• unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    One of the identifiers of fascism is that one’s enemy is strong, needing to be stopped, and so weak they could never resist us.

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      9 days ago

      Anyone that hasn’t read Umberto Eco’s essay Ur Fascism that this notion is from should get on it.

    • Bazell@lemmy.zip
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      9 days ago

      This basically applies to not only the US and Israel, but also to what Russia does towards Ukraine.

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        8 days ago

        It applies everywhere there is a populist political agitation. The immigrants are parasitic freeloaders and they are here to steal your job!

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      Exactly. It’s textbook nazi propaganda, where they said that the jews are a subhuman, degenerated race, but they also somehow insiduously control the entire world from the shadows. Like which is it now? Below or above typical intelligence and power? Both, in the world of the fascists.