#fascism is bad

[ohmysatan42]

Heart goes out to all my peps in Italy. Scary shit. Fascism is never good.

#Italy #Politics #Oops getting politic #Fascism #conservatism #Fascism is bad #Italian politics #Mussolini #Funny

[52booksproject]

Book 6 Against the Fascist Creep

I was thinking of doing another children's book this time, but I ran up against the Dewey number 335.6, which is Fascism, and there weren't a lot of kids' books about it.

Alexander Reid Ross has a pretty complete history of Fascism in Against the Fascist Creep. It explains the roots of Fascism and its height during WWII and then its continuation and evolution in the aftermath.

It's not difficult reading (except the subject matter), but there are a ton of names and acronyms and philosophies and dates, so I admit I barely followed it. Things got a little easier when it got to modern American politics, which I followed much better knowing many of the players already.

The scrappiness of Fascism is some of the scariest part of the book, knowing that it bounced back from scapegoating the Jews (which it still does, though, of course), and turned to scapegoating immigrants which made it very popular with people who ordinarily should know not to support fascism.

Unfortunately the conclusion doesn't really have a lot of tips for combating Fascism. Education and knowledge against the lies they use is a good start. "Only by reasoning through its oppressive contradictions and opposing it in spirit will, and deed can it be overcome."

SHOULD YOU READ THE BOOK?: If you want to know more about Fascism and how it has played a part in so many nation's politics, including the US and UK, this is absolutely the place to do that.

BEST LINE: "The frustration of the left over an apparent impasse regarding "identity politics" including attacks on "political correctness" and the inability to stop austerity when socialists are in power, increases pessimism and anxiety, leading to an observable trend toward nihilism both in mainstream society and counterculture."

ART PROJECT: Well, this really didn't lend itself to art projects- I mean what was I supposed to do, make a jolly David D*ke style sheet hood? So I just put together something anti-fascist.

#fascism is bad #52books #dewey decimal system #Against the Fascist Creep #fascist creep #Alexander Reid Ross

[exterminate-flatscan-terrorists]

oh no, who would have thought that fanbois who love idolizing facists for their fascism are actual unironic fascist racists themselves.

You can be a fan of villains just as long as you KNOW theyre fvcking Villains and KNOW such behavior is evil and is NOT a thing anyone should aspire to. But yeh, it need to be spelled out A LOT of actual fvcking morons out there.

Its when you start UNIRONICALLY agreeing with the fictional facist, making excuses for everything they do, doing Olympic Mental Gymnastics just to make moronic statements as to why "um actually , this Concentration Camp/Death Camp/Gulag for the People Who are Not Us is for the good of everyone". It means YOURE AN ACTUAL HATEFUL PIECE OF SHIT, who only reason for loving a Facist Character, is because you are an actual hateful facist too.

well, billions of you morons believe and worship a sexist homophobic genocidal evil MONSTER god that you misappropriated from the Jewish Mythology, so, ya know, its not hard to believe that youre all susceptible to Loving characters less evil than the god youre worshipping. Youre indoctrinated from birth to be hateful pieces of shit. You believe and worship in FICTIONAL evil gods, so of course youre UNIRONICALLY attracted to other evil fictional characters and agree with everything they do.

#Fascism is bad #fascism is bad you fucking moron #humans are shit #Religious morons #Fascism Bad #Fascist Apologist #Nazi Defender #Nazi Fandom #Nazi Fans #Nazi Apologist

[fulgursmediaanalysisdrama]

Korrasami is the only thing I can appreciate about The Legend of Korra

I think it's a terrible terrible show, regardless of anyones subjective enjoyment

#like duh you can like watching it #for any reason really #I don't care #what I don't like is when ppl defend it and denie all the stuff that's actually in there #the neoliberalism it is drenched ig #in #the not even low key sympathizing which fascist ideas #as if these things are valid but just executed in a bad way. #which like no #fascism is bad #kuvira sucks and there are no two opinions on this

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

#i think i already said this and frankly idc #uspol #📁.zip #to me personally it's abhorrent and vile to tell palestinians 'biden is facilitating the murder of your people culture and history but you #still have to vote for him!!1' like how is that not unbelievably callous and ghoulish #frankly speaking. a lot of this 'you should be concerned about trump' is going to turn into #blaming palestinians and arabs and muslims and anyone remotely with a conscience for biden's loss #instead of doing something productive like pushing for people in power to do something they'll nitpick and belittle #and tell palestinians + arabs and muslims + everyone who understands that genocide is bad that they SHOULD #settle for a decrepit genocidal monstrous freak who is CURRENTLY facilitating genocide because #it makes THEM feel better and they aren't personally threatened (yet) by the guy currently in power #any and all 'you're not taking trump seriously' comments should be met with extreme skepticism #because i promise i PROMISE that the vast majority of people unhappy with biden are not going to turn around and vote for trump #and if they do? well guess what THAT'S BIDEN'S FAULT! nevermind the vote uncommitted campaign that was very successful and #will be replicated in the near future. but liberals only care about asthetics and superficial and not #about real material change which is why they'll dress up their callousness and racism in a 'you hate gay people if you dont vote for biden' #like this country is already going to shit we are rapidly descending into fascism and i dont see biden doing anything to even remotely #challenge it do you???? once agian. NOT an endorsement of the republican party but my GOD when the 'lesser evil' #is DOING the evil or normalizing the evil then you cannot settle for 'the lesser'! end of story.

