Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@bouriquet I don't get your question. I never said idpol lefties were stupid or anything? So sure: they do some good work fighting some of that kind of power. Also in fighting unintentional systems that make some people's lives worse (e.g. "systemic racism") – IMO that's where they really shine. I think they get a few really important things wrong, but yeah! What you said.

That doesn't mean it's useful to call someone you disagree with a fascist, of course. That's trash political marketing, aside from any issues with intellectual honesty.

@bouriquet Because it's a lefty idpol echo chamber.

@avram @Joaquincastrotx His family were refugees in Egypt when he was very young. I don't know if this really supports Castro's point, although there's plenty in the Bible about kindness to strangers/foreigners without that particular example, so I'd say the point mostly remains regardless of Jesus' personal status as an immigrant.

But I don't know what "hateful laws" he's talking about that he thinks Republicans have a monopoly on: it's not like Trump deported more people than Obama or anything, we still have "kids in cages" even though the Democrats are back in charge. etc. Fix your party first, Castro.

@bouriquet "not be far left" It's all relative. Here, yes, I'd say you are correct; any support of capitalism pretty much makes you a fascist around here.

@Mor696 Violet's "you accused someone..." post is objecting to my characterization of why I got blocked. She's not wrong: I was probably blocked for the windmill thing, as she says.

I think I was right about why you got blocked, though.

The threading here is maybe throwing you off; if I reply to you, then someone else replies to me, your name is in their reply also, making it look like they replied to you when really they did not – in their reply "you" refers to me, for example.

@Mor696 VH is replying to me there.

@Mor696 @chairgirlhands I said the windmill thing, but not to you.

@Mor696 @chairgirlhands I'll reword: Are you basing your impression of Nazi economic policy on something other than the propaganda that the Nazi's published?

The 25-point program, for example, talks a good game about profit-sharing, nationalizing lots of businesses and land, etc. But I think they mostly didn't do that stuff.

@Mor696 Try not to let the prickly people get to you. It's probably best to move on. If it makes you feel any better the "fuck off" was directed at me, not you, you just got a polite "f*ck off". 😂

You'll get no resolution about this: she appears to have blocked you. Let's have a friendly discussion about Nazi economic policy instead.

@sfrazer434 Well put.

@chairgirlhands @Mor696 Yeah there was definitely a lot of central planning and high tariffs, so far from a capitalist utopia, but I think the whole "socialist" part of the name was pure marketing BS. Darcy are you basing this impression on something other than what they said in their propaganda?

@Mor696 @chairgirlhands re. GQP – I thought you were just completely ignorant, TBH.

OK so you're calling someone "fascist" because they're on the other side of a quibble about what age a certain book is appropriate for. Got it. 👍

@Mor696 @chairgirlhands This is no better than twitter in that respect, sorry to say. You and I both got blocked by OP here it seems, due to our replies being something other than enthusiastic agreement and lament. That's how it is quite often on instances like mastodon.social.

@Mor696 @chairgirlhands

"Nazis were very far left." I'm fine with abandoning the left/right thing, but it's probably not useful to say this; you just aren't meaning the same thing by "left" that anyone else means, so no communication is possible. And they weren't really socialist; they talked about socialist economic policy because it was kinda popular at the time, but never really implemented it to any great extent, IIUC. But even if they did, that isn't the thing anyone cares about with respect to them.

It's not "GQP".

"they are the current Fascist party." Don't be silly. US fascist parties include ANP, the unfortunately-named NSPA, etc. They're disbanded, though, I believe.

@Pat @Acer also, OP is incorrect. Legitimate gifts are also taxable in some cases.

@chairgirlhands @Mor696 I know what she *means*, of course. (She's quite clear, and probably doesn't need you to reword everything she says.)

@Mor696

Nina's bio says: anti-capitalist, anarcho-syndicalist. I'll translate for you: that's lefty. Profile pic is a film portrayal of Soviet hero Lyudmila Pavlichenko, you get the idea. (Don't get me wrong, huge fan of the Soviets in the Eastern Front, they literally saved the world.)

These "libs" she's complaining about are not radical enough, you see – they support some of what she says, but she imagines they'd try to get her to stop tilting at the Nazi windmills that she sees all around if she were to start getting violent.