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The first time a "friend" said Republicans were no better than Nazis, I remember trying to work it out in my head. How could they not see Nazis were akin to Communists, at the very least Socialists? Extreme government control? Lack of personal freedom? Dictatorship? Oppression?

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Try arguing with an AI system programmed by the left that parrots their big lie.

Then when you ask “What made the Nazis ‘far-right’ “?

It tries to launch into the old stand by of deflecting into whether they were left-wing due to their socialist policies and stance against economic liberty while it also equivocated on the political spectrum being more complex than merely left and right.

In other words, it didn’t have a cogent argument.

The problem for the left is that their big lie is easily destroyed with basic logic:

The left is based on the collectivist ideologies of unlimited government and limited individual liberty, while the right is based on individualistic ideologies of limited government and sweeping liberty (within the confines of respecting each and every person’s unalienable rights). The transition is simply from collectivist, big government authoritarianism on the left down to individualist government non-existence anarchy on the right. So, as you move from left to right, you move down a slope towards diminished government size, power, and control over your life to a point where it becomes nonexistent on the right.

But not so, according to the brain trust that is the far-left. To make their model work, there has to be a mysterious spike way up to collectivist, big-government authoritarianism—that is just like leftist ideologies—in the far-right area of the political spectrum of individualistic no-government anarchism. We’re not sure how that’s supposed to be arranged, as leftists are too busy trying to come up with something better than the tired old ‘North Korea’ talking point.

In real life, the common sense linear political spectrum would be like being in a car and coasting down the straight and flat slope of a hill until you reach the bottom. While the leftist bizarro version of reality would have you coast down that hill until you hit an unimaginable upslope at the bottom. No one but the most ardent leftist would ever believe that big load of BS, and only if they don’t think about it too much.

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Interesting you asked AI for an answer, when at its core AI operates like the left wing, it decides for you, it selects answers and delivers them with a bias, no truth, no citing reliable sources, just propaganda.

It's both frightening and illuminating you did that- might be a cool way to write an article. To post a reality source-based answer next to AI's answer.

Thank you for inspiring thought, D Parker.

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You’re welcome.

As some have said, it’s not the AI, but the people programming it that are the problem.

It would be fun to see one melt down as in the original Star Trek episode ‘The Changeling.’

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Changeling_(episode)

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