They’re not fascists. They are liberals - and like liberal elites throughout history, they are utterly incapable of defending their precious private property by themselves. That is what they need the hencherproletariat for - fascists.

Fascism does not beget fascism - liberalism begets fascism. The liberal economic order is popping rivets all over the place… so some of these elites are building bunkers in New Zealand, while others do what liberal elites have always done when their power and privilege is facing a threat from below - feeding growth hormone to the vilest and most violent elements of the working class - the hencherproletariat. That is why you see liberals like Trump, Musk and literally a “whose who” laundry list of liberal elites enabling fascists and inviting them into power structures - they are essentially holding auditions for Hitlers and Pinochets.

Same ole’ Europe.

The “power tripping mod” problem here on lemmy is turning out to be even more pervasive, and perhaps more fundamental, than it ever was on reddit.

So you were banned by pugjesus because they got high off their own supply again.

First time, I take it?

If you don’t know what it feels like to try and save your prized In Utero cassette with a cheap BIC pen after it had been chewed up by your buddy’s car player, have you even lived?

I’m old enough to remember when owning record players was the norm, but I don’t remember anyone pirating anything - they weren’t considered expensive. Cassette piracy in the 80s and early 90s - now that I do remember.

However, it certainly was a thing. In the USSR they figured out how to do it on discarded x-rays - which, I have to admit, is the most punk thing ever.

Trump better for Iran

Yes. Trump is better for Iran. Trump’s raging incompetence is the reason why Iran is winning the war.

would have been over 8 years of a Harris presidency.

Right, right… and Obama didn’t unleash a campaign of drone terrorism on the world and Hillary Clinton wasn’t schooled in the arts of imperialist slaughter by Henry Kissinger.

Donald Trump perfectly represents what the US is and always has been… and with him in the Waffle House, you Yanks don’t get to ignore that and fall asleep like you do when one of your Dem Wall Street blow-up dolls fills your heads with smiley faces and lulls you back to sleep while they cause carnage throughout the world.

It is a perfectly fine thing to use the enemy’s words to sow disruption amongst the enemy - it’s pretty much SOP in the propaganda business.

However, depending on the audience, this should always be placed in the proper context.

Why this wasn’t done in this particular instance seems merely to confirm my (thoroughly justified) biases against these (so-called) “progressives” (ie, edgy liberals cosplaying as leftists) who would happily accept people like Carlson back into the fold as long as he hides his raging white supremacism behind appropriate liberal political decorum.

Well buddy

We’re not buddies.

Nah. JK Rowling can go take a swan dive off a cliff.

Almost like there’s a single overlord.

More like a single class.

Remember, folks… buy your sunglasses from safety stores - not tech bros.

Yeah… I’m sure they’ll stop dismantling what’s left of our public infrastructure because I told them to. It’s not like austerity is government policy over here or anything.

Are you some kind of evil person?

No, I’m a person who has access to the internet and can find actual data for myself.

Which is what the liberal status quo would like to prevent, of course.

Delete Facebook/Instagram.

This is actually a terrible idea - which I unfortunately used to ascribe to. Turns out that now all communications regarding the town I live in only happens through Facebook and WhatsApp - so when we get extended water and electricity cuts, guess who gets to be left out of the loop?

All the “clever” people who deleted Facebook and WhatsApp - that’s who.

Would I hit a guy with meta glasses, you ask?

No, of course not… I’d hit him with a baseball bat instead.

Boo fucking hoo.

will exacerbate harms they are trying to prevent &

Why the pretense that this has anything to do with “harms” to children?

Oh look… turns out that that the greatest perpetrators of child abuse is still - drumroll, please - parents!

Golly gee! Who coulda thunk it? I do wonder which part of the other 24% qualifies as “internet”?

But then again… unlike the internet, child abuse does not threaten western liberalism’s most precious little genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialism project in the middle-east with truth - so that doesn’t concern liberal génocidaires like Starmer.