Subj : Re: For the Californians
To   : ARELOR
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 09:37:50

>> I don't question that the entire government is corrupt, but having one
>> person in charge of everything, including deciding who the "bad ones" are,
>> is dangerous and wrong.  Other countries that tried that... Nazi Germany,
>> Stalinist USSR, several Latin American dictatorships... fail pretty quick.
>> None of them managed to last ~250 years like our country.

> I agree having a single person in charge is most often awful than good. Spanis
> Fascism was benign compared to most Fascism in the world at the time and it
> still sucked big time until the 60s - afterwards it improved because it tried
> to act less as a Fascism.

Yes, Spain is a very good example.

>> Wanting to destroy his enemies is also not a good long-run trait, especially
>> ifan "enemy" is someone who simply disagrees with you on a single policy
>> decision.  Being surrounded by "yes-men" who are either opportunists or just
>> scared of you leads to more harm than good.

> The problem these days is that there is a big chunk of the opposing side that
> literally wants YOU to die if you are not 100% on their side. It is fucking
> crazy, and I am not dramatizing.

I am aware and agree you are not dramatizing.  My issue is not with his
dislike of those people, and those people now exist on both sides.

My issue is as stated above... if you disagree on a single policy decision,
you could be labeled as "the enemy."  So currently our leader is surrounded
by "yes-people" and no one around to check bad ideas.

> I mean, I ran into a video of somebody criticising a Youtuber for displaying
> conservative traits. So far, so good. You run down the comments in the video
> and everybody is calling the Youtuber Nazi and Fascist and whatever. ANd,
> within this context, you find beautiful pearls such as "People who say violenc
> is not the answer always forgets what it took to get rid of Nazies in WWII" an
> the like. You get the picture.

> I go check some videos of the "Nazi" Youtuber. She is just a gal who talks
> about games and movies and prefers asian games over American ones because
> American ones don't foster traditional values and aesthetics anymore. Bonus
> points because she is a Christian, that makes her extra Nazi and marks her for
> priority termination.

It is sad that there is a decent sized segment of the population that
equates Christian with "Nazi" and has no clue what a "Nazi" really was.
OTOH, I also wonder how many of those commenters are real people in the US,
and how many are fake accounts intentionally trying to stir the US pot from
abroad.

> If I saw this sort of movement in my country I would AUTOMATICALLY switch to
> voting for the most sadistic genocidal bullshit nazi motherfucker who promised
> to destroy this people, because at certain point it is a matter of
> self-preservation.

I would not, but I also would not be drawn to voting for the side that
fosters the BS described above.  Both sides have got so deep into the BS I
cannot support either of them.


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