• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        24 days ago

        Biden has killed like eight times the amount of people

        Explain what you mean with this. I have no idea what you’re referring to.

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            24 days ago

            Maybe the numbers do add up there. Well, shit.

            That doesn’t make them equally Hitler, then. Makes one more accomplished as a Hitler, while one is more obnoxious, sloppy, and directly incompetent as a leader (which is arguably more like Hitler anyway under some metrics).

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              my point is that America didn’t just recently “become fascist” through some gamer social reactionary tantrum. America has always been a fascist state and was doing medical experiments on black people against their will and running slave penal colonies for hundreds of years. Westerners really don’t understand that America didn’t just “become fascist” it IS fascist at its core and always has been, and stuff like Gamergate are just tiny symptoms not causes

              I really don’t like it when people try to blame everything on Trumpism and act like it’s an anomaly and we were less fascist beforehand. It’s even done here, and in the “99% hitler vs 100% hitler” memes. Hitler was 50% as fascist as America. We are worse and more successful at being evil and fascist. Hitler looked to us for inspiration and failed to reach our level.

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                24 days ago

                I didn’t say it was a solitary movement in a vaccuum with no precedent; I said it was a nudge further into a new development beyond what was already there.

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                  There’s an argument to be made that GG was responsible for neo-fascism blooming in the west.

                  This comment from SorosFootSoldier was the one I primarily took issue with. Naive, idealist and really lib-coded comment if you ask me, and then you adding on agreeing and saying that GG caused Trump (which caused Fascism) is what made me mention how silly this entire “analysis” was. Biden is equally as fascist as Trump, all the anti-GG libs who are now zionists are equally as much fascists as their GG counterparts (See: Brianna Wu)

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                    24 days ago

                    I wasn’t going there myself. These things are intersectional, connected, and while they don’t start in a vacuum, they also don’t have singular exclusive causes or influences.

                    Like if someone just barks “material conditions” and completely ignores the effect of propaganda, they are clearly missing the difference between people of roughly the same economic conditions where one group has many more members that decide to embrace fascism than the other group. not-immune-to-propaganda

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            24 days ago

            Fuck Biden but the reason more people died under Biden is because Trump literally encouraged the spread of it with culture war bullshit until thousands of people were dying every day at the start of bidens term.

            Fuck him and he didn’t do shit to stop it but getting a car up to 100 mph, jumping out of the drivers door and then blaming the person who grabbed the wheel for the crash seems shitty, even if the person that grabbed the wheel dumped it straight into the ditch.

            I hate Biden and don’t think he’s any better than Trump but I think there’s a bit of a tendency to overcorrect and act like Trump actually isn’t that bad, which even if its lib shit the orange man is in fact bad.

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              24 days ago

              stop using nonsensical metaphors to understand reality. Look at concrete actions and results of those actions.

              Biden is perpetrating a genocide right now against Palestinians, and started a war against Russia that has claimed over a million lives. Biden’s policies if he were president in 2020 would be roughly identical to Trump’s policies, and even less people would follow guidelines because there wouldn’t be an anti-Trump culture war to make Liberals want to wear masks to show their moral virtues. Covid would have been swept under the rug even more quietly, with less pushback from the population.

              It’s not that Trump is “better”, that’s not the point. The point is countering the radlib tendency among the left to overly freak out about “Trumpism” and “Fascism” as if it’s some anomaly and every blame can be placed on Trump’s shoulders. He’s the scapegoat, and when you repeat this kind of naive idealist analysis that could only be done by like a 20-year old or younger, you are playing into the DNC narrative of Trumpwashing. THAT is the reason more hardline leftists downplay Trump being to blame for everything, because the squishy radlib left are trying to place all the blame on GOP/Trump, which is a narrative being fed to them by the DNC.

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                stop using nonsensical metaphors to understand reality. Look at concrete actions and results of those actions.

                Their metaphor was pretty solid. Trump created the conditions for Covid that Biden inherited and didn’t fix. It was a group effort to slaughter all those people, even though most of them died once Biden took over just due to timing.

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                That’s a pretty one to one metaphor. I literally started the comment with “fuck biden” I’m not trying to carry water from him.

                I agree the dems aren’t better on any foreign policy issues and are trying to outland the chuds from the right on immigration but complaining that people are “try8ng to counter the tendency to freak out about fascism” is bad and is exactly what libs did for a year when they said everybody has to repect the office of president and people were being dramatic when they called Trump and Republicans fascist.

                I live in a really rural area of a supposedly progressive state. There’s half a dozen houses within a 30 minute drive of me proudly advertising they’re ready to start rounding up anybody who doesn’t support Trump. I’m not worried about “overstaying the threat of fasicsm”

                Historically that’s how fascism gets into power.

                There’s definitely a tendency to go past “the dems are also fascist” which I agree with into “the dems are actually worse than republicans” which is dangerous.

                Democrats never proudly tell me how they’d like to burn down any house with a gay pride flag on it. I worked for a chud designing septic systems. He’d always talk about how we’ll build the septic system above the well of any gay people or democrats so their water would be poisoned and they’d die.

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                    22 days ago

                    You’re drawing a line between radlibs and libs.

                    All the elected officials were talking about how it deligitimizes claims of fascism to call them that meanwhile you had Goodwin coming out and saying his rule didn’t apply.

                    Standard libs were still in the “when they go low we go high” mindset at the beginning and I’ve been saying for years the civility fetishist were getting them all killed.

                    I guess you’re right we do have very different experiences except I know for a fact mine reflects reality sooo…