Notices by AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse), page 8

Finally (I know, I said I was done already; sue me) I think what a lot of pedants forget when discussion fascism is basically that it's not 1930 anymore. Nazism and The Holocaust DID happen. Society has a memory about how embracing fascism turns out, so unlike say Nazis and Italian fascism, you can't just pop out and say "hi, we're the fascists" with a smile on your face anymore. Fascists KNOW describing themselves as FASCIST will impede their path to power, so they've adapted their sales pitch.

Here, this might not be the first book I'd recommend, but it's widely available to read for free and while I think the general lack of a detailed class analysis hurts Paxton's work, he is still the guy who was warning in the 90's that fascism existed, and could quite easily be a threat in the Pig Empire West going forward.

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PS - it took him a while to come around, but eventually Paxton did say Trump was a fascist.

All of this is of course besides the point that Fanon and Césaire were more or less right when they said, in effect, that fascism is just colonialism applied against people in the imperial core. You literally can't separate either fascism, or genocide for that matter, from the historical application of colonialism because the former creates space for the latter.

Even Bob Paxton recognizes the Slave Power South as a fascist state, for example. Heaven forbid folks ever do any reading tho...

Anyway; enough with that absolute bellend. I mostly typed this out because this is ACTUALLY important, and I'm concerned if even one person thinks that dipshit had a point because "fascism and genocide don't MEAN anything" is actually a pivotal plank in the arguments and justifications of fascists and people doing genocide right now.

I don't think that muppet is either pro-genocide or a fascist; but his arguments sure do carry water for those people and what they're trying to accomplish.

So no, I will be not be surrendering that fight. And yes, I will continue to use the words "genocide" and fascism."

Furthermore, I will remind you that I never once asked you or anyone else to be my editor, and you have no power over me, or what I type. I'm not interested in being told what to do. The whole "anarchist" thing probably shoulda warned you about that.

The same goes for genocide. The term has a strict definition; that definition is available for free, all over the internet. I literally just watched a UN official dress down David Lammy for pretending genocide is only when "you kill them all" despite being a human rights lawyer.

There is a FIGHT going on, in our society, about what these words MEAN, and the folks arguing what that Subgenius branded dipshit are arguing, are INVARIABLY on the side of "don't use those words so we can keep killing"

You will forgive me then, if I think that "surrendering to McCarthyism" and "pretending liars who say fascism has no meaning are right" seems pretty counter-productive to me when opposing fascism.

Amazingly enough, there have been perhaps HUNDREDS of books written that cover the topic of what fascism is; I suggest you read one - literally any one of them. Because clearly your reading habits ended after they assigned you 1984 in middle school.

Newsflash: Americans not really understanding what fascism is, IS part of why Americans have spent the past 70+ years increasingly embracing fascism. The vast majority of people in this society think "fascism is when funny little moustache, Hugo Boss uniforms, and The Holocaust."

And that idea has PURPOSELY been cultivated in them by a hyper-reactionary ruling class order that ABSORBED fascism after WWII to fight the Cold War and installed fascism in puppet states to maintain global power.

Wow, that obnoxious Subgenius branded account really did keep going for hours huh?

Imaging caring that much that someone blocked you because they found your quest to make people stop using words like genocide and fascist tedious and idiotic.

Couldn't be me.

Also, hot tip buddy: if I cared whether or not you "revered" me, I probably wouldn't have blocked you. But I mean whatever, it's pretty clear you're telling on yourself with those posts. Good luck with that; just do it far away from me.

Furthermore, let's say I WAS going to rig an election for Downmarket Mussolini - you'd have to do that sort of thing in advance, wouldn't you? The votes are being counted pretty much immediately on election night and through the next couple of days, so how do I know in advance that 76M gets it done this time when 76M wouldn't have got it done last time when Trump got 74M votes?

This... doesn't appear to add up.

Like, am I the only person whose been watching 8 or so years of comedians and YouTubers interviewing people at Trump rallies who say "all politicians are scum/liars/should be hanged but I love Trump because he's so real and tells it like it is?"

Why would it be even remotely suspicious that some of the "low information" voters he courts on purpose would check Trump and only Trump on their ballot? The term "cult of personality" exists for a reason.

I mean I literally watched Trump build a coalition inside the GOP based on the idea that the neocons are why your kids came back from Iraq with PTSD and your neighbor is a Muslim, the rest of the Republican party wasn't fascist enough, and they forced a loser like Mitt Romney on the base who then lost to "the Black guy" into a full party takeover.

It is not even remotely hard for me to imagine 600,000 Trump-slurping nazis didn't fill out their entire ballot. These are not sophisticated people.

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I mean never say never, but I feel like when you live in a highly reactionary country, built on genocide and slavery, where white supremacist ideology has been woven into the fabric of everyday life for centuries, and the fascist running a cult of personality while courting nihilists, who got 74M votes last time, gets 76M votes this time, the most logical explanation probably isn't "they rigged the voting machines and this bullet ballots prove it."

YMMV, but I disbelieve.

Last couple RTs...

pretty sure I would never type the term "sane-washing" myself, not a great look doc. I suspect what he means is "normalizing this dangerous person and his dangerous ideas about public health and medicine."

I'll call someone or something bonkers, even 'unhinged" - but "sane" is one of those clinical words that are generally used to marginalize mental health issues and people coping with them.

Otw, I agree with Doc. But I feel obligated to say "sane-washing" isn't my lexicon

The NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research on the planet. Having a discredited corporate-backed contrarian like Bhattacharya as its head will disrupt critical lifesaving research on vaccines, Long COVID, and pandemic threats etc. and undermine public health generally.

@dko It wasn't THAT bad, but it hurts like a mutherfucker and I can't guarantee there's no soft tissue damage. I'm just not risking catching the plague by being around unmasked people, including medical professionals, who work in a place where sick people CONGREGATE, until I know for sure I can't just sleep it off.

PS - yes, I am one finger typing all this out because I popped my shoulder out of the socket and then jammed it back in earlier so I wouldn't have to go to a Covid factory, I mean hospital, to seek treatment.

I am THAT dedicated to figuring out this riddle that mostly amounts to "hello my name is Nina and I believe words mean things."

tl;dr the Christchurch shooter didn't want to kill Muslim people because "finite resources on a boiling planet," he stumbled on "finite resources on a boiling planet" to justify his desire and intention to kill Muslim people.

And the difference does in fact matter when we're talking about arming people who haven't read a couple dozen books on fascism, with information to identify and oppose, well, fascists.

I don't have a good answer; maybe the key is to just ask folks "what do you mean when you say ecofascist" and go from there.

But it does seem to me that there's a vast discrepancy between what antifascist scholars, and opinion writers on mainstream internet sites, mean when using that word.

And in the latter case it seems to me to be supporting the idea that murderous nazis have a genuine motivation, when I know it's literally just a rhetorical device to justify murder and eliminationism.

@grumble209 I don't know. Maybe both.