Do any of them know what the word “liberal” actually means?

  • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    FDR, Churchill , Hitler, and Mussolini also had a lot in common when you get down to it. Same as humans and chimpanzees. It’s the differences that actually matter.

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      I mean they each protected capitalism in their own way:

      FDR, being old money who’d just seen MacArthur send in the tanks to raze a camp of rebellious soldiers and knew how these things tended to go, invested in guillotine insurance via the New Deal.

      Hitler and Mussolini used the other approach, privatizing/selling off state assets and applying colonial methods they’d perfected in Africa back home to buttress capitalism and protect profits.

      I’m not gonna get started on Churchill.