@Hikermick to Today I LearnedEnglish • 1 month agoTIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square73arrow-up1847arrow-down15 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1842arrow-down1external-linkTIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933en.wikipedia.org@Hikermick to Today I LearnedEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square73 cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 month agoThis is utterly wrong. Fascism is not a meme. Fascism isn’t spreading throughout the Western world like a mind virus. Fascism is the predictable result of the last 40 years of grinding neoliberalism. It is capitalism in decay. Fascism is not a grassroots movement. It’s a false revolution, funded by the capitalist class, which leaves the capitalist class in power.
minus-squareZephyrXerolinkEnglish8•1 month agoPeople aren’t born racists, supremisits, and bigots. Those ideas are taught. And for the last 15+ years there’s been an enormous internet meme campaign pipelining people towards this belief. It did not come about naturally
This is utterly wrong. Fascism is not a meme. Fascism isn’t spreading throughout the Western world like a mind virus.
Fascism is the predictable result of the last 40 years of grinding neoliberalism. It is capitalism in decay.
Fascism is not a grassroots movement. It’s a false revolution, funded by the capitalist class, which leaves the capitalist class in power.
People aren’t born racists, supremisits, and bigots. Those ideas are taught.
And for the last 15+ years there’s been an enormous internet meme campaign pipelining people towards this belief. It did not come about naturally