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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Authoritarians, which are not unrelated to racism, if left alone, will start stripping rights from each other. In a spherical cow sense, they can't really bond with each other because they fundamentally hate other people, like as a concept. This is also sorta why their social media sites never take off.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I generally hate people. I don't want to be authoritative over anyone. I don't want the responsibility.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wonder if their hate is just a side effect of wanting to be superior over others. And that's what drives their base actions.

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  • More or less, yes. It's the satisfaction that comes from power.

    The main ingredients of fascism are fear (urgency) and a desire to reclaim a power once held, like in a birthright sense. A result of this is that the power they hold now is a result of the fear they've fostered, which means they quite literally cannot survive people becoming unafraid. There must always be a group of people to hate, even amongst each other, or the kingdom they've built vanishes.

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