• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    All politics is sexual pathology.

    Really though i cannot imagine what was happening in the brain of the person who made this. Maybe something about that Grand Mufti bs and, idk, the Soviets removing support from Israel when they realized it was fascist trash? That's the best i can do.

    • davel [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      New World Order + Great Replacement Theory = Jewtankieorcs flooding the zone with brown babies

      I stopped trying to make it make sense after seeing this airport book.

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      It made it to #1 on the NYT bestseller list.

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        2 months ago

        To be fair, anyone with enough money can make it to #1 on the NYT bestseller list.

      • Barabas [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        On the face of it, ‘liberal fascism’ could just mean the US policy during the Cold War.

        But from the blurb on the bottom I assume it is just rehashing that Mussolini was in a Socialist party when he was younger and using a load of brain dead libertarian talking points.

        • davel [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Yeah it’s just brainworms.

          In contrast to the mainstream view among historians and political scientists that fascism is a far-right ideology, Goldberg argues in the book that fascist movements were and are left-wing.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      2 months ago

      I am once again asking what the background of the phrase "All politics is sexual pathology" is, I don't think it was ever explained to me the last time I asked, and I don't like being out of the loop

      • davel [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        I just assume it’s some mid-century Continental compatible left philosophical wankery.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        I think it was a Chapo bit back in 2020 and it stuck. It's been used a lot since then and I can't remember the original source exactly, but it's just a phrase you use when someone says something political while also being horny.

        The phrase is used to mock Reddit/Twitter style politics fans who obsess over politicians for aesthetic reasons that usually come down to sexualizing them or obsessing over sexual aspects of their politics (See: Ben Garrison's Sexy Trump cartoons for a good example)

        The idea is a bit of a dirt bag left joke when used in a mocking/sarcastic context, but it is somewhat based on feminist theory, that because we live in a patriarchy, the taboo of sex means it has to be constantly thought about to maintain the system. Like how capitalism requires constant work from workers or it collapses.