Facebook & Social Media

[Fogdog]

Do you believe that censoring all fringe intellectual activity would be a good thing?

Remember that just a few short years ago all of the cultural "advancement" we've made was fringe.

No ideology is right. Any worldview needs constant revision from outside itself to be as true as possible. If you're a believer in the current views of either party remember that they were both vastly different 20-30 years ago, and that ideas from their fringe made it to the party platforms.

Dude,

Holocaust denial. That is fringe, Same goes with saying the January 6 rioters in the Capitol Building were just tourists. Fringe.

Computers. Not fringe. Never have been..

Got it?

 

[CatHedral]

It was literally the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

If words trigger someone they're either not mature, or suffered some kind of trauma.

Any kind of government can foster an authoritarian ruler if that's what the people fall for. But as a rule most of them hide behind collectivism. That way the "good of the people" trumps morals.

Check the mirror.
Also you use the word collectivist wrong, probably because that’s how terms get misused by the far right defector press, the Big Lie and its satellite propaganda.

As Fogdog said: please stop lying.

 

[CatHedral]

So these things have always been accepted as fact forever?

In the early 1920's a solid state computer based on the electrical properties of silicon would get you laughed out of the room. Everyone knew vacuum tubes worked fine.

False dichotomy. There is a lot between mainstream and fringe.
You are asserting that to make any advance, you need to embrace irrationality. Your example is badly biased.

 

[Fogdog]

False dichotomy. There is a lot between mainstream and fringe.
You are asserting that to make any advance, you need to embrace irrationality. Your example is badly biased.

This one seems to be trying to link the shit show going down on Facebook with geniuses who had difficulty getting the status quo to accept their ideas.

The thing is, more often than not, a crank is just a crank. I get why a crank would want to compare their self to Einstein, whose Theory of Relativity did in fact run into skepticism from established physicists at the time.

For example this guy:



RIP

They called him a crank.

He was no Einstein.

 

[mooray]

It was literally the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

If words trigger someone they're either not mature, or suffered some kind of trauma.

Any kind of government can foster an authoritarian ruler if that's what the people fall for. But as a rule most of them hide behind collectivism. That way the "good of the people" trumps morals.

Righties get so hung up on that word. He was a hardcore ethnonationalist christian that hated and imprisoned gays and people of other cultures. He hated democracy and used it to gain power and wanted to get rid of it to maintain power. Now, how-fucking-familiar does all that sound..?

Oh but the word socialist was in there, so let's just forget everything we know about ideologies.

 

[Lucky Luke]

They don't have 3 billion users, they have 3 billion accounts. Facebook says 5% are fake, independent analysis puts it at 50% fake.

More than 50 percent of Facebook users are fake according to a report

"Facebook has been lying to the public about the scale of its problem with fake accounts, which likely exceed 50% of its network. Its official metrics—many of which it has stopped reporting quarterly—are self-contradictory and even farcical. The company has lost control of its own product." It is

britewire.com

I have 3. A work one, my personal one and a fake one I made ages ago and haven't used in a few years for poker credits.

 

[Fogdog]

Righties get so hung up on that word. He was a hardcore ethnonationalist christian that hated and imprisoned gays and people of other cultures. He hated democracy and used it to gain power and wanted to get rid of it to maintain power. Now, how-fucking-familiar does all that sound..?

Oh but the word socialist was in there, so let's just forget everything we know about ideologies.

"Nazi Communists"

I've seen fascists say that in this very forum.

I don't think they know what those words mean.

They think they are like Einstein because every rational person is mocking them. Too funny that.

 

[CatHedral]

"Nazi Communists"

I've seen fascists say that in this very forum.

I don't think they know what those words mean.

They think they are like Einstein because every rational person is mocking them. Too funny that.

Fringe benefit?

“Nazi Communists” makes some sense to me, as every Nazi or Communist government was a model of authoritarian subjugation of that part of the populace that was neither ruling class (tiny fraction) “undesirables” who generally wound up dying badly.

Even so, Q = fringe = the engine of human progress

is what you get when you pour a jigger of high-proof delusion into a pint of lightly carbonated narcissism. This appears to be more addictive than tobacco.

 

[CunningCanuk]

Hitlers was actually leftist.

Said no historian, ever.

 

[Hiddengems]

Let me guess, Stalin wasn't a leftist either?

 

[CunningCanuk]

Let me guess, Stalin wasn't a leftist either?

You should stop guessing and actually read a book sometime.

Political discussions are pointless with trumptards.

 

[CunningCanuk]

Dude,

Holocaust denial. That is fringe, Same goes with saying the January 6 rioters in the Capitol Building were just tourists. Fringe.

Computers. Not fringe. Never have been..

Got it?

Is labeling Hitler a leftist fringe? Or is it just crazy?

 

[injinji]

Bad ideas die their own death. . . . . . . . . When the speech calls for specific acts of physical violence, or seeks to gather people to perform an illegal act as a group, it's not free speech.

Is telling someone to take livestock dewormer, then having that person die of Covid-19 a form of physical violence? They say it feels like an elephant sitting on their chest as they slowly choke to death. It's got to hurt.

 

[injinji]

. . . . . . . .. Hitlers was actually leftist.

Please explain. TY

 

[Hiddengems]

Straight quote from mein kampf. Seems pretty left to me.

"
We demand therefore:
11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
The breaking of the slavery of interest
12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. *
18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race."

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Straight quote from mein kampf. Seems pretty left to me.

"
We demand therefore:
11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
The breaking of the slavery of interest
12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. *
18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race."

That was just bullshit to get elected, there were actual communist and socialist parties running too. Even Bismarck was left by American standards, Germany has single payer medical care and good social programs, companies generally take care of their workers and training levels are high. Also Germany has free college education for Germans and foreigners.

 

[hanimmal]

Straight quote from mein kampf. Seems pretty left to me.

"
We demand therefore:
11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
The breaking of the slavery of interest
12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. *
18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race."

Likely because you are brainwashed into thinking whatever bullshit you got tricked to think is 'the left'.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Straight quote from mein kampf. Seems pretty left to me.

"
We demand therefore:
11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
The breaking of the slavery of interest
12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. *
18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race."

Ya couldn't believe anything Hitler or the Nazi's said, they were a criminal gang, kinda like Trump, only with brains, an organization and a plan. Donald never even bought brown tee shirts for the morons who voted for him. Shit he should have struck a medal for all the covidiots who croaked after refusing the vaccine, just to own the libs!

 

[injinji]

Straight quote from mein kampf. Seems pretty left to me.

"
We demand therefore:
11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.
The breaking of the slavery of interest
12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land. *
18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race."

I've been looking for a book I read 25 years back. Can't remember the name of book or the writer, so not having much luck. I thought I had it in my library, but so far I haven't laid my hands on it. But anyway it is a satire about a smart ass German who gets out of trouble with the Party by quoting Hitler's book. Nothing in the book actually happened. The vast amount of Germans never read the book.

It is kind of like Mr Trumpf naming his new social media platform Truth.

 

[mooray]

Let me guess, Stalin wasn't a leftist either?

Trying to hug everyone to death? No.