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It's an attractive ideology for, well, society's humiliated losers, essentially. It typically calls itself anything else other than fascism when it reemerges b
by pydry 5y ago
It's an attractive ideology for, well, society's humiliated losers, essentially.
It typically calls itself anything else other than fascism when it reemerges but it shares all the same features.
In the US e.g. use of the term "cuckservative" would probably signal that you align yourself with most of the tenets of a fascistic ideology even if you dont explicitly call yourself a fascist.
If anything it's become a lot more popular over the last 15-20 years than ever before. No tiki torch marches in the 90s.
- LAC-Tech 5y agoSo fascists are everywhere but they don't call themselves fascist and pretend they're not fascist but they're secretly fascist? If you genuinely believe this, why the secrecy? Why not just be out and open with it like the communists are?
- pydry 5y agoOvert fascism tends to scare people away. Theyre all well aware of its image problem as they dogwhistle for far right authoritarian ultranationalism. Typically they do remain a disorganized mess (as could be expected for an ideology popular mainly with opportunists and losers) but every so often some rich person feels threatened or ambitious and throws money at them and organizes them into a militia or something. Thats when they transition from an unpleasant crowd to a genuinely terrifying threat. Neoliberals are likewise loath to actually call themselves neoliberals while they argue for privatising a publicly owned utility.