How far along the liberal-to-fascist pipeline are you, liberal?

The white liberals who try to co-opt MLK always forget to point out that MLK literally considered white liberals a more insidious obstacle to liberation than the KKK was.

And he was perfectly correct about that, too.

Oh, look… a liberal has shown up to co-opt MLK.

Yawn.

Trump siccs a white supremacist lynch mob on the capitol - the liberals do nothing.

The MAGAS kill Roe v. Wade - the liberals do nothing.

The Dems have zero credibility because they don’t DESERVE any.

For their unsatisfiable thirst of power?

So not the liberals (and the capitalists that they truly represent) who can get down to “business as usual” after the fascists brutally repressed the working class for them, eh?

It’s a little bit of a chicken-egg situation

No, it isn’t.

Gustav Krupp, Wilhelm von Opel, Albert Vögler - oh-so-liberal Weimar Germany’s richest and most “respectable.” Would you qualify them as chickens or eggs?

our wannabe-Nazi Elon

Do you think that Elon will be hurt much if they fine him a measly 15% of his assets, like they did with Hitler-benefactor Fritz Thyssen?

The goal of these both are similar: freedom.

Liberalism’s aim is the freedom of the capitalist, and the indentured servitude of everyone else.

So you agree with me?

No.

but they definitely maintain it

For whom? Who really wins when the fascists leave power? The very same class of people who funded them into power in the first place, perhaps? How are the descendents of the capitalists who funded Nazi Germany and Showa Japan doing these days? How are the corporations doing that coined it during the Pinochet-regime in Chile or the Apartheid-regime in South Africa?

That is perfectly black and white.

But (true) liberalism is not fascism

At what point was liberalism not colonialist? At what point was it not capitalist? Liberalism created the systems of wealth accumulation and labour exploitation that keeps the (so-called) “1st world” rich… so who do you think they keep around to protect all of this from the people all this wealth and labour was stolen from?

I consider liberalism closer to anarchism

Then you understand neither.

I don’t think we ever had “real” communism,

No argument here.

the Democratic party (which I think is the best bet for resisting fascism right now)

Which part of the last eight years informed you that liberals have any interest in resisting fascism?

I wouldn’t say better at violence, just better equipped funded.

FTFY.

No it doesn’t,

How many times will the liberal establishments have to blatantly show you what it truly is before you believe them? They’ve been doing it at least since 1919, but it has never been more blatant than now.

Since you’re European, I’d like to know what thought-terminating cliches you use to explain to yourself why Germany’s oh-so-liberal political establishment has co-existed, side-by-side, with a securotocracy that was filled to the brim with Nazi war criminals ever since the end of WW2.

You’d think the oh-so-liberal Global North being exposed red-handed funding yet another colonialist genocide would make a dent in those cliches, but I guess it’s true what the anarchists say… scratch a fascist and a liberal bleeds.

Fascism is definitely concentrating on centralizing power,

Fascists don’t “concentrate” power - they are HANDED power that has ALREADY been concentrated FOR them. You wanna guess who it is that concentrates it before handing it over to them? Do tell… how has police funding been doing under all these liberal regimes in Europe, eh?

Let me ELI5 it to you so that you cannot claim nobody told you.

The capitalist ruling elite, like all ruling elites throughout history, requires TWO things to stabilize their own power and privilege. They need a way to CO-OPT certain segments of the populace they rule over, and a way to brutally REPRESS those parts they can’t or don’t want to co-opt. Carrot and stick - no need for a fancy poli-sci degree to understand this.

Therefore, the capitalists have developed a POLITICAL wing, which we call “liberalism,” and a REPRESSIVE wing, which we call “fascism.” That is what they have been since the start (ie, long before Mussolini gave fascism a name) - and which one you get depends on how much of a threat the capitalists think you pose to their precious world order.

Fascism and liberalism is joined at the hip - you can’t have one without the other.

Yes that’s what we’re Increasingly moving towards.

Nope. We’ve been there for a long, long time now. People are only figuring it out now, though.

Beware though, that all of this is a spectrum…

The (so-called) “political spectrum” becomes perfectly irrelevant once you understand WHY and HOW our political establishments dangle the liberal carrot and the fascist stick before us.

If Republicans go so far right that they swing back around to the left I’d be fine with that lol

Hitler’s regime launching the first anti-smoking propaganda campaign in history doesn’t mean they were going “so far right that they swing back around to the left.”

Please stop this liberal “horseshoe” bullshit.

The billionaire parasite class ARE the people in charge.

The fascists serve them, genius. That’s the whole point of fascism.

Critics see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation,

Give me a break. Since when does the billionaire parasite class have anything to fear from the US establishment?

They say that as if trying to kill Windows is a bad thing.

They’ve had decades of dehumanizing their fellow citizens and are eager to employ military tactics and authoritarian rule to a population they see as sheep.

Well, that IS the whole reason for having police in the first place.

They certainly did not face the full force of the US military.

Neither will the people in the US. That’s how civil wars work - half the military might just decide to join the other side.

You’re thinking of the Korean War. The best pilots the Vietnamese had was Vietnamese - and they were damn good, too.

For now.

Kid needs more experience.

He’s a wife beater but not a proven rapist (yet)… so ole’ Mel is still a tadpole by US politician standards.

Mel Gibson is the kind of “Christian” that has a meltdown if anybody dares to point out that Jesus most likely didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes.