OGJester has movedMay 19, 2023

I just learned that in Spanish-speaking countries in South America, their version of “righty tighty, lefty loosy” is “la derecha oprime y la izquierda libera”, which literally translates to “the right oppresses and the left liberates”.

That, my friends, is the most dead-on mnemonic that has ever been thought up.

Show threadDarrell Bowles
@OGjester I don't feel that the left liberates. I feel that the left has good intensions, and does do some good, but if you go too far left, that's just as oppressive as the other side. Balance, balance, balance.
May 21, 2023 at 7:21pmWeb
Show threadOGJester has movedMay 21, 2023

@destroyer1212 I very much agree. It’s tough to make a case for Stalin being a great liberator, though he did the job when I came to putting fascists in the dirt.

In the context of U.S. politics, there is no functional “left”; the spectrum runs from moderate centrist to extreme right.

Show threadDarrell BowlesMay 21, 2023
@OGjester @destroyer1212 STallen killed a lot of people so didHitler. The thing is, Hitler, at least in the beginning had very reasonable policies. He wanted to remove the chains of the 1920s treaty, wich even the rest of the west, with the exception of France came to feel was uncalled for. Problem is, hitler would have never came to power, if the treaty would have been revised before he took power. Read CHurchille Hitler and the unnecessary war. It's a fasteninating historical overvierw of the whole thing.