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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

People support radicals because leftists make their life insufferable. If leftists keep doing what they are doing, we'll reach a point where every demagogue who promises to fight the left can easily gather an army.

People support fascism not because they like it, they are forced to support it because leftists illegally oppose any attempt to fix their madness. Silencing people, when their words don't even matter, is pointless. But every act of silencing makes the world slightly worse.

Well, violence and totalitarianism seem natural for the left, so they can't not attack people.

[–]wristaction 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

People only have an a priori dislike for fascism because they've been brainwashed to assign to it cartoon Manechean evilness literally through cartoons and pop entertainment. A cartoon morality developed from war propaganda.

If you're an 'antifascist' it's because you're stupid and you've never taken a moment in the course of your intellectual development to reexamine the propaganda you were inculcated with as a child. That's why they're literally telling you to stop using critical thinking when reading online now: https://archive.is/Upkm7

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, fascism doesn't have a universally agreed upon definition, but most fascists seems to be Nazis, and Nazism is bad, so. Fascism means unity. Temporally increasing unity in the face of a threat is good, but enforcing uniformity of thought is harmful and leads to degradation.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

No, because they don't have any fascists to fight.

[–]wristaction 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sort of. You have to recognize that western societies operate against fascism using the Marxist-Leninist definition of fascism, which can be understood by knowing that the actual state designation the communists gave to the Berlin Wall was "The Antifascist Protection Rampart". In other words, Fascism, a political movement constructed as a bulwark against both Bolshevic tyranny and terrorism and Neoliberal rapacity, is never part of the issue when "fascism" is invoked. When "fascism" is invoked, it is an expansive categorization of everything the far left vanguard rejects wrapped in WWII Allied war propaganda about the Hun bayonetting babies.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Anyone to the right of Mao Zedong is a fascist to them. It's just a general-purpose epithet. Actual fascism is about 90% socialism. It was started by the socialist Benito Mussolini as an improvement to what he saw were problems in socialism. He was considered a genius in his day, same as Bill Gates and Barack Obama are today.

[–]slushpilot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Starbucks & bank machines aren't going to destroy themselves...

[–]proc0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They support the facists that want to control language with the help of big tech. So really it should be pro-fa, but since we live in clown world and everything is ironic and upside down it's anti-fa. Similarly, the anti-racists are the racists.

[–]RightousBob 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Does anybody in Antifa actually understand what fascism is, or understand how to combat it?

[–]Trajan 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. Fascism is anything they disagree with, and they combat it by forming mobs that attack the persons and property of anybody who fits that definition.

[–]bobbobbybob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

what madman made that user? lol

[–]wristaction 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

an effective broad-based anti-fascist movement?

You had one. It was called the Soviet Union.

You can't "build an effective, broad-based" movement of the people against their own identities, freedoms and progeny. It must be imposed, just as antifascism is being imposed now by the security state and corporate oligarchy.

[–]asterias 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Chapter Three addresses the recent emergence, in response to the refugee crisis in Europe, of “pin-stripe Nazis”

And of course it omits the thousands of heinous crimes committed by "refugees" who later claim to be teenagers. Many areas all over Europe have turned into nightmare for their former inhabitants thanks to "refugees".

[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Disband Antifa and you will have removed 90% of all actual fascism in the streets.

Besides that there are some states have Fascist Dictatorships and are being funded by the United States.