Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "The Truth About the Nazis with Stephen Hicks" video.

  1. It's extraordinarily rare that someone who does evil things on a mass scale doesn't think they are morally justified. There is no right or wrong, only consensus. The only difference between you and the absolute monster is the number of other people who agree with you.
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  2. "Don't give the state power that you don't want your political opponents to have." I say this to the leftists all the time.
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  3.  @JDHobbs  Yup. The whole world is consolidating power, from corporation mergers to banking and governments and it's scary.
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  4. The best thing about this interview was my introduction to those 25 points. That seems pretty cut and dried for anyone who wants to claim the Nazis weren't socialist.
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  5. Our education system is completely bananas because it does not recognize the need for a diversity of opinions. Telling people what to think instead of how to think is horrible.
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  6. I'm in the middle of a really long back and forth with a socialist and it's the same old story. "That's not real socialism". "Bezos and Musk have too much money" and the best one was that "Socialism hasn't succeeded because of capitalist countries put economic sanctions on them so it's capitalism's fault".
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  7. What scary is that if you tried to show this in some Canadian universities you could face discipline. There's a famous case of a girl, Lindsay Shepherd, getting in trouble for showing a clip of Jordan Peterson that she got off regular Canadian television.
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  8. Exactly. I'd rather live in a world full of desperate warlords. Then I would one filled with mega corporations, and the world economic forum. The amount of electronic control. The next generation of tyrants will have will make it almost impossible to overthrow them. If there's a kill switch for your electric car, and all of your money is in electronic form that they can cut off, and you could be tracked literally everywhere you go, that's legit dystopia. I saw a device that can remotely scan your heartbeat, and apparently everyone has an individual heartbeat like a fingerprint so you can wear a disguise, and the authorities can still know when you walk through a doorway. And that's not to mention the insane resolution satellites have now. No more privacy..
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  9.  @KatanamasterV  thanks for that fantastic summary. It would take me a tremendous amount of time to figure out if you were correct or not, but you sound like you know what you're talking about so I will definitely store that in the back of my mind.
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  10. That's exactly why I see no important differences between the far left and the far right.
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  11. Like it or not, teachers on the whole still get widely praised in society. It's still a very respected position. If you tell someone at a cocktail party you are a teacher they think you have a very noble profession. Peoples parents aren't disappointed that their child brought home their new partner who is a teacher. They get a lot more respect than people in the trades do, that's for damn sure. I could barely have a lower opinion of the academic system, and I just got finished working on a renovation at a high school that was absolutely dead full of far left Woke propaganda in Canada, but that doesn't change the fact that people still respect it on the whole. Blech!
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  12. What's it called? I've been meaning to get a copy of Mein Kampf. I bought the communist manifesto and was shocked at what a horribly written, petulant brochure it is and I'm hoping that other well sided historical books have a little more substance to them. I would like to understand what these people were thinking and feeling.
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  13.  @shangri-la-la-la  Interesting. Thanks!
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  14. I'd love to see a convo between him and Jordan Peterson. It would take days.
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  15. "I believe the world would be a better place if people realised this and had less "pride" in their own achievements." I completely agree and completely disagree, haha. Luck plays by far the #1 role in outcomes and it's not even close. But pride is the main thing that can overcome that limitation. Pride and "going for it" is what can have you succeed despite the odds. Pride can further be divided in that individual pride is great but collective pride is responsible for most of the atrocities in history, yet it's also responsible for people coming together in wonderful ways an individual pride can go way too far and caused people to be narcissistic jerks.
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  16. Oh they get a philosophical education all right, it's just extremely one-sided and sneaky in that it's not being presented as a point of view but rather as reality itself.
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  17. I guarantee your lefty friends will not only refuse to watch it, but personally insult you for sending it. They will refuse to watch it because they don't have to because it's just right wing talking points. I'll bet you my whole paycheque that would be their response.
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  18. The "not real socialism" part always gets me. Do these people think that they're just so happens to have never been anybody to try and implement actual Socialism? It's human nature itself that won't allow it to work. It's no accident that it's "never been tried". And a couple people with obscene amounts of money is a terrible reason to take the legs out of everybody else under them. Socialist movements, don't try to lift everybody else up, they try to drag the top down. I think the amount of money billionaires have is absolutely disgusting. I would definitely be a massive philanthropist, and give away most of my money way before I reached the levels of wealth they have, but I'm not gonna try and tear down the whole system just because a tiny tiny tiny percentage of people get extremely lucky and have more wealth than some small countries. Socialists always seem to focus on tearing the extremely successful down, much more than they are concerned with bringing everybody else up. And lastly, if a socialist system needs another socialist system for it to work, then it doesn't work by definition. You can't blame capitalism for Socialism not working. That absolutely makes no sense whatsoever. It's the same logic, as when people claim they are free-market capitalist, and I always called them out because they are not. Hard-core, free-market capitalist lobby, the government to bring in cheaper labor, and they want patent protections, and all sorts of things that are not part of a truly free market. Socialists can't pound the table about how their system is superior, if it literally relies on capitalism for it to function.  @theLetterDoubleYou 
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  19. The Nazi's were interesting because they were far left and far right at the same damn time. Far right socially, far left economically.
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  20. For sure. "Those guys were so mean to us and I'll get 'em back!" is a powerful message a leader can give to a pouty citizenry.
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