The whole Tolerance Paradox thing, yk
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I would say nazism as an ideology was not defeated (yeah i know it still exists, thats not the point) by fighting. It was a long process of re-education after the war. The nazis did not woke up the next day and said: "we lost, i guess the jews are ok now"
So long as we live under the hierarchical authority of nation-states that creates the authoritative dynamic for fascism to take root, further enabled by the capitalist hegemony and the private ownership of necessity resources that keeps people reliant on these hierarchical powers, we will never truly defeat fascism. They will just run back to their hovels and bide time as the system helps them to consolidate wealth and power until they can again make their play for power.
I would say there are more Nazis now then there were in WW2, they just don't wear those uniforms, which were the best thing about the Nazis. So weird.
This is so stupid, that's not the cure for fascism, beating them with bats?! Honestly.
That's a short term treatment at best. At least drive some nails in that thing.
I find the analogy of the immune system useful in this respect: a tiered response, where the initial response is mainly about recruiting useful cells to the area. Some immune cells work by immobilising a pathogen and signalling to more specialist cells to come in and properly sort stuff out (prize for the most badass sounding cell is the T-killer cell). In this analogy, the people with regular bats are the ones immediately disabling the Nazi, keeping them down until the specialists with nails come along
Providing a treatment and not a cure... Typical big pharma!
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This meme accidentally proves the point: you don’t beat authoritarianism by copying its methods.
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we defeated fascism in WW2
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And we'll do it again!
Still need to do it constantly.
Everyone is right, everyone is always right and that is why we must kill to make our vote count because everyone has to kill to make there vote count, that democracy in action!
The cure is radical ideological change... but many people don't think.
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.