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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:04AM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @03:04AM (#1137266)

    During these difficult times of pandemic and fascism let us not forget how the GQP has ticked off every box on the following list by Umberto Eco. Libertarians should love most anything from the Anarchist Library right?

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism.pdf [theanarchistlibrary.org]

    Republicans! And the alt-right! You can tell by all the GQP propaganda posts he loves to highlight.

    Small reminder, the GQP nails all of these criteria

                    The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
                    The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
                    The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
                    Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
                    Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
                    Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
                    The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
                    The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
                    Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
                    Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
                    Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
                    Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
                    Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
                    Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:02AM (#1137293)

      Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
                                      The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
                                      The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

      Mod-bombing Liberals:
      "Lower social group": Check!
      "Plot against hemo"? Check!
      "Strong and Week: Check!

      Mod-bombers are everywhere on SN! There are so many of them involved in the nefarious plot to oppress the upper class former liberals such as hemo here who is only speaking truth to impotence and trying to right the Wongs, and write the Czechs. But the mod-bombers are also a small minority and wrong-thinkers and weak and feminine, unlike our Manly hemo! Disagreement is treason. Science is a scam. Bite my shiny metal Futurist ass!

      And NOW! Let the down-modding begin! We will see what AC comments are oppressed by forces of confusion and Boomer dementia!

      Oh, wait, maybe we don't need to!

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:22AM (9 children)

      by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:22AM (#1137305) Journal

      The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”

      Where's my pussy hat? My fluorescent blue hair is my occult element.

      The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

      This pretty much nails a big part of my beef with the woke left.

      The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

      Puts me in mind of Antifa black-shirt fascists. Also Rahm Emanuel and "never let a crisis go to waste".

      Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”

      The woke left and cancel culture need to be reading this.

      Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”

      ditto

      Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”

      There are none so fascisticly woke as the upper middle class subburban white woman.

      The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”

      RussiaRussiaRussia

      The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

      Let's change the dictionary mid-sentence so we can cancel people: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/merriam-webster-changed-definition-sexual-preference-barrett-hearing [foxnews.com]

      Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”

      "Diversity of Tactics" "No Peace Police" "No Cameras/NoStreamers"

      Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”

      Gotta get those retweets and likes. Fuck the bastards even if innocent: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/ [theatlantic.com]

      Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”

      #resistance
      social justice WARRIOR

      Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”

      "We came, we saw, he died" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM [youtube.com]

      Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”

      Almost the entirety of the legacy media and social media thrive on emotional response.

      Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”

      As in "equity" which means racism, segregation, and making the color of one's skin the ultimate moral guide.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:35AM (7 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:35AM (#1137308)

        You Ur-fascimamus, hemo! Nice projection you have there! You really need to be de-platformed! Tell us more about how not letting Churches burn witches and green-haired LGBTQs at the stake is oppressive government tyranny! And about Chem-trails. The Bill Gates COVID-19 chip injection with the vaccine, and Ted Nugent's question about why there was no crisis with Covids 1-18? Huh? What about that?

        • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:21AM (6 children)

          by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:21AM (#1137324) Journal

          I spent half an hour searching for why it is called "Ur-" -- what the hell does he have against ancient civilizations?

          • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:27AM (2 children)

            by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:27AM (#1137329) Journal

            German, you fucking uneducated American Conservative! I expect crap like this from the ignorant moran uneducated Runaway, but you seriously are unaware so such terms as Urquell? Also a brand of original Pils from Bohemia. Tell me, hemo, that you do not pronouce "Nepal" as "nipple", and "Bhutan" as "button", like our also uneducated Former Guy? Why are Americans not embarrassed to demonstrate how stupid they are? Any other nation's citizens would be asshamed to be so ignorant.

            • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:10AM (1 child)

              by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:10AM (#1137339) Journal

              Well I"m not German. But thanks for the hint. https://www.etymonline.com/word/ur- [etymonline.com]

              • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:33AM

                by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:33AM (#1137357) Journal

                If you are going to be a Nazi, you are going to have to learn the language! Of course, the Nazi language seems to be English now, except when Richard Spencer refers to the "luggenpresse", or Pat Buchanan addresses a National Republican Convention. (For you younglings, or Boomers with memory loss, it was Molly Ivins of Texas that wrote "Pat Buchanan's Speech Sounded Better in the Original German". [theraucousrooster.com]

                And conservatives, even faux reformed liberals as Hemonyacin here, think that they are abused by the left? He is a sample of what Molly used to dish out to Texas conservatives on a regular basis, when they were just starting to go insane.

