• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    12 hours ago

    While I agree fascist tend to indulge in self harm via factionalism, I don’t think this is really that, nor is it late stage. We’re approaching the stage where the fascist shed their traditional conservative mask and start enforcing their real ideology over the traditional conservative party.

    People forget that 4 years before the Nazi started their purge on greater German society during Kristallnacht they first purged and consolidated power in their own house during the night of the long knives.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      5 hours ago

      This is it.

      The “true believers” in neoliberal conservative values are useful to make the rightward march to increasingly reactionary politics seem proper and reasonable to anyone who isn’t paying attention.

      But when shit is about to go down those same talking heads are a liability if they aren’t cool with barely contained barbarism.