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giraffinator
It's almost like
lordyhalvey
Allrighty
If we're bringing up anti-fascist quotes from great writers, here's George Orwell: "When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist — after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct." Quoted in its historical context, of course.
FizzleBurger
Nothing pisses off a conservative more than finding out that a new-age ideology they hate is actually older than they are.
Relatedly: the first transgender advocacy group was founded in 1897.
wobblecopterrrr
such a great book, highly recommend.
mybluesock
Weirdly I just finished it yesterday - it really was good! A lot of concerning parallels with current events.
meme2theextreme
And a great song!
WishyMissy
🤘
alrightalrightalrightpartyatthemoontower
I’m a big EH fan. This book was difficult because I wasn’t in a facist timeline when I read it.
ElorYosnak
I am a communist. I am still anti-fascist
Allrighty
Frankly if you're a communist and you're not anti-fascist you're suicidal.
rbudrick
The bell tolls for you.
AvsFreak
https://imgur.com/Ajc9tam.mp4
bertchstudio
I can smell the teen angst that created this
draek1
He really was exceptionally sparse with his dialogue and prose.
galapas
For a moment, I thought you were reading my mail
bourbonandbaddecisions
My grandfather and his brother’s were all decorated for killing Nazis in Africa, Italy and France. It’s a family tradition
themigbro
Who would have thought that nazis are now taking over the USA.. At least you can continue the family tradition close to home.. /s
Littledirtybirdyfeet
Propoganda was heavy then, too. It took US soldiers finally seeing concentration camps to believe it.
People forget that the US was turning a blind eye until Pearl Harbor
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Crazy fact: Canada declared war on Japan before the US did.
CaiMyrren
Germany was banking on the US becoming more isolated, a pre-war trend we were on.
The president wanted to help but he knew he lacked the political backing.
Perl Harbor was one of multiple targets hit that day. Hawaii was not a state yet, but they chose it to drive public opinion to join the war.
And we did, we went full tilt.
WW2 killed the New Deal, industry was not going to help unless it was rolled back.
Anarric
And Ike warned about that...
CaiMyrren
No one listens, they never do. The only thing we got right was ending the Monopolies because they feared social uprising like what was happening in Europe and the New Deal.
Two times that people listened and took action.
Both rare and beautiful unicorns of history.
BenjyX55
Oh, I know this one! It tolls for Scotland! Or was it Cliff?
TheDoctorCrankenstein
If you aren't anti-capitalist you aren't anti-fascist.
Please, people, learn the origins of the antifascist movement and read the ideological theory that founded it. It is rooted in anarchist-communist ideology. For the love of God, please just fucking educate yourselves.
JoJoSapiens
I think this is well-intentioned but misguided. Remember that the OG fascism was defeated in the main by a coalition comprising of a colonial empire, a capitalist union that still had racial segregation in many states and a Stalinist dictatorship. Broad coalitions win, and we need all the help we can get.
GiantShortstacks
Capitalism is just fascism with bargaining and this deal is getting worse all the time.
GiantShortstacks
"Short answer? Yes. Long answer? My beliefs probably fall somewhere between Anarcho Communist and Democratic Socialist for the same reasons we were taught in school that federalists and anti-federalist positions were debated. Basically I believe that all power must be both necessary and beneficial and if it can't prove to be both should be destroyed and replaced with a more egalitarian model of government. Though to be fair anarcho-syndicalism has historically been the most successful path fo-"
GiantShortstacks
SEVERAL HOURS LATER "...that's why primitivists aren't an-greens. They think we should just abolish all technology and return to hunter gatherer states. They're as wrong as an anarcho-femenists are right about capital & the state preying on misogyny. Oh and then there's anarcho-capitalists, ancaps, who just aren't anarchists. They're libertarians who want to sound like the bomb throwing mohawked anarachists dummies think of because it sounds cooler than corpo pedophile who wants legal meth..."
rbudrick
Ok, just give us the book link and where to get our weapons. Shit.
