Note: this article is currently getting dunked on social media for blatant historical factual errors, particularly "examples of socialist countries include Nazi Germany".
EDIT: Article was just deleted.
EDIT: Article was just deleted.
And the only fleshed-out example is Venezuela? Not more positive examples like, say, UK or France that could be argued to have at least some socialist elements to their governance? Anyway, I'm arguing with something that probably came from a content farm somewhere, best get back to fixing that bug.
As in: "yeah sure socialism is good but OUR kind, not that kind".
"If I called a lamb's tail a 'leg', how many legs would that lamb have?"
"Five."
"Four. Calling a 'tail' a 'leg' doesn't make it so."
Probably-not-true anecdotes aside, National Socialism might have had elements of socialism to it, but best I can read, it wasn't anything like the primary plank of the platform. I think sibling comment's explanation of a reaction to the Communism(tm) at their door might be most reasonable to explain the naming.
Rhetorically, the Nazis in large part did rise to power on the basis of socialist rhetoric. They did claim to be socialists, supporting socialist policies. This is how they obtained votes.
In practice, not so much - and of course it turned into fascism.
For many, the salient point regarding the Nazi party is that people believed they were voting socialist, even if this was not the system implemented in practice.
Heck, Dachau (yes, that Dachau) - established 1933 - was initially intended to hold leftist political prisoners.
When people cry "First they came for the socialists" when they feel their rights are being violated (or are on some slippery slope to being so), do they actually ever stop to think of what they are saying?
How can this be considered whataboutism when it's the exact same thing in different clothing?
Do you understand how that could be seen as rather obnoxious whataboutism that's both entirely irrelevant to the discussion actually being had and misses the point by a mile?
There have been thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of invasions, and probably hundreds of genocides in the last 10,000 years.
We've forgotten about this in modern times because the big bad US "takes care" of us with their aircraft carriers, but the time may come where our fate more closely resembles Syria and other places that the US doesn't favor.
Criticizing a country for invading is a bit hypocritical imo, since every country border that exists de facto exists because it's government conquered that land.
Or is this like the housing situation in San Francisco? "Fuck you, got mine".