Could help explain a few trends in American history

[Ian Livingston]

Sorry, guys, I'm just not seeing any reference to Nazism in anything I've
said, except the explicit dismissal above. Maybe that's your own thing?

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 6:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow! You pack a lot of provocation into a short post.
>
> Neo-Nazi sexism? Atheistic selfish libertarian anarchy?
>
> Bring it Om!
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sunday, February 8, 2015, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Don't have to be a Nazi to be an uptight German. I used to live in WI,
>> enmeshed with all those brilliant crazy saxons. A Berliner acquaintance, of
>> mine, of a certain income class, won't go out with German women, "Because
>> they're crazy." He's chasing Hispanic women in Texas, these days, I hear.
>>
>> I mean, I'm no anti-saxon or anything. Hell, I can claim a fair share of
>> saxon blood mixed in with the celt. I just think there is a remarkable
>> similarity in the drive for wealth just because
>> if-I-get-it-then-you-don't-and-I-win between the US, England, and Germany.
>> It's the whole somewhat twisted every man-for-himself slant on anarchy--no
>> miracles allowed. And I think it's a socially-driven competitiveness within
>> and among warrior societies.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Know any Germans? Like, today? In real life?
>>>
>>> How many of them would you call Nazis?
>>>
>>> MT
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aw, c'mon. That's not nice.
>>>>
>>>> MT
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/02/daily-chart-3
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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