Looking for focused alternatives to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc Not just for myself but for my family members and friends who I wish to keep in touch with… any other threads going on about this? Maybe have a general thread and subsequent migration movements, we really need to act on this social life fascist monopoly we’ve became hostages to…

  • @JubilantJaguar
    -15•1 month ago

    as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.

    George Orwell, 1944

    • @Stamau123
      23•1 month ago

      Yeah the dudes slinging nazi salutes def aren’t fascist my guy

          • @JubilantJaguar
            -6•1 month ago

            Mundane abuse of the word “fascist” is pretty boring, admittedly, but I’m always ready to call it out.

            • @maniclucky
              3•1 month ago

              Continue your bad faith, head in the sand vigil you dumb piece of shit.

              • @JubilantJaguar
                -1•1 month ago

                It sounds like you’re interested after all. The full essay is here. 3 minute read.

                Author was possibly the most famous ever democratic socialist, so a pretty credible source.