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tzijlstra I'm so disappointed in you I thought you were better than that.

Park the condesension and arrogance.

Thanks for your thoughts, not THE Law as handed down by the great one!

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8 hours ago, Arnold_Lane said:

A claim that has been made earlier in this thread.  However, neoliberalism and fascism aren't all that compatible, if you think about it.  Never mind that fascism is actually National Socialism.  

 

And since when have Communist countries been all that big on their citizens' right to protest? 

 

They were in Chile in the early 1970s

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34 minutes ago, Flanker7 said:

tzijlstra I'm so disappointed in you I thought you were better than that.

Park the condesension and arrogance.

Thanks for your thoughts, not THE Law as handed down by the great one!

Apologies! '_' 

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14 minutes ago, Mister M said:

They were in Chile in the early 1970s

Not really.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, tzijlstra said:

Apologies! '_' 

No need for those @tzijlstra - it was good to read a sensible post for once that balanced both sides. It's been a long time, but IIRC when you were a regular, I don't think we always saw eye-to-eye, but I think I understand what you said.

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47 minutes ago, Arnold_Lane said:

Not really.

 

 

Yes, really. Have a read about it.

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1 hour ago, RollingJ said:

No need for those @tzijlstra - it was good to read a sensible post for once that balanced both sides. It's been a long time, but IIRC when you were a regular, I don't think we always saw eye-to-eye, but I think I understand what you said.

No doubt we didn't, that is the joy of debate :)

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9 minutes ago, Arnold_Lane said:

Pinochet ran a military junta which overthrew a democratically elected government. His government disappeared, tortured and murdered its political enemies, thousands of them. They burned books, violated people's human and democratic rights, and imposed neo liberal policies inspired by academics in their comfy Chicago University offices.

Pinochet was a fascist, a dictator, a brute and a neo liberal. You might not think that qualifies him as a fascist and neo liberal, but I do.

 

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8 minutes ago, Mister M said:

You might not think that qualifies him as a fascist and neo liberal, but I do.

 

Me and a bunch of academics on the subject - but like I say, let’s agree to disagree.

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1 minute ago, Arnold_Lane said:

Me and a bunch of academics on the subject - but like I say, let’s agree to disagree.

Listen, we can all scour the internet when challenged, and find people to agree with us. Not all of us live by dictionary definitions, but are perfectly able to understand what fascism and neoliberalism are. There are thousands of corpses and disappeared people to testify to it.

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9 minutes ago, Mister M said:

Listen, we can all scour the internet when challenged, and find people to agree with us. Not all of us live by dictionary definitions, but are perfectly able to understand what fascism and neoliberalism are. There are thousands of corpses and disappeared people to testify to it.

I don’t think you have challenged me to be honest.  You’ve described the actions of a despot and I haven’t denied Pinochet was that. 

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