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  • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    19 hours ago

    It’s also just completely inane. Okay let’s say I was a russian asset, does that change the fact that Joe Biden has deported more people? It’s just a thought killer meant to ignore any criticism.

  • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    They just need a quick, easy way to dismiss people without actually engaging their argument. I get hit with something similar sometimes. “.ml, argument invalid.” because they don’t want to admit they’re supporting genocide.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Obsession with a plot! Obsession with a plot!

    If Liberals aren’t fascists why are they using U-Fascism as a checklist for how to do ideology?

  • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Judeo bolshevist lies

    cap-think “This needs a reskin”

    judeo bolshevist/communist lies

    cap-think “Still a bit dated”

    russian disinformation

    porky-happy “Now we cooking”

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    the star trek instance defederation is the most haunting example of this.

    i’d like to think that trekkies are more open minded; but it was another reminder that we’re the same as everyone else.

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Seems a bit of a stretch. Orientalism? Sure, I can see that. Antisemitism? I’m going to need some convincing.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      i think in this specific instance its serving the same purpose of demonizing our ideas by using a popular hated strawman. which was jews at that time, but is russia now.

      in general this is one the final purposes of these -isms and -phobias they keep pushing constantly.

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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          17 hours ago

          yeah, fascism and racism have a close relationship, for example.

          fascism can’t sustain itself without an ‘other’ out-group they can focus people’s anger at.

          preferrably a minority that has a harder time defending itself and putting the ruse into question, but it can technically even be an entire other nationality.