• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Yeah there’s either a part of him giving into the fascist elements out of terror that they may punish him after the fact, or because the typical opportunist liberalism kicked in and he’s convinced that he can tame the Nazis

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      Or just the usual liberalism conforming to the dominant culture in society. A liberal could very easily rationalise ultranationalism as a necessary feature of the patriotic defence of the country.

      Someone here once wrote this passage on absorbomorphs and it always stuck with me:

      Liberals entire thing is “uphold the status quo”. This is the position of pretty much every single politically illiterate liberal who really doesn’t understand what any ideology actually is. They change their shape in order to fit themselves into whatever the existing social paradigm is.

      This is why LGBT people got absolutely nowhere with liberals until they literally bullied them with riots and pride parades saying a big visible fuck you to everyone that ever tried to make them invisible. They could not be asked to change they had to be bullied and forced. Once the social paradigm is changed they then accept it.

      This is why anger and cancelling on twitter became a thing. It bullied liberals into new social paradigms.

      This is why it works for dirtbag leftists.

      And this is why they picked up guns and shot at whoever the nazis told them to shoot at. Not because they were true believers. But because mussolini or hitler and every other fascist simply bullies them into a new social paradigm… and once the paradigm is changed they accept it.

      Liberals are absorbomorphs. Their ideology is absorbomorphism.