• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    There is a reason Nazis called themselves national socialist at the time. Socialism wasn’t a “scary” term yet and was associated with workers movements and positive material outcomes of revolution against oppressive states.

    They are just using the terms and phrases people associate with positive change.

    Fascist don’t care if they are called liars. They thrive off of people thinking they will be stopped by pointing to their hypocrisy. The only language they understand is violence. It’s why our liberal institutions will continue to fail as they attempt to fight them with the very systems and structures that gave them power in the first place.

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      8 days ago

      will continue to fail as they attempt to fight them with the very systems and structures that gave them power in the first place.

      No, they’ll fail because they’re not fighting at all.