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I have no idea if the accusation levelled toward Meta is true or not, but I think the claim made by the article is both logical and clear: technofascism seeks t
by pron 5mo ago
I have no idea if the accusation levelled toward Meta is true or not, but I think the claim made by the article is both logical and clear: technofascism seeks to weaken democratic institutions, and to do so it exploits existing nationalist feelings that seek to do the same.
- tptacek 5mo agoI think I weakly agree directionally with all that stuff, but think the post is on less stable footing when it implies how strongly these phenomenon have been determined by TESCREAL right-wingers. Those people surely exist, and technology has surely amplified all the worst things in society (some of the good too, of course). But how big a deal they are? Not as sure. What I am pretty confident of is that people like Yarvin love articles like these. It makes them seem so important!
- pron 5mo agoThe question of how intellectual ideas gain political influence is always a tough one. John Ganz tries to trace right-wing ideologies and their influence at different times and places (mostly America, France, Italy, and Germany), from the Third French Republic until America today (and wrote a book about those ideas in the nineties). Here's a couple of random entries: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-enigma-of-peter-thiel https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-enigma-of-peter-thiel https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/theyre-all-like-that https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/theyre-all-like-that