturing and supplying slaves. This is a fact but its also the kind of divisive crap used by people who see argument as a sport and is right up there with things like 'the nazis were socialists'. Now who used that line before now...oh yes, I remember. however it is fair comment. I am not aware of any nation that has been immune from slave raids and has not indulged in slaving at one time or another.
There is no escaping the fact that in just three years in the 17th century it is estimated that between 7,000 and 9,000 Britons were taken as slaves
The word I was searching for was "endemic" Slavery has been endemic throughout human history, the remarkable fact is that a nation who was profiting from it decided it was not moral and not just stopped it itself but did it's best to enforce that ban on the rest of the world.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 19:13:23 GMT
State ownership of business, high taxes, very much socialist territory. And of course their pet project, Volkswagen which, as any of us who studied German at proper school translates as "people's car". The whole basis of their hatred of Jews was their opposition to private wealth creation. And I'm like "and Volkswagen own Bentley". Isn't it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 19:15:33 GMT
This is a fact but its also the kind of divisive crap used by people who see argument as a sport and is right up there with things like 'the nazis were socialists'. Now who used that line before now...oh yes, I remember. however it is fair comment. I am not aware of any nation that has been immune from slave raids and has not indulged in slaving at one time or another.
There is no escaping the fact that in just three years in the 17th century it is estimated that between 7,000 and 9,000 Britons were taken as slaves
Yes, the so-called 'Barbary Pirates'. Also the issue of white slave descendants living in the middle-east together with the resultant divisions in wealth and social class is a huge issue.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 22, 2021 19:29:24 GMT
Oh yes of course Germany is doing so badly they have no economy, they produce nothing and have no power in the world. Just a dead end country who lost a major international war. rule Britannia ! The irony is that it was losing WW2 and subsequently being banned from military spending which created the economy they have today.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 19:49:49 GMT
Is there any truth to the suggestion that the real reason Adolf Hitler hated the Jews is because they refused to back him with funding as he was trying to rise to power? I expect it went down like a lead balloon but the history books say he wasn't too fond of them to begin with - an attitude still very much in fashion across the greater part of the continent.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 19:51:45 GMT
Oh yes of course Germany is doing so badly they have no economy, they produce nothing and have no power in the world. Just a dead end country who lost a major international war. rule Britannia ! The irony is that it was losing WW2 and subsequently being banned from military spending which created the economy they have today. They basically own most of Europe now anyway, which is what they were attempting to achieve in the early 20th century.
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