Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Hitler's Socialism | Destroying the Denialist Counter Arguments" video.

  1. He's like a historian or something.
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  2.  @TheImperatorKnight  I think you could make the argument that "stimulus spending" and "Keynesian economics" actually slow the economic recovery. As for safety net, it needs to be local, not national, especially in a nation like the USA which is basically a union of nations.
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  3.  CapitalismFTW  American capitalism hasn't been free-market capitalism for a long time. With every agency created, robber barons gain more control and suffer less competition. It's crony capitalism, which is basically creeping fascism.
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  4.  @Sytall  In ancap, those big companies get crushed by society, itself. In YOUR vision of utopia, they are shielded by the government, itself. They WRITE regulations that only they are big enough to comply with, which weeds out all competition. Before the FAA there were hundreds of airline companies competing. Now there are just a few, and they're all considered "too big to fail." You see it in every arena the government regulates heavily. Agriculture, health care, auto making, you name it. When government and big business speak with one voice, we're in big trouble. We live in a fascist dystopia that is cheered on by the very same people who claim to despise the big corporate interests and billionaire class, yet do their bidding, while congratulating themselves on their discernment and education.
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  5. Glad you found it. Surprised you found it.
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  6.  CapitalismFTW  You get it, but @Average Alien is correct. You're replying to the wrong person.
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  7.  @dergutehut3961  You see almonds with a chocolate coating and insist that it's chocolate with almonds inside, and that the two are totally different. SMH. Socialism/Communism/Fascism are never complete. They just control whatever strikes their interest and SERVES their interest. Hitler was a socialist. Get over it.
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  8.  CapitalismFTW  Socialism is always for the rich. They're just selective about who is allowed to be rich.
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  9.  @ashfox7498  Hitler was a socialist. Discuss.
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  10. Socialists also despise themSELVES. They project this despite on the world around them. They will MAKE things perfect, rather than LETTING things be good.
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  11. The true "left" are those who believe government should be limited. All others seek to drag us back to Divine Right of Kings, by another name.
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  12. By the time you're halfway in, you realize that all the glory is rather prosaic and myopic. The only drama is the guy next to you getting killed because of a bunch of assholes starting and then incompetently running a war.
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  13.  @josephbeckett2330  It's sad that this is the definition of "left." Because the true liberal eschews government intervention in all things.
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  14.  @BeanCounterProductions  You say "the people" so glibly, yet who acts on behalf of the people? Vested representatives of the state. But you are right about one thing: There is never total state control of the economy. Just those industries they decide to take over. They can go round up the Kulacks and centralize farming. But they can't track everything. They can track a lot. But they just can't track everything. And yet, everything somehow gets produced, more or less by private capital, and free-market exchanges. The more totalitarian, the bigger and more robust the black-market free market. The state can't possibly direct everything, especially in the early going. Instead, it takes what it wants, which is a slightly different thing.
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  15. Pretty much the John Birch Society take. Krupp still owns Krupp. Krupp just makes what the state tells it to make. Of course, it's never totally one-sided in either fascist or Marxist-Lenist rule. The industrialist enjoys special privileges. The socialists go more out of their way to hide the monetary value.
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  16. Back a year later, and this is just under half-a-million views. I think we call that "legs."
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  17.  @CoronisAdair  The differences between the two attenuate to zero, asymptotically. Ethnic pogroms in the USSR. Socialist stupidity in the 3rd Reich. It's all the same, except for superficial branding.
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  18. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
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