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Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism

2 points by iron0013 8y ago

jimrhods23 8y ago
Why mention of Russian trolls and white supremacist groups as being fascist and no mention of: Antifa (ironically supposed to be anti-fascist, but is anything but), anti-Israel/anti-semitic users, including in the US government, and the drowning out of any conservative voice/anyone that deviates from the current left-leaning narratives? If you can't be open and honest about the problem and less biased, it will never be solved.
- iron0013 8y ago
  I'm interested in what you think is open and honest about suggesting that violent opposition to fascism is in any way equivalent to fascist violence
  - jimrhods23 8y ago
    "violent opposition to fascism" Beating up and suppressing anyone you don't agree with, which is exactly what Antifa members have been doing in the last 2 years at many of their 'protests', is itself fascism.
    - iron0013 8y ago
      ^ that's a lie, sorry.
externalreality 8y ago
The author does a good job painting propaganda in its awesome and terrible social media incarnation. The analogy between ISIS with the NZ maniac is a bit troublesome however and I'll tell you why. When I served in Afghanistan, as a mere child myself in the very early 2000's, I saw children in the street (if you can call it a street), dirty, unfed, walking over to a dirty stream washing what appeared to be glass out of the smallest one's foot - all in a town destroyed by whatever. Those children are adults now, how can I blame them for the hatred they must carry around. The western world created the hatred that is (was) ISIS, in the name of big oil. And we were warned of the consequence before stepping a figurative foot in the middle east. The Christchurch shooter, I don't know his story, but I'm sure his hatred didn't come from seeing an occupying force's unmanned aerial vehicle kill his loved ones at the tender age of 4. The NZ shooter's madness and the madness of ISIS are not the same. So My advice to the author is next time you want to preface 4 paragraphs of ISIS talk with a sentence about the a white supremacist to make yourself look less biased, remember that audiences are waking up to the theme of your article - propaganda.

2 points by iron0013 8y ago

Why mention of Russian trolls and white supremacist groups as being fascist and no mention of: Antifa (ironically supposed to be anti-fascist, but is anything but), anti-Israel/anti-semitic users, including in the US government, and the drowning out of any conservative voice/anyone that deviates from the current left-leaning narratives? If you can't be open and honest about the problem and less biased, it will never be solved.

iron0013 8y ago
I'm interested in what you think is open and honest about suggesting that violent opposition to fascism is in any way equivalent to fascist violence
- jimrhods23 8y ago
  "violent opposition to fascism" Beating up and suppressing anyone you don't agree with, which is exactly what Antifa members have been doing in the last 2 years at many of their 'protests', is itself fascism.
  - iron0013 8y ago
    ^ that's a lie, sorry.

externalreality 8y ago

The author does a good job painting propaganda in its awesome and terrible social media incarnation. The analogy between ISIS with the NZ maniac is a bit troublesome however and I'll tell you why. When I served in Afghanistan, as a mere child myself in the very early 2000's, I saw children in the street (if you can call it a street), dirty, unfed, walking over to a dirty stream washing what appeared to be glass out of the smallest one's foot - all in a town destroyed by whatever. Those children are adults now, how can I blame them for the hatred they must carry around. The western world created the hatred that is (was) ISIS, in the name of big oil. And we were warned of the consequence before stepping a figurative foot in the middle east. The Christchurch shooter, I don't know his story, but I'm sure his hatred didn't come from seeing an occupying force's unmanned aerial vehicle kill his loved ones at the tender age of 4. The NZ shooter's madness and the madness of ISIS are not the same. So My advice to the author is next time you want to preface 4 paragraphs of ISIS talk with a sentence about the a white supremacist to make yourself look less biased, remember that audiences are waking up to the theme of your article - propaganda.