[demilypyro]

just found out the newest generation of my little pony has a villain who is just a fascist pony and wears this hat

#i mean i guess it's good that kids are learning that fascism bad?? but wow this iconography is a LOT

[sapphixxx]

Signalis, Authority, and History

There's a level of nuance to how Signalis presents the violence of the authority of the nation that doesn't call attention to itself but which I really appreciate. Which is basically just, all the officers and cops and spies who make life hell for people like the Gestalt mine workers, Ariane, and the Itou family--we get little glimpses into who they are in Adler and Kolibri's diaries and despite the propaganda and the authoritative tone they take in official communications, for the most part they don't seem to actually be particularly invested in the hard line of national ideology. They uphold it though, viciously, both because things were worse under imperial rule (we don't get hard details on what it was like but it's mentioned in passing enough that I believe it) and because they're scared that if they don't they will be decommissioned and easily replaced. They are literally stamped out of a production line after all. There's a subtext of well, if I don't do it my replacement will anyway and I'm not trying to die so what's the point of rocking the boat?

I think Kolibri stands out to me most clearly on this because in communications from the block warden regarding Ariane there is emphasis put on how it is unacceptable and suspicious that she should be so interested and invested in art and literature that does not serve the purpose of furthering the goals of the nation. But we know that Kolibris themselves are bookworms, Adlers are fiends for stimulating experiences, and both get miserable FAST when deprived of art and puzzles and entertainment and hobbies. Y'know, just like anyone. Far be it from being a paragon of The Nation only interested in productive labor, we are reminded that the block warden, too, hates this shitty town and wants to transfer but is denied. They're hypocrites, but not monsters, nor brainwashed puppets of the state.

The monstrousness at play is not contained within any particular subset of evil individuals, or even an inherent universal force of evil contained in the broad notion of The Nation. There is no cosmic evil force that makes them all do these things to each other. The monstrousness is within the social systems, the mechanisms of how authority perpetuates on a structural procedural level, held in place by fear and tangible threats of violence, each link in the chain restraining the next through those threats out of fear that if they don't, then they'll be next. Regardless how many, if any, of those people in this chain are true dogmatic hardliners, they must act as such because failing to do so opens them up to danger.

Here then I think of the quote that is so prominent, "Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl", from Lovecraft's The Festival. This is not just a chilling abstract visual that conveniently evokes a mineshaft-- in Lovecraft's story, this line refers to worms which ate the decomposing bodies of wizards whose wretched souls had remained after death, complete with the terrible powers they gained through contracts with demons. Those worms inherited both their power, and also the evil. The Nation, despite having overthrown the Empire, is built on imperial technology, in particular Replikas and bioresonance. So too, then, we can imply that The Nation inherited with those things some of the monstrousness of The Empire as well. There is no end of history, nor clean break with the past, no matter how violently it may seem to be rejected. That which remains from the past--and something inevitably always does--creates the present.

This is a game that is not shy about evoking East Germany. And I think all of this provides a sophisticated picture of repressive authority that we rarely see in fiction of the English speaking world, especially in games. The year the S23 incident takes place is notably 84, but, frankly, I find this to be more compelling and illustrative than 1984 (and I'm a librarian and have taught English classes so I get to say that). Orwell, let's be honest, presents a fairly one dimensional picture of authority, where people seize power and wield it against others out of seeming mustache twirling evil or malice.

Here though we get a more humanistic view. Authority did not come from nowhere and is not wielded arbitrarily out of gleeful cruelty or mindless brainwashed allegiance. People aren't "just following orders". Individuals have rich inner lives. They make decisions, and those decisions are based in the context they're in. Even the decision to carry repressive tools of the past into the present is a decision that was made strategically with the big picture in mind. Nobody woke up and decided to be evil that day. Everyone operates on self interest, and, we must assume, an earnest desire for things to get better. Even the [spoiler] program which served as an inspirational demonstration of The Nation's power, you can imagine the chain of officers and bureaucrats who genuinely wanted the people of the nation to believe in the future, to confidently trust that everyone was working together towards something great and beautiful. And, through a long chain of those people who couldn't say "No" without being decommissioned, we ended up with something unbelievably cruel.