                Electoral Campaigns, Politics, Satire
                Pat Buchanan’s Speech Sounded Better in the Original German – Molly Ivins on the 1992 G.O.P. Convention
                by Christopher Fisher • August 31, 2020

                Still regularly seeking refuge from the present in the past, I found myself thinking about the roots of today’s GOP again, and a time when it seemed that Republicans were already beginning to get a little wacky and out of touch with the American people, the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas.

                Who better to cover that convention than Molly Ivins, who had an unparalleled way with words regarding the endlessly entertaining politics of Texas, which has often been said to be like America, but on steroids.

                No journalist ever covered the Bush family with such joy and tender loving care as Ivins. Read her coverage of the ’92 RNC below, first in the September 4, 1992 Texas Observer, and then in the September 14, 1992 Nation magazine.

                For more on Molly Ivins, check out the 2019 film, Raise Hell: the Life and Times of Molly Ivins.

                by Molly Ivins

                Texas Observer

                September 4, 1992

                Houston

                          I thought Patrick Buchanan’s speech was chock-full o’ dandy ideas. Religious warfare, for example. Due to the unfortunate historical luck of our nation having been founded well after the Reformation and the Inquisition and all that good stuff, we’ve never had religious warfare in this country, and just think of all we’ve missed.

                          Mass slaughter in the name of God, killing for Christ, pogroms, the ambience of Northern Ireland and Lebanon, tons of fun. Cultural cleansing. There’s another knacky notion. Why should the Bosnians have all the fun? We could have a cleansing of our very own right here at home.

                          I especially liked Buchanan’s program for the inner cities – M16s. That was the Battle of Stalingrad portion of the speech, you recall, in which we retake our cities block by block from these people who have somehow infiltrated their own country.

                          That Buchanan’s story of the young National Guardsmen who saved the home for the elderly from mob menace turned out not to be true is of no importance to me.

                          We here at the Republican convention approach truth in a larky spirit, with imagination, flexibility and insouciance. We never consider hypocrisy at all. That is why Patrick Buchanan was able to call Bill Clinton, who suffered an acute crisis of conscience over the war in Vietnam and then signed up for the draft lottery anyway, a draft dodger.

                There is more at the link above, if your treasonous draft-dodging slime-sucking lime lizard soul can stand such truthful barbs from a true liberal. We all miss Molly.

                Mit (der) Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

                Aus/von: Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III,6 / Talbot [friedrich-schiller-archiv.de]

                Outside of Nazis, there is a lot of German culture, art, and even philosophy. You excuse for not being aware of it is pathetic. I recommend you be modded down.

                Don't be a Runaway, hemo. It is beneath you.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:39AM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:39AM (#1137332)

            Less than a minute, and the definition was in the search result summaries. Now we see the quality of dat boomer brain.

            • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:07AM (1 child)

              by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:07AM (#1137338) Journal

              Care to enlighten me? Because all I found was "ur-fascism" without a definition for "ur".

              • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:15AM

                by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @08:15AM (#1137355) Journal

                Do you even know who Umberto Eco was? First and foremost a philosopher, but also the only philosopher since Plato who could competently write fiction. You may have heard of some of his work, even in translation, like "The Name of the Rose" (also made into a movie, with Sean Connery), and "Foucault's Pendulum", an epic take down of new age conspiracy theories. But Americans are geographically challenged, and only mercenarily literate. So continue with the whining over people who are more learned and intelligent than you modding you down for being stupid and spreading ignorance and fear, and loathing. Hunter S. Thompson would not approve, hemo, nor would George Carlin. Nor Will Rogers or Andy Kaufman.

      • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 14 2021, @11:43AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @11:43AM (#1137390) Journal

        That is a lot of words to say "no u." And *still* be wrong.

        Where is this persecution complex coming from? I'd love to see you switch places with any of these groups and do even half as well as you do the way you are now.

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:24AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @06:24AM (#1137327)

    Too bad to be so old before you actually pass. We will, temporarily, get off your lawn, but you will lose in the end, hemo. Nazism is defeated, Republican party is Trump and Matt Gaetz. Your cause is all for naught. Have a good bowel movement, old guy!

    • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:15AM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:15AM (#1137341) Journal

      Yeah -- I read Biden will be keeping troops in Afghanistan after the May 1 withdrawal date, the Taliban has vowed to fight about it, when they do we can stay forever. Maybe with a bloodthirsty Democratin office, we can get that dividend up to 3% or so. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RTX/ [yahoo.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 14 2021, @07:15AM (#1137342)

      They have re-branded, restructured, and are under new management, but they are very much alive and doing well.

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