My aunt. We sat down and got to talking policy. Not politics. And I went point by point over policy and proved to her that she was a socialist.

But as soon as I said the scary S word her pavlovian conditioning kicked in and she tore off on a rant.

Try it yourselves. This country is filled with socialists. They just don’t know it.

So the evil fascists got one thing right. They probably also thought the sky was blue.

We need to reclaim basic concepts when they’re coopted.

Haha, true! I had a similar thought:

“together strong” can be said by any group. Especially fascists, who very much value a sense of community and strength internally.

But really, it can apply to all kinds of governments (“Together for the king!”) and economies (like corporation, which is pretty much ‘together strong’ in capitalist speak).

So I think if one wants to make a point why their system is favorable over other systems, they should not emphasize the one point they all have in common, but highlight where and how it makes a difference.

I’ll just assume OP did that IRL. Memes are undercomplex.

They stole it from the Greeks. The fasces is everywhere.

The difference is the apes bundle of sticks reinforce each other, to make a larger, more durable unit, while the fascist’s bundle of sticks is only there to protect the ax handle. Those sticks are disposable and replaceable for the preservation of the ax, that’s their purpose.

There’s an episode of the last of us about this, a dude denies his community being socialist and a woman corrects him saying that yeah, by definition they are a socialist community.

In my country people really like socialism. Despite the fact it never really worked lol