You mean the country where food is rationed? And where they achieve their low infant mortality rate by eugenic abortions?

You mean the country where food is rationed? And where they achieve their low infant mortality rate by eugenic abortions?

“And in the absence of evidence, I am well within my right to roll my eyes at his hyperbole.”

If you can imagine a scenario, then it can have internal logic without a historical basis. If someone says “sleep like a log,” do you explain that logs don’t sleep? Or do you think the person just lays in bed like a log lays on the ground?

“When your markets dry up under the recent changes to the laws around the health care pools and your insurance company changes your policies or prices you out of them then how will you deal with that?”

Huh? You don’t need to prove that an analogy is based in fact for it to make sense. You just need the context of the document to determine whether it makes sense. For instance, if I tell you a person is as tall as a house. I don’t mean it literally, I just mean they are tall. Hyperbole is a common thing in analogies.

Not really. I already explained the meaning of the analogy out of context. The context only matters for whether or not you think the analogy fits the critique. If your argument is that you can never use slavery in an analogy where you aren’t comparing literal slavery to literal slavery, that is a take, but you don’t…

I have excellent insurance that knows about my pre existing condition. That’s how I’m still alive right now. You seem to not understand how the pre existing condition stuff works. If you are insured and continue to remain insured, it doesn’t matter that you have a pre existing condition. The purpose of the pre…

Agreed. Thank goodness you don’t need to be historically accurate for an analogy to make sense.

You realize that analogies don’t need to be based in 100% reality to make sense right?

“You didn’t say Fascism you said Nazism, it’s a false analogy and just a sloppy rhetorical argument. If you had used Fascism that’d have been a valid statement, Nazism renders the argument false as it’s a straw man and a distraction. You are creating a false analogy (btw the Nazis had great health care for the people…

Why would you need a meta-analysis of slavery to make an analogy? That doesn’t make any sense. We specifically know that almost no masters wrote to their slaves because teaching slaves to read was illegal. That said, your idea that you need a well researched meta analysis to make an analogy is laughable. Out of…

I haven’t read the document, so I couldn’t possibly guess as to the context of the comment. On the plus side, neither has anyone else on the site so I am not alone in my ignorance.

We are talking about economies. Fascism is much like socialism or communism in that the government centrally controlled the production leading to mass inefficiencies. The difference is that the government doesn’t own the means of production in fascism. Private industry owns the means of production, but the government…

Except we don’t have context. The comment could wrongly compare working to slavery or correctly identify the patronizing attitude of the document. Since we haven’t seen the document, how the fuck would we know if the comment doesn’t make sense in context. Are you prescient or something?

Without reading the document on which he commented, how could you determine if it was reasonable or not? Regressives regularly write patronizing stuff. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have terms like “white savior.”

Bullshit. To pretend the US is socialist is silly. We have some socialized programs, but even those use markets for the most part and are totally funded by market economics. That’s why instead of the government creating food for poor people, they give them EBT cards. More recently, instead of creating housing estates…

“All the repugs determination to “lower taxes” and “remove regulations” just causes the capitalist machinery to overheat and crash. Its happened many times, the most notable being our Great Depression”

Interestingly enough, the warm embrace of capitalism is in the process of saving my life. My kidneys will fail in the next 10 years. They are starting trials on synthetic kidneys very soon.

According to the internet, we spent 45% of the worldwide biomedical research budget during the last year of the Obama presidency. Tell me more about how we aren’t carrying the burden of the world’s medical research? Weirdly, we don’t make up 45% of the world’s population or wealth.