maybe if you repeat "aww sumbuddy hurt ur widdle feefees and you turned into a nazi" at them enough times they'll decide that's what happened good plan, definitely not a preaching to the choir power signalling exercise
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possibly offering people the choice "join us and set yourself on fire willingly or refuse and we will set you on fire" could have been predicted to motivate them to break out of your systemhttps://twitter.com/hradzka/status/820113349832806400 …
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what if power, and the signalling of it, is a valid strategy against nazis tho, arguably the only one known to work
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what if "nazi" is a leaky abstraction
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then there will be collateral damage, obviously, but have we figured out a better terminology, or heuristic for which elements of society need to be forcefully suppressed?
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some people don't think any elements of society need to be forcefully suppressed, and also that speaking of people as "elements of society" first is an atrocity-producing framing. past that, is that heuristic any good now that any three outgroup markers i don't like = nazi?
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"some people don't think any elements of society need to be forcefully suppressed" very few people actually believe that, not even most anarchists. and yeah if you have a better heuristic for producing atrocities, it is badly needed
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i mean if i were tempted to forcefully suppress some motherfuckers i might look to outright advocacy of genocide and de jure caste division
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there's too few of those to produce a credible enough threat to maintain a power base with though
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well anyone who openly advocates genocide when such a thing is being suppressed is almost by definition not a real threat -if there is one, it's from those who advocate it with plausible deniability almost as if fascism is a really big problem for liberalism idk
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if that's your dream, you follow that dream, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise
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