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SW's avatar

Excellent article and an accurate -- and chilling -- description of tyranny.

What Nietzsche said : “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

And from C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

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Brent Nyitray's avatar

The left's take on 1/6 follows their normal pattern.

They take something that has a kernel of truth to it, and then exaggerate it beyond all recognition. They then conflate that kernel of truth with the exaggeration and demand you accept the exaggerated narrative as truth. If you disagree with their interpretation or their policy solutions they'll accuse you of denying the kernel of truth.

They pull the same shit with global warming, privilege, externalities and systemic racism.

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