This fascist shit is worldwide. I was just reading yesterday about Canada’s Conservative party leader espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories. What the fuck
Angry, disillusioned, and and gullible. The gullibility is key because otherwise people wouldn’t be so easily persuaded to blame their problems on the fascists’ chosen scapegoats.
It is the inevitable consequence of letting current humans have 100% free speech.
We need to stop tolerating the intolerant. The intolerant have just as much right to their message as the tolerant, which when you think about it is disgusting. As long as they don’t literally call for a specific person or group of people’s death they are totally within their rights to spread their bullshit. And it’s not a situation where it becomes a “marketplace of ideas” and the most popular idea wins out. The intolerant will slowly bend government to their will to destroy the free speech they rode in on and put the tolerant against the wall as soon as politically possible.
In function they certainly do when they are spreading their message to gain the power to tear it down. It’s not about supporting it. It’s about using liberals’ own tool against them to take power from them and then never let them have any back.
Edit: holy frick you’re wintermute I thought you were gone from the Fediverse for good…dangit!
Divide and conquer means only half of your working class understands they’re being exploited. If after a few decades it’s becoming evident that class consciousness is forming, introduce a foreign strawman into the equation and have a culture war.
introduce a foreign strawman into the equation and have a culture war.
Trans/gender politics are a perfect example of this. Nothing riles up liberals like a minority being oppressed, and nothing riles up conservatives more than minorities having rights.
Same with abortion and almost anything relating to Christianity in government.
Racism etc etc
Put it all together and baby you got a culture war stew goin’! The American way!
All of the Global Right are working together, Putin helps the GOP and Green Party, and both help the right wing in Europe, Israel, Australia, Brasil, the Gulf states, Turkey, Africa, Asia. This is why their messaging about their talking points is consistent all across the world, they share talking heads and influencers, and they constantly try to cover for each other.
This fascist shit is worldwide. I was just reading yesterday about Canada’s Conservative party leader espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories. What the fuck
Fascism embraces the angry and disillusioned victims of global neoliberalism and capitalism.
Angry, disillusioned, and and gullible. The gullibility is key because otherwise people wouldn’t be so easily persuaded to blame their problems on the fascists’ chosen scapegoats.
And climate disaster.
It is the inevitable consequence of letting current humans have 100% free speech.
We need to stop tolerating the intolerant. The intolerant have just as much right to their message as the tolerant, which when you think about it is disgusting. As long as they don’t literally call for a specific person or group of people’s death they are totally within their rights to spread their bullshit. And it’s not a situation where it becomes a “marketplace of ideas” and the most popular idea wins out. The intolerant will slowly bend government to their will to destroy the free speech they rode in on and put the tolerant against the wall as soon as politically possible.
Stop tolerating the intolerant.
Do you think fascists support free speech?
Edit: holy frick you’re wintermute I thought you were gone from the Fediverse for good…dangit!
In function they certainly do when they are spreading their message to gain the power to tear it down. It’s not about supporting it. It’s about using liberals’ own tool against them to take power from them and then never let them have any back.
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I’d explain it by saying they support free speech as a tactic but not as a principle.
Divide and conquer means only half of your working class understands they’re being exploited. If after a few decades it’s becoming evident that class consciousness is forming, introduce a foreign strawman into the equation and have a culture war.
Trans/gender politics are a perfect example of this. Nothing riles up liberals like a minority being oppressed, and nothing riles up conservatives more than minorities having rights.
Same with abortion and almost anything relating to Christianity in government.
Racism etc etc
Put it all together and baby you got a culture war stew goin’! The American way!
All of the Global Right are working together, Putin helps the GOP and Green Party, and both help the right wing in Europe, Israel, Australia, Brasil, the Gulf states, Turkey, Africa, Asia. This is why their messaging about their talking points is consistent all across the world, they share talking heads and influencers, and they constantly try to cover for each other.
It’s a coordinated attack by the right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Democrat_Union This is the center of the rights global organization. Stephen Harper is the current president of the IDU.
This is the end result of having libertarian techbros running the social media show and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be changing anytime soon