Re:Manufactured consensus on x.com
by piperswe on Thursday April 24, 2025 @04:42PM
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I mean, the fascists today are basically the same people as the fascists 10 years ago. It wasn't crying wolf, it was seeing what was going to happen in the future.
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Re:Manufactured consensus on x.com
by o1inventor on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @08:16PM
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If I tell a young black man he is gonna grow up to be a criminal, that makes him more likely to grow up to become a criminal.
Especially if I refuse to debate him and instead hurl insults at him and viciously deride him.
The same is true of the ordinary and the middle-of-the-road people when it comes to fascism.
The best way to create fascists is to attack and histrionically go after non-fascists and demand they conform to our way of thought.
Just being left-wing and going after people out of disgust over their opinions, I've accidentally alienated more people and created more fascists than any of these limp-wrist right-wing conservatives could ever hope to create.
I only realized it years later.
Radicalism begets radicalism.