We get to know Adler and Kolibri and the other officers not to say well they're human too, maybe it wasn't so bad that they condemned all those people to agonizing suffering, but to remember that if we keep looking for true monsters we will not find them. There are no monsters and there are no demons. There are only people making decisions. A better world is possible. A better world, where Adler is just a paper pusher who does puzzles after work instead of signing papers to authorize torture, where Kolibris are librarians instead of spies and cops, where EULEs can gossip and play piano and ARARs can do maintenance on facilities that don't contain torture rooms, is one that would not have led to the Ariane and Elster's tragic cycle and ultimate end.

Authority and its attendant cruelty is not contained, radiating forth from The Great Revolutionary and Her Daughter, it is within the social systems of control. When those two women die, that cruelty will continue so long as those social systems continue. Like Lovecraft's worms, no matter how long dead the evil of the past is, so long as it continues to be fed upon, that evil will not only remain, but evolve into something new in the present. A better world can't be achieved through the death of the old world alone, even if violent overthrow is warranted. There is no end of history. There is no clean break from the past.

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

#Signalis #Didn't include everything because this is already very long #But there's a lot to add to this kind of reading from other former Eastern Bloc states that go beyond a kind of braindead #Simplistic Authoritarianism bad communism bad freedom good type of view common in the English speaking world #That go more into well what is authority and how does it work and how has it remained durable and violent before during and after the cold #The Romanian movie Bad Luck Banging is very good for this in expressing how things have been more similar than different #Under monarchy fascism communism and liberal democracy over the last 150 years there #replika joker voice maybe the real monster is SOCIETY #op #quality content

[transrevolutions]

disappointed but not surprised at the number of posts saying snow's moral depravity is because of his apparent low empathy and not because he. yknow. supports and upholds a fucking fascist regime.

#fascists are NOT some kind of 'special evil different person' #there is no fundamental biological difference between you and a fascist #and to try and separate yourself from them #by claiming fascism is a result of some predetermined condition #and not a complicated set of bias + experiences + indoctrination #is extremely dangerous #plenty of emotionally detached low empathy ppl are NOT fascists #and plenty of neurotypical people ARE! #and the moment you say #“oh I never could've been [type of bad person] because I'm not Like Them” #is the moment that you become vulnerable to indoctrination #coriolanus snow #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #thg #pigeon.txt #neurodivergent

[silvermoon424]

So fucking over the "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" excuse for censorship and fascism. It's not about the kids. It's never been about the kids. Conservatives just use them to make helicopter parents hysterical over the notion of their precious Jimmy seeing two men hold hands, which makes them vote conservative and support things like book bans. They don't see children as individual people, they view them as extensions of their parents who aren't allowed to think for themselves.

Whenever someone brings up the "BUT CHILDREN!!!" point I just want to tell them

#btw I'm not anti-child in any way #I'm very passionate about children's rights #but it's infuriating watching these insane parents use their kids as an excuse to ramp up fascism and intolerance #I feel so bad for the kids too #like if my mom were going to city hall and PTA meetings acting like these parents do I would be mortified #these people don't know how to parent successfully they just want the entire world to bend over and cater to them #so they don't actually have to teach their kids anything #think of the children #fascism #fuck conservatives #politics

[nando161mando]

We are living in a police state

#1312 #acab1312 #acab #allcopsarebastards #all cops are bad #police state #all cops are bastards #defund the cops #fuck cops #cops #cop #fuck the police #corrupt police #police #anti cop #anti police #law enforcement #fascism #capitalism #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit #class war #classwar #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Most of MAGA is functionally illiterate so book banning is naturally popular with them.

#republican assholes #maga morons #Republican book bans #Klan Moms Against Liberty #Librarians resist fascism #never trump #traitor trump #crooked donald #book banners are the bad guys

[communistkenobi]

been reading a lot of scholarship on anti-vaxx protests & their connections to fascism and something eternally frustrating with the literature is you have to guess whether the author means “extremist left wing views” as in “votes for liberal parties” or as in “is a communist” and 99% of the time it’s the former

#it’s like being a in a fucking playground. you guys don’t even know the terrain you’re navigating #this makes it extremely easy to do a marxist intervention into this scholarship but at the same time it’s really depressing and frustrating #good for my research bad for. well everything else #like a lot of this scholarship is like dude these protests are actually so complicated you have extremists from both sides #and they mean like new age hippies and fascists. maddening! #again that one quote about how liberalism is the left wing of fascism. been in my mind constantly as I read these things

[anarchotolkienist]

Biden is not a fucking fascist you fucking idiots. Being in favour of settler-colonial genocides is literally the most basically liberal thing you could be.

