Message from @PerformedShelf
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Backlash is what I meant
Nice, that's pretty funny.
Hopefully Voat, reddit, and 4chan are next
You don't have to be in a party to identify as one brakley
Why what wrong with reddit?
The_Donald?
Gigantic festering liberal/reactionary hivemind
Just shut down every place people are free to have conversations then?
tbh youtube should go down first
Oh well they don't call for violence but i admit they are an annoyance
yeah, that would probably be good
Lmao
You do realise cockroaches scurry away from the light don't you??
Yeah so?
would you say that in a way that's not a metaphor? I am small brain
We can't exterminate Nazi's no matter how we try identitfy and kick them off when you find them
that's a bit too abstract for me too
@methdragon we already agreed that different types of societies in different stages of stability would be less likely to have fascists appear
Yes I was responding to brakes comment
Cockroaches scurry aways form light means - he means if we drive away Nazis we will just push them more inwards and can't find them
Well, the best way to ensure that certain ways of thinking will flourish is to push them further and further underground. Having things exposed in the public space, on social media and elsewhere actually helps, du to being able to counteract those ideologies and ways of thinking. Push people underground, and you'll just get further extremes
that's not really accurate
as far-right ideas have become mainstreamed, they've only grown
I think one of the reasons is because of trump
Also Obama?
talking with them has failed massively, see far-right nationalists elected in the americas and all over europe
You know, it depends on where you're coming from, if you're left leaning, you're much more likely to think people on the right are "far-right"
their platform is infectious and has only grown from being exposed and debated
Heck far left thinks being left is right
Engaging and discussing with the far right grows their platform?
That says a lot.
yes
there are many reasons for this happening but the fact of the matter is, talking to them does grow their platform, absolutely
or, more realistically, talking to them in public is what I mean
because no matter how thoroughly you debunk them or dismantle their reasoning, they fundamentally rely on emotional appeals and dogwhistles
I think if we talk to them and expose how much of their ideas sounds like shit we could do it
and those strategies work very well on the general population
I completely disagree, for one, who exactly are we saying is far-right? If what you mean is, the more right leaning commentators that appear, the more the left can label as "far-right" then I'd agree
No?
@PerformedShelf by far-right I mean "more nationalist, racist, and reactionary than the previous decade's status quo"
The point is to change their mind