ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESJan 26

@lzg

beyond right and wrong, self-interest alone justifies fighting #nazis

people need to understand what #fascism is

it doesn't create anything

it only consumes

it constantly makes new enemies because if it stops consuming, it dies

fascism must always be on the move like a shark or it perishes

so new outgroups to persecute are contrived and eventually you will be in one of them

simple self-preservation:

you must stop fascism now before it gets to you

"doesn't affect me"

oh it will

Show threadAlan CampbellJan 26
@benroyce @lzg that's the key feature of fascism that people must know; it always needs 'others' to vilify and that can include you.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESJan 26

@alanthecampbell @lzg

any student of history sees the pattern of how #fascism operates

what is happening in the #usa now is simple #ignorance of the nature of the new #nazis. we have collectively forgotten

it's #MAGA who support it but will also become its victims

and it's entitled complacent morons who don't #vote

the generation that saw #wwii understands, but they are dying off. in their place are legions of idiots who don't understand what the big deal is

they will learn the hard way

Show threadthe gripe ibisJan 26

@benroyce voting alone will not solve the problem, it will merely reset the clock.
there needs to be a more profound shift away from a model that promotes the tendencies that lead to fascism as good, from the myth of the rugged individual, to neoliberalism.

@alanthecampbell @lzg

Show threadmparkJan 26
@thegarbagebird @benroyce @alanthecampbell @lzg Voting alone isn't enough, but we still need to do it. It's what we call in math proofs necessary but not sufficient.
Show threadChrisJan 26
@mpark @thegarbagebird @benroyce @alanthecampbell @lzg it's a ladder. want to halt fascism? vote. want to reverse the damage? vote AND organise. want fascism binned for good and ice out? all of the above AND coordinated industrial action. none of them preclude the others.
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESJan 26

@ASprinkleofSage @mpark @thegarbagebird @alanthecampbell @lzg

a lot of people look to easy permanent solutions

doesn't exist for fascism

it's a matter of maintenance, constantly taking out the garbage

there will always be ignorants and bigots and someone trying to seize power off of them

this fight is forever

constant effort. iterative effort

here's the thing:

it becomes easy

unless you stall and delay

then it consumes you

magic perfection solution does not exist and never will

Show threadthe gripe ibis

@benroyce absolutely, hence my comment about resetting the clock. a successful vote will move fascism back one turn. altering underlying material and structural issues will move fascism back several turns. even things like codifying so many of the unwritten rules and gentleman’s agreements that govern the process of government, all the stuff that mcconnell did in the first term that made everyone go ‘you can't do that,’ and then they did it because it turns out you just can do that, it's just considered vulgar.

@ASprinkleofSage @mpark @alanthecampbell @lzg

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