Nowhere GirlMar 8, 2024

People's failure to understand that fascism is a fairly banal worldview reflects a refusal to understand how common and ordinary looking it is and how well it hides behind our modern high tech lifestyles.

Fascism doesn't have to have 1930s pomposity and daily military parades.

It can look like America, right now, today, depending on who and where you are. America already has military jingoism, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, unchecked paramilitaries, and theocrats denying our rights.

Show threadNowhere GirlMar 8, 2024
Many Americans are fascists and always have been, including people you know, and they look perfectly normal most of the time. Virtually every Republican is a fascist and has been for years; they've just worked hard to convince you they're not so they can continue advancing their agenda, hiding in plain sight.
Show threadNowhere GirlMar 8, 2024
Which gets at the real problem -- fascism isn't new and in fact, it's been winning for years, dismantling democracy, corrupting institutions, seizing power, and inserting itself in the lives and choices people make on a daily basis. The fact that you haven't noticed reflects how well their propaganda has worked on you.
Show threadPeachMcD

@gwynnion

Great #Thread 💐🎯

I've come to understand that #Fascism is what I've been taught to call #Capitalism when it starts treating ytpipo like it's been treating black & brown people the whole time

Capitalism/profit demands #slaves
Left to itself it will eventually have them

Solidarity from Tacoma
   

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