Clearing Up Confusion: What is Fascism?

1. 2025-01-14 at 6:28 AM UTC

   #21
   

   Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman

   Originally posted by ner vegas what I mean by that is that they try to improve (or, if you want to be less favourable, to control the development of) the smallest components of society, then work on progressively larger groups in a sort of soft eugenic process.
   
   for the individual they specifically prioritise health and physical fitness, often using propaganda to encourage exercise and healthy diet, as well as social pressure to stigmatise idleness and gluttony. they then encourage people to marry and have large families young, again with propaganda and pressure but also with state funding for new families, subsidies on homes etc.
   
   the entire point is that they want strong individuals forming strong communities as a basis for a strong state, and they utilise the natural, common male drives (desiring status, sovereignty and control over a large family - genetic destiny) in order to do that without having to directly micromanage it for the most part.

   
   Alright, weird for that portion of fascist governing methods to be bottom up but there's a first time for anything.
2. 2025-01-14 at 6:42 AM UTC

   #22
   

   ner vegas Space Nigga

   Originally posted by Kingoftoes Alright, weird for that portion of fascist governing methods to be bottom up but there's a first time for anything.

   
   oh yeah there's always been a correlation between physical fitness and right-wing individualist ideology; there have been a lot of articles over the last 10 years or so talking about how gyms are hotbeds for 'right wing extremism' and as far back as the Greeks and Romans slaves and plebs were banned from the gyms in case they started getting ideas about their station in life.
   
   something about becoming physically strong enough to feasibly defend yourself makes you want to move into the woods and start setting boobytraps
3. 2025-01-14 at 5:08 PM UTC

   #23
   

   Speedy Parker Black Hole

   Originally posted by ner vegas oh yeah there's always been a correlation between physical fitness and right-wing individualist ideology; there have been a lot of articles over the last 10 years or so talking about how gyms are hotbeds for 'right wing extremism' and as far back as the Greeks and Romans slaves and plebs were banned from the gyms in case they started getting ideas about their station in life.
   
   something about becoming physically strong enough to feasibly defend yourself makes you want to move into the woods and start setting boobytraps

   
   Spoken like a gay milksop
4. 2025-01-14 at 5:42 PM UTC

   #24
   Cowboy2013 African Astronaut
   The US is the best example of Mussolini's fascism/corporatism imo.
5. 2025-01-14 at 5:51 PM UTC

   #25
   Cowboy2013 African Astronaut
   Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, defense contractors/ministers of "free speech", which is just contracted out government censorship, same with surveillance via Jeff Bezos and Google (and Elon Musk), then the more blatant shit like government intervention in the rail worker strike and the ban on tiktok (unless Trump gets them to sell it to a CIA/NSA front).
6. 2025-01-14 at 6:56 PM UTC

   #26
   

   Speedy Parker Black Hole

   Originally posted by Cowboy2013 Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, defense contractors/ministers of "free speech", which is just contracted out government censorship, same with surveillance via Jeff Bezos and Google (and Elon Musk), then the more blatant shit like government intervention in the rail worker strike and the ban on tiktok (unless Trump gets them to sell it to a CIA/NSA front).

   
   You're babbling like Pauliwog now.
7. 2025-01-14 at 7:05 PM UTC

   #27
   

   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]