You cannot negotiate with authoritarians. You cannot negotiate with fascists. They don't stop until everyone complies.

Is it really 'infighting' if they've declared their intention to not oppose fascism in the future?

They also simultaneously pump the ingroup into the military meatgrinder apparatus. Fascism is how the elite attempt to achieve god status at the expense of all others. Its the antithesis of Western enlightenment values. The antithesis of egalitarian, humanist values that have existed at different times in different cultures worldwide. The accelerator of our extinction.

Autocannibalism. Well said.

thats why the current enemies, are trans people, anti-fa democrats. once trans becomes used up, it will be someone else, probably Jewish people eventually.

I think of it as a death cult tbh

Not really, when the Nazis took control they removed all opposition. Same with the USSR and the CCP. Technically North Korea holds "elections" lmfao but there sure isn't any competition to the dictatorship/monarchy.

also the midterm election is when some of the BBB comes to effect in order to poison the election. the senate will be largely unaffafected by the elections, which is where the problem lies in the first place.

"How much profit?"
"1%"
"Lol, no"
"Ok, the scraps from the table then..."
"... "
"Ok, the scraps from the table that are knocked on to the floor?"
"You've got a deal, partner. I knew we could sort this out fairly."

Also:

Not this one...

MLK Jr once said it wasn't the KKK holding progress back, but the white moderate. In this day and age, moderate democrats/center are the absolute definition of what MLK was warning us about.

I think there have been a lot of articles showing the protest votes didn't move the needle in a way that could have impacted the outcome, but I'm prepared to be shown I'm wrong.

Maybe the Democrats should have stopped running such terrible centrist candidates in pursuit of Republican voters. Idk why tou are blaming leftists instead of the millions of disillusioned voters who see both oarties as nothing more than tools for the billionaires.

This feels like it should be progressives telling leftists and centrists to cast it in the fire. The leftists say they're both the same and the centrists say we need it for the economy.

Pretty much

If that's what the DNC seems like they are trying to do, sure. I voted for Kamala in 2024 too, though that was NOT a campaign run by someone trying to remove the fascists, that was one run by someone trying to get their votes.

THAT'S not a vote I'll be making again though.

If you mean unconditionally support the DNC no matter how clearly they work against the values they claim to stand for - nah, I got decades of that already.

No no, we're going to play fortnight

Depends on the context of the OP/meme/audience.

If they are NOT a fascist then "Liberals" means the neoliberal, DNC, "white moderate" types who arguably run as counterintelligence against the left, and help the right "sow the seeds of fascism".

If they're a fascist "Liberals" refers to EVERYONE left of fascism, as it is used interchangeably with communist, marxist, woke; whatever they don't like.

Given the sub, this is the first one.

Applies to Sweden as well. The liberal party went from proudly stating the far-right saw them as the enemy to adopting the far-right policies, implementing them, and calling it liberalism. That is stuff like prison for children, deportation for victims of crime, and still supporting and collaborating with them after it was -- to very little surprise -- discovered that one of their higher ups have a personal relationship to and is working with a very well known neonazi.

TBH I always automatically assume Liberal means the definition of the word, an advocate of human rights and equality, unless the message includes a citation to a specific party or nation with a specific liberal party.

So when people are against liberals they're actually against human rights, usually they are tankies.

Ah, here we are:

The overton window is completely out of the boathouse and somewhere on the bottom of the lake. We have no solid ideological framework in the US anymore, it's all entirely branches of capital trying to jockey for the most reward.

It's complicated. Basically, the farthest left we have in the US are the social liberals, which is left of center on social issues (gay marriage, trans rights, feminism) but still not very left economically (at best you get milquetoast support of unions, but they still take bribes from the corporations and legislate in their favor).

SocLibs are the enlightened center, but also as far left as we go politically.

I know I'm liberal, I support human rights and equality.

Yeah the term "liberal" has become a bit of a pejorative term, at least on Lemmy. The people it's used to describe are liberal on the surface, but are still pawns to the capitalist machine, same as the right/conservatives/MAGA/alt-right.

That tree does look like it's in need of fertilization.

Wow, where was this post and this book when I first met my mother in law?

(no worries, problem solved, we don't speak and it's a minor miracle my partner turned out a good person).

This is a gross oversimplification of personal relationships because every person projects, the difference is whether you replay a socially accepted role or not and this changes like any fashion.

Also i don't know about authors playing scientist and using terms like "spirit". Popular spiritual " science" self-help books will NOT make your life easier. An actual education will, because it makes sure you are not exposed to predatory behaiviour all the time. There's only so much willpower to face power play, no amount of reasoning with the rain keeps you dry.

A lot of branches of the far left are authoritarian, and they deserve the same treatment as fascists for the same reasons.

Ok, I'll agree in principle!