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Should it be legal for other people to assault you if they disagree with you?
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Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011

Flesh Forge posted:

Your view (that nazi organization is on the decline or not gaining traction) is provably really wrong though. Like, super wrong. I mean, here's one pretty loud and clear example:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/01/stop-fascism-becoming-word-of-the-year-urges-us-dictionary

so people making accusations about fascism, an ideology based on mass mobilization and collectivization of a population, is making the word "fascism" more common, i'm really not surprised

the first time i heard anyone seriously refer to something as fascist last year was someone being exceptionally Angry About Trump, though

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esto es malo
Aug 3, 2006

Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

i mean there's some kind of notion in the thread that humanity can't be trusted to have certain ideas floating around the population, and i'm a bit too optimistic about humanity to really go with that

Lol gently caress off idiot and stop defending people who agree with genocide.

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

Crowsbeak posted:

Can we kick them?

a kick is basically a punch except even stronger and w/ longer reach! so no!!

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


when the socialists violated the NAP, I did nothing for it was the will of the free market

bitch

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Pseudo-God posted:

A non-Nazi, non-genocidal, non-hateful, but still racist person might make a statement such as "Man those Jews control everyone through the banks and hold the globe in power with the power of debt", and get marked for violence.
It's weird, I've reread your post half a dozen times and I still can't find the part where your hypothetical racist suggests that we genocide all the Jews. Can you point it out to me?

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
This notion that some kind of overwhelming majority is required for full fascism to take off, that's neat. Do you think Hitler had to get a 75% majority vote before he started sticking people into gas chambers?

Pseudo-God
Mar 13, 2006

I just love oranges!

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

careful man, someone's going to mockingly accuse you of using a "slippery slope" argument and maybe even suggest you're autistic

I also remember when I first read the logical fallacies page on Wikipedia, couldn't wait to copy paste them against my debate opponents to show them how smart I am. I asked my politics professor how can I tell when a slippery slope is an example of a logical fallacy and when is it legitimate, and I remember his answer very well. He said "use your judgement", a very wise suggestion, unlike what I am seeing here in this thread, where people can't wait to jump on you with "You just used this fallacy, your argument is invalid :smuggo:", not realizing that sometimes it is valid reasoning.

The ideology eater
Oct 20, 2010

IT'S GARBAGE DAY AT WENDY'S FUCK YEAH WE EATIN GOOD TONIGHT

Pseudo-God posted:

I also remember when I first read the logical fallacies page on Wikipedia, couldn't wait to copy paste them against my debate opponents to show them how smart I am. I asked my politics professor how can I tell when a slippery slope is an example of a logical fallacy and when is it legitimate, and I remember his answer very well. He said "use your judgement", a very wise suggestion, unlike what I am seeing here in this thread, where people can't wait to jump on you with "You just used this fallacy, your argument is invalid :smuggo:", not realizing that sometimes it is valid reasoning.

Even if "Somebody might punch other people that go on about how much they hate the jews" is valid reasoning it's not exactly a very compelling point I've gotta say.

Pseudo-God
Mar 13, 2006

I just love oranges!

Kilroy posted:

It's weird, I've reread your post half a dozen times and I still can't find the part where your hypothetical racist suggests that we genocide all the Jews. Can you point it out to me?

He isn't advocating for it, I was just clarifying how such a person could be marked for being a Nazi in a situation where the judgement is left to the mobs.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

i went over that before man, the world and ~the culture~ changed at least in my view

basically the way i see it is people are still lovely but less lovely than they used to be, like violently lovely, in the grand scheme of things

Tell that to the Bosnian people.

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

i once ironically joked about jewish bankers so im basically 2 degrees removed from nazis. im very concerned about this slippery slope and cannot condone fashbashing unless my concerns are addressed

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011

Flesh Forge posted:

This notion that some kind of overwhelming majority is required for full fascism to take off, that's neat. Do you think Hitler had to get a 75% majority vote before he started sticking people into gas chambers?

you're arguing hypotheticals that are nowhere close to being fulfilled, if they ever do at all

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
Many state governments in the US are introducing bills that would outlaw peaceful protest (especially in response to state violence) and take democratic control away from citizens. Historically (or at least in recent memory as we can tell with the suspension of elections and subsequent rise of a less moderate insurgency in Iraq) that leads to people choosing violent forms of protest since it's illegal anyway to stand around and put a target on your back.

I don't really buy a freedom of speech argument here when lawmakers are trying to outlaw peaceful free speech.

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

you're arguing hypotheticals that are nowhere close to being fulfilled, if they ever do at all
:ironicat:

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Pseudo-God posted:

He isn't advocating for it, I was just clarifying how such a person could be marked for being a Nazi in a situation where the judgement is left to the mobs.
He's not advocating genocide, eh? Well then he's not a Nazi, so no worries :)

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011
no, the trick is to watch out for the opinions that might also be held by a person who advocates genocide, then bring on the fists

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
does this entire talking point stem back to the unrealistic Fear Of The PC Police that's so popular in culture and which was born out of old cold war anti-communist talking points

Pseudo-God
Mar 13, 2006

I just love oranges!

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

no, the trick is to watch out for the opinions that might also be held by a person who advocates genocide, then bring on the fists

Maybe these mobs can have a designated guy with a checklist who goes through the opinions of the potential targets. Each opinion on the list entitles the lucky winner with a set amount of punches.

