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is it crazy for me to say that the way most Americans refer to/understand/treat fascism and nazism is based on cartoon villain archetypes and not history.....

the way you guys talk about politics and perspectives (online) boils down to "I, the moral and valiant leftist am embarking on a crusade against the endless hordes of the dumb and the ignorant"

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how is fascism defined?

Fascism does not have an independent existence, it’s an outgrowth of liberalism, republicanism and democracy (on all levels, ideologically, historically, politically, economically, etc). This is especially blatant in its racial ideology, where the insistence on the people, state, and order is almost always expressed against the “barbarians” of the world (Aimé Césaire and George Jackson talk about this).

As a movement it’s what we might call the other side of Western, bourgeois modernity as a reaction to its mainstream of infinite linear progress (accumulation of capital) and the rule of the law under the (more or less) representative state. Ideologically that usually includes a reaction against representation in general, as a concept, and especially scientific representation, and arguing for a kind of emotional and passionate immediacy of some organic unity (usually a race or nation, sometimes a religion).

It also tends to unite many fractions of many classes into a single faction, which is why it grows the most when the typical mechanisms of representing class factions in the state break down and politics start to run out from beyond formal procedure. This also extends to its appeal in response to social revolutionary crises, which was especially true of classical fascism as a response to the global rise of proletarian and colonial revolts which they believed liberalism failed to crush. Historical analysts of fascism like Leon Trotsky and Siegfried Kracauer pointed out how this factor led fascism to have significant appeal for petit-bourgeoisie.

Fascism as an ideology and movement has to be distinguished from the fascist state, because the institutionalization of the movement also means its reconciliation of it with many elements of bourgeois liberalism (even if it relies on the destruction of the representation mechanism and subordination or destruction of legal order). The basis of this is the overwhelming economic compulsion of securing conditions for capital accumulation as the basic aim of the state, this is why industrial monopolies grew so much in power under classical fascism.

This is also why fascist ideologists tended to denounce “actually existing fascism” as still just another variant of liberalism or bourgeois civilization (you can find this sentiment expressed by everyone from Oswald Spengler to Ernst Jünger to Martin Heidegger to Julius Evola). What they were picking up on was that the basic mode of production or mode of life hadn’t changed.

Walter Benjamin characterized this aspect as fascism giving political expression to mass politics in order to prevent a thorough social revolution, and Antonio Gramsci characterized fascism as a kind of passive revolution where everything changed so everything could stay the same. I would recommend reading this essay by Nicos Poulantzas for more about the institutionalization of a fascist movement into the fascist state, as well as his whole book on fascism

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she loves me because i post about my mental health issues on my social media blog

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He wants me to fuck him through the hole in his hazmat suit so bad but lowkey it isnt even him in there anymore

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does anyone want to play drugs and alcohol with me

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Machine

2'x2' on wood

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Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

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Poster for Gregg Araki's The Living End (1992)

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this is insane he sounds like hes doing standup

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I am going to kill (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) my whole family by putting arsenic in the sugar bowl

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my friend is asking me if id like to move in with her boyfriend

im really trying not to give into the idea of living at parents place, even briefly between leases but mannnnnnn 😂😂😂

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im really trying not to give into the idea of living at parents place, even briefly between leases but mannnnnnn 😂😂😂

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Straight culture’s orientation toward heteroromantic sacrifice is also influenced by socioeconomic class. Respect for sacrifice—or sucking it up and surviving life’s miseries—is one of the hallmarks of white working-class culture, for instance, wherein striving for personal happiness carries less value than does adherence to familial norms and traditions. Maturity and respectability are measured by what one has given up in order to keep the family system going, an ethos that is challenged by the presence of a queer child, for instance, who insists on “being who they are.” Queerness—to the extent that it emphasizes authenticity in one’s sexual relationships and fulfillment of personal desires—is an affront to the celebration of heteroromantic hardship. As Robin Podolsky has noted, “What links homophobia and heterosexism to the reification of sacrifice . . . is the specter of regret. Queers are hated and envied because we are suspected of having gotten away with something, of not anteing up to our share of the misery that every other decent adult has surrendered to.”

For many lesbian daughters of working-class straight women, opting out of heterosexuality exposes the possibility of another life path, begging the question for mothers, “If my daughter didn’t have to do this, did I?” Heterosexuality is compulsory for middle-class women, too, but more likely to be represented as a gift, a promise of happiness, to be contrasted with the ostensibly “miserable” life of the lesbian. The lesbian feminist theorist Sara Ahmed has offered a sustained critique of the role of queer abjection in the production of heteroromantic fantasies. In Living a Feminist Life, she notes that “it is as if queers, by doing what they want, expose the unhappiness of having to sacrifice personal desires . . . for the happiness of others.” In The Promise of Happiness, Ahmed argues, “Heterosexual love becomes about the possibility of a happy ending; about what life is aimed toward, as being what gives life direction or purpose, or as what drives a story.” Marked by sacrifice, misery, and failure along the way, the journey toward heterosexual happiness (to be found with the elusive “good man”) remains the journey.

Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

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sunday nights are when the killing yourself veil is the thinnest

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You need to fart that stomach ache away right now queen