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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Idk about y’all, but I like it when the fascists are stupid enough to out themselves to the world.

My thoughts exactly - I want my enemies to have a uniform to be pointed, named and shamed at.

remember in world war 2 when the Allies defeated the nazis by naming and shaming them?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love how everyone's like "I like knowing who the nazis are!" and absolutely zero ideas on what to do about them

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait for a chosen one to show up and defeat their leader, like in Harry Potter. galaxy-brain

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder who shows up to defeat their leader stalin-pipe

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

stalin-spoon his legendary wand

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

voooooooote them out! whats that? Hitler won with 33% of the votes bc liberals enabled the fascists and would rather form a coalition w them than with the communists? nah, hitler won bc the communists went to far actually and were trying to restrict freeze-peach very-intelligent

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

They're not the most perceptive bunch, they actually need people to seig heil in order to differentiate from themselves.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

isnt the point of outlawing it that now you can do something about fascists outing themselves to the world? ffs liberals are so spineless

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

frfr. they secretly love the fascists bc who else would kill the communists?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

objectively the left wing of fascism, capitalism in decay, the oppression of imperialism turned inwards, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

naw theyre the mainstream wing of fascism. social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism

there is nothing “left” abt fascism, hence the Stalin quote abt social democracy

ik what u mean tho, these ppl def think that they’re left wing

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whoops my bad. my brain is incapable of remembering quotes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

no biggie! there are too many quotes out there lol

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is hardly anything liberal about tolerating explicitly anti-liberal/anti-democratic forces.

That's... the most liberal thing imaginable.

heartbreaking

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the most liberal thing imaginable is a universalisation of property rights (of a particular cultural pedigree) and a fetishisation of markets (unless inconvenient to those with lots of property).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forgot about the key factors of claiming credit for any social progress accomplished by socialists and acting really smug about it

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While kicking a pile of dead leftists under a comically large rug

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You do realize that free expression requires that you permit things as reprehensible as racism, transphobia, homophobia right? You're literally doing the "Well I dislike it, so I'm revoking their rights" thing. I frankly don't give a shit what they "call for" unless they're trying to incite imminent unlawful acts. The crutch for the weak-minded and stupid is asserting yourself as the only moral and political authority and pretending that this will not immediately blow back up in your face. If being an actual liberal with principles is right-wing, then I guess I'm right-wing. It's better than being a spineless succ with no principles and who thinks liberty is removing the liberty of others.

they just SAY it!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

unless they're trying to incite imminent unlawful acts

They would have absolutely zero disagreement with a Nazi putting minorities in death camps so long as it's the law of the land.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They might start getting a little uncomfortable after the first couple million or so are murdered, but up until then it's freeze-peach baby!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Millions exterminated, but many Americans move on"

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

i truly could not give less of a shit about 'liberty' in the sense of political freedoms.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I frankly don't give a shit what they "call for" unless they're trying to incite imminent unlawful acts.

Damn that's what we've been missing. Instead of saying "Shoot the landlords (in minecraft)" we should have been saying "shoot the landlords (at sometime in the non-imminent future)."

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Braver than the troops fidel-salute-big

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Critical support to that brave Sicko. sicko-wholesome

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

holy shit am I tired of 'free speech absolutists' showing up to defend Nazis and literally nobody else

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"First they came for the Nazis" LOLZ

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neoliberals know they're next on the Nazi spectrum so it does make sense they'd be concerned once Nazis are targeted.

I mean, statistically the closest thing you can get to sending people to labor camps based on race is doing it by the socioeconomic status you were born into, and that's their idea of utopia.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

"First they came for the Nazis and locked up me and all my buddies"

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

All the redditors in that thread are like: "I don't like nazis but..."

Classic reddit-logo

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Unscratched liberals siding with scratched liberals

maybe-later-honey 🍷 🍷 maybe-later-kiddo

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

billdawg

"Damn man, we cant even say "hi" to our friends anymore?"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you expect better from the people that see nothing wrong with one quarter of a magic school being dedicated to magic nazis? wizard

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Absolute scum.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

brainworms brainworms brainworms brainworms brainworms

Imagine being able to identify a problem but being too much of a vile neoliberal to tell nazis they can't be genocidal bigots.

Peak reddit-logo I want to wax poetic around complicated issues to appear smart (APPEAR being the key word here) but appease the status quo so that I can continue to benefit and feel special in my nazi-adjacent echo chamber of sanitised sadistic anti-non white cis het views.

Jumped up sycophant acting like he's gods gift to interlect because he considers the views of two neoliberal countries, one which is an apartheid state.

"Oh well suck my dick because Germany (who were and still kinda are nazi) and Israel (who sent people to negotiate with the nazis to extract non left/zionist Jews to Israel before the shoah kicked off https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement in full dooming non-zionist jews to death knowingly) have anti-nazi views to specifically erase their relationship with fascism despite still utilising and protecting it to further their goals and I as an enlightened piece of shit redditor and sweaty neolib consider myself intelligent enough to entertain values and positions approved for me by my contemporaries smug smug. I love the smell of my own fats and benefitting from white supremacy as a neolib".

Sorry that comment has pissed me off more than it should. Its the chauvinistic perception of themselves as a "decent human being".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

brainworms

blah blah blah It's fun to think about free speech from different perspectives.

Still hasn't figured out it wasn't supposed to apply to him.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"It's fun to debate other people's right to exist while I (as someone who is at the top of the societal pecking order) who never has to worry about my rights taken away by reactionaries. I'm such a white savior for suggesting people consider these issues before we all ignore them and prop up the status quo to benefit ourselves."

Edit: why am I even getting annoyed, he's probably 15 and plays Hearts of Iron religiously.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i actually don't support these laws because they historically always just get used against the left and never against the right. fascism isn't defeated by the government banning it, it's defeated on the street. Also from a long time back, one of the proposed amendments to this bill was the following text (i dont know if it was in the final bill)

all other extremist groups which seek to promote fascism, communism, anarchism, bigotry and violence in our community

we also know that in places like germany where nazi symbols are banned they just invent new more obscure ones anyway

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

they don't need a legal mandate to oppress the left. blow up every nazi statue with public money.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The lame-ass libs in the comments checks out, but I also looked at the article and it gets bizarre. Feel free to correct me if I am misunderstanding. But the fascists might have been showing up to support the event that was "gatecrashed". As the person giving the speech and the event itself seem to have been anti-trans anyway. But the TERFs get completely glossed-over and the lawmakers are pissed about the hateful fascists only. "These laws are part of our unwavering commitment to challenge antisemitism and hatred whenever it occurs." Just an amazing level of contradictions being shown by liberals/conservative-liberals.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I bet some of these people will do a quick 180 if it came to something related to the Taliban or ISIS, since I don't think I ever saw a liberal defend someone right to like, I dunno wave the taliban flag or something? but it also just really shows how much they love nazis

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus, I regret reading the link. The smug assholes there raise my blood pressure like nothing else

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