In your example, you would be taking criticism of your steak from someone who would tell you to serve it with ketchup. If you wouldn’t serve your steak with ketchup, then you don’t need to be concerned that they don’t like your steak. Sometimes people are just incompatible.

This is just the slightly less evocative, “Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.” -Rick Sanchez

Oh it’s going to be a spectacle alright. 👀 🍿

Name them and shame them, loudly and clearly. We’ll make their lives a living hell in return. They ought to have no place in our leadership.

No, I say that as if you are the person who called her brown, not them. They are bigoted fucks, yes. But their bigotry is not exclusive to non-white people as you suggested. That both diminishes their actual bigotry and is so inconsistent with reality that you leave a very obvious defense to your criticism of their bigotry, both of which are counter-productive. They hate brown people, yes. They also hate anybody else that is different, brown or not.

She’s… not brown though. Like you see these two next to each other and can compare their complexions, right? Maybe you mean she’s not European White?

She’s Iranian, born in a Muslim culture, belonged to the family of a Theocratic Dictator, a victim of the Trump regime, and her death will be ignored for all of those reasons. But that girl is white. As was the Ayatollah. As are most Iranians. They are as white as Jews are. Being white doesn’t stop other white people from victimizing you for all your other innate qualities though, nor from pretending you aren’t actually exactly as white at them.

“What really just hits me hard,” she said, continuing, “is when i’m in the grocery store, and I see his hot sauce, I want to buy it.”

Audible eye roll

Of course he’s totally devoted to him. He isn’t stupid. He knows full well that everyone knows he’s a nazi fuck and absolutely nobody but a vindictive idiot cunt like Trump would ever give him enough power to decide so much as a lunch menu. He also knows full well that this is it. He’s attached to a highly unpopular lame duck president who triggered the biggest political wave in 50 years against his party. Clock’s ticking before he loses every bit of power he’ll every have.

He’ll play the deluded sycophant on tv to appease his boss, but he’s not. He’s an opportunist that is taking advantage of a temporarily powerful egotistical man who is highly susceptible to flattery and personal loyalty to exercise every ounce of his fascist agenda he can.

Things are about to ramp up in the Trump White house. If this new congress does their jobs, they’re about to be very busy fighting back against Miller’s agenda items. If they don’t do their jobs, it’s about to get far far worse in the US before Trump’s time runs out.

So we’re full-on in the Kim Jung Un-style masturbatory lies without even resembling reality stage? Fun.

He learned his lesson though.

Very kind of him to sacrifice for the cause.

Golly sir, don’t get too upset. Your heart might explode! That would be t-t-t-TERRIBLE!!!

It’s too bad Booker didn’t win. Replacing the 84 year old white turtle corpse with a black democrat literally half of his age would have been so so sweet. He’d have been rolling in his grave on the way down.

It’s the “Where is Thumpkin” song. It’s to the tune of Frère Jacques, and you go through each finger holding them up and calling out “Where is [finger name]? (x2) Here I am. (x2, revealing a finger each time) How are you today, sir? Very well, I thank you. Run away. (x2, hiding a finger each time)”. The finger names, in order, are Thumpkin, Pointer, Tall Man, Ring Man, and Pinky.

He’s “kept more promises than he’s even made”, you guys. All of them and then some.

Fitting

“Reading is boring, thoughtful reflection is lame, and finding solutions to serious problems is hard. I much prefer passing around unactionable blame.”

Thanks for your contribution to the conversation.

Anakin might be one of the better popular examples of how someone being failed from everyone around them, have their choices restricted and their will supressed, and that can lead their fall into fascist ideals.

He is born into slavery. He is rescued from slavery because he is told he is special. His mother is not special and so she is left behind and ultimately dies due to that. He lives with justified guilt and anger as a result.

The man that rescued him from slavery dies, leaving his reluctant protégé as his only real connection as a pseudo-big brother and mentor. He feels yet more loss and greif for this.

That mentor constantly places major expectations on him, telling him he is special and chosen, but also constantly criticizing his impulsivity and controlling him. He feels constrained.

He has a close association with power, but is always denied it himself even when he has contributed more than others. He feels betrayed and unappreciated.

He belongs to an order of people that tell him that all of these emotions and internal conflicts are wrong and dangerous. He feels dirty and hopeless.

He is told romantic love is off limits. He dalies in rule breaking, mainly in regard to that last rule. He loves a girl and she falls for him as well. The world doesn’t implode. He starts to question the world view that was pushed on him since childhood.

A charismatic leader starts to give him attention, appreciation, and trust. He offers him power. He tells him that his feelings are not wrong, but strength. He tells him that he need not repress himself. He can seek that power, gain love, and ensure that he never loses anyone again. He questions everything for the first time and looks up to the man giving him this flattery and ideas of grandeur.

Then those in his order, specifically the one that most directly denied him the approval he sought and earned, tell him that this charasmatic man is evil, that his ideas that made him feel good about himself are wrong, and they attack this man. He is forced to make a choice between a highly moralistic, often hypocritical, and restrictive ideal, and the first taste of appreciation and power he has ever felt in his life. And on the spot, it is no wonder he chooses the latter.

It is obviously dramatized and he takes a real hard swing real fast with the immediate genocide of his entire order, including children, but… other than that, it is pretty realistic.

If Anakin had felt more accomplished and appreciated, less controlled, and free to love and live a happy peaceful life with his wife and kids, he would have been far less susceptible to the silver tongued fascist and probably wouldn’t have made such a turn.

I am not sure how to fix this in the real world at any real scale, but to make sure everyone feels more appreciated, secure, and free. I’m certainly not justifying fascism or fascists’ fall, btw. I’m just being realistic and seeking solutions to address it. I do think it becomes easier to fall for fascist messaging when the society, economy, and community are not healthy and supportive of all in it. But on a more micro-scale, I think all you can do is make fascism the less appealing choice for the individual. Make those at risk or on the brink feel loved and appreciated, even if you are very concerned by the beliefs they have started to take on and share. Make your boys and men feel loved and tie that feedback to simply being good people. Yes, I am saying to be less judgemental and give people a cookie for doing the bare minimum. It only costs you a metaphorical cookie and it may just buy you one less fascist.

Do you not know what a “veto” is?

Not shocked