• T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Do you not think the far right wants to exterminate groups because they are impure?

    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I think they want to expunge groups because a monoculture is easier to control. If everyone fits into a couple of narrow boxes that all speak the same language, fulfill the same roles, have the same hard limits on expression and are all able-bodied, mentally tuned to function as desirable cogs in a machine you get an easily exploitable force. It’s why they want all costs of maintenance and risk borne by the individual and more specifically the family unit which has the power to ostricize and disenfranchise on a micro scale. Pluralistic societies mean that the individual is supported by a culture of acceptance and those groups all run off of different rules which make demands of society. They want a society that makes very few demands but feels catered to thus earning higher levels of compliance.

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      8 days ago

      They do. The problem is that the far left wants the same.

      The meme is comparing the far right with the moderate left.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        If it’s meant to be US politics, they’re comparing the far right to the near right. Our left is carefully contained so it can’t affect anything.

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          8 days ago

          Take your pick. Who they most want to exterminate is other far left who have slightly different opinions, because these are “class traitors” and “counterrevolutionaries”.

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          8 days ago

          Depends on the group and the country they’re from but it goes from anyone with more money than the person speaking, to any foreigners, to anyone with a brain that dares to think differently (“counter-revolutionaries”).

          See Cuba, north Korea, Soviet Union (and puppet states) and the lemmy instances most people defedarate from, like lemmygrad.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Genuinely asking, not trying to be a dick, do you think the far left actually want that too? What makes you say that?

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        8 days ago

        Are tankies actually far left? I may be wrong but I don’t think you can be far left and authoritarian. Those two don’t seem to align, to me that is.

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          8 days ago

          I think the political scale is the problem. Left and right doesn’t give enough nuance. We should be focusing on individual problems in their own rights and circumstances instead of using umbrella terms to write off the problems as sypmtoms of said term.