Weltschmerz à Gogo on Nostr: That there is no tool they can’t (or won’t) claim for themselves. Free speech for ...
That there is no tool they can’t (or won’t) claim for themselves.
Free speech for all? They’ll use that. Anti-capitalism? They can make something out of that too. Christianity? Secularism? Antisemitism? Zionism? Any and all of these can be put to use *at the same time* in the interest of fascism. Anti-war? Yup, they’re all over that. They’ll even use anti-colonial rhetoric when it serves their interests.
People whose objective is simply the accumulation of power are shameless and will gladly use any of these ideas as tools to achieve that end – regardless of whether the rest of us think of those concepts as liberal or conservative or left or communist or whatever.
Free speech for all? They’ll use that. Anti-capitalism? They can make something out of that too. Christianity? Secularism? Antisemitism? Zionism? Any and all of these can be put to use *at the same time* in the interest of fascism. Anti-war? Yup, they’re all over that. They’ll even use anti-colonial rhetoric when it serves their interests.
People whose objective is simply the accumulation of power are shameless and will gladly use any of these ideas as tools to achieve that end – regardless of whether the rest of us think of those concepts as liberal or conservative or left or communist or whatever.