how white liberals think fascism works

Chad voting in a UN resolution condemning Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

you’re finished

Official portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu

no, pls

Okay analysis. Awful solutions. All that just to say what someone far smarter than him had already said: political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Fascists seize state power once they believe they have enough political power (ie the means of dispensing organized violence through a military or paramilitary formation). They are only stopped at the local level by antifascists willing to get their hands dirty, on the national level by the state military that refuses to go along, and on the global level by state actors.

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I read it as co-mum.

It was simply examining the alternatives if Marxism-Leninism was wrong. If there are no alternative theories that fit the facts then Marxism Leninism must be correct.

The real alternative to Marxism-Leninism isn’t even Maoism, but something like Nkrumahism-Toureism adopted by various pan-Africanists. At the end of the day, both Marxism-Leninism and Nkrumahism-Toureism are branches of scientific socialism, so they’ll converge because both ideologies are powered by Marxist economic analysis, emancipation of the working masses as a political goal, and dialectical materialism.

I don’t really consider the branches of Marxism (Trotskyism, Maoism, Hoxhaism, and so on) to be all that different in the grand scheme of things outside of just thinking X country is AES or not. Seriously, what distinguishes a Trotskyist analysis from a Hoxhaist analysis or a Maoist analysis on a country like Paraguay outside of some semi-relevant quote from their respective head? It would just be like any other Marxist analysis.

The vast majority of both-sideism is done by reactionaries trying to hide their reactionary politics from their audience. There’s absolutely nothing about him that indicates he’s anything but a generic techbro with the politics of a generic techbro. Just skimming the comment section of his Youtube video just has the usual people whining about politics, which is rich considering that FLOSS has always been political no matter how much the OS part of FLOSS try to pretend that it isn’t so.

I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that?

Because the majority of Ledditors are either liberals or full blown reactionaries and the ones who are not range from some cringey techno-libertarian who think FOSS will usher in socialism to some radlib cruise-missile socialist who strangely never deviates from the US state department. The very few who could legitimately be considered socialists are some kind of anarchist. They certainly aren’t Marxist.

Are there any good leftist instances?

Outside of those two, I won’t hold my breath. The easiest litmus test in the world is how they’re responding to the genocide at Gaza. There’s very few places where you’ll get complete support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and not whining about the imaginary babies Hamas allegedly beheaded or trying to equate the conduct of a genocidal nuclear power to a paramilitary fighting for national liberation.

Without a shadow of a doubt the Bible.

No, reading the Gospels, Paul’s letters, Revelations, Genesis, Exodus, and selected Psalms doesn’t count as reading the Bible. Do you count reading 10 chapters of a 60+ chapter book as reading the book? Of course not.

Man Getting Hit By Football is a short film about rampant ableism and ageism within Springfield. As we can see with Sherman chastising Homer’s boorish behavior, the film is not a comedy, but Homer is unable to see the film as anything but a comedy due to his rampant ableism and ageism, as repeatedly demonstrated throughout the years with his willful and malicious neglect of Grandpa Simpson.

Jokes on you because everything is political.

An emoji is worth a thousand words.

Imagine thinking pop culture, technology, and news, 95% of what gets discussed in any Lemmy instance, aren’t related to politics.

Were you not around when the hordes of MS fanboys kept on insisting the start menu wasn’t necessary acktually for Windows 8?

You know, this could be a pretty funny Linux joke, but the comic had to ruin it with some cringey dick joke.

The solution to stopping the Nazi war machine is to get them all to watch a movie.

They stay inside and rant and rave about how things SHOULD be while we are out there actually making the incremental changes to try to bring it about.

Phonebanking for Biden doesn’t count as doing shit btw

Most of my coworkers can barely make it through their own tasks without fucking something up, let alone actually having input on how the business is run.

Your coworkers aren’t incompetent. Your coworkers are just half-assing at work because they correctly realize they’re not going to get paid more if they actually tried.

Hey buddy, you didn’t reply to my earlier post about Guaido getting owned. Running away from your emotions won’t make them go away. Cmon, let’s sit down and have a chat about how you feel. Does that make you mad?

Check their history. Langley is definitely not sending their best.

Here’s Guaido getting owned by randos Does that make you upset?

Your entire history on Lemmy is malding over Guaido getting BTFO. How mad does that make you feel? Don’t be shy.