uspol, religious jerks, fascism, circular firing squad, semantic naivete
I swear they need a "know your enemy" chart
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@001zlnv I'm already backing way the fuck outta this thread. XD But yeah, exactly. The differences MATTER and just picking the worst thing off the list out of sheer auxesis and Righteous Anger is just plain *tactically* a terrible idea. I can hate Jack Chick -- saying "he would have been horrified to be called a fascist" is not defending him, it's describing a real distinction. He (like Trump the Kleptocrat, IMHO) was a whole different, if similarly dangerous and ugly, animal.
re: uspol, religious jerks, fascism, circular firing squad, semantic naivete
@001zlnv (*checks my notes here* Wait, check that. I wouldn't call Trump a *Nazi*. I WOULD call him a fascist or at least a proto-fascist. But my standards were a lot more strident than many, in that they were more than "He's a right-winger and I really REALLY don't like him and I seem to have heard Nazis were really really bad." >_< And I know it seems like hairsplitting, but... )
re: uspol, religious jerks, fascism, circular firing squad, semantic naivete
I'd probably replace mussolini in that with that guy who invaded fume. Who's name I can't remember right now. just because mussolini had his followers more organized, where as trump and that guy were weaponizing celebrity and hype
re: uspol, religious jerks, fascism, circular firing squad, semantic naivete
@001zlnv @zebratron2084 Gabrielle D'Annunzio. The Quixote Syndrome did a graphic-novel-style series on him and Fiume:
https://thequixotesyndrome.com/blog/dannunzio-in-fiume-the-politics-of-poetry/
(Quixote Syndrome does a *lot* of graphic-novel-style treatments of historical weirdness like this. Lot of utopian cults that went wrong. And it's RSS-reader friendly!)
re: uspol, religious jerks, fascism, circular firing squad, semantic naivete
that's the one! just couldn't remember the name
re: uspol, religious jerks, fascism, circular firing squad, semantic naivete
@001zlnv (Exhibit A: Naziism explicitly required sacrifice and martial discipline from its citizens and was focused around a cult of physical power. Whereas Trump couldn't even get out of his seat long enough to get himself a Diet Coke. And I didn't exactly see his followers doing a lot of outdoor exercise. O:) It's a whole different animal a mix of Mussolini, Putin, and a used car salesman, and requires a whole different set of extermination gear. :p )