- 06 Feb 2020 10:25
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Not really because this question is about zealotry in the main. You might have a point if the question was "Do you self-identify as a totalitarian?". Obviously there is a relationship between zealotry and totalitarianism, but it is absolutely possible to be a zealot and not a totalitarian or a totalitarian who is not a zealot.
An example of a zealot who was not a totalitarian might be a CIA employed patriot who in the cause of defending freedom from totalitarians was absolutely willing to insert red hot pokers up wrong-thinker's bottoms and then peel off their living skin with a roughly sharped spoon.
Apparently pofo is absolutely stacked with the opposite of this: totalitarians who want totalitarianism but who are not quite willing get up out of their comfy armchairs and actually get their hands bloody. They are just going to wait quietly for someone else to do it, and pass the time by dropping the odd zinger on social media.
I think pofo's totalitarians are not actually very shy about admitting to being totalitarians. I guess they are aware the word has bad optics due to history and stuff but they have not thought of another less tainted word for totalitarianism yet with which to disguise themselves. The Immortal Goon admitted to it several times. We have had members completely comfortable with admitting to being fascists and tons who admit to being Stalinists... So yeah self-identifying totalitarians all over the place.
Another thing is, apart from POD who refused to answer, I think most respondents to this poll so far have not even been among pofo's totalitarian contingent. Where is @potemkin?
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Godstud wrote:This poll does, however, disprove your statement(@SolarCross ) about people here being totalitarians.
Not really because this question is about zealotry in the main. You might have a point if the question was "Do you self-identify as a totalitarian?". Obviously there is a relationship between zealotry and totalitarianism, but it is absolutely possible to be a zealot and not a totalitarian or a totalitarian who is not a zealot.
An example of a zealot who was not a totalitarian might be a CIA employed patriot who in the cause of defending freedom from totalitarians was absolutely willing to insert red hot pokers up wrong-thinker's bottoms and then peel off their living skin with a roughly sharped spoon.
Apparently pofo is absolutely stacked with the opposite of this: totalitarians who want totalitarianism but who are not quite willing get up out of their comfy armchairs and actually get their hands bloody. They are just going to wait quietly for someone else to do it, and pass the time by dropping the odd zinger on social media.
I think pofo's totalitarians are not actually very shy about admitting to being totalitarians. I guess they are aware the word has bad optics due to history and stuff but they have not thought of another less tainted word for totalitarianism yet with which to disguise themselves. The Immortal Goon admitted to it several times. We have had members completely comfortable with admitting to being fascists and tons who admit to being Stalinists... So yeah self-identifying totalitarians all over the place.
Another thing is, apart from POD who refused to answer, I think most respondents to this poll so far have not even been among pofo's totalitarian contingent. Where is @potemkin?
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