I’ve been saying it about Shapiro and Prager for years. Anyone can be a fascist regardless of background, it’s important to acknowledge the groups that were targeted and to understand that they will likely be targeted again, but acting like Jewish people, queer people, roma, etc are specially pure and good or like Germans, Italians, Japanese, and Spaniards are specially capable of evil is thinking in the lines fascism wants you to.

Fascism is wrong and evil because the ideas behind it are foolish and cruel. It turns class politics into identity politics for powerful identities (organizing as an identity isn’t bad when it’s the vulnerable, there’s a huge difference between the deaf organizing as the deaf and the hearing organizing as the hearing). It proposes simplistic and contradictory narratives that point towards destruction rather than construction, towards hate rather than love, and towards selfishness rather than empathy. It’s the worst aspects of human nature

Are people acting like this is new? We’re living in extremely precedented times. Hell even “social condervativism is on the rise while the climate changes catastrophically” describes the situation of the reign of king James the misogynistic of England and Scotland (most notable for his Bible translation, his witch burnings, and his unification of Scotland and England and colonization of the americas and acrually a lot more), at the beginning of the little ice age

Mostly about how about a hundred years ago yall flooded my hemisphere with badasses

I think a lot ot these tech bros bear a great irony to the concept of survival of the fittest. They were absolutely the fittest to a period of the early 21st century where a middle class kid with enough brains and work ethic in the right place with the right idea and no ethics or hesitation could become incredibly wealthy and powerful. But they created a collapse or merely drastically amplified one that was coming instead of trying to prevent it. Or maybe even they are trying, but the traits that allowed them to rise to power made them unable to actually help.

But regardless, they cannot function in lean times. They’re the socioeconomic equivalent to hypercarnivores. It’s a great position when times are good for it, but it’s not a stable one. In lean times the fittest species are often small omnivorous scavengers who don’t use too much energy to sustain themselves

I don’t think he will, but solely because he happens to be Jewish. Same reason Ben Shapiro won’t. Because ultimately these are the sort of people who think the nazis are bad not because of what they believed or did, but because of who they targeted.

Yeah if you welcome them in you run into them radicalizing normies. The alt right playbook is an extremely useful primer on modern right wing rhetoric even today

The problem is that that’s always been a mask in American conservativism. That’s the politics of George H.W. Bush, but even then he was CIA. Reagan was a result of the religious right and the call to unregulate capitalism. Nixon had a lot going on but was largely elected because the democrats had passed the Civil rights act pissing off the right and started the Vietnam War which pissed off the left, and in a statement that still shocks the party to this day you can’t win by appealing solely to the center. But regardless Nixon famously didn’t believe in a restrained use of government. W had the patriot act and was the pro state implemented torture era of conservativism in America. Eisenhower maybe was like that but he was president in a weird time period and the far right of his time was convinced he was a communist.

I’m firmly a supporter of political pluralism and I think that the conservativism you propose is a wonderful thing. And in the united states it’s a wing of the democratic party represented by folks like the Clintons. As it stands our national politics are particularly out of whack, but the rot is deep. To create a great America we have to think and act differently to strive to create a positive peace, equitable liberty, and shared senses of duty and hope

Also for anyone interested in very left wing very American media, there’s a podcast called “Alice Isn’t Dead” that’s basically a radio show of a woman driving a truck looking for her missing wife, filled with musings on America and it’s nature. It’s by the nightvale people and it’s good enough that I have less radicalized friends that enjoy it

I’ve been feeling like Cassandra for years now

Yeah. I’m a fucking American. A real American who takes pride in national heroes like the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and many others who fought and died opposing fascism

That game was such a brutal critique of American nationalism and Christianity’s role in it that of course the right loved it for the aesthetic alone

The Italian left is awesome. The Italian right belongs upside down at a gas station

Yeah, Cincinnati lawyers don’t know what time it is as a point of pride. They woo their clients by springing for a full 5 way.

A healthy financial life contributed to getting me a wife. It also would’ve gotten me laid if life hadn’t gotten in the way. A hot lady really liked my fiscal responsibility (her marriage was collapsing because her husband lacked that trait)

There are two exceptions: education and real estate. Treat education as an investment (and research it as such). And real estate probably isn’t worth going into debt to buy unless it’s your primary residence.

That would be an interesting approach to how to deal with me being trans. “Actually you only issued my brother his birth certificate, I’m the sister, here’s the proof I was born”

And if it legally does, since I’m a chimera, can I use the carpool lane?

I’ve done that most of my adult life and yeah even just pasta with jarred sauce is so much cheaper, better, and healthier than fast food.

Your next big level up may be realizing that exercise doesn’t suck nearly as much as the feeling of being out of shape

Only after they deport all the new Mexicans

Personal liberty means I get to decide for my body. And if you don’t like it well last I heard the supreme court and constitution say I have other rights to use in case of tyranny.