You must log in or # to comment.
the replies to the twitter post are all so painfully bad
Little Hitlers angry at basic historical observations
average twt experience
https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1993030904328208511 B R O T H E R
"Liberalism doesn’t “enable” fascism. It’s the only thing that prevents it. Fascism is a system where the state has supreme authority over the individual. It demands obedience, central planning, and the sacrifice of personal freedom to a collective ideal of nation, race, or leader. All power flows downward.
Liberalism is the opposite. Classical liberalism is built on the protection of individual rights, limits on state power, private property, free expression, and voluntary association. Fascism requires crushing these things. A society where you can speak, assemble, trade, and criticize authority is one where fascism cannot take root without first destroying the liberal framework.
Fascism only rises when liberalism weakens or collapses. The Weimar Republic didn’t “enable” Hitler. Its institutions were dismantled, censored, intimidated, and bypassed until nothing liberal was left. Fascism requires the elimination of liberal rights as step one.
Communism and fascism are not opposites. They are cousins. Both are forms of collectivist authoritarianism built on the same philosophical core.
Both demand:
• The subordination of the individual to a collective cause • State control over the economy • Suppression of dissent • One-party rule • Propaganda as truth • “Enemies of the people” to justify repression • Central planning of life, work, speech, and association
They differ not in their structure but in their branding. Fascism uses the nation or race. Communism uses the proletariat or “the people.” But both abolish individual rights and treat human beings as instruments for a collective end.
Where liberalism says “Your life is yours,” fascism and communism both say “Your life belongs to us.”
That’s why communists and fascists historically admire each other’s efficiencies and borrow each other’s methods. It’s also why communist revolutions always result in the same things fascism needs: censorship, secret police, one-party rule, centralized power, and the destruction of civil society.
If fascism appears, it’s because liberalism was abandoned, not because it was followed. And it is communism, not liberalism, that shares fascism’s DNA.
What both communists and fascists depend on is nonsensical, baseless, and emotional assertions, because envy, resentment, ignorance, and indifference are their lifeblood."
you can tell just looking at it he used ai lmfao
Despite the link at the top, i read some of that thinking you were authentically saying it and I had to spend literal seconds uncomfortable with the thought that someone like that had been on hb for two years.
Quote bars are free, here have one
Take me
He should have used quote bars, but he does use quotation marks. The main thing is he doesn’t use them properly with the linebreaks.
It’s also why communist revolutions always result in the same things fascism needs: censorship, secret police, one-party rule, centralized power, and the destruction of civil society.
think of all the attempted CIA plots against Cuba or wherever else, and realize that you are not aware of the full number and extent of those attacks. i think the people under that kind of siege know better than we do what’s necessary to defend themselves.
What a cool picture
I really wish I could airdrop liberals in an empty world where the only rules are the maintenance of individual rights, private property, free expression and voluntary association.
The state’s only function is the maintenance of said rules, it is above all else and is allowed ultimate authority to do anything necessary, to maintain the above rules.
It would be interesting to see how long before they try to demand for the rules to change.
voluntary association
It’s true, “freedom of association” was used to defend a lot of segregation before it was outlawed, and classic “anti-authoritarian” luminary Arendt defended it on that basis
Goes hard!
