he is going mask off Adolf Hitler mode recently (since a few years) and apparently it's causing a split in the party with most preferring to remain cryptofascist lol. they don't have any real mass support yet thankfully but still, sucks that nobody has killed this guy yet and the state just lets him do this shit.

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[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 63 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

its crazy how much lifting “anti-communism” does for white supremacists and nazis. imagine if these people couldn’t just launder their image and arguments by saying they’re “fighting communism/communists”

if people werent brainwashed to hate communism 99% of right wing bullshit would just sound entirely unappealing to a lot of people

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

totally, truly one of the great myths that upholds liberalism and ultimately fascism.

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

someone should just ask him “but why were the nazis fighting the communists?”

its because the communists were trying to stop them from killing a bunch of minorities

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

This kinda illustrates the utility of Holocaust denial: if you take away the Holocaust, you could pretty much just take Nazi rhetoric and it adapts 1:1 to a message that many people want to hear today, and if you make communists the bad guys in that story it's even easier to sell.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

someone should just give him the NKVD special tbh

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Without communists they'd have no one to compete against for working class liberatory rhetoric which would probably be better for them, though the generation of fascist/neolib anticommunism probably helps too