Eugine_Nier comments on Any existential risk angles to the US presidential election? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 September 2012 12:50:23PM 0 points [-]

I was responding to the claim I quoted. If you're going to intentionally misinterpret anything I write, I don't see what the point of continuing this discussion.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 25 September 2012 12:55:11PM *  0 points [-]

The claim you quoted said "left-wing", it didn't say "Socialist".

And the parts that you didn't quote mentioned that fascism did sometimes describe as a mixture of both left-wing and right-wing ideas, just like "National Socialism" included the word "National" to appeal to right-wing nationalists, and "Socialism" to appeal to left-wingers.

If you want to make a rebuttal to my actual claim, find a place where Nazism or Fascism describes itself as "left-wing" -- just left-wing, not "a response to both left and right" or "a synthesis of both left and right", or indeed "National Socialist".

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 September 2012 12:01:33AM 0 points [-]

Nationalism is not limited to the right. Depending the time and place nationalism can be either right or left wing.