• AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    I would say it takes a lot of nerve calling people who refused to vote for a genocide ‘fascism facilitators’ but Sartre warned us that nazis like you don’t give a fuck when it comes to good faith and honesty

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            16 days ago

            I’d say it’s another form of the Desmond Tutu quote: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

            Sitting at the table with Nazis and not killing or reeducating (forcibly if necessary) them implies tolerance of their intolerable views, which is thus functionally acceptance of their views.

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            16 days ago

            I guess in a way?

            The point is that you don’t have to pull your hair out pondering whether someone is a nazi if they’re associating with nazis.

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        Based on a brief tour through their comment history I’m guessing BlueMAGA at least, which translates to “I’m a Nazi but I don’t like being called a Nazi”. Here’s an excerpt from one of their recent comments:

        Voting isn’t some bargain between a thousand voting groups and one candidate. Let’s break it down.

        THERE ARE TWO CANDIDATES

        YOU PICK THE BEST CANDIDATE

        […]

        The unmentioned third option is “If you vote third party or don’t vote at all, you accept the consequences of a worst-case scenario”.

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            I think anyone who engages in, advocates, or aids a genocide, particularly based on a perceived sense of racial superiority over the victimized group, qualifies sufficiently as a Nazi.

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              I’ve been using the term “fascist” to describe Democrats for quite some time, because really looking closely at the definitions/characteristics of fascism and how this society works - you have this economically and structurally enforced racial supremacy, you have the nationalism, the militarism, the merger of business and state - the fact that Democrats pay lip service to leftism doesn’t really change it. Democrats haven’t really changed in the last two years, rather, the genocide of Palestine just laid bare who they were for us.