Anonymous alphanerd 5w

(1/?) I’ve been doing this since before it was trendy personally, and it came mostly from a perspective grounded in virtue ethics and the idea that moral psychology can literally be healthy and unhealthy. The fascist worldview demands a certain level of delusion from all its adherents, both at the empirical level and in their moral psychology. In more ordinary, concrete facts it requires belief in observably false narratives about the history of the nation/in-group and the influence of the […]

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 5w

(2/?) scapegoat. Fascism cannot exist without both of these delusions because counter-historical narratives about a past golden age and the scapegoat’s fault in causing present decline are integral characteristics of fascism. I’m a recovered ex-MAGA, I’ve lived these delusions firsthand and some of my loved ones are still bound by that influence. It’s like a freaky combination of hypnosis and gangstalking paranoia (this is inevitably how the narrative is inoculated against facts/evidence).

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 5w

(3/?) In a word, it really becomes a type of psychosis. Your ability to contextualize experiences and understand the world around you becomes unmoored from reality and more and more controlled by impulses of the imagination to remodel everything as justification for the counter-history. Similarly, fascism depends on the rejection of certain moral axioms that are self-evident to every healthy mind — i.e. “It is wrong to inflict suffering on others without justification”. Once the fascist politic

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 5w

Awesome, definitely put in the work with that. Yeah there’s there’s other better options, but it definitely does read like it’s coming from that type of background.

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 5w

(4/?) becomes sufficiently entrenched in a person/community, that moral axiom cannot abide because antagonizing the scapegoat population becomes an end unto itself. While beliefs about the harms brought by the scapegoat usually still persist, they no longer motivate attacks in word or deed for the most part. Instead, the fascist movement antagonizes them simply because *these are the people that we do that too.* With all that mind I think there’s a fair case to be made that the fascist

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 5w

(5/5) worldview is often either a symptom of underlying mental illness that makes one prone to delusions of that character or BECOMES a sort of self-inflicted mental pathology through continually enforcing those habits in your own mind.

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 5w

Welcome welcome. That does sound like an improvement. Congratulations on graduating to now being a liberal,. I will be your leftist pitching, “please develop a class consciousness,” this evening.

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Anonymous alphanerd 5w

Hey bro I’m literally a socialist lol

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