I kinda don't blame them when that was just straight up how history was taught

That's not true. The rest of society is telling them "grow up and become a better human being" and the fascists tell you "you don't have to, because you're not the problem no matter what you do"

reactionaries think that hierarchy and conformity and homogeneity equal strength, but... that's a lie, actually. in the modern world all that this is *luxuries*

They way I take something like this is considering how we'd respond with other marginalized groups in his place.

If Newsom starts dropping some explicit racism and black people all say "yeah we won't vote for him," would there be a concerted "well if he's the nominee you have to" kind of effort?

The reason red-brown alliances happen at all is because fascism is because fascism is an aesthetics-focused ideology and a lot of people on the left also have an aesthetics-focused ideology that happens to overlap significantly with fascism. They both agree “Blue-collar coded manly man is best man”

Defending Platner’s tattoo and dismissing his Reddit posts as insignificant is a kind of identity politics for privileged douchebags who believe that casual expressions of bigotry should not prevent a butch white man from getting the position of power, prestige, and authority that he is entitled to.

He was still popular here in great part because cishet white male leftists dismiss anything to do with IdEnTiTy PoLiTiCs

The "stopped hitting yourself first" Century

I lean towards the latter but if they ever do a New Deal, or even scarier - do a little liberalization - then uh oh

They can absolutely pivot much easier than the Soviets could.

Oh wait wait let me jump into your thread. You mean that the right are shitty fucking humans, they’re always shitty fucking humans and they firmly believe in being shitty fucking humans and the left is always making excuses for them and pretending like they don’t have agency or accountability?

I'll believe we need to move to the center on trans rights when I hear it suggested as electoral strategy by a Tumblr user who's preferred outcome is eradicating the patriarchy by force-femming every living man

The thing is the craterbrained centrists largely believe the same things as the reactionary right, they just want to do so in a covert as opposed to overt way

the difference, as ever, between the radical right and the craterbrained centrists is that the reactionary right decided what they believed and fought to make it popular

bsky.app/profile/jame...

don't use a source that talks about "exposing Jihadists in the Biden administration"

using fascist sources is bad, even if the information is true

the primary argument for shein is that nearly all the clothes you get in America is sourced from the same unethical sources shein is; shein just skips the brand markup because they're essentially a glorified warehouse

correction: a white man rape apologist who wore a totenkopf death's head for 20 years knowing what it was and thinking it was cool

so maybe we should try more left leaning female personalities??? Maybe we should stop chasing the whole insane notion of getting back white men that has shackled the center left for 40 years?