lots more at the link (CW for racism, transphobia, SA, general nazi rhetoric)

Fuckin melon-musk follows this guy now, that’s how bad it is. Just completely mask off on every fascist talking point out of nowhere. ukkk is not okay

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    What is it with the internet and flipping people over to fascism. Like you have google, you can google what happened to disabled people like you in fascist germany my guy, they wouldn’t spare you because you stan the sopranos.

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      It’s easier to be constantly exposed to all things, including those you despise

      For some people, the things they despise are Nazis, fascists, and assholes

      For others, it’s minorities existing

      And when you’re already a reactionary dipshit who has no meaningful rationale behind supporting certain political views, it’s a hell of a lot easier to just move to the standpoint of ‘everyone I don’t like should be exterminated’

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      People are generally unhappy and realize things are bad, which results in political radicalization. That generally goes one of two ways: recognizing that the billionaires who run society are the problem and that they must be eliminated, or nazism. Fascist billionaires like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel see this and go “holy shit we need to make sure those people become nazis and don’t want to kill us”, which results in nazi propaganda being openly spread on capitalist-owned social media sites, which is the majority of the internet.

      There are other factors, like most in the west perceiving of their class as being petit-bourgeois, even when they own no capital, and as we know the petit-bourgeois were one of the largest supporters of nazism.

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      google is part of the problem though… all these big tech companies are purposely steering kiddos to fascist training material constantly

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        Whenever you start to feel this way, just remember that 1) we live in the Fourth Reich, and 2) our internet is owned by capital, which actively amplifies horrible Nazi shit to serve its own interests.