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[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 110 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Idk about y’all, but I like it when the fascists are stupid enough to out themselves to the world.

My thoughts exactly - I want my enemies to have a uniform to be pointed, named and shamed at.

remember in world war 2 when the Allies defeated the nazis by naming and shaming them?

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 91 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I love how everyone's like "I like knowing who the nazis are!" and absolutely zero ideas on what to do about them

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

voooooooote them out! whats that? Hitler won with 33% of the votes bc liberals enabled the fascists and would rather form a coalition w them than with the communists? nah, hitler won bc the communists went to far actually and were trying to restrict freeze-peach very-intelligent

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

They're not the most perceptive bunch, they actually need people to seig heil in order to differentiate from themselves.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (1 children)

isnt the point of outlawing it that now you can do something about fascists outing themselves to the world? ffs liberals are so spineless

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

frfr. they secretly love the fascists bc who else would kill the communists?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

objectively the left wing of fascism, capitalism in decay, the oppression of imperialism turned inwards, etc etc.

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

naw theyre the mainstream wing of fascism. social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism

there is nothing “left” abt fascism, hence the Stalin quote abt social democracy

ik what u mean tho, these ppl def think that they’re left wing

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

whoops my bad. my brain is incapable of remembering quotes.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is hardly anything liberal about tolerating explicitly anti-liberal/anti-democratic forces.

That's... the most liberal thing imaginable.

heartbreaking

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the most liberal thing imaginable is a universalisation of property rights (of a particular cultural pedigree) and a fetishisation of markets (unless inconvenient to those with lots of property).

[–] YouKnowIt@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You forgot about the key factors of claiming credit for any social progress accomplished by socialists and acting really smug about it

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While kicking a pile of dead leftists under a comically large rug

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[–] Othello@hexbear.net 78 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You do realize that free expression requires that you permit things as reprehensible as racism, transphobia, homophobia right? You're literally doing the "Well I dislike it, so I'm revoking their rights" thing. I frankly don't give a shit what they "call for" unless they're trying to incite imminent unlawful acts. The crutch for the weak-minded and stupid is asserting yourself as the only moral and political authority and pretending that this will not immediately blow back up in your face. If being an actual liberal with principles is right-wing, then I guess I'm right-wing. It's better than being a spineless succ with no principles and who thinks liberty is removing the liberty of others.

they just SAY it!

[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 84 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If being an actual liberal with principles is right-wing, then I guess I’m right-wing.

rare preemptive scratch maneuver

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

8 mile, but this time it's an 8-mile walk to the pit pit

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

unless they're trying to incite imminent unlawful acts

They would have absolutely zero disagreement with a Nazi putting minorities in death camps so long as it's the law of the land.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

They might start getting a little uncomfortable after the first couple million or so are murdered, but up until then it's freeze-peach baby!

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[–] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

i truly could not give less of a shit about 'liberty' in the sense of political freedoms.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I frankly don't give a shit what they "call for" unless they're trying to incite imminent unlawful acts.

Damn that's what we've been missing. Instead of saying "Shoot the landlords (in minecraft)" we should have been saying "shoot the landlords (at sometime in the non-imminent future)."

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 73 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

Braver than the troops fidel-salute-big

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[–] yuun@lemmy.one 69 points 2 years ago (1 children)

holy shit am I tired of 'free speech absolutists' showing up to defend Nazis and literally nobody else

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago

Turns out when you are a free speech absolutist who defends communists just as much you might just end up one yourself.

Couldn't be me :^)

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[–] ComradeLove@hexbear.net 59 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"First they came for the Nazis" LOLZ

[–] Lochat@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Neoliberals know they're next on the Nazi spectrum so it does make sense they'd be concerned once Nazis are targeted.

I mean, statistically the closest thing you can get to sending people to labor camps based on race is doing it by the socioeconomic status you were born into, and that's their idea of utopia.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

"First they came for the Nazis and locked up me and all my buddies"

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

All the redditors in that thread are like: "I don't like nazis but..."

Classic reddit-logo

[–] D61@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

billdawg

"Damn man, we cant even say "hi" to our friends anymore?"

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

Absolute scum.

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago
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[–] 0xACAB@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

i actually don't support these laws because they historically always just get used against the left and never against the right. fascism isn't defeated by the government banning it, it's defeated on the street. Also from a long time back, one of the proposed amendments to this bill was the following text (i dont know if it was in the final bill)

all other extremist groups which seek to promote fascism, communism, anarchism, bigotry and violence in our community

we also know that in places like germany where nazi symbols are banned they just invent new more obscure ones anyway

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

they don't need a legal mandate to oppress the left. blow up every nazi statue with public money.

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[–] SunsetFruitbat@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

I bet some of these people will do a quick 180 if it came to something related to the Taliban or ISIS, since I don't think I ever saw a liberal defend someone right to like, I dunno wave the taliban flag or something? but it also just really shows how much they love nazis

[–] dRLY@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The lame-ass libs in the comments checks out, but I also looked at the article and it gets bizarre. Feel free to correct me if I am misunderstanding. But the fascists might have been showing up to support the event that was "gatecrashed". As the person giving the speech and the event itself seem to have been anti-trans anyway. But the TERFs get completely glossed-over and the lawmakers are pissed about the hateful fascists only. "These laws are part of our unwavering commitment to challenge antisemitism and hatred whenever it occurs." Just an amazing level of contradictions being shown by liberals/conservative-liberals.

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