Hikermick@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1808arrow-down15 cross-posted to: anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.com
arrow-up1803arrow-down1external-linkTIL of the Business Plot, a conspiracy to overthrow the presidency of FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in 1933en.wikipedia.orgHikermick@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square65fedilink cross-posted to: anticorporate@lemmy.giftedmc.com
minus-squareZephyrXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-25 hours agoNo, it means next time the world goes to war with fascists, they need to finish the job.
minus-squarediplodocus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-213 hours agoThis is utterly wrong. Fascism is not a meme. Fascism isn’t spreading throughout the Western world like a mind virus. Fascism is the predictable result of the last 40 years of grinding neoliberalism. It is capitalism in decay. Fascism is not a grassroots movement. It’s a false revolution, funded by the capitalist class, which leaves the capitalist class in power.
minus-squareZephyrXero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 hours agoPeople aren’t born racists, supremisits, and bigots. Those ideas are taught. And for the last 15+ years there’s been an enormous internet meme campaign pipelining people towards this belief. It did not come about naturally
No, it means next time the world goes to war with fascists, they need to finish the job.
This is utterly wrong. Fascism is not a meme. Fascism isn’t spreading throughout the Western world like a mind virus.
Fascism is the predictable result of the last 40 years of grinding neoliberalism. It is capitalism in decay.
Fascism is not a grassroots movement. It’s a false revolution, funded by the capitalist class, which leaves the capitalist class in power.
People aren’t born racists, supremisits, and bigots. Those ideas are taught.
And for the last 15+ years there’s been an enormous internet meme campaign pipelining people towards this belief. It did not come about naturally