• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    148·
    5 days ago

    Fascists are never to be taken seriously when they say that they’re very worried about protecting anything.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      45·
      5 days ago

      Another 5-10 years in power and they’ll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it “parental rights”.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        It’ll be anyone with it a red hat on being chased down by then. Trump will be a full vegetable if not dead by then, and the Vance/Miller/Heritage crowd will have found a way to take absolute power. Otherwise the whole thing will collapse and we might have a shot at reclaiming the country.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            What kinda shot?

            Me against a police force? We haven’t even got left wing militias out there, let alone the size it would take for a coup.

            • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
              1·
              3 days ago

              Cool, well you just take a seat and relax. You’ve clearly done everything you can. Someone will be along to save you any day now, I’m sure.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      19·
      4 days ago

      Time for the Sartre quote:

      Never believe that anti-Semites fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      1·
      3 days ago

      They’re all about protecting their own wealth and their own “supremacy.”