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2024 Presidential Election Thread
It’s not a paradox, at all. See point 5. Not is it “weird” or “strange” … as many Surly posters seem to think. History shows this is how fascism works in the rise and takeover. 1. There must be a culture amid rapid scientific-technological change, thus creating “chaos” for the existing systems and dominant ideologies and worldviews. 2. There must a common “enemy“ to blame. In the MAGA case it is Marxist, Woke, Deep State, Immigrant Replacement Theory, Bogus Science ideology, all taking away “freedoms." 3. Fringe thinkers/reactionaries rant about this change and chaos, such as Hitler, Mussolini Trump, Alex Jones, etc. — All yearning to return to a mythic glorious yesteryear. 4. The religious types join in soon, always ready to protect their power by glorifying a bogus mythic past — Just as most were in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (Catholic Church was on-board, see book Pope and Mussolini) — Evangelicals (et al) have been dreaming of the take-down of secular society for decades, since the 60s-70s, personified by landslide wins of Reagan. 5. The rich and upper middle classes get on-board to protect their wealth and status, as did many in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. — Hunt, Elon, and others become the voice and symbol of this. — Most (but not all) industrialists and managerial class in Germany were Nazis or Nazi sympathizers; same in Fascist Italy. 6. The idiot world voters look for a dude who can embody their dreams and take down their perceived enemies. — Hitler and Trump. 7. The media are utterly compliant, with Fox being full-on Fascist, while CNN, NYT, WaPo, and all the others do #bothsides while leaning conservative to not lose their huge mainstream viewer/reader base, who will slide into fascism. — Lame ass weak sauce editorials that fail to identify or call out the darkness that awaits, ie fascist totalitarianism. 8. A largely passive, ineffectual intelligentsia, very much like what we see in much of the American Academy. 9. Non compliant intellectuals, educators, many scientists are marginalized, trivialized, and eventually taken to camps …. or hanged/shot in public spectacles on TV. 10. Full take over and crush any remaining resistance. -
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IIRC, Clinton signed that failed “assault weapons” ban - after Bush1 set the stage for it.- 1
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[Surly Official Firing Squad] Get David Pierce The Fuck Outta Here
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