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Well, that's certainly not ominous at all.

While I agree with the overall point, I would push back slightly in saying that Hitler and Nazi Germany broadly was a severe escalation of what we already saw in European colonial projects and American racial policy.

Discourse online has always been unserious but it somehow finds more ways to become more unserious.

I feel like it’s every human’s duty to dip out of “is clanker a slur?” discourse wheresoever it occurs. This conversation is too dumb to waste breath on. We have the right to say “Get away from me you fucking looney toon” when people come at you with kindergarten nonsense like this.

That's literally a 9 month old post and since when is being a pedophile a sufficient condition for Fascism?

What a wonderful idea that they'll never do. A person could dream though.

Tf is a Bernie splainer

That would be because most of them are too deep into the propaganda to have an accurate perception of reality. When it comes to the public media figures though, they've always known they were lying.

Well, there's just a lot less notable activity happening here. Dumpster fires are a lot more interesting to look at than the relative normalcy.

It's a low bar but he's by far the least insane of the right-wing commentators.

I think the most consistent ideology in being anti-genocide and broadly anti-authoritarian is Anarchism. Though, it is flawed for its own reasons.

Simply and politely, I don't think that either socialists or liberals have ever been consistently great at never supporting genocide, and while it is a great shame to both ideologies, it is not a historical aberration, it is simply a deeply extreme case of People Being Very Wrong On Something

Why would we even need to use disinformation when the accurate information is just as, if not more, damning on the right-wing?

You know the Democrats briefly were kind of cool with early Obama- wanna know how they accomplished that? He faked being much more to the left than he was

Democrat leadership will do everything other than admit their failures and learn from them.

Instead, they've decided to hire some consultant firm and dropped infinity dollars into trying to podcast their way out of this.

Straight-up misogyny is the explanation for 2024 that accords best with the actual vote shifts. But for some reason if you mention it a ton of people rush out of the woodwork to go “no no no! it’s inflation and Harris’s policy choices! Which for some reason only men cared about!”

Even if the person they pick isn't a centrist, there's something fundamentally misguided about trying to uplift a single influencer instead of just encouraging the development of left-leaning content creators in general through a dedicated company that sponsored them.

Not at all. Completely unsurprising actually.

the reason transphobes are obsessed with biological sex is bcos they are sexists.

im so tired of them getting away with claiming their bullshit is feminism.

Both are very broad categories as well. The misogyny of a Malaysian man is distinct from, if related, to the misogyny of a Filipino man. You might get more insight from categorizing based on nationality instead of ethnicity or race.

Adam Smith would unironically hyperventilate and have a panic attack at the current state of Capitalism.

I am endlessly amused by the overlap of classical liberal writing & socialism.

It really shows neoliberalism for the hollow farce it is.

That's a very astute observation! I personally think we should consider how these ideologies on a meta-level are basically just how we mediate the foundational organizing forces of modern/postmodern civilization. The fact that most of them share large overlaps shouldn't be a surprise at all.

Unfortunately, we're a political minority and we can't practically expect the millions of liberal voters out there to do a heel-turn toward Communism. We need to acknowledge that there's an uneven development of class consciousness.

There should be emphasis on the creation of grassroots organizations that empower people on the local level. We need to organize protests and rent strikes as well as demanding public works programs and unemployment insurance. The primary mechanism of change is disruption.

It's not something I would support long-term but it should at least be considered in the short-term in order to maximize the number of people we can onboard. We shouldn't deny that we're Socialists but we should meet people where they're at.

Another thing is that even if they aren't primed against Socialism, they often mistake it for Social Democracy. Which is better than market fundamentalism but they'll have to be introduced to how these social safety nets are removed over time before they can be moved further left.

You either fight for socialism or you get the capitalist imperialism. And that’s that.

I think the problem is that the average person, specifically in the United States and some other Western countries, are primed against explicit mention of Socialism. If you talk about the ideas by meeting people where they're at then I think there's a better chance at onboarding.

In what contexts specifically do you see this in real life if I may ask?