Only that he doesn‘t. And I don‘t.

Your pattern: Make stuff up > act all incensed for being confronted with your bullshit > use personal attacks and accusations of lying > make stuff up again.

Either you now provide the sourcing and the quotes of what you keep yapping about or I‘ll consider you a bot, because you‘re acting like one.

Bring the receipts.

Stop making stuff up, it’s time to bring the receipts. Where exactly does “Eco’s version assumes Stalin’s regime is one of primary fascist regimes in the first place”?

Eco treated Stalinism as a seperate, parallel example of totalitarianism, explicitedly not labeling it fascist.

You gotta leave your confused reactionary, red fascism narrative and anti-communism stance behind, if you actually want to understand the world. Maybe start by not being so dishonest.

Some passages from Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism:

If by totalitarianism one means a regime that subordinates every act of the individual to the state and to its ideology, then both Nazism and Stalinism were true totalitarian regimes.

It was Italian fascism that convinced many European liberal leaders that the new regime was carrying out interesting social reform, and that it was providing a mildly revolutionary alternative to the Communist threat.

Nevertheless, historical priority does not seem to me a sufficient reason to explain why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements. This is not because fascism contained in itself, so to speak in their quintessential state, all the elements of any later form of totalitarianism. On the contrary, fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions.

I would have been more impressed, if you‘d actually provided argumentative content instead of personal attacks.

Not sure, what you used Umberto Eco‘s definition for, but it wasn‘t to formulate a coherent thought on the topic.

Oh, the historical fascisms such as under Stalin and Pol Pot, right.

it’s in principle undetermined in ideology

Correct in so far, as it‘s determined by economic system. Which happens to align with left/right ideology.

But the only principles really important for any kind of fascism are violence, anti-rationalism and amorphous ideology.

You’re making shit up depending on how your tummy feels, don‘t you?

Please stop using the internet.

I do this regularly. The „unfortunately“ part is not something I am willing to take ownership of and see it as a weakness of the platform. I also tend to be controversial in .world communities and I detest software that‘s trying to force me to behave in certain ways that are neither transparent, nor neutral in their judgment of my commentary.

That’s the same for up- and downvote balance. it’s bullshit. be it attitude or reputation.

Why am I forced to have certain voting patterns in order to be accepted as a trustworthy community member? That‘s arbitrarily authoritarian in order to subdue deviant behaviour without good reason or explanation before engaging in said community, which ux design displays up- and downvoting in the same manner? I‘m not being warned of such consequences for this arbitrary branding rule. Is excessive upvoting branded, as well? If so, in which way? If not, why not? It‘s dumb, that‘s what I‘m getting at.

Dunno man, I‘ve got the double red triangle exclamation mark for „very low reputation“. Certainly it „warns“ unsuspecting people and I had already at least one commenter, that mistrusted my commentary just for that. Cool. Cool, cool.

Don‘t have an account — do I also have an attitude, it doesn‘t show any publically?

Either way, branding users like that, intransparently, by machine logic, I certainly am not convinced.

Actually what? You stalked another user on another meme post about another topic to make no point at all. Are you a bit dim?

@Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml - what’s your defense?

Nobody ever said that they‘re all Nazis, not even the meme.

Also, you started by citing fiction to make a point using whataboutism.

You are not a sincere person.

What‘s your perspective on Trump‘s motion to increase and secure US rule over the Americas?

I’m not necessarily agreeing with the head chopping part on a general basis, but consider this:

If you become wealthy (which is a nebulous term, but w/e) in this system you automatically gain power over the life of other people, while you yourself break free from being forced into laboring for others. You are not going to spend it all on consumables, so you will likely use it to pay other people to do stuff for you, that you either can’t be bothered to do yourself or are not skilled to do yourself. So you’ll be able to live off of the labor of others, less fortunate. You are extracting value from them, maybe even creating some kind of dependency through the power imbalance.

TL;DR: Share your wealth or get fucked, parasite ;)

(and no, extracting value for your personal benefit is not sharing)

E: So, it’s more of: do you have the means to free yourself from labor, while at the same time you exploit the people that don’t have that freedom, then your wealth becomes a problem and through your wealth you do become a problem for the working class.

Oh it has always been will. Let‘s not pretend like capitalism has the better logistics and therefore a better world wouldn‘t have been possible sooner. That’s only romanticizing capitalism.

Sure alright, I got heated by your sad apathy. Explain the “Disingenuous” part, tho. What’s disingenuous about what I said?

Oh, suddenly you don’t care? The only thing, that doesn’t make sense then, is you commenting at all. Curiously you do, tho — with vibes-based political commentary. If you’re really so apathetic, may I suggest to you to stfu.

What I got from your form of verbal maneuvering (lol), tho, is that you are not only apathetic, but also ignorant.

That’s all very vague. Be more explicit. Many argue many things.

What is the ideology you’re hinting at? Communism? What is the body count of communism? Where do you think you’ve got that that narrative from?

To round out the picture, and because body count seems so decisive, we should include capitalism, right — as fascism, many argue, is a neccessary consequence of imperial capitalism protecting itself in crisis and it’s our current economic ideology and therefore an ongoing, systematic phenomenon?

What’s the body count of capitalism?

Many would argue we currently live by an ideology with a body count of double digit millions of excess deaths annually, through poverty & hunger, healthcare inequality, workplace deaths & diseases, environmental & climate deaths, structural violence, and of course war & imperial violence.

Not the same thing. Equating the far left and the far right is nonsensical, as horseshoe theory isn’t a real thing. Giving room for such thought only strengthens extreme right positions and is exclusively used to either distract from or downplay far right commentary or elevate liberal/centrist thought as the only acceptable path. It’s interestingly never used by people from the far left themselves.

Your’s either an ignorant take or one with an agenda, which is it?

The main difference is that fascism and racism are fundamentally destructive ideologies/traits, while tankie is just a derogatory term for folks on the far left used by people that think extreme left and extreme right are the same kind if evil. It’s a display of arrogant ignorance, congratulations.

You are. You are the loser.

are you a sex pest, too? or why do you feel the need to be that guy in this very situation?

Maaan, don‘t tell me your take is, that these are a bunch of racists, because in the past they had nixxa in their sub‘s name? That seems more of a play on hiphop and gang language. Maybe a bit tone deaf depending on perspective and point in time, but in principle they identified themselves with the term and were not using it in any derogatory manner towards other people. Hence, the use of the term „Homies“ to keep the gang vibe. They‘re water supremacists, not racists. My 2 Cents as a former hydro homie. Although, I’ve never been a water nixxa, so who knows, maybe they got me with their innocent language!

And while not on Reddit anymore, I‘m still a water supremacist. I hope you do realize, that water is god!