Would you rather read all of Mein Kampf or Einzige's posting history?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Asking because they are quite similar. No, I am not saying Einizge is a Nazi or anything, I am saying they are similiar because of how rambling and unreadable they are. The little excerpts I've read, as short as they are, are still impossible to make it through. Same with most of Einzige's posts.

I'll go with Einzige's posting history, just because he had some funny flame wars. Mein Kampf is sheer torture from start to finish.

[Joe Republic]

Perhaps one of the German speakers can correct me (Lewis...?), but doesn't 'einzige' mean something like 'ego'.  If true it's exceptionally fitting.

(Google Translate comes up with 'only', but I'd imagine it varies by context.)

[Associate Justice PiT]

Perhaps one of the German speakers can correct me (Lewis...?), but doesn't 'einzige' mean something like 'ego'.  If true it's exceptionally fitting.

(Google Translate comes up with 'only', but I'd imagine it varies by context.)

     I remember Lewis saying that it means "only one".

[MaxQue]

Is Einzige the reincarnation of Nietzsche?

[Magic 8-Ball]

My guess is he took the name from Max Stirner's The Ego and It's Own.

Is Einzige the reincarnation of Nietzsche?

From the posts I've read, it looks like he wants to be.  If I remember correctly, Stirner influenced Nietzsche.  Maybe a Philosophy major can expound for us.

Edit to add: other translated titles I've found are The Individual and His Property and the more literal The Only One and His Property.

[dead0man]

I've tried to read both, I think I've gotten further with Einzige's posts.  Mein Kampf is brutal....to read, the content is brutal too of course.

[tik 🪀✨]

Einzige's posts usually aren't that hard to understand.

[Franzl]

Perhaps one of the German speakers can correct me (Lewis...?), but doesn't 'einzige' mean something like 'ego'.  If true it's exceptionally fitting.

(Google Translate comes up with 'only', but I'd imagine it varies by context.)

     I remember Lewis saying that it means "only one".

that is correct.

[The Mikado]

Einzige's post by the simple virtue that he hasn't written 700+ pages of them yet.

[Holmes]

mein kampfy chair

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Neither!

[12th Doctor]

At least Mein Kampf has some educational merit.

[Gustaf]

Mein Kampf is at least somewhat important. Reading Einzige is like reading Mein Kampf if Hitler never seized power. Completely dumb.

[King]

Completely dumb.

That's what people said about Mein Kampf before Hitler seized power!  You gotta be prepared just in case!

I pick Einzige!

[Scam of God]

To clarify something:

If I remember correctly, Stirner influenced Nietzsche.  Maybe a Philosophy major can expound for us.

Not quite. Nietzsche never read Stirner, though he was certainly familiar in passing with his ideas, owing to a few notes jotted down in the Nachlass; rather, they both represent a current in post-Hegelian Germanic thought - a reaction against the dialectical process Hegel introduced into philosophy. Stirner took Hegel's approach and inverted it, positioning the individual at its center, and Nietzsche went one step further with it, using dialectics to negate the entire process.

[Gustaf]

Completely dumb.

That's what people said about Mein Kampf before Hitler seized power!  You gotta be prepared just in case!

I pick Einzige!

Einzige may kill people in his immediate vicinity but he's the kind of person who would be a Hitler-follower (people who worship Nietzsche tend to become followers of masters rather than masters, I suspect) and then get cleaned out for not being savvy enough to roll with the flow correctly.

So I don't think he will be the kind of threat to humanity that Htitler was.

[paul718]

Mein Kampf, because Hitler had at least some credibility.

[phk]

Einzige's posting history

[Mechaman]

Einzige's posting history.

I don't care how much of a fraud his college degree is, he makes some very excellent points.

Plus, he is more of a real libertarian than even many of the big "L" libertarians on here.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Mein Kampf, because Hitler had at least some credibility.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Einzige cannot be as bad as Mein Kampf

[Psychic Octopus]

I actually have the translated english version of Mein Kampf, started the first pages and was to horrified to finish. Probably should go read it again, for knowledge.

Mein Kampf, because Hitler had at least some credibility.

And that is horrifying. I won't compare Einzige to Hitler yet, as in real life he may have different way of stating his views, or justifying them. Although many of his views are particularly... scary.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Einzige cannot be as bad as Mein Kampf

[Earth]

Einzige may kill people in his immediate vicinity but he's the kind of person who would be a Hitler-follower (people who worship Nietzsche tend to become followers of masters rather than masters, I suspect) and then get cleaned out for not being savvy enough to roll with the flow correctly.

This is all sorts of mentally ill.


I pick Einzige.

[k-onmmunist]

I want to read Mein Kampf just to understand Nazism, but out of preference, Einzige's posting history.