Anonymous #4 2w

But what does being a “good community member” do against fascism, exactly?

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Anonymous OP 2w

You can’t fight fascism without solidarity with and support from your community. There’s a reason authoritarians always try to limit free speech and turn the people against each other.

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Anonymous #4 2w

But fascists also build communities. They don’t just go around acting like cartoon bullies all the time.

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Anonymous OP 2w

No, fascists don’t build supportive and resilient communities.

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Anonymous #4 2w

So, all of those far-right militias aren’t communities?

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Anonymous OP 2w

they’re built on a fundamental layer of loyalty through fear, that’s the distinction here. 4 is absolutely correct, those are not resilient or supportive communities, if we want to classify them as such.

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Anonymous #5 2w

what you posted, OP, is only a part of combatting fascism. that is the stuff we do to remember why we fight, but it is not the entirety of the fight itself if that makes sense

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Anonymous #5 2w

Some of those groups have existed for decades.

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Anonymous OP 2w

and they’re still built on loyalty through fear and hatred of the perceived “other”

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Anonymous OP 2w

Yes and? That doesn’t refute anything 5 said

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Anonymous #5 2w

But they don’t always act like cartoon bullies all the time. They know how to blend in.

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Anonymous OP 2w

I don’t think anybody here is claiming otherwise

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Anonymous OP 2w

what’s up with you and cartoon bullies?? life isn’t an episode of Tom and Jerry or some shit lol

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Anonymous #4 2w

Fascists also make art, build communities, and aid those of their same alignment.

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Anonymous #5 2w

Because people treat fascists like a big boogeyman without actually treating them like they actually exist among communities.

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Anonymous OP 2w

so your entire argument is dismissing the ideological beliefs and impacts of fascism in an attempt to appeal to civility in defense of those who willingly ascribe to fascist beliefs, despite their unwillingness to acknowledge the humanity of anyone they deem an “other”?

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Anonymous #5 2w

I’m not saying to appeal to civility. But people act like fascists don’t know how to covertly hide their systems though coded messaging.

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Anonymous OP 2w

Nobody is saying that dude. No one thinks that fascists are always open about their beliefs

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Anonymous #4 2w

it’s like we’re playing whack-a-mole, but with goalposts

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