Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1. You Italians really should start translating Renzo De Felice's and Emilio Gentile's work into English (or even some works of the Fascists themselves, such as Sergio Panunzio's), so people could get properly educated regarding Fascism and what it actually was.
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  2. Sadly there is no objective "Rule of Law" ... and it is generally formed (and changed) by the State apparatus to suit its needs, which is why such apparatus should be kept as limited and small as possible.
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  3. There is no Right wing in the UK though.
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  4. Simping for the government now are we?
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  5. Who's gonna tell Idris Elba that kitchen knives "without points" are already a thing ... and called butter knives?
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  6. Do you people need to be reminded, that every single socialist one-party dictatorship had a single leader?
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  7.  @edrossall182  "There is no form of leadership that is beyond corruption." That is correct, and that is exactly why you most certainly DO NOT want to centralize and consolidate the power behind only one or few persons.
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  8. Nothing wrong with TikTok. Don't like it? Don't use it. Simple as that. Personally I have never used it, and never will. Don't need, and don't care.
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  9.  @calamitytristan  : Well, I can be your King if you want to simp for that type of ideology so badly. Can do it for free too.
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  10. The problem with the TikTok analogy is, that in the mind of that toxic GF, asking = demand. So using this logic, would it be OK for me to cheat my GF if I "ask" to have sex around 3 times a week but my secret demand is not been met by my GF?
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  11. "Is fascism not government and corporate interests working against and controlling the population?" It is not. What you described there is called Corporatocracy.
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  12. "Conservatives understand the need for goverment to uphold culture" That is not the job of the government. If you need the gover nment to enforce certain arbitrary cultural norms, you are a collectivist and might as well subscribe to social ism as well.
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  13. "Libertarians can't seem to understand this." We do. We just understand that you don't need the government to achieve a proper culture and society. You can build them yourself. Just like bashing people in the head with the Bible doesn't magically turn people into christians... you cannot bash sense into people with morality laws by using the government.
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  14. Free market and free trade certainly are good things... some of the Lotus Eater members are just too hung up on nationalism, conservatism and other collectivist nonsense.
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  15.  @GuydiscipleofJESUS  : What you described there is actually known as Corporatocracy. Regarding Fascism, it was more or less the opposite of that. "The State exists for all the people, but is also above the people, and, if necessary, against the people. It is against them whenever they attempt to place their particular interests above the general interests of the Nation ... It is the purpose of Fascism to unify the Nation through the sovereign State, the State which is above all and can be against all, because it represents the moral continuity of the Nation. Without State there is no Nation." - Mussolini, speech on August 8th, 1925.
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  16. There are no Liberals here in the west really. That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
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  17. "Show me a Western conservative party who would actually abolish same sex marriage, for example." Abolishing such marriage and policing moral/social things via State power in general (Collectivism), is a Leftist trope, bro.
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  18.  @rennoc7177  "are you taking the american kosher right-wing position of small government and amorality? That small government and "live and let live" idea is a uniquely recent and secular liberal idea." That most certainly is not a recent nor a secular idea, nor even American for that matter. It is the core principle of Liberalism though.
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  19.  @rennoc7177  "I also see no issues with enforcing ethical and moral standards upon society" And that is exactly why many western countries are in turmoil, like UK.
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  20.  @rennoc7177  "Personally I do not want a liberal society I want a moral and Christian society and if that means legislating ethics and morality than so be it." Will never happen because it will never work. Christian society only works based on voluntarism. The movement you start enforcing Christian values via secular law, not only will your society be full of hypocrisy but also you will stop being a Christian, as you would be more closer to a pharisee than a Christian.
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  21. You sir, are correct. However I need to point out that even George was influenced by the British John Locke.
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  22.  @marionmorrison2854  "And right doesn't equal capitalism either. Isnt right a political term, not an economic term." Personally I would argue, that the fundamental differences between left-wing and right-wing ideologies center around the rights of individuals vs. the power of the collective. Left-wing beliefs are based on the notion that society is best served with an expanded role for the collective in-group (collectivism). People on the Right believe that the best outcome for society is achieved when individual rights and civil liberties are paramount (individualism) and the role — and especially the power — of the government is minimized. - The more Right you go, the more individual rights and liberties are allowed, hence resulting in an economic liberalization and eventually, Laissez-faire. - The more Left you go, the more collectivism is unleashed upon the society, hence resulting in an economic centralization and usually Socialism.
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  23.  @marionmorrison2854  : The point is that there is no such thing as "Right" if you try to base it on relative things such as "direction" or "tradition". The whole point of the Left/Right is that it would not be different in different places so that people could have some basic understanding what is Right and what is Left. Now what you are saying, lacks logical consistency and coherence.
