I just wish folks would understand how much time and energy fascists spend on normalizing, promoting and recruiting for fascists. These dudes ain't got ANYTHING else going on in their lives, they spend all day, every day, trying to figure out how to create more fascists; and there's a metric fuck ton of rich/affluent people willing to help them, and even pay them to do it. Nazis know full damn well "hi we're the SS" won't sell, so they use a whole spread of tactics to inject this shit in public.

This whole project has so many different facets to it, so many different targeted communities; the comparison to cigarettes companies is apt because you've got a wall full of "flavors" and different styles of marketing, but at the end of the day it's all the same product - in this case, fascism/nazism

When people talk about "X to fascism pipeline" this is what they mean; it's an active process designed to drag folks, by their own reactionary dogshit, deeper and deeper till you hit "yay Hitler"

Anywhere you find a bunch of white people, or white coded activities, you're going to find nazis trying to normalize fascist ideology using a kind of conveyer belt system, that more or less works like a mystery cult. It'll start with hints, or framing reaction as resistance and justice, but the whole purpose of that is to keep handing you off to more and more explicitly fascist options as you work your way to the right. Because again, "hello, we're the Nazis; come join us" doesn't sell well.
And like I told you before, you can't be TRICKED into being a fascist, you gotta choose that. But they sure as shit know most ppl aren't going to just up and choose that without a whole lot of permission gates and justifications. So they tailor all this shit to specific subgroups, preying on the inherent reaction most ppl carry around with them already in a fascist colonizer society. And they're everywhere; they're talking to your kids, you Auntie at spin class, your cousin what likes camping.

@AnarchoNinaWrites This whole thread but this comment in particular ^

This is what they mean when they say "they cast a spell on" or *tricked/conned* people into it.

They don't mean they didn't know... they mean it is everywhere. Like water to a fish.

Sadly some give in/choose the dark side then wonder what happened when they damn well knew what happened.

Congrats, you played yourself.