your semantic overfocus on definitions
[big pile of "semantic overfocus" on a definition without understanding the history or forces around it]
your semantic overfocus on definitions
Sounds anti-semantic to me.
I always hated on reddit that someone would respond with such a long post which is a mess of large words to sound smart, and then I do not have the english skill to respond. It is lucky that I can troll them instead.
If you want them banned out of a sub, these posts are usually 3 why's away from saying something heinous enough even the reddit mods think it's too far
wtf is it with morons taking that umberto eco article as scripture? like goddamn, if you read one dumb book a year why not just drop the whole intellectual charade and join the feeding trough?
consuming slop is nothing to be ashamed of!
They haven’t read more into Eco or fascism beyond that.
Of course they haven't, as they literally think that reading theory is fascism.
That was exactly my point. These pigs will skim over posts and articles and often the only 'critical thinking' they'll do is for the purpose of determining whether the author is on their side or not . A number of times a year they'll read a book which confirms their pre-conceived notions. But it's all for the purpose of providing themselves with a special knowledge that those who disagree with them don't have. So they'll cite the stupid shit they read not to further the discussion but to make you feel like you're missing something crucial that only they have.
It's all just a way to claim superiority over another. Liberal academics do it for a living. PMC types can pull off the act very well also. But when it's a moron like in the pictured post, they come across as pathetic.
We are all eating from the trashcan of ideology all the time. Stop pretending otherwise is my defense.
Liberals completely misunderstanding leftist theory example 4269. Ur-Fascism isn't a checklist where "rate your fascist score out of 14." They are simply the aesthetics of fascism and they are important because fascism does not have a unifying theory. The point Eco was making is that fascism is inherently contradictory and nonsensical, but it can coalesce around any of these 14 aesthetics (usually more than a few).
I’ve never lambasted, purported, regaled or wholesaled anything in my life, that I can recollect
I damn sure do fuckin’ hate me some lib prolixity tho
Just replace "the West" with the Jews and suddenly you're a fascist!
"You say you hate the inequitable distribution of resources, but if we replace 'the inequitable distribution of resources' with 'black people', aren't you the real fascists?"
Man, you can tell by that last sentence he could already hear the applause in his head
Oh fuck I never get to see these conversations until the posts are like 8 hours old.
which is laughably unaccountable to the public.
Really strange to see this being said (not really, I'm being facetious), when officials were actually sacked and replaced for relatively low covid case counts. Meanwhile, someone like Ted Cruz still has a job.
Unaccountable to the public, yet supported by an overwhelming majority of that public.
I have yet to hear an explanation for this phenomenon that does not rely on the assumption that we Chinese are all drones and Xi is our Queen.
There's the RFA-esque explanations like all Chinese are being forced to support the CPC at gunpoint. But yeah, that's not much better.
I mean, these are people who have absolutely no idea what real democracy looks like, let alone any clue how Chinese government is actually structured or functions.
They also don't understand what human rights are. They have a very narrow understanding at best. When you tell people that contrary to the meme-level understanding in the west, the PRC is actually a bastion of human rights, they look at you as though you just killed someone. They don't seem to understand that human rights are more than just expression, they're also the right to life, food, etc. If a country brought more people out of poverty than the entire population of the US and EU combined, is that not an absolute human rights achievement?
China is notoriously easy to keep together by force of arms. That's why in all of Chinese history we've only had one dynasty and no revolts at all.
It's fascist when you regale China's successes. Hitler did that and then Dauchau spring from the ground.
I once said something nice about Sun Yat Sen and accidentally committed a genocide.
