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  • but nobody can win without being slick and two-faced

    And don’t forget ‘rich’, or more importantly, supported by the rich. A national-scale campaign requires resources that a typical organization can’t gather, and to win without such a campaign is miraculous in most systems.

    So, you’re assuming we’re all American here.

    Nah, like you said it applies to most democracies, even if America is an extreme example of these universal trends.


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    I don’t know what the culture is where you are, but I don’t give people money for friendly gifts. If anything, that just implies our relationship is transactional and shallow, rather than a community who care about each other more than money.

    What I do is return the favor by giving them free things later, just like they did. Like buying them a drink at a pub.








  • but they never seem to consider that it’s them that keeps electing those people.

    How so?

    If one doesn’t vote, a slimy politician still gets elected.

    If one does vote, in most elections they can only choose from a small group of people who probably fail to represent them, and even if there is a reasonable option, they probably won’t win the vote anyway.

    The system is rigged, when it comes to voting there usually* isn’t a correct option. Our political voice must exist outside of elections.

    (I say usually, because a few elections are better than other, but generally speaking at a federal level, it’s slime no matter how you vote)




  • Private against who?

    Privacy communities need to really drill in the idea of threat models instead of pretending privacy is some linear scale and the ultimate goal is to bury your phone and computer in a lead-lined concrete block underground. Privacy and security are meaningless concepts unless you know who your are protecting it from and what their capabilities might be. I don’t need to hide from NSA Tailored Access Operations because I’m not trying to x the y of the USA. I do need to protect myself from basic scam attackers, copyright trolls and neo-nazi stalkers. And Matrix, along with certain basic opsec guidelines, does that and more for me.







  • comfy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHistory often rhymes
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    12 days ago

    Yep, deportations and plans for deportations, including the Madagascar Plan.

    Neo-Nazis often lie (yes, knowingly lie) and say they just want a group deported ‘back to their own land’. It’s a much easier pill to swallow for the group of racists and nationalists who think genocide is a step too far, and it acts to sanewash them, but at the end of the day it’s cheaper and simpler to exterminate like the Nazi Regime did. Plus, there are groups who don’t have an external indigenous land, like the trade unionists, gays, trans, communists, liberals, people with disabilities, […] and so it’s clear that they can’t just deport and imprison all the ones they don’t like. It always ends the same way with fascism.



  • comfy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlReminder—
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    14 days ago

    This is correct, and also, Nazis don’t care about good faith argumentation. They’re explicitly anti-liberal (as in, liberty, freedom) and will only pretend to have these values to try and point out an apparent contradiction (“You believe in rights to speech and democracy, so why are you censoring us?”)

    In this video of former white supremacists talking about how they left the ideology, one brings up that on their Nazi website, it was normal and common to argue for points they knew were garbage, like the Great Replacement theory. It’s about power and results, not liberalist idealism.

    Violent methods usually aren’t the preferred way of dealing with Nazis (because it’s harder to get a mass movement to join in and support it, and because it’s riskier, legally, which makes it harder to sustain), but it works. It broke up the BUF in Britain, it’s kept the local turds scared to show their faces or reveal their true thoughts (don’t worry, they still usually get revealed by researchers anyway). Violence works. They know it and we know it. But when they’re the government, their violence is now legal.