masquenox @ masquenox @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 0Comments 46Joined 1 mo. ago
More democratic structures mean more discussions, votes, etc.
And what's the problem with that?
It’s also susceptible to outrage campaigns and similar.
That works well in anti-democratic societies - you have no proof that it will even be possible to do such in ones that can actually be called democratic with a straight face.
That term refers to the extremes of the political spectrum I was referring to
If your "political spectrum" classifies the literally LEAST extremist political ideology as "extremist" it probably means you need something better than the "political spectrum," no?
Nothing new about this - the Viet Cong used this tactic. They'd memorise the names of US/ARVN collaborators in their own towns and villages in case they were ever captured and were forced to give up names under torture.
This way, the CIA death squads would end up murdering their own informant network.
There's no point in merely making political points any longer - you have to use their own systems to hurt them.
The liberals are in the process of stealing the word "radical" from us as well.
Anarchy will always be the extreme left into the political pendulum.
There is absolutely nothing "extreme left" about anarchism - you are literally engaging in the same false framing liberals and fascists are engaging in.
Anarchism is radical - not extreme. Understand the difference. It is not "further left" than basic socialism is. It never has been.
That's not going to work. To make it work, you need to be reporting people who aren't well-known - ie, like the overt white supremacists in your own town.
I just discovered today that the Soviet army's boots were made by prison labor throughout the Cold War, and that never changed afterward. Just like the US army's kevlar helmets!
I'd rather not. Talking to liberals is migraine-inducing.
- If you don't know what the term "radical" means, at least have the courtesy to not use it in sentences.
- Blamed by WHOM?
- "The Weimar Republic, Germany's 12-year experiment with
democracyliberalism, came to an end after the Nazis came to power
FTFY. Liberalism is anti-democratic and inevitably leads to fascism when it fails to protect the capitalists' precious status quo.
“modern prohibitions of human trafficking in the United States have their roots in the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which barred slavery and involuntary servitude in 1865.”
Ummm, the 13th Amendment (supposedly) "barred" slavery, Counterpunch? Let's check quickly, shall we?
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Nope. Still looks to me like slavery is as perfectly legal and perfectly institutionalized in the US as ever.
But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a tankie-loving rag such as Counterpunch will be perfectly fine with slave labor as long as Big Brother says it's okay.
With US out of NATO, it is a point closer to Europe to threaten Europe.
The US has Britain, which is essentially a US client state these days.
ushering in the last 16 years of radicalization
Accepting fascism is "radical" now?
President of what?
A lot of these are perfectly naive.
It, for example, assumes that mass media wasn't being controlled beforehand (it always is) and that corporate power wasn't being protected beforehand (it always is).
Fascism is not some aberration of the liberal nation state - it's a built-in feature of it.
Ah my people
I live in a dumpster FIRE.
Seems like a surefire way to get a promotion these days.
They were (allegedly) trying to "balance" public safety and privacy?
Why would they "balance" two things they absolutely DO NOT care about?
Fuck tolerance.
See? It's that easy. No paradoxes required.
It is only a matter of time before pigs or some paramilitary pig-wannabes perpetrate a massacre of protestors in the US.
When (not if) they do, watch out... it will be open-season on anybody that's marginalized or slightly left than Heinrich Himmler.
I sure hope you all are ready for this.