My trouble w/ Mastodon’s politics is that so many people there use the word “nazi” and “fascist” incorrectly. I mean, it is no accident at all that Mussolini and Lenin had their revolutions at the same time because institutions in Europe were at the breaking point.
You could have been a fascist in Europe from 1905-1945 or so but George Bush, Donald Trump, and other Republican politicians are not fascists, they are something else.
Already though I can point out two problems w/ Threads v Mastodon which are: no alt-text and no hashtags; culturally we put alt text on images and hashtags are rocket fuel for engagement on Mastodon.
> It’s a question I’ve tried to answer a few times in the six-odd years that he has dominated American politics. Back in 2015, no fascism expert would use the word to describe Trump. In October 2020, they were inching closer, but most dismissed the term as likely an exaggeration or distraction.
> The assault on the US Capitol on January 6 has changed matters significantly. Robert Paxton, a Columbia University historian of fascism and Vichy France, wrote after the attack, “I have been reluctant to use the F word for Trumpism, but yesterday’s use of violence against democratic institutions crosses the red line.”
Others suggest he's not smart enough or well dressed enough to be considered a real fascist.
This article repeats a lie about black people's lives requiring CWs; the circulating "rules" (that is to say, the only tweet I have seen which advises use of them) I saw a couple days ago specifically say that there are certain things which do not need CWs, and the daily lives of marginalized people is one of them. Cats are another. There is an intention to the CWs, and this is a serious misrepresentation thereof.
I'm not saying white people don't abuse every rule that is open to abuse in order to have things our way, to be clear, and I had one such example described to me the other day which I would love to be around when it inevitably happens again so I can participate in the pushing back. But that does not mean that rules are a bad thing, particularly rules of decorum in a setting where a bunch of strangers are coming together.
Whities are gonna whitey, but let's don't make the concept of mere civility a casualty of that, yes?
edit: Lol white people hate hearing certain things.
You could have been a fascist in Europe from 1905-1945 or so but George Bush, Donald Trump, and other Republican politicians are not fascists, they are something else.
Already though I can point out two problems w/ Threads v Mastodon which are: no alt-text and no hashtags; culturally we put alt text on images and hashtags are rocket fuel for engagement on Mastodon.