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2025-03-29 14:57:11 UTC

the conservative movement, the republican party, and now the us government have been taken over by outright /pol/ tier nazis
the alt-right was a *huge* success
the long story goes back to the business plot and john birch society but online edgelord meme culture seems to be what catalyzed critical mass

2025-03-02 15:03:11 UTC

Department Of Government Enshittification

2025-01-23 13:40:17 UTC

remember, fascists are small men who want to feel big, dorks who want to look cool, simpletons who cant handle complexity
theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something
trolling, taunting, and gloating are all they got, and they paid for it with their dignity and interiority
they have but one life like the rest of us and this is what they chose to make of it

2025-01-20 20:23:53 UTC

*taps sign*
we should all know by now that "he's not really a nazi he's just trolling" actually makes someone *more* of a nazi
trolling, edgy pulpy memes, cryptogrammatic slang, and autodidactic flirtations have always been the essence of nazi praxis, and larping the provocative aesthetics for the lolz is, as they say, the point

2025-01-10 15:35:13 UTC

observation: the global postmodern neofascist insurgence, from al-qaeda to the alt-right, has made great strides by means of tactics, logistics, and strategies, especially online, that we might consider anarchist
eg decentralization, encryption, stigmergy, memetics, sleeper cells and swarms, etc
[@mutual_ayyde](https://mastodon.social/@mutual_ayyde ) @npub1syh…9vf5 @npub1glr…8qmc thoughts?
to be clear i mean this in a dismaying "how are they beating us at our own game?" way

2025-01-09 14:40:41 UTC

*stares at the chorus of reactionary degenerates blaming "dei" for wildfires*
the afropessimists were right

2024-11-26 14:14:54 UTC

https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/549/669/931/791/198/original/c9cbd3be4de8340c.png

2024-11-10 13:25:47 UTC

do not fall for leftwing machismo and revolutionary hero fantasies
effective resistance is often unsexy and quotidian and has no room for bravado

2024-11-04 16:10:31 UTC

i *love* these maps from a pedagogical pov bc they so strikingly illustrate the idea of deep historical continuity, the interrelation of geography and society, the intersection of the natural and social sciences and the value of interdisciplinary scholarship, how even geology can be political, etc
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/425/554/488/936/127/original/780079034ef06057.png

2024-10-03 18:52:01 UTC

https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/244/996/179/736/305/original/3325745d88efb4b9.png

2024-09-14 12:40:30 UTC

now that old school blood libel and race war incitement are back its time to tap the sign:
every hysterical sjw who called trump and his troll army of 'conservative provocateurs' fascists and nazis has long been vindicated and their prescience continues to be substantiated

2024-09-13 13:49:18 UTC

one root problem with 'people voting against their interests' discourse is a methodological individualist assumption that defines 'interests' as reducible to discrete individuals and their self concept as such, and a related assumption that said atomized interests can be neatly siloed into economic and cultural, material and psychological categories

2024-09-10 19:07:06 UTC

omg i did not know that there were kekistan flags at the posters' putsch
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/114/822/939/354/788/original/07fdb9877b8fc5b2.png

2024-09-01 17:41:56 UTC

"The NYT is doing whatever they can to help Donald Trump in this election just like Fox News does.
And the only reason it’s not quite as extreme as Fox is because the audience is different."
*taps sign*
centrist media manufactures the consent of liberals; rightist media mobilizes the passions of conservatives