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I think it's kind of visually obvious that it's not symmetrical, though I guess I might be missing a nuance here.

In gommunist chyna . . .

That's one of the merits of the "uncommitted" thing, is people are still going and voting and it's just not for Joe

@Jennykichu@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you're circlejerking with neoliberals over on .world, maybe you aren't much of a leftist.

The net direction might be a loss of votes as this bullshit makes more people check out

Ukrainians and Fins revering the Swastika in the modern day isn't exactly an example of its good usage. iirc fascists in Finland were using the Swastika before the Nazis did, and the Nazis partly drew inspiration from the Fin usage.

I think the reason the Swastika gets the treatment it does is that it's necessary to the mythology of liberalism that the advent of Nazism was basically a demonic invasion from another plane of existence or some atavistic awakening of an evil in the heart of the human species. It -- and fascism generally -- can't be recognized for what they are, the inevitable consequence of capitalism interacting with Euro imperialist culture, so they need to either be something totally Other or something that exists at the core of humanity. Hitler needs to be a special, powerful demagogue who basically cast a spell on the people of Germany, because if that's not what happened then we might need to grapple with how the liberal Wiemar Republic produced the Nazis. The Swastika is an extension of this, just as Hitler is Satan and the Nazis are demons, the Swastika is the Mark of the Beast, a magical symbol used in evil rituals to corrupt people, and therefore totalizingly reviled. What other explanation could there be for the way Germany bans this iconography while allowing fascists to run wild? It's not a measure that is preventing another Holocaust, it's a measure that creates a basis for the next one, so long as it looks a little different.

I don't feel as strongly as you do about the cultural reception of the Swastika, honestly I just wanted to talk about Hitler not being a wizard because it bothers me. Really, ever since I saw an offhand comment here about Trump keeping a book of Hitler's speeches it's been on my mind, because the myth also produces exactly that kind of fetishization of Hitler's words, which is, uh, not great.

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if he declared war with them (which a president is technically unable to do)

This would be a worthwhile comment in 1950. Today, it just looks like you are clinging to what your high school civics class taught you like it has any bearing on the world.

That's not what the term "fetishism of commodities" refers to. It refers to the way that the simple presentation of commodities at sale obscures the complex social relations that went into their production.

SJW has been on the decline in favor of "woke" variants for a while now, and was even getting pushed out by "CRT" back when that was the trend. It's weird how it's such a hamsterwheel of terms that ultimately get used interchangeably, especially since DEI has been used in its normal sense for some time now.

I think it's the natural expression of anglophone debatebro culture in a language with a more clearly-defined formal register, but I only know a little German so idk