Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The Idea Of Defeating Ideologies With Ideas Is A Bad Idea


"President Obama today made yet another statement that is sure to follow him for some time. There can be little doubt the President wanted this line to go down as part of his legacy. Just as there is small doubt that the opposition will pin it to him as a negative. Whatever the case, that the statement is completely false is without question, beyond any semblance of doubt."
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 "It is all too easy to ask which better ideas caused Adolf Hitler to blow his own brains out, of course. That guns absolutely defeated the Nazis, that guns were absolutely integral to the soldier in war, should go without saying. But it is also true that Hitler was quite literally defeated by a gun. One in his own hand, placed to his own temple, his own finger on the trigger. That was not a triumph of ideas, though better ideas certainly came of it. It was a triumph of violence. Weapons. War. Enemies are defeated in this way. They always have been.

"And while Nazis aren't the only example, they are definitely the best. Another one a person might think of is slavery. Remember that war? It's kind of been in the news lately." . . .

http://comicallyincorrect.com/

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