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Liberals are fascists now? What in the fuck is going on lol
Nope, but Neoliberals sure are crying about the death of a fascist while ignoring the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Which is what the meme illustrates.
You can't have fascism without liberalism. The hand that dangles the carrot cannot be seen to also wield the stick.
Liberals being fascists outside their borders is the entire colonial era.
When they start to become fascist domestically too that's when you know shits about to get bad.
The American and British political Liberals have always been fine with Fascism, as long as that the Fascists did their fascist things abroad - I mean, just look at the kind of politicians American Administrations - Democrats and Republicans alike - always supported in South America and the Middle East (the current government in Israel and its Genocide that's turning into a New Holocaust being a painful present day example).
They were supposed to be against Fascism in the Homeland, but as we're seeing now in the US and UK the top "Liberal" politicians when Fascism starts doing its thing in their country quickly bend the knee and even turn collaborationist, which if you think about it makes sense: their objection to Fascism was never Ethical or Moral - had it been so they would've been against it abroad too - it was really only about power and wealth, so if the Fascists become the gatekeepers to that, well, the Liberals will do what it takes to keep their access to it, similarly to how they courted the Moneyed Elites when they were the gatekeepers to power and wealth.
Notice how he didn't respond to that but was comfortable with saying liberals defeated fascism.
When scratched, they bleed fascism.
Fascist enablers may as well be fascist themselves.
scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
Let me know when liberals stop fascism. They haven't before.
There is a big contingent on Lemmy that has constructed an enemy category called "liberals." They spend a lot of time talking to each other about what liberals believe and how liberals are, and almost all of it is just how stupid, weak, evil, and pointless liberals are. It's actually exactly the same thing that MAGA people do about... well, about liberals.
You can actually see how it operates in this meme. Pretty much none of the "liberals" on Lemmy have anything other than horror for the killing that's happening in Gaza, or are in any way upset about Charlie Kirk not being around anymore, but it's real important to their worldview that they constantly gather around and tell each other about how evil the liberals are, and so none of them will bat an eye at a post like this. Even if they don't really factually agree with it, it feels really good to experience the meme and talk to one another about how true it is.
Why they do this is deserves careful study. It's not immediately obvious but if you keep tugging on the thread and looking carefully at how they perceive the political world and why, it carries some key insights.
Feeling horror for the genocide isn't mutually exclusive to attempting to drown out the sound of their suffering and your and your party's complicity (which is what the liberals in the meme are doing, in case you're unfamiliar). Acknowledging that the genocide is happening and incredibly sad 😔 isn't very meaningful when you're actively trying not to talk about it.
If youve complained about democrats being criticized for enabling Israel over the last year, then you're in this picture.
You can ignore Phillip, he has repeatedly shown he is unwilling to learn and will lie and deflect any criticism of blue nationalism.
It should have been enough of an indication of the way that was going to go by the fact that he went out of his way to complain about liberal being used as a term of derision while also insisting that he definitely isnt one.
"You're using the word liberal wrong. But I'm not a liberal, I just defend liberals, and the parties of liberals, like they personally care about me when they would eradicate me if it meant good polling."
Nah. Fuck liberalism.