1/I wonder what the function of talk like this is. It is trivial to think of examples of "mass atrocity crimes" that had nothing to do with "poisoned politics of hate and demagoguery;" e.g., Paddock, the Edmond post office shooting; James Holmes, etc. And it's not clear whathttps://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1056591285740625921 …
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There is no comparison whatsoever. Seriously.
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i feel this but i am skeptical that it's actually true, enough that i cant confidently endorse the idea that any person/community's policy should be influenced by the assumption that it is
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I have been summoned for comment?
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let's see. we don't have a collapsed economy suffering from mass unemployment or hyper-inflation and we don't have a generation of war survivors hungry for revenge. what do we have that matches though? bad government, a very bigoted population, and a palpable sense of decline.
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"bad government" is too vague to be any use re: prediction; you could rightly claim all governments ever have been "bad," but they are not all next-door to Naziism. The population is nowhere near as bigoted -- not at all comparable. The "palpable sense of decline" is illusory.
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was referring to the Weimar Republic government as being dysfunctional, not to post 1933 Nazi government. quantifying bigotry is hard to do precisely, but broadly we have one hell of a historical problem with it. sense of decline is a sense. it's how people feel about it.
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--Yes, the U.S. Gov. is nowhere near as dysfunctional as the Weimar Republic. --Any credible objective quantification you use for bigotry will reveal there is no real comparison. --Re: sense of decline, seems like you're mind-reading, and in any event not sure connected.
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things don't have to be identical in order to rhyme
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'The content is unimportant' when it comes to generalized anxiety -- it will latch onto any vague gestalt.
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