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Reading:
Roger Eatwell, Fascism: A History, 2003Giovanni Gentile & Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932
David Renton’s 2020 “Fascism: History and Theory” is worth reading too. And no, he doesn’t think MAGA is best described as “fascist”.
As with all these things, it depends how you define it.
In Spain the military leaders who led the uprising against The Second Republic were not members of the Fascist party, The Falange. The Fascist movement played a secondary and subordinate role, with their party eventually being taken over by the Francoists.
Yeah sounds great. I mean I can’t see any problems arising from a society that has a legally enforceable right to rape. Which is what is being described above.
The problem with incels is mostly with themselves, they have developed a strange and toxic mix of both self-entitlement and self-loathing.
Isn’t the word “nerd” applied to anyone who is interested in anything other than pop culture and sport?
So, in order to avoid being called a nerd, one must limit oneself to pop culture and sports and not associate with anyone whose mind aspires to more than that.No it’s not that. You can definitely be a ‘sports nerd’, as in someone who has an obsessive knowledge about some aspect of sports.
But in recent years this word has definitely been reclaimed, you can find many people proudly proclaiming themselves to be nerds about one thing or another, and have social circles built around this.
A counsellor on the NHS told me that if i ever hoped for a girlfriend, i should start watching football and drinking beer.
I think they were indirectly suggesting that you need to get out, develop social skills, and meet people – rather than telling you to get drunk. But to be fair, this kind of advice is about as useful as telling an overweight person they need to eat less. I.e Not very useful at all.
I don’t know how interested other people are in listening to this kind of thing, but this podcast episode seems like a good summary of Hannah Arendts ‘The Banality of Evil’. One of the themes of this book, which doesn’t get taught often, is the two-way compliance between Zionists and anti-semites during the holocaust.
One thing this shows the negative human effects of the profit driven social-media algorithms. It would be quite easy for isolated and frustrated individuals to get drawn into a feedback loop, where everything they see is a self-reinforcing echo-chamber of misogynistic and destructive viewpoints.
Could such a thing as easily manifested in the pre-internet days?
They wanted to ban TikTok way before the current Israeli assault on Gaza started. It’s because of geo-political rivalry with China.
The Standard wasn’t banned from publishing in the wars years was it? I think some article were redacted though?
I presume you’re talking about Nick Bano, but he’s a housing lawyer from the UK and not a ‘tik-tok influencer’. Unless you mean someone from Australia mentioned him? His new book ‘Against Landlords’ is going through the review circuit at the minute. Might be worth reviewing or critically engaging with.
I probably haven’t read every comment in this thread. We know that Anti-Zionism is not (necessarily) anti-Semitic. But has there been much mention or discussion of anti-semitic Zionism? This explains right-wing evangelical Christian support for Zionism, for example.
What about the people asked to point to regions of the world?
If only to put TM’s mind to rest it’s worth pointing out that one of the most popular online games during the pandemic was one called “Geoguessr”. Players are presented at random with Google Maps photographs from all over the world and then have to pinpoint them on a map.
There are 50 million people registered on this game.
If only everyone was as intelligent, cultured and brave (and possibly as good looking) as TM, we’d have socialism tomorrow!
So your approach to social research is to watch funny videos on YouTube? And then you think it’s the other people that are dumb?
