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Do not normalize fascism (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can't believe I have to tell journalists this, but disappearing people for constitutionally protected free speech is not an "arrest." SMDH

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[–] pelespirit 53 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Also, watch for opposites. I've seen this the most lately. The current administration does something super duper nazi and/or fascist, then it's always the democrats fault. It seems to be working somehow?

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,...

https://archive.is/PoUMo

[–] zarkanian 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I find it disturbing how often discussions about the current administration bring out people talking about taking up arms. I have to wonder how much of that is organic, because, aside from the ethical issues, there's no surer way to delegitimize your movement in the eyes of the public and give the FBI free rein to move on you like a bitch. There's an old saw in activist circles about avoiding people who talk about going violent, because those people are often informants.

[–] pelespirit 2 points 3 days ago

I was wondering about that too. It gets pretty heavy handed here sometimes talking about that stuff. It makes things hard to mod as well. I can't tell if they're being serious or not.

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