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Ah yes… being morally correct will stop the fascism! Just like how it stopped fascism in WW2 and so on!
we defeated fascism in WW2
:3
And we’ll do it again!
Still need to do it constantly.
Only it’s worse than fascism now.
Fascism is old hat, today we’re dealing with its evolved for in modern authoritarianism.
What we are dealing with today is something even Goebbels couldn’t have come up with. How they have made their evil, hateful ideology permeate everything through association and some really effective and sophisticated psychology.
Trump isn’t the architect of it, he is just a beneficiary.
The cure for fascism is… politically-motivated threats of brutal physical violence? That’s literally fascism.
Hate this. This is not fascism. It’s arguably not even one of the tenets of fascism. That user has no clue what they’re talking about.
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi
Oh, I don’t know, I think the ones that have been lit on fire are alright.
Narrator Voice: This kills the Nazi.
Serious question though, there are now literal Nazis, dressed up and all, parading the streets of US cities. What would one risk just shooting them?
“Nazis were back your honour, what else could I do?”
I’m not advocating for this, but as a pessimist I think we are never getting these people back to reason, and they grow in numbers, and they are armed. If parading as Nazis is not seen as having crossed the red line, where does this all go? If there is only self-defense if they attack as a legitimate reason to shoot them, are we doomed to see them grow in numbers till self-defense becomes fucking impossible? Hence my question, if the first bunch of neonazis were just shot, there might have been less of them now, but what would have happened to those that shot them? Prison? Hero? Is there a jurisprudence? I haven’t heard the news of a ‘reverse’ Kyle Rittenhouse
A murder is a murder, legally speaking.
Tbh, the big issue with why nazis exist in these large quantities is that the financial situation of people is going down. That’s the one big thing there. And left-wing parties mostly all over the world did nothing against that.
The rich, the billionaires and all that lot are siphoning wealth off the rest of the world and nobody does anything against that. Instead, left-wing parties got entangled in social justice topics (which are important) but completely forgot left economics (which are critical). Left-wing discussion moved from important but rather boring topics (e.g. how to distribute wealth better) to extremely polarizing but not that critical-to-daily-life topics (e.g. “This politician used a word wrong!”).
That was basically the whole 2000s and the first half of the 2010s.
In the 1990s, nazis were hardly a thing because people had jobs, housing and food. That’s changed now. And since the left-wing parties aren’t about to change anything, people are flocking to right-wing parties and -ideologies because they are literally to dumb to understand that the change that right-wing is going to effect is change against the people.
But if we actually wanted to stop nazis, we would have to abolish billionaires (and pretty much anyone who has more than >50 million) and redistribute wealth. We need a new new deal. Because what killed the nazis wasn’t WW2, but new deal economics.
“Left-wing” parties intentionally started focusing on ultimately meaningless topics so they didn’t have to admit that they were in the same pockets as the other side.
It’s always morally correct to beat the shit out of Nazis. And if they don’t like that, they can always stop being Nazis.
they can always stop being Nazis
I think that’s something a lot of right wing people struggle to comprehend.
Left wing violence is targeted toward those who would do us harm, i.e. Nazis. It’s self defence.
Right wing violence is targeted toward those who they believe is causing harm. In their minds it’s the same justification, self defence.
The difference is you can choose to be intolerant or not, you can choose to treat others with kindness or not, you can choose to be a Nazi or not. You can’t choose whether you’re gay, black, trans, disabled, Jewish, whatever form of “other” they have chosen.
Obviously there’s also the fact that being “other” isn’t harmful in any way. But that’s a separate rabbithole of delusion that needs tackled.
they think we are driven by the same fears as them and that these fears are universal to the human experience rather than them not confronting and processing their traumas
I don’t even believe it’s traumas. Most hatred is born from lack of experience and therefore empathy. The trauma they claim is usually fantasy, to feed into the mentality that they are right to be afraid. Like the whole oppressed Christian rhetoric I was fed at an early age, it doesn’t exist in the US. Pray to the guy on the cross, I won’t stop you. Just don’t him as an excuse for causing harm to others. You can practice your religion, but it shouldn’t stop others from living their lives without fear or harm.
Why did this get downvotes
The nazis don’t realize they aren’t anonymous on Lemmy
