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[serious] Who is this for?
It’s made as an informative meme. Freely distributable.
There are lots of ways to think about it. Saying ‘think about it this way, that’s it, stop thinking about it’, is fundamentally a fascist message.
Perhaps it’s fascist for some definition of fascist I am not aware of.
That’s it. in this case, is meant to express the logic should be obvious.
Perhaps to you it is not so obvious?
Lol, a thought terminating phrase isn’t an argument.
It’s not a fascism either.
Saying ‘this oversimplified thing is the way it is, stop thinking about it’ is fundamentally a fascist message.
Do some self reflection.
Meh. I think the logic I present is simple enough to follow, and no, I’m not discouraging additional thought, rather dismissing more complex models that muddy the proverbial waters.
I’ll leave you to your own presumptions; I can’t reach everybody.
Distracting & strawmaning much?
No, just pointing out that oversimplifying things and then using a thought terminating phrase to make it sound like you made a conclusive point is what fascists do.
Creating a model of some process to better understand it is a scientific approach. Also, feel free to “terminate your thoughts” but don’t go insinuating deviating meanings to everyday expressions.
‘That’s it’ is the fascist thought terminating part.
It does not invite further inquiry or scrutiny, it acts like that’s the only possible lens to view left wing / right wing through, when at its core, left wing / right wing is a massive oversimplification of literally the entire population’s political views into a binary us vs them pattern.
It’d be like dividing the entirety of the animal kingdom into birds and not-birds and saying ‘Birds have wings, not-birds don’t have wings. That’s it.’
By this measure, Putin, Xi, and Maduro are right wing.
Not saying it’s wrong, just extending it to the logical conclusion.
By this measure, Putin, Xi, and Maduro are right wing.
Today you learned…
Yes.
Putin, Xi and Maduro are autocratic despite what they might say about themselves. They’re absolutely right wing.
you seem to think this is an absurd statement
I don’t know enough about Maduro to judge him, but as for Putin and Xi? Yes, absolutely.
Right and left as terms are so undercomplex, they can’t really describe modern politics. Ib this case “authoritarian” vs “Democratic” would make more sense. But then the meme character could get lost…
That doesn’t really make sense at the end…
Like, it’s structured so that logically it’s a conclusion but it’s not.
A bottom-up power structure is left wing, but in it the power lies with the voters, not those elected to office:
The federal party, works for the state parties and the presidential nominee.
The state parties actually do a lot here, they have a lot of primaries to organize (neutrally) and then assist all the campaigns.
In both cases though, the politicians are beholden to the voters, and should be governing based on the wishes of the majority of their constituents.
What would go a long way to fixing that would be an easy route to recall elections.
Hook, line, and sinker