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  24.  @markcreemore4915  : Well in that case, unless you go full totalitarian christian theocracy, you won't reach any kind of satisfactory morality status in the society. So good luck with that, High Chancellor Sutler.
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  25.  @markcreemore4915  : I wasn't talking about the past. I was talking about the "healthy society" you would want, where there is no individualism, evil nor perversity. Would need to start advocating "Strength Through Unity, Unity Through Faith" for that.
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  26. You can stop them locally if you believe in democracy. Could also try to talk to them if you believe in reason. For nationwide, you need authoritarianism/totalitarianism.
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  27. The opposite of Conservatism is not Liberalism though. The word you are looking for is Progressivism.
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  28. That is not the definition of Fascism at all.
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  29. Depends how fuked up you are. I personally prefer human lives over some random piece of soil.
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  30. " liberals " ... American leftists still have nothing to do with Liberalism.
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  31. "ANY party, which is in favor of a welfare state is a leftist party." Centrists or Center-Left to be more precise (in favor of a mixed economy) as Leftists are anti-capitalists.
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  32. There is no need for more than two political dimensions. Left/Right paradigm is solid, however most of the people just have no clue what the Left and Right represent.
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  33. There is no point to bring the 18th century France into this discussion, since it has no bearing on how the modern day political spectrum works today.
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  34. Left/Right spectrum is not relative. No wonder you people are confused about politics, if you think it is.
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  35. "I was always thinking that "Left vs Right" simply means "Progressive vs Conservative"." Absolutely not, as both terms are relative and their meaning change country-by-country basis. No wonder people do not understand politics if this is the major consensus.
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  36.  @gblenemy  However your point was wrong, since political landscapes are not complex at all.
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  37. @InternetStudiesGuy : Except fa sci s m was way more tha n that.
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  38. Wrong. Both multiculturalism and ethnonationalism are on the Left, as both are part of Collectivism.
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  39. No country has even tried "unrestrained liberalism".
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  40. It is the nationalist zealots like you, who always bring down their own country.
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  41. Nope. The fundamental differences between left-wing and right-wing ideologies center around the the rights of individuals vs. the power of the government. Left-wing beliefs are liberal in that they believe society is best served with an expanded role for the government. People on the right believe that the best outcome for society is achieved when individual rights and civil liberties are paramount and the role — and especially the power — of the government is minimized, which libertarians advocate for.
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  42. Your mistake is thinking that you would need a government to uphold morality and to be the moral arbiter. Unfortunately for you, unless you go full totalitarian christian theocracy, you won't reach any kind of satisfactory morality status in the society (which you seem to assume that it, society, includes or should include every single person in your country).
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  43. "Liberalism was invented by Europe. ... Leftism and liberalism would not even exist in almost any other part of the world if not for European influence" Liberalism however has nothing to do with modern day Leftism. It seems you have no clue what Liberalism stands for.
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  44.  @ShimobeSama  "Leftism would not exist if not for liberals. " Again, Liberalism has nothing to do with Leftism whatsoever.
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  45.  @ShimobeSama  "Electorally liberals and leftists align on everything." Wrong. They do not and if you are referring to modern day Leftists, they are the polar opposite of Liberalism.
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  46.  @ShimobeSama  "The entire reason we need a word like "libertarianism" is to distinguish some right-leaning version of liberalism because in general it is always aligned with the left and forgives the worst excesses of the left by appealing to liberal values," Wrong. The entire reason people use the word "libertarianism" is because Americans were ignorant (Reagan) and are merely parroting their ignorance. Libertarianism was and refers to a socialist movement, and the word coined by a French Anarcho-Communist, Joseph Déjacque. Again, Liberalism has nothing to do with modern day Leftism, never has. Liberalism is what people mistakenly call "classical" Liberalism (or "right wing libertarianism", American oxymoron), founded and put forth by John Locke.
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  47.  @ShimobeSama  "and most people who ascribe to liberal ideology see any kind of return to tradition as inherently authoritarian/"evil"/"sexist"/"rxcist"/etc.. " Conservatism and Progressivism has nothing to do with Liberalism.
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  48.  @ShimobeSama  "You are exactly the problem Dan is talking about in this video. You sound like a boomer Lib Dem or Tory voter that got the entire West into this entire mess in the first place." You have no clue what my political leanings are though.
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  49. "Fascis m with a capital F is completely different... then there's the standard fasc ism with a small F," Wrong. There is only one type of fascism and it makes no difference how you write or spell it.
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  50. " The term fasc ist, on its own, cannot be explained away." Wrong. It can and it has been. Gio vanni Gen tile and Be nito Muss olini literally wrote an essay about their ideology, called 'the Doctrine of Fasci sm' where they do explain it.
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