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Apr 4, 2018

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Twitter's not going to like your tweet. We're supposed to see fascists as "the other", to be isolated and ostracized, and not as manifestations of impulses that live within us all.

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(It's also completely possible to do both.)

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feel free to elaborate

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Basic understanding of human nature (that is, taking human nature to be a thing at all) entails that Nazis are *mostly* just like us, as is anyone. Narcissists, sociopaths etc. too are just like us, albeit not neurotypical - but most are still monstrous predators to be fought.

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I am as horrified by a plumber with a family, mouths to feed and normally functioning empathy, who is yet willing to aid and abet genocide, as I am by an emotionless monster who sees me only as prey. Or, perhaps, I'm slightly *more* horrified at the former.

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That said impulses in the first person are something I've got inside me as well is one thing; among other things, it's a lesson and a warning. But as long as they are willing to put force behind those impulses and I am not, I prefer to share no place to stand whatsoever.

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I would really not recommend operating under the "we're all the same" model when dealing with people who want to exploit and/or kill you. That is not to say I support disenfranchisement or censorship, by the way. Fuck that.