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  • I for one would like to see one that doesn’t have to make a new incision every time; rather, i think it would be cool to have a subdermal implant that’s permanently in place but can draw power through wireless near field radio frequency induction from a magnetically mounted external module that can be removed non-invasively at any time, so that the internal components are inert without power.

    Or, I dunno, something like that…


  • It’s because the definition of fascism has been intentionally diluted to mean “anything I personally do not like” - especially by people who match the pre-diluted definition.

    But look to the etymology of it:
    Fasces. To bundle or bind.

    Fascists view themselves as the ‘connective tissue’ holding their civilization together and protecting it from nefarious “OUTSIDERS”. This is an illusion that serves only as a surface level justification for destructive actions. In reality it can look an awful lot like a paranoia-based psychological contagion that causes its infested drones to reflexively congregate into an exclusive ‘in-group’ that collectively hallucinates out-groups to scapegoat. Every time an out-group is neutralized, they choose a new out-group to destroy. This will continue until there is no one else lift, whereupon they will form internal factions and start to tear each other apart.

    THAT. IS. FASCISM.

    And it’s existed as long as humanity has, long before we came up with a name for it.


  • Hell, remember the ‘first they came for’ sequence?

    It literally STARTS with “First They Came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out–because I was not a socialist.”

    The NSDAP was also anti-union. The very SECOND line was, “Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out–because I was not a trade unionist.”

    Anti-Socialism and Anti-Union are CORE NAZI PRINCIPLES.

    Now I can’t help but give everyone who is against socialism and against unions the hard side-eye.


  • DraegurtoPoliticsThe dangerous rise of the anti-vax far-right
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    3 years ago

    That’s a good point actually, and I’d like to emphasize/highlight it:

    Conservatism, practically by definition, resists and rejects new things. Conservative means wanting things to stay the same, or go back to the way they used to be previously if they can make it happen. Any perceived change to the status quo is hostile. And what’s worse is, perceptions can be wrong. DRASTICALLY wrong. People are fallible, can be misled, our senses can even hallucinate. When someone thinks the only power they can exert is to dig in their heels and scream “NO!”, they’re gonna. And they’ll also use any emotional excuse they can justify it with. Fear and hate are a hell of a (proverbial) drug and easy to replicate in great quantities.