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What's the most deranged political hot take you've ever seen? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Like the kind that made you stop and think for a second about how stupid the person advocating it is. For me, it's the classic "The biggest mistake in recent history was the Allies not pushing into Russia after the fall of Berlin."

There's just a level of imperialist arrogance and blood thirst in there that makes my skin crawl. The worst thing in human history was that the US didn't immediately betray the Soviets and wipe them out until they were sure communism was done for.

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[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a subtle point throughout Hayek's writings. He's always expressing concern for minorities and at first it's like, I thought this guy was supposed to be a neoliberal? Then it slowly dawns on you: the only minority he cares about is the rich.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago

That's the quiet part out loud. Minoritarianism is how all bourgeois democracies are structured.

[–] ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't earlier liberal writings very explicit about such "minority rights"?

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I think so. Hayek is very subtle about it, though.