Amen, if the fascists don't kill me for being a Palestinian, it'll be the white leftists giving me a fatal aneurysm lecturing at me about how letting the fascists win again will totally help my cause that I just want to feel assured that my government isn't looking for ways to officially enlist the Klan as a morality police.
was voting and presidency meant to feel like a Pachinko machine? (or Peggle) where you launch the balls, and you are separated by acrylic and have no control past the first bounce.
I don't quite get why you're being downvoted because that's honestly how I feel, and I don't even live in the U.S. I feel like it applies pretty well to Sweden as well. At least there are options here that are like a 60% match with my personal viewpoints, but there's no such thing as a perfect fit.
What's important to note is that people have been doing it according to your politics for decades, and it has produced the situation we're in right now.
It kind of seems like the lesser of two evils and pied piper strategies are actually closer to being the tracks in this metaphor, not the people who refuse to vote for Fascist Lite.
Yeah, this is what always bothers me about the vote shaming crowd. Yes, we need to reelect Biden because Trump is a literal fascist who will end American democracy, but we need to have a hard look at how we got into this position, starting with Democrats embrace of neo-liberalism in the 90s and ending with the fact that the party is running a candidate that 67% of their own voters didn't want on the ticket. And no, Biden and Trump are not the same, but George W. and Obama were pretty damn similar, as well as Clinton, Regan, and the first Bush. If the Democrats don't start offering and actual progressive alternative to the right, we're just going to keep doing this until a more competent fascist finally wins.
That train needs to be more rickety and the tracks terminate over a cliff. Fascists always destroy themselves. They literally cannot help it, it's built into fascism itself. Sadly, they always aim to hurt and kill as many as possible along the way. Bunch of short sighted mental invalids.
My concern is not for their long-term chances of success, it's for all the people they will drag down that cliff with them.
As we've seen very clearly and with great documentation, fascism can literally burn the world down and kill countless millions of people and reshape all of human history, setting back all our progress and plans by decades or centuries.
If it wasn't for selfish authoritarians, we would be colonizing the solar system and fixing our planet's climate.
Eh, maybe. Just cause it hasn't worked long term yet doesn't mean it won't. Don't copy their "the enemy is simultaneously weak and stupid, and strong and crafty" rhetoric
Ah, wonderful, stay the fuck out of the way while people who care about things keep our society aligned towards morality and democracy. Just keep quiet and enjoy the world that others have built for you. I legit don't mind, I want to help the idiots and brainwashed as much as I want to help the rest of the population have a better future and more personal freedom.
I don't know where I stand on this,
my introduction to this topic was from an anti-revisionist, anti-fashist Marxist Lennonist.
Showing how bad the German National People's Party failed, where one side would compromise or stall and the other would be openly fascist and they would (conspiracy or not), give up or not reclaim ground given to fashism.
The german ML party and Iron Font call each other terrorists and have bad blood.
So I either failed to understand something my teacher said or he was against the Communist Party of Germany or he was not being candid with me.
Did you know, in 1953, the US and UK governments overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran and installed a monarch after they voted to nationalize their oil industry to wrest control of it from BP?
Is your definition of fascism essentially anti-democracy? Or military aggression/ colonialism? Honestly asking, because I’m not seeing what I’d consider hallmarks of fascism in your description.
North America has always been fascist.
During ww2 Canada denied Jewish refugees. When the war ended Canada welcomed a bunch of Nazis and erected statues commemorating a few.
No. North America was once considered a great turtle and the people that walked the paths were many and different. No they were not fascist. Some tired to control but nobody tried to do what fascism tries.
So fuck off with that language because some of those that know their history know we can fight under the flag of country but we are not the same person you described as North American.
Everyone welcomed the Nazis wouldn't have gotten to the moon without one. Operation paperclip. Also check out operation Gladios for why socialism never had a chance in europe
Fascism seems to go circular in history I think its cause we dumb as rocks and can't learn from our past also Operation Gladios after WW2 look it up why socialism never had a chance in Europe and the western world is becoming the next totalitarian state
This reeks of someone who uses the word "woke" unironically
Edit: I couldn't help my curiosity. Turns out not only do they use the word "woke" unironically, they seem to think that grown men dating teenagers is A-OK, because of course they do:
Not really. The alt-right isn't a new thing anymore, it isn't growing by leaps and bounds, and it generally isn't fascist by any historical definition of the term.