It was all covered in Star Wars Episode IV: A New (Place Called) Hope.
That article’s a pretty clear example of how someone can rationalize anything.
I’m a pretty big Devil’s Advocate myself, but yecch.
Agreed. From the article:
Emoticons fail me.
From the same article:
Like that’s a good thing?
The Nazi govt. was not legitimate in a way that you would recognize from a post-war western democracy. There were the beatings given to rival rallies, the slandering of the opposition, the trashing of offices of unliked newspapers, the total prohibition of rival parties…
If you read “Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich”, it becomes clear that Hitler would (here’s a shock) literally stop at nothing to get what he wanted. He was willing to go down swinging, and everyone let him keep getting hits for a long time.
Sigh. Well, it coulda been an interesting discussion. However, you were told what the topic is and what it ain’t … and couldn’t keep to topic.
This is closed. Reopen in Great Debates if you want to discuss Nazis and what makes a regime legitimate. Reopen in the Pit if you want to analyze C3PO and R2D2 as right-wing and left-wing.