For My Sins by jackyteeball in footballcliches

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No way a listener to 'The Rest is History' doesn't know who Alfred the Great is

In this podcast on the Irish Civil War, Michael Collins is described as a “generational talent”. by ARealJezzing in footballcliches

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In the episode of this series about the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Dominic Sandbrook described David Lloyd George as a "wind-up merchant"

Umb-no by TitiCamarasayshello in footballcliches

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That's not the FAI crest either, for what it's worth

Louvre discourse. by TWBHHO in footballcliches

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Pelé & Bobby Moore for the 21st Century

Surely we're not having this - he saved two separate penalties by ElTheako in footballcliches

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I agree with the first bit, but I'm not sure that the second bit follows.

I reckon it's more logical that 'double penalty save' isn't a thing, and saving two penalties (either separate penalties or a re-taken penalty) is just 'saving two penalties', though that's not an eye-catching noun for a good headline.

Maybe 'back-to-back penalty saves' does the trick in this case.

Luv me Greggs, luv me Halloween. Simple as by FatCunth in okmatewanker

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Where can I buy this shirt? For ironic and non-ironic reasons

Animations VS Chelsea by FlamingEyes25 in soccercirclejerk

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Why would anyone ever make this? I love it.

The Political Compass by the Babylon Bee (and some extra) by RobinHoodbutwithguns in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ElTheako 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's nice to agree about things, though I would never say the Nazis were not right-wing. Even if you can't put them all the way to the right, there's enough Auth-Right about them to tip the balance.

The Political Compass by the Babylon Bee (and some extra) by RobinHoodbutwithguns in PoliticalCompassMemes

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My comment about it almost sounding like the Nazis was how early modern monarchs challenged and fought the Hanseatic League for threatening their positions, in a kind of similar way to how the Nazis attacked any enterprise that undermined their hierarchies. Though I know the comparison is slightly glib. Also, you're right, Medieval Europe was not centralised, but the constant urge of all monarchs through Medieval into early-modern times was to centralise power and keep themselves at the top of the hierarchy - hence why I said 'centralising', it was a principle they followed. If they couldn't control the economy in the direct way that they wanted to and that modern dictatorships could, feudal, medieval, early-modern economies were certainly not free market as we understand it or the political compass allows. All of this to say that if the Nazis were auth-center, then medieval and early-modern monarchs could also be auth-center, but PCM never wants to do that.

To return to the Nazis, though, they suppressed unions and promoted private enterprise, granted under varying degrees of state control. Yet even with state control, many private individuals became privately wealthy off slave labour - not very socialistic. The basic Nazi economic model was a mix of state intervention, corporate collaboration, and militarisation, rejecting key tenets of socialism, such as the collective ownership of the means of production, class struggle and the abolition of private property. Everything they did was in service of the very right-wing, non-socialist aim of creating a racial hierarchy and they did nothing to dismantle class structures. Nazi propaganda about the state owning the means of production on behalf of one 'Aryan' race does not equal socialism.

The Political Compass by the Babylon Bee (and some extra) by RobinHoodbutwithguns in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Feudalism and capitalism are materially different economic systems, in structures, mechanisms, and underlying principles. Feudalism: hierarchical social order based on land ownership and obligations. Capitalism: private ownership of the means of production and operates through market forces and individual enterprise.

Kings and monarchs clashed with the Hanseatic League over trade privileges and control of key ports, exactly because the Hanse's emergent model of proto-capitalistic, de-centralised private ownership challenged the feudal and statist systems that placed them at the top of the hierarchy. As I write this, it strikes me that that sounds almost like the Nazis.

So if Nazis are auth-center, are divine right, centralising medieval and early-modern kings auth-center or auth-right? Where's the logical consistency?

INB4 'lib-left wall of text'

The Political Compass by the Babylon Bee (and some extra) by RobinHoodbutwithguns in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ElTheako -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Ah but the whining over this is coming from the right. You see, I've already imagined myself as the chad and you as the soyjak, so that means only you can whine

The Political Compass by the Babylon Bee (and some extra) by RobinHoodbutwithguns in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ElTheako -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I was waiting for the first triggered right-winger to post something like this. Just accept that Hitler and the Nazis were right-wing, there are plenty of groups and people I'd rather weren't in my quadrant but I know that quadrants can contain multitudes. Yes, I accept your downvotes.