• OwenEverbinde@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Fascism isn’t an ideology that embraces any tactic necessary.

    It’s a tactic that embraces any ideology necessary.

    An ideology would come with some vision for a better future. Anti-capitalists want co-ops and sustainability. Feminists want “traditionally female careers” to be respected and valued and compensated accordingly.

    MAGAs? You will find such a vision conspicuously absent. A whole lot of, “my opponent wishes to ritualistically drink your child’s blood this coming Halloween.” A whole lot of CRT, and Woke, and transgenderism.

    But not a single glimpse of the world they want.

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      1 year ago

      You can infer it. It’s hard to see it as a “world” because it’s purely solipsistic. “I get to do what I want, when I want. I get to dictate the behaviour and appearance of everyone around me, on pain of disappearance and/or death. I get to consume whatever I wish; I get to tell you what you may consume to match my self-deluded conception of what ‘morality’ is.” Etc.

      Of course, when your philosophy is tyranny, it ends up not being what all the would-be tyrants wanted, or what they thought they wanted. But they lack the self-reflection to foresee that.