Not smugposting. Shit sucks. :(

  • @taiyang@lemmy.world
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    1393 months ago

    Let’s be clear, if you’re American, British, Canadian, French or now German, there’s an operation at foot to promote hard right extremes and disrupt your country. True of probably most of the world, really, even if it hasn’t fully taken root in your country.

    Ultimately, yes, we’re in this together so no matter what your anger (or smugness level) is, keep in mind nothing good comes from other-ing those on the same side of history as you.

    • @RandomVideos@programming.dev
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      283 months ago

      Theres also Romania, who almost elected a pro-russian right-wing extremist, and Moldova, whose citizens have been bribed to vote against joining the EU

    • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      73 months ago

      The people posting denigrating memes and sparking those rage-filled threads are the trash of the Earth. Infighting helps absolutely nobody.

    • @LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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      You’re right. If you see the world not as a conflict between nation states but as a class war all of this makes a lot more sense. This is not to say that nation states don’t matter. They are absolutely still used by the ruling class to maintain order and justify their actions as a “defense of our nation and culture”. Fascism has no hard rules or ideologies. It is used to defend capitalist interests and power. It is why we are seeing the rise in far right politics in the west.

      The capitalist class does not know borders; it knows class interest. Fascism is the defense of this interest in the face of capitalism internal contradictions.