zqps

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[–] zqps 24 points 4 weeks ago

Also, when in doubt, they decide in favour of branding and appearance over function.

[–] zqps 4 points 1 month ago

Good enough, for the next few weeks.

[–] zqps 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fascinating. I wonder how the millions of Chinese Catholics feel about this use.

[–] zqps 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep.

The part about lacking political education also means fascists are commonly identified as those who start world wars and drag people into gas chambers. Which is reversed to naively argue they can't be fascist before that point. Disregarding that this is of course not how the nazis started out either.

[–] zqps 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Murder Machines (schools)

I'm sorry what

[–] zqps 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The uncomfortable truth is that far too many people are entirely comfortable with a far-right agenda and rhetoric. Especially if it gives them permission to look down on someone else.

Also poor political education has people thinking of fascism as 1) some almost mythological evil far removed from modern sensibilities, and 2) a problem of the past. Neither is true.

[–] zqps 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's what it should be, a "booo!" for lazy and willfully ignorant comments.

In practice most people downvote any take they disagree with, no matter if it was expressed well, written respectfully, and contributes to the conversation.

[–] zqps 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's actually conservatism and classic white supremacy, but the sentiment is appreciated.

16 years of Merkel really had us fooled about the fact that her party would be almost begging to jump on the far-right populist train and cut the brakes under today's leadership.

[–] zqps 2 points 1 month ago

Emphasis on "could've", as in the hypothetical.

[–] zqps -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It's pretty clear from your comments that you consider communists and tankies to be one and the same, and don't really know much about communism in general. These tired arguments have been done to death, there's no point litigating this stuff with someone who comes at this with with proud ignorance of the subject matter. Until you grasp at least the contradiction inherent in the phrase "communist nation", you're just wasting people's time.

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