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011

Rodatose posted:

does this entire talking point stem back to the unrealistic Fear Of The PC Police that's so popular in culture and which was born out of old cold war anti-communist talking points

you're one to talk about being afraid of the police, looking at the rest of your posts in the thread

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Rodatose posted:

does this entire talking point stem back to the unrealistic Fear Of The PC Police that's so popular in culture and which was born out of old cold war anti-communist talking points

it's reactionary garbage from people who are utterly unempathetic to people currently being victimized so yes

people who sympathize more with garden variety anti semites and fear for them getting punched as they squeal
about Jewish bankers

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

no, the trick is to watch out for the opinions that might also be held by a person who advocates genocide, then bring on the fists

Pseudo-God posted:

Maybe these mobs can have a designated guy with a checklist who goes through the opinions of the potential targets. Each opinion on the list entitles the lucky winner with a set amount of punches.

I'm imagining the back and forth between you two as if you've gotten together to smoke some dank weed and it's actually making the thread a lot better

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

you're one to talk about being afraid of the police, looking at the rest of your posts in the thread

the guait laughs as he stands over the bodies of pocs who have been murdered by the state

you silly minorities, he says, you shouldn't have punched nazis

Kilroy
Oct 1, 2000

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

no, the trick is to watch out for the opinions that might also be held by a person who advocates genocide, then bring on the fists
Usually the fuckers advocating genocide aren't terribly coy about it. That's the fault of everyone else - we shirked our punching duties for too long. Again, it's better for everyone to just punch them now rather than wait until we're forced to murder them.

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

you're one to talk about being afraid of the police, looking at the rest of your posts in the thread

the PC police doesn't exist, police departments who shoot people and then don't get tried for it do exist. they both have the word "police" in them but i assure you that doesn't make them the same thing

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011

stone cold posted:

the guait laughs as he stands over the bodies of pocs who have been murdered by the state

you silly minorities, he says, you shouldn't have punched nazis

you sure think about dead bodies of minorities a lot

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

you sure think about dead bodies of minorities a lot

it's called empathy, you should try it some time

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011
i've never tried empathizing with a corpse, how do you do that is it like attempting suicide

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

you're arguing hypotheticals that are nowhere close to being fulfilled, if they ever do at all

And you're not doing the same? Are you some kind of telepathic census taker? If empirical evidence that organized nazism (whether i name or simply a duplication of ideological goals) is gaining traction is not enough to convince you what are you making your judgment on?

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Pseudo-God posted:

Maybe these mobs can have a designated guy with a checklist who goes through the opinions of the potential targets. Each opinion on the list entitles the lucky winner with a set amount of punches.

Ethnic cleansing: Just like, your opinion man :shrug:

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

i've never tried empathizing with a corpse, how do you do that is it like attempting suicide

so you have zero empathy for victims of the holocaust

victims of genocide

victims of war crimes

victims of murder by the state

so this whole time you really were just afraid of gettin punched, got it

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011

Flesh Forge posted:

And you're not doing the same? Are you some kind of telepathic census taker? If empirical evidence that organized nazism (whether i name or simply a duplication of ideological goals) is gaining traction is not enough to convince you what are you making your judgment on?

what i'm saying is that the evidence i've seen doesn't convince me that a movement large enough to cause a genocide, or anything close to a genocide, is capable of forming at the moment

admittedly it's kind of a ~gut feeling~ tempered by a general tendency to chillax

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011

stone cold posted:

so you have zero empathy for victims of the holocaust

victims of genocide

victims of war crimes

victims of murder by the state

so this whole time you really were just afraid of gettin punched, got it

nah, i just stopped taking you seriously a long fuckin time ago :)

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

what i'm saying is that the evidence i've seen doesn't convince me that a movement large enough to cause a genocide, or anything close to a genocide, is capable of forming at the moment

admittedly it's kind of a ~gut feeling~ tempered by a general tendency to chillax

you have no empathy for victims of genocide, and your gut feeling is how to avoid punches

go jerk off to eichmann, you total loving pig

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

nah, i just stopped taking you seriously a long fuckin time ago :)

joking about victims of police murder

funny

you should tell this stuff at your next cross burning

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011
whoops, did you die of a police murder :ohdear:

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

whoops, did you die of a police murder :ohdear:

go to hell pig

join your beloved hitler

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Pittsburgh Lambic posted:

what i'm saying is that the evidence i've seen doesn't convince me that a movement large enough to cause a genocide, or anything close to a genocide, is capable of forming at the moment

admittedly it's kind of a ~gut feeling~ tempered by a general tendency to chillax

Okay, well, the evidence I've seen convinces me that you do not assign sufficient weight to the consequences of allowing these motherfuckers free reign to try try try again until oops they get it right and then, well, that's pretty bad isn't it? I don't think the other guys are very interested in how chillax you are.

Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011
well yeah, it's not like a roadrunner cartoon where the nazis keep setting up one elaborate rube goldberg contraption after another until one finally works and all the jews get dead

what i see is they're not capable of succeeding in the united states at all anymore, due to reasons i've discussed, they can keep trying and they'll keep failing because the nazi thing can never garner enough support to genocide some peeps

Stinky Wizzleteats
Nov 26, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 3 days!
first they came for the guys who think jews run the world bank,
and I said nothing because gently caress those people bash the fash,
then they came for the guys who think racial mixing is white genocide,
and I said nothing because gently caress those people bash the fash,
then they came for the guys who cheer police brutality, harass minorities on the internet, advocate for banning religions and refugees,
and I said the same thing and by that point we were all pretty tired of beating the gently caress out of fascists, and they were all hosed up, and they all thought twice about telling their horseshit ideas to other people. The End.

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Pittsburgh Lambic
Feb 16, 2011
that sounds like a slippery slope fallacy man, you're being disingenuous and don't belong in our pristine precious d&d

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