ForgetPrimacy

ForgetPrimacy , 2 months ago

You just sound like an anti-corporation racist!
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ForgetPrimacy , 3 months ago

Hah

ForgetPrimacy , 3 months ago

Fuck, even the linked article didn't name the states:

• Florida
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Wyoming

And, with exceptions I didn't read:

• Arizona
• California
• Massachusetts
• New York
• Washington

ForgetPrimacy , 4 months ago

Hey look, feature 8 of Umberto Eco's Ur Fascism!

... Thus, by a continuous shifting of
rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. ...

Eco does make a point of clarifying that the presence of absence of any single trait he has identified does not prove a thing is or isn't fascist.

But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are
typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot
be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of
other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to
allow fascism to coagulate around it.

(The full text of the feature I quoted above)

8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their
   enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people.
   They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each
   other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be
   convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of
   rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist
   governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of
   objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

ForgetPrimacy , 4 months ago

It's pretty fantastic. In 2020 (only just beginning my journey of recovery from a conservative upbringing), I decided I should understand what fascism actually was. I found that dictionary definitions were terribly imprecise but eventually found Eco's essay. I understand there are other methods--of similar scholarly integrity--used to define fascism, but I have not spent the effort to find and compare these other works. It is my (uninterrogated assumption) vague understanding that Eco's definition isn't regarded as opinionated.

ForgetPrimacy , 4 months ago

There's also the point that a life sentence is wayy cheaper than a death sentence (according to some random guy who once mentioned it)

ForgetPrimacy , 5 months ago

My friend is having some trouble too, could someone help me explain it to them?

ForgetPrimacy , 5 months ago

Oh fantastic! I am proud to have observed this exhibit of librarian "humor", thank you and your children.