GrandmasterSpank
You have to realize this also works the other way around. People who became fascists once they understood fascism and love all the things fascism wants, like deporting/killing people. For you and me, 'fascist' might be a derogatory term, but for 77 million Americans it's a compliment. Trumps approval ratings are rising when it comes to immigration policies and where the country is going.
CheeseB0t
More than 77 million.
All the people who did not vote also support fascism
galapas
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlcmlxdjlrMnBveDZ2d2JyM2M1NjN4NXZlY2FncHU3bGRxczV0aWw2aiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3o6wrebnKWmvx4ZBio/200w.mp4
GrandmasterSpank
Sorry !
DorkJedi
MAGA loves every part of fascism except the name.
GrandmasterSpank
Sooner or later it will be acceptable again to be called fascist and they will wear it as a badge of honor.
PersonalityFire
I know polls aren't everything (or even much), but that's not quite true: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-polling-negative-republicans-economy-b2830124.html
GrandmasterSpank
Yeah sorry I forgot to mention: Trump is up in almost every poll EXCEPT "economy". But what worries me is Trumps approval ratings about things like immigration. The majority of Americans actually like him doing a culture war against 'woke' and leftists. The majority of Americans like him deporting and killing "illegal" immigrants. To me it indicates the majority of Americans are actually fascists, but they would like to have a bit more money.
PersonalityFire
I don't disagree with your sentiment at all. The American zeitgeist is inherently right wing; we are a militaristic hegemony awash with birthright hierarchies wrapped up in the pageantry of determinism. And that's beside all of the endemic racism, sexism, and religion. But as Americans receive the bill in full (October insurance premiums) polls will begin to sour on Trump yugely. The question is whether we already live in a country where that just doesn't fucking matter whatsoever.
HowlingRollercoaster2
Insurance?
PersonalityFire
We're racing toward a cliff: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/individual-market-insurers-requesting-largest-premium-increases-in-more-than-5-years/ October is when next year's Premiums are typically announced. If Congress doesn't act (lol), *everyone's* monthly Premiums are going to skyrocket. It's why Schumer and Jeffries are threatening a shutdown with all the force of a rusty Yield sign.
GrandmasterSpank
Love how you brought back the classic 'yuge' :D
Hexidimentional
We had two wars about this.
Eyeetsass
Rome was a Republic before Julius Caesar marched his armies across the Rubicon, and installed himself supreme dictator.
DrBlackJack
Well, we thought it might be fun to mix it up a little. Have the US and Germany switch teams and see how that goes.
thetonestarr
Apparently we need at least three for it to stick
BurlyEric
Best of Five?
Omnimorph2112
Racing hard to a third it seems.
ItsMyk
Third time's a charm
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
For the fascists? Because that's what I'm very afraid of, with the size of the US's army.
Hexidimentional
Cuz that's going so well for broad ranging tariffs
TheMindEntropic
And you will have many more until the scientific method is taught and embraced as part of core education curricula everywhere.
TheMindEntropic
(Nearly all of America's wars can be attributed to fascist motives. Almost none of them had to be fought.)
wobblecopterrrr
i mean, nazi's weren't evactly anti science,
TheMindEntropic
I mean, they weren't exactly pro scientific method,
bertchstudio
They were when it told them which autistic people could be worked to death in the corporations of the future... Wait
TheMindEntropic
That was not the scientific method.
ItsACrazyWorld
So ww1 wasn't really about fascism.. it was because some royal schmuck got unalived by some terrorist group called the black hand. There really wasn't a good reason for ww1.
Margrave9000
No, it was because fascists attacked the Free World.
speedonthis
It was a Serbian guy (part of the Black Hand) who was inspired by the attempted assassination of the governor of Croatia.
DrunkenMarineBiologist
That was the flashpoint, but what it really boiled down to was imperialism and a bunch of empires wanting to play with their sick new toys
ionicseraph
That and such incredible levels of cousin fucking that every monarch in Europe was related