▲ 174 ▼ Good Afternoon my fellow Russian shills!!! And love to my Trans Comrades who allow us to maintain the moral high ground! Drinks @ Duckstar this evening!! (hexbear.net) submitted 3 years ago by PandaBearGreen@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net 129 comments fedilink hide all child comments England is a US vassal state and you're all part of the rebel alliance and traitors!
[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 39 points 3 years ago (1 child) Because accepting that general sentiment has no baring on policy undermines their “we just need to harder!” worldview. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 33 points 3 years ago (1 child) It does more than undermine it. It forces the question of what is to be done when a large chunk of your country (30%? 40%?) is braying for open fascism, another large chunk is at least fash-curious, and your precious laws and norms are utterly useless to stop them? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 28 points 3 years ago (1 child) It's probably closer to 20/25%. Half of US citizens don't participate, and more than half of the people that do participate are pretty repulsed by our right-wing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah that's probably a better estimate of how many people would openly support naked fascism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago eh, even then, I think I'm overestimating a bit. And a chunk of that would be fair-weather fascist, they'd only support it if it looked like it was going to be successful and there weren't enough consequences for doing so. The picture of an "Openly Fascist United States" just seems a little too... camp theater, if that makes sense. Like, in terms of our imperial policy, we're already basically there. "Open Fascism" would just be bringing our international policy back home and implementing it here. And... I think there'd be a crisis of legitimacy before that happened, the country would break apart into regional factions. Those would be where capital-F Fascism, the sort that feeds people into an industrial slaughterhouse, would be at it's most likely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 33 points 3 years ago (1 child) It does more than undermine it. It forces the question of what is to be done when a large chunk of your country (30%? 40%?) is braying for open fascism, another large chunk is at least fash-curious, and your precious laws and norms are utterly useless to stop them? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 28 points 3 years ago (1 child) It's probably closer to 20/25%. Half of US citizens don't participate, and more than half of the people that do participate are pretty repulsed by our right-wing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah that's probably a better estimate of how many people would openly support naked fascism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago eh, even then, I think I'm overestimating a bit. And a chunk of that would be fair-weather fascist, they'd only support it if it looked like it was going to be successful and there weren't enough consequences for doing so. The picture of an "Openly Fascist United States" just seems a little too... camp theater, if that makes sense. Like, in terms of our imperial policy, we're already basically there. "Open Fascism" would just be bringing our international policy back home and implementing it here. And... I think there'd be a crisis of legitimacy before that happened, the country would break apart into regional factions. Those would be where capital-F Fascism, the sort that feeds people into an industrial slaughterhouse, would be at it's most likely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 28 points 3 years ago (1 child) It's probably closer to 20/25%. Half of US citizens don't participate, and more than half of the people that do participate are pretty repulsed by our right-wing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah that's probably a better estimate of how many people would openly support naked fascism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago eh, even then, I think I'm overestimating a bit. And a chunk of that would be fair-weather fascist, they'd only support it if it looked like it was going to be successful and there weren't enough consequences for doing so. The picture of an "Openly Fascist United States" just seems a little too... camp theater, if that makes sense. Like, in terms of our imperial policy, we're already basically there. "Open Fascism" would just be bringing our international policy back home and implementing it here. And... I think there'd be a crisis of legitimacy before that happened, the country would break apart into regional factions. Those would be where capital-F Fascism, the sort that feeds people into an industrial slaughterhouse, would be at it's most likely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah that's probably a better estimate of how many people would openly support naked fascism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago eh, even then, I think I'm overestimating a bit. And a chunk of that would be fair-weather fascist, they'd only support it if it looked like it was going to be successful and there weren't enough consequences for doing so. The picture of an "Openly Fascist United States" just seems a little too... camp theater, if that makes sense. Like, in terms of our imperial policy, we're already basically there. "Open Fascism" would just be bringing our international policy back home and implementing it here. And... I think there'd be a crisis of legitimacy before that happened, the country would break apart into regional factions. Those would be where capital-F Fascism, the sort that feeds people into an industrial slaughterhouse, would be at it's most likely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 27 points 3 years ago eh, even then, I think I'm overestimating a bit. And a chunk of that would be fair-weather fascist, they'd only support it if it looked like it was going to be successful and there weren't enough consequences for doing so. The picture of an "Openly Fascist United States" just seems a little too... camp theater, if that makes sense. Like, in terms of our imperial policy, we're already basically there. "Open Fascism" would just be bringing our international policy back home and implementing it here. And... I think there'd be a crisis of legitimacy before that happened, the country would break apart into regional factions. Those would be where capital-F Fascism, the sort that feeds people into an industrial slaughterhouse, would be at it's most likely. permalink fedilink source parent
harder!” worldview.