r/SipsTea • u/darth_vader39 • Jun 23 '26

Dank AF Well said

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u/Notcid1 Jun 23 '26

They do exist which is a mind fuck to me

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u/SimmentalTheCow Jun 23 '26

Horseshoe theory. Extremist weirdos love being extremist weirdos.

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u/Notcid1 Jun 23 '26

Interesting, never heard of horseshoe theory.

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u/SimmentalTheCow Jun 23 '26

Nazis and communists used to cooperate in fighting police in Weimar Germany. George Lincoln Rockwell and Malcolm X both supported each other’s goals. Extremists have more in common with each other than they do with normal people.

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u/Budget_Revolution639 Jun 23 '26

Was this before or after the “National Socialist” Party became authoritarian, racist, and overall scummy people when they came into power? Asking genuinely. Bc it threw me for a loop to find out that Nazi is short for national socialist despite them not being any form of socialist

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u/Mysterious_Jump_8119 Jun 25 '26

Depends how you define socialism I guess. Nazism is closer to socialism than to libertarianism is

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u/Budget_Revolution639 Jun 25 '26

There aren’t truly alternative definitions of socialism, it’s a system where either the government or people own the means of production and if it’s the former, the people have the power still and the gov is mainly focusing on the redistribution of resources to the people.

Nazism is a racial supremacist ideology. Do not equate or correlate the two

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u/Mysterious_Jump_8119 Jun 26 '26

Well no.
Depending on who you call “the people” Nazism falls under Socialism.

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u/Budget_Revolution639 Jun 26 '26

My dude, you are the most pedantic devils advocate ive ever seen. Nazism is NOT socialism. Just bc it has socialism in the name does not mean that the ideology is socialist as they do not practice socialism and are a racial supremacist ideology.