Social media is mostly bots, most people hate the government
Liberals are at a point where they hate the Dems and the GOP
The right wing coalition is falling apart with Candace owens, Tucker carlson, and Nick Fuentes separating the Nazis from the evangelical Christians.
Material conditions are getting worse, but we haven’t had the ai bubble pop or war with Venezuela. Either will make life way worse for the west and we’re gonna see chaos.
Idk what’s gonna happen, but I think trump 2.0 has kinda turned a lot of people away from the right by both making material conditions worse and being mean and annoying.
Look at any news sub on reddit and it’s filled with pro Israel bots and shit. But the amount of obvious pro Israel propaganda from the state and by bots and shit was so obvious it’s now turning every right winger under the age of 40 into a Nazi.
I don’t think the mass botting campaigns work. They only make people more upset at the right and make the right look like extremely annoying assholes.
The right won a lot of ground by going “Le woke is trying to put politics into everything”
But now every fucking social media thread about sports or video games or movies gets brigaded by obvious right wing bots, even the most stupid liberals I know hate it.
People hate this it makes it seem like right wingers are now the annoying sjw that makes everything about politics (they always have been) and since most people under 40 get their news from tiktok and shit the bots and MSM manufacturing consent campaigns don’t work.
My mother is 60 and gets her news from tiktok. She doesn’t want the US to invade Venezuela, literally nobody does only bots do.
It’s backfiring but I think the admin is super on twitter and think it’s working. I think they legit do not understand that they’re getting everyone to hate them and theyre making material conditions worse. I think they also believe more in the polymarket shit than polls because they’re that stupid.
What happens next? Trump’s polling is the worst it’s ever been. The right wing coalition has collapsed and now maga is basically only the white evangelical boomers.
If material conditions get worse we’re gonna see more Luigis and Tyler Robinsons in a country with way to many guns.
I’ve met people working in defense companies who are liberals, hate MAGA, and under different circumstances could’ve been on our side. I don’t say that to rehabilitate them, they still have the blood of innocent people on their hands. But I think that you’re overstating the prevalence of the ideology of fascism if you assume that everyone who materially supports fascism is also ideologically committed to it.
What can be done with that observation? Probably not much, it’s not like it makes any sense to try to convert people working in ICE or Raytheon. But it never hurts to be more accurate.
This also describes the nazis and every German who went along with the Holocaust. Plenty of Germans did the whole “I don’t support Hitler but this economy is worse!” shtick as they allowed the SS to haul away their neighbors and coworkers.
It is not enough to be not fascist in a fascist society. One must be actively anti-fascist. Complacency is what allows fascism to spread. It doesn’t matter if they aren’t ideologically committed to it because they are still enabling it and should be considered enemies of the left.
Yes I agree 100%, what I’m saying is that it’s not like the project of socialism that we want to build will be made with an entirely innocent population that hasn’t already materially aided fascism. The GDR was built on top of the ruins of Nazi Germany, and even though they did a solid job of de-nazifying, it would be silly to think that no one in the new socialist government had materially aided the previous fascist regime. I can’t emphasize enough that I’m not trying to rehabilitate these people, I’m just trying to say that when trying to determine how prevalence the ideology of fascism is one can’t simply count everyone who materially supports fascism as also being someone who is ideologically bought into it. As @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net mentioned this implies that fascism and liberalism are ideologically equivalent (which I don’t entirely agree with, I still think there’s a difference, but it’s clearly true that liberalism is always ready to enforce fascism and people who subscribe to liberalism are one scratch away from being fascists in practice).
I have too and this actually is a prime example of why Liberals are ideologically fascists too.
Circumstances such as choosing not to work for the war machine? We don’t have different circumstances and their choices are partly why.