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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

One wants you to boil alive slowly and the other wants to dismember you with a chain saw.

No.

One is consisting of unimaginative and incompetent people, and people that want to do things but cannot due to the another group.

The other group is consisting of outright vile people that get off of other people's suffering, religious fanatics that need some "noble lies" about things like trans people otherwise "they'll throw away eternal happiness of the afterlife for the temporary happiness of this life", and "good willing conservatives" that are fooled by the meaning of the word and think "even if all this turns out to be real hatred, the next government can just unlegislate the law".

We had 8 years of the former in Hungary. The latter convinced enough "good willing conservatives" to vote for them. We no longer can "unvote" them, for another government to "unlegislate" horrible laws, and no government will unsteal money stolen by Fidesz oligarchs, unexpel kids from high school because Fidesz lowered the education age, and undo the countless other harm caused by them.

I don't think a "world wide worker's revolution" is coming. If it's coming, it'll be in current China style, and I got enough of mediocre dictators wanting to form society to their liking. If it will be somehow good, it still can't undo the harms of the current system. And if the rise of Nazism didn't lead to the second coming of Rosa Luxemburg, I doubt the current rise of fascism will lead to anything like that, and leftist movements can be easily crushed by a police state in their cradles. Hell, all they need is widespread alcoholism and overwork, like in Hungary where they weaponize doomerism.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

One is consisting of unimaginative and incompetent people

Sadly, the Pete Buttigiegs and Krysten Sinemas of the world are fiercely competent in their pursuit of climbing up the political ladder and cashing out at the public's expense.

We had 8 years of the former in Hungary. The latter convinced enough “good willing conservatives” to vote for them. We no longer can “unvote” them

The former paved the way for the latter. Perestroika opened the gates to the neoliberal barbarians, and when they were done looting the country it was ripe for a fascist revival. Every "we have to vote for the lesser of two evils" concession accumulated a bit more evil. And what you're left with is a mafia in place of a government precisely because compromise after compromise whittled away everything the country had going for it.

I don’t think a “world wide worker’s revolution” is coming.

I don't think Biden wins this next election. Not for all the screaming and left-shaming and "but Trump is worse"ing on the internet. Biden's 2020 coalition is hemorrhaging conservatives as fast as its hemorrhaging college leftists. He can't win Arizona, Nevada, or Georgia a second time now that he's pissed away domestic good will on hundreds of billions in foreign military aid.

And if the rise of Nazism didn’t lead to the second coming of Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg was killed in 1919, by the German State Police, as they sought to quell student protests. She was arrested by the Freikorps and tortured before their execution. This was the year before the formation of the NSDAP. The leaders of the Shanghai Commune of 1927 suffered a similar fate under Chiang Kai-shek eight years later. It was Luxemburg's death, and the exile of Zhou Enlai, that heralded the ascension of the then-modern fascist movement.

This occurred under moderate governments. One might even call them Bidenesque. They cleared a path for the fascism that swept through China and Germany over the next decades under ostensibly liberal democratic rule.

What we're seeing in Palestine and Ukraine and Argentina and India - and reflected in Columbia and UCLA and UT@A, via a militant police backed by far-right local militias - is a tide of fascism that won't be stopped by a bunch of liberal enablers. Hundreds of Rosas are dying to Israel bombs. Hundreds more are being rounded up and brutalized by American police. They'll keep appearing, because this amount of pain and fear is intolerable, and has to be resisted at all costs.

And if you think that resistance to fascism amounts to

mediocre dictators wanting to form society to their liking

then I gotta question what you're going to do now that fascism is on your doorstep.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Rosa Luxemburg was killed in 1919, by the German State Police, as they sought to quell student protests.

Funny way of saying "Quelling an armed uprising that Rosa Luxemburg herself had voted against", but honesty isn't your strong suit, I know.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Funny way of saying

Joe Biden killed Rosa Luxemburg.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Here I thought it was Bernie Sanders.

this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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