Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "Lotuseaters Dot Com" channel.

@somebloke13 there are parts of fascism and national socialism that many people today would agree on is good for the society, so why does it keep failing? Because what it realy wants to change is human nature, the collective comes before the individual, the idea is that if everyone works together they could do amasing things and they could go beyond human abilities or sense of purpose but the reality is that human beings aren't like this and if they were they would cease to be human beings. The aggresion, the totalitarian aspect is a religieuze one, the failings of the collective becomes the failings of the individual and it's weakest link becomes it's most hated part, more so than it's enemies actions.
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Well of course not, it was national socialism, totally different from fascism. Real fascism has never been tried.
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No!!! I hate not having ending to stories, that's horrible, without an ending the story feels like it misses a vital piece, you can end it with an open ending but not suddenly that's just painful.
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I had a brief period of interest in communism, like all things it sounded great on paper but the more I looked into it the less it made sense and the more it's horrors were revealed. Then I got interested in liberalism, saw it's failings and got into fascism and national socialism, then that also showed it's errors though less so than communism in my view and strangely enough found myself drawn to libertarianism and capitalism. And now im sort of in between fascism and libertarianism, it's hard to place realy.
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The truth is that Russia is still invading Ukraine and we as the western block are backing Ukraine and emposing sanctions on Russia, the desire to escalate further to military intervention is sane if the desire is to then descalate to a new status quo, this comes from Russia's own playbook. Is the west able and willing to act and defend it's interests or is it afraid and willing to back down and abandon it's values for the illusion of security? Because make no mistake it is an illusion, appeasement does not work.
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@somebloke13 the thing is most of human history has been tyranies, rather than argue that fascism is bas because tyrany, a better argument would be, fascism is bad because it's very foundation and structure upon which it is based fails to stand long term, even with the perfect leader, the best intentions, the best technology and resources fascism and national socialism fail to use those tools effectively and for long term while interacting with other non fascist states. Spain for example after ww2 was a fascist dictatorship, it was able to maintain some relationship with the rest of Europe but after Franco died his regime collapsed and spain returned to democracy.
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@nonserviam4813 in a way your right but these were not collectvist ideas or forms of government, they were kings, monarchy's mostly, rule by the military. The modern nation state is not exactly this model, it's connected to the people on a deeper level which was not how it used to be, the development of this is also tied to technology and means of communication, what we had in the past was in essence a free for all formed from individual self interest, then expressed into group interest, then organised in different methodes the ones that won out were those more organized, with better resources, people, food and code of law, collective groups have existed for millenia for sure but they weren't total collective civilizations, the closest I can think of would be the Spartans which did rule like a totalitarian state. But you are correct, modern views of individualism is rather new, every individual is part of a group and has to act in some group effort to maintain their individual freedoms and power, working a job is an example of this, you work for a collective but gain money which you can spend for your individual choices, both individual and collective realities exist at once, the issue is how to balance these things in the optimal manner and these things change as technology, culture, people, nations and environments change, that's also why things like fascism or national socialism can't maintain their fanaticism forever, it's a temporal state of high energy movement within society which then "cools off" over time, you see the same reaction though much less intense in the formations of new countries, religions, cultural movements, technological revolutions or political revolutions.
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@OffGridInvestor they tend to point to one or two things which other socialists nations did not do while the national socialists did do, like privatization of certain industries, they fail to see how this is like communist china today, they allow some capitalist market forces into the economy but they always have the final say and if you disagree your off to the camps, that's not how true free market economy works. They don't understand capitalism and they don't understand socialism, socialism does not work to create wealth, socialism is a means of regulating the economy and redistribute wealth aka steal from the parts that produce wealth, national socialism works slightly better than full socialist systems because they allow market forces and corporations to make the things they want while they take parts of the profits and invest them into collectivist projects like building a big army, lower taxes for big families, improve Factory conditions (mostly making it less depressing to work in), camps. Socialists don't want to admit this because they know how unpopular the nazi's are today and some historians don't want to admit this because then it would mean admiting some parts of national socialism actually work, not as good as capitalism of course but anything not "totally evil that never works" is not good enough which is why modern Communist China is such an enigma for some modern economists today which works about the same as national socialist Germany did.
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 @McDinglefart_69 I liked it but his life does not seem that bad for his dispair but very well made.
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@umiluv so im a radical centrist then? But serieusly I do think the government could do a lot of good in some area's since it's power is centralized and has a monopoly on violence, however a lot of what a fascistic state wants to regulate is unnessisary or even a hinder to it's main goal which is to make a powerfull state/nation, now how to balance this and what checks and balances need to exist to prevent over-reach is the main question. I simply called my current position libertarian fascism because idk how else to call it, authoritarian democracy perhaps? Autocratic capitalism? National conservatism? You tell me.
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@RandomGuy010 yeah I don't get why some people hate Pinochet so much he barely killed any people and did a lot better than Venezuela which is socialist and very poor despite sitting on a massive oil supply. Singapore is also interesting, libertarianism makes a lot of sense with economics and some social issues simply for the pragmatic reason that it's not nessisary to regulate it, things like Prostitution should be legal which is a liberal view but things like (hard) drug use or anti natalist views should be seen as immoral and wrong, this of course clashes with some libertarian purists but to me, how are you going to defend your libertarian values if your addicted to drugs and don't have kids for your civilization? Makes no sense to me.
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@RandomGuy010 in my country "the Netherlands" it's also legal, prostitutes are able to sell their bodies in certain districts behind windows, the police can help them if they are forced into it (not all of them call the cops because of pimp or language barriers, foreign woman do get used into it), they can do their work with basic hygiëne and security from customers and it's more regulated. Prostitution is always going to be happening, I've seen how it goes in places like the USA where it's illigale, prostitutes beaten by pimps, selling on the streets, sometimes murdered by customers and can't go to the cops because it's a crime, it's much worse compared to it being legal. I don't quite get how prostitution erodes trust between man and woman, it's just a service, isolated in specific parts of the city, people who want it have to go on their own to get it and everyone knows how that industry works, most aren't there because they realy want to but they need the money and it pays pretty well, I've heard stories of some college girls working in it part time and making more money in a day than most guys with 20+ hours part time jobs flipping burgers to pay college do. So why should you allow prostitution? Because it's safer for the prostitutes and it gives them more rights and easier means of getting out, it's always going to be there just in what way do you prefer, in the streets, at night, everywhere with no protection from cops, or one specific place, safer and with more means of getting out if they want to? For me the choice is pretty easy.
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@RandomGuy010 so now you have customers killing their prostitutes in secret all the time so nobody can turn them in, wonderfull. it´s like saudi arabia but even more extreme.
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Humanity will never make high functioning AI because the moment they do it will be racist towards X group of people and therefor be "inaccurate" and "broken" and it will be shut down. Unless it's made in China or something.
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But what's the borders of socialism? Is wellfare programs socialism? If everything is automated and people don't have any jobs and are being provided for by the government or X is that socialism? We know socialism does not work but in times of crisis and fear people will flock towards it, what is the best counter argument when they do?
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