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Re:Surviving Jonestown by emmelaich on Monday November 12, 2018 @04:44AM (#18431553)
> The Nazis used this, Stalin did too, the Chinese, ..

Jim Jones was Marxist not religious. That was all a sham.

I find it astonishing that you'd lump the Republicans in with those three. Most (all?) totalitarianism is of the left -- or pretends to be.

Consider the possibility that you may be mistaken.

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Re:Surviving Jonestown by masonic on Monday November 12, 2018 @04:53AM (#18431578) 

  I find it astonishing that you'd lump the Republicans
... Especially given that Jones peoples Temple was most strongly supported by the Democrat leadership in San Francisco, especially George Moscone, Harvey Milk, and Willie Brown.
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Re:Surviving Jonestown by ChuckMcM on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:34PM (#18434052)
That is a good point, the commonality I was going for was authoritarian leadership. Between Hitler and Mussolini who were fascists, and Mao and Stalin were communists you do cover the political spectrum from one end to the other.
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