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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Why do so many presumably educated people not know how fascism works? It's gone down the same way every time in history and there's no reason it would be different now. You can't appease it or go along with it, everyone is consumed in the end because that's how fascism fucking works.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Neoliberals are fucking morons. They are best described as fascism's PR team

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I think lots of presumably educated people underestimate how fascist Trump can be. It's not that they don't know how fascist ideology works, it's more like they can't come to terms that the worst predictions about blatantly fascist Trump get are still not pessimistic enough.

And also, I don't think the "appeasement" of fascists come purely from not realizing that they're dealing with fascism. It's more like a tight rope where you know you're fucked but if you play it right you can reduce damages. While I'd love to tell Trump to eat shit, that can't be our foreign relations policy.