It's funny to me how badly alt-right bros misunderstand fascism. What was it that they picked up from their education?
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Also, fascism as a concept is built into our culture, objectively. The eagle carries fasces. They're built into the Lincoln Memorial.
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We broadly leverage the unification ideals of fascism and we guard against them with liberalist regulatory structures.
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Soros pays me per 10000 impressions it's a good gig
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But then (unlike the alt-right) you've never actually read much of the serious academic literature on fascism, have you?
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I have, actually. In depth.
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So what's your take on Ernst Nolte versus Zeev Sternhell?
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I admit to not having read them. Most of my study was on the impact of industrialization and how it was leveraged by state authority.
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(I am, to clarify, a technologist and tech ethicist, so my studies have deep intersections but I claim no comprehensive breadth)
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But we can easily look the work of David Nye on technological empowerment, or just to look at the works of Mosca as primary source material.
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Ok, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the alt-right.
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You're literally just moving goalposts at this point to distance the alt-right from the negative things that have gotten them called out.
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Nor do you appreciate that the alt-right *rhetorical* use of the term "facism" is necessarily constrained by said term's generic abuse.
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I mean, you're literally arguing with this point that they're using the term rhetorically for anything they don't like.
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Oh, I see. You don't know what the alt-right is. You've confused them for the alt-light ("the milo right" "cultural libertarians")
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Richard Spencer coined the term, so I'm going with "people carrying torches chanting Nazi slogans in my hometown" as a solid definition.
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So if I don't carry a torch I'm not alt-right? Good to know.
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You can have a crush on whoever you want
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Every woman adores a fascist.
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