Charlie StrossWhat even IS this bullshit? ("MAGA communism")
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/what-is-maga-communism
Bob Thomson@cstross MAGA comic universe: Assholes Assemble.
Tachibana Kanade@cstross Sounds like the idea that you can combine nationalism and socialism into a single movement. Not sure if it’s been done before, but if it has then it can’t have had that much impact, right?
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So, this group claims to be both nationalists and socialists in one package... national socialists... hmm... what does that remind one of? 🤔
@FediThing Also an exaggerated machismo and militaristic aesthetic. Naah, that doesn't remind me of anyone at all!
Seán Fenian@cstross @FediThing But their fashion sense sucks.
@cstross I don't expect the deranged to make any sense.
dakkarmost prominent spokespeople, Haz Al-Din, 27, and Jackson Hinkle, 24Hinkle? Can't be real, must a pseudonym based on Adenoid Hynkel, right?
Violet MadderHad one guy try to explain it to me in some detail, and I still have no freakin idea.
FoolishOwl@cstross It's a recurring phenomenon. A few years ago there was a group of Twitter pundits who called themselves "patriotic socialists". The CPUSA went to the trouble of publicly denouncing them.
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Orb 2069"They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors "
https://www.
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Isaac Freeman@cstross That is clearly just “national socialism”. Same con as always.
Jon@cstross A Deranged Fringe Movement - utterly unlike perfectly Sane Mainstream Trump-Worshipping MAGAts!
HairyChris@cstross the dumbest red/brown alliance!
@cstross I searched for every occurrence of "communism" in the article, and... I still don't see wtf their philosophy has to do with communism.
Are they just... equating communism with Russia/Putin? Because Russia under Putin is anything but communism. 💢