If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.

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  • Omega_HaxorsEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Liberals don’t disagree with fascists, they just think they need to be more respectful about it.

    I’m not even joking, have an earnest discussion with a liberal about fascists and if they trust you enough they’ll admit this. They’ll agree with everything a fascist will say but disagree on anything where they aren’t polite. So they’ll be fine with racism but not with people being racist. A mass genocide by starvation is not a problem but killing those same people directly? That’s a step too far. Child slavery? Well it’s happening in the third world so why should I care? If you pay any attention to history, nazism was literally just liberalism taken to its conclusion. The German elite didn’t care that people were being sent to gas chambers so long as they could easily ignore it, you know, just like what happens today.