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   Matt Wilcox (mattwilcox@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:23:07 JST Matt Wilcox

   Fascism is inevitable if the wider people feel poorer and less secure than they want to be. People like that seek to blame others, and that leads to fascism.

   To defeat fascism, you tax the rich and spend it on the poor. You eliminate billionaires.

   That's the only mechanism that will reliably work over periods of time.

   EU; change tactics. Stop walking the USA/UK path. Raise taxes on the rich, spend on your public services. Watch the fascists power vanish.

   • pettter, Dan Fox, Ax=b and anban repeated this.
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     Matt Wilcox (mattwilcox@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:35:23 JST Matt Wilcox

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     Louder, for people not getting it:

     Fascism is the inevitable result of a society with large imbalances of personal security. Which in a capitalist society means large imbalances of wealth.

     If your society allows some people to be mega secure and untouchable, while also allowing large portions of it to feel very insecure... you will become a fascist society, eventually.

     Do not allow this. Do not allow excessive wealth stratification. It. will. Destroy. Your. Civilisation.