Expect nothing but intellectually dishonest spins by such orateurs.

Thanks for proving OP‘s point.

Kremlin spokesperson here, I also checked bossito’s mastodon: A bit of identity politics and unfettered support for western imperialism — they’re a liberal.

In this thread bossito is appeasing to neo-nazi narratives and repeats anti-communist propaganda in form of the red fascism trope.

People who do that will historically enable actual fascist rule, because they‘re so damn scared of communists, that they‘ll excuse reactionary action every time, while condemning anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist action until every actual leftist voice is silenced.

Checking mastodon, I find (translated):

„Between the Islamo-fascism of the French left and the Christian fascism of the right, let the devil come and choose. But defending the murder of unarmed people on the streets of France today (in peace and still in democracy) is pure fascism. Whether it’s decorated with a swastika or a hammer and sickle, it’s fascism.“

Bossito also pinned an article supporting Hasbara narratives, further exposing their racist Israel-apologia. They are not left in any actual sense. They are a bootlicking liberal draped in European nationalism and western chauvinism — ready to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian and to subjugate every barbaric Arab for his own superior European identity.

All you do is post Western propaganda and should at least be marked as such.

Interesting at which kind of posts you find the need to comment on.

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.

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“Many companies aren’t hiring at all or only very hesitantly, and the only ones still hiring are arms/defense companies.”

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.

'Both is true. Woa, imagine that. Your moral judgment of „Russia bad“ is irrelevant for interest based reality.

Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Hint: not a double standard.

The imperialist West is scrambling to remain the world‘s hegemonic superpower, with the US as the big dog and the EU as its ideological vassal.

Using Ukraine to overexploit their resources and as a battleground to weaken Russia. Using Venezuela to overexploit their resources and to weaken resource-access for China. Using Israel as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in West Asia towards China. Using Taiwan as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in South-East Asia directly off the coast of China.

The only double standard is the cognitive dissonance in our propagandized heads.

Thanks, I prefer my shitty take over your scrubby narrative rehash without actual grounding in reality. Not sure how it helps calling everyone with dissenting perspectives a tankie makes any sense. Surely only, if you’re actively trying to remain ignorant and keep your indoctrinated mind at ease.

That‘s just not the reality. The motivation for an outright confrontation is Europe‘s.

Germany defending Europe. Lol! Sure that‘s a perspective some people had back in the thirties.

You havent put forward any argument yourself, only ad hominem and strawman. Check your own biases please, you are embarrassing.

Cheepo. Not even whataboutism, because Op brought in the „boolie“. You built a strawman and are the disingenuous one here.

You should have disengaged the second the dissonance in your brain kicked in — now you are the one with the desperate word salad. Take the L, work on your ego and your ideological bias.

That‘s not going to work. It‘s capitalism and here specifically the German economy in crisis, no significant tech or industry is left, that would still be relevant in the medium to long term.

Like the US they‘ve been counting on fossil fuels for far too long, are crashing their last big industry, automotive, because of it and are now escalating towards war economy in the hopes to claim new markets and keep the economy up. They’re already one of the main suppliers for Israel and Ukraine.

Rheinmetall is growing fast, forced labor was already being tested and is on the horizon for the jobless in general. All while the war ministers are drumming up public support for a preemptive war against Russia. The military is heavily supported and financed, while the social infrastructure is being systematically destroyed. Propaganda is in full swing and dissenting voices (journalists, press) are being sanctioned with very questionable reasoning. Once war is imminent or already on, people will be forced to work for companies such as VW, only then to build stuff for the war machine. Fascism is knocking, German imperial ambitions are back.

Meanwhile, all major parliamentary parties are in on the war frenzy, even the left (die Linke) to an extend, but CDU (conservatives), SPD (social democrats), AfD (far rights, potentially part of the next goverment) and even Grüne (neo-libs with a green tint, lately olive) have morphed into full on war and repression maniacs seeking confrontation.

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