• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Germany: well, okay, listen, it’s not working out for America, and it didn’t work out for us that one time, but they promised it’ll be different for us. What’s a few civil liberties and social safety nets if it means we get to extract slave labor from immigrants put immigrants in prison for life for the crime of existing?

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      6 days ago

      Innuendo Studios summarized it rather well with:

      “We’re not like those other fascists. We’re young, hip, and successful. Come back, baby. It’ll be different this time.”

      https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&t=1179

      His whole series on White Fascism and the current Alt-Right is a phenomenal summary of today’s right wing “conservative” (fascist / nazi) landscape in an internet-connected age. Nothing has truly changed for them: they’re still a suicide cult based around attacking “the other” (whatever they pick to attack) and then narrowing who is allowed to be at the top until everyone is dead.