#fascism doesn't fucking mean big bad thing I don't like #it's a specific thing

[greenerteacups]

hi GT!! how are you, hope you are doing well <3

I find myself having a lot of spare time and decided to re-read LH again from the beginning. I’ve only just come up to the winter holidays, when they go home for the first time since beginning school, and I was gobsmacked when you mentioned Narcissa’s age—like WDYM SHE’S ONLY 32 AND A WIDOW. Plus add the fact that she’s raised Draco alone by the time she’s in her late 20s, and was basically called a madwoman.

Like, I cannot fathom having experienced what she experienced with her family a few years before that (loved your Narcissa one shot btw) AND THEN her kid fucks off to school and suddenly she finds herself in such a precarious situation where:

1. Her kid’s a bloody Gryffindor and what could that possibly mean for them and their legacy;

2. Her social life’s gone to shit and everyone thinks she’s gone loony (even if she doesn’t really give a fuck); AND

3. She’s now being watched by the government, despite having minimal to no involvement in her husband’s previous predilections (debatable, but again, I think she simply gave zero fucks).

Like, girl. I get why she’s gone batshit and I fully support it, AND IM NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH BOOK 1. I fear Narcissa truly is a bad bitch and I can’t wait to see what she does in the coming chapters (especially right after that truly delicious Occlumency lesson).

This is what I'm SAYING Draco's cohort in general were born to insanely young parents from a college-age James and Lily having Harry to Arthur and Molly getting married fresh out of high school to Narcissa (canonically born 1955) having Draco in 1980 (at age 25). Her brain finishes developing the same year she gets pregnant! When both her and her roughly same-aged husband are in the middle of a war!! How do you move on from that? What do you even do??

#greenteacup asks #narcissa is so cool. like a bad person perhaps. deeply and knowingly complicit in fascism. but also — crucially — very cool. #this has been my 700kword tedtalk. #lionheart spoilers

[whatbigotspost]

Today in US fascism watch, we’ve reached holy fucking shit levels

Reenactment of me after listening

I’m not that same fool from 2015 who thought he’d honestly never be elected. Knowing what 45 would do as 47 makes me sick to my stomach.

#today in us fascism watch #us politics #this is the bad place #npr

[bonefall]

feel free to ignore if this question is too dark, cw themes of war and genocide (i know i’m so sorry)

how deep does thistle law go? what is the end goal of someone with that ideology? is it a permanent state of the four clans fighting forever, or is the end goal of someone who believes in thistle law to absorb all four clans into whichever clan they hail from? is there any split between thistle law thinkers on this, kind of like the splits between traditionalism and hard traditionalism? i’m curious on just a general worldbuilding level, but like i said, i know this is a super dark and heavy question, so do feel free to ignore it, i don’t want you to have a bad time. ik better bones gets pretty deep but if you’d rather steer clear of this one entirely i understand.

The stated end goal is different between every incarnation of Thistle Law. Brokenstar was explicit in that he planned for the destruction of the other three Clans, where Tigerstar called for assimilation, and Mudclaw just desired WindClan to be operated for the benefit of WindClan cats.

But it doesn't matter what they think they believe. The built-in conclusion of Thistle Law, and of ALL Fascism, is genocide. That link is to a post where I talked a bit about what would have eventually happened to RiverClan under TigerClan.

If blood can be impure, and the pure race is tainted by association with the dirty race, allowing groups to mix is an existential threat. Every birth for Them is a loss for Us. It will eventually come down to anti-miscegenation, then segregation, then mass murder.

The line between Hard Traditionalism and Thistle Law is usually some desire to begin enforcing a standard of purity, typically the elimination of the Queen's Rights. In the case of Brokenstar, this had less to do with blood and more to do with spilling it; his warriors would need to be loyal to destroy the other Clans.

Every warrior is an individual. There's some supporters of Thistle Law who have actual principles they want to stick to; but most will fall in line behind a strongman leader. The thing about authoritarians is that they HATE intellectuals and they LOVE submitting to hierarchy; so you will not find the same "width" of different beliefs within Thistle Law that you do within the Traditionalist or Fire Alone spectrums. No part of what they do is driven by rationality.

So to answer the question directly, how deep does Thistle Law go? Not very far. It's a shallow grave. Evil is deceptively simple.

#tw fascism #tw genocide #Thistle Law #tw segregation #tw bigotry #One of the limitations of BB as an adaptation of canon is that I can't really delve into HOW bad TigerClan should be... #I wish I had a ton more characters to work with to kill off en mass #But for the record I am planning to have a POV in TigerClan at some point #A rework of Sasha's stuff #better bones au