After rallying behind Trump, the tech billionaire supports AfD and other anti-immigration parties.

After rallying behind Trump, the tech billionaire supports AfD and other anti-immigration parties.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You know, the last time fascism got a big foothold in the world, many tens of millions of people died, but then it was stopped because there were still powerful opponents of fascism who eventually managed to stamp it out. This time around, it seems all the world’s most powerful governments are going to be fascist. Russia will be fascist, France, Germany and Italy will be fascist, the USA will be fascist, Canada is about to lurch to the far right, and Nigel Farage is taking Musk’s dollars to fund a fascist takeover in the UK. Now is the time to organize an international popular resistance and start properly fighting against these fascists. We have to get serious about actually stopping it. What organizations are at the vanguard of this today?

    • Ilgaz@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Large industrial bosses loved Hitler and his policies. It isn’t very different from Elon. He is trying to be Krupp of today.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        There is an opportunity for China to support fascism’s opponents overseas. But as long as the fascists are destroying their own countries’ economies and weakening their defenses and alliances, China might prefer to sit back and enjoy the show.

    • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      it was stopped because there were still powerful opponents of fascism who eventually managed to stamp it out

      Of the western countries that fought fascism, most were flirting with it before the war. Certainly the UK, US and France had their fascist sympathizers. Germany just went a little too fast and the frog jumped out of the boiling water.

      Hopefully it’ll go similarly this time: one nation goes full nazi and the rest pull the breaks.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        If Japan hadn’t attacked Pearl Harbor there was a depressingly real chance America would have joined the Axis…

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          Yup, America was content to sit back and quietly support the allied forces with lend-lease, but the nazis were increasingly popular in America at the time. But then Pearl Harbor happened, and gave the country a nice big target to focus on.

    • BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      How many dudes ya know fight fascists?// Naht many iffany, naht many iffany// How many dudes ya know got the skills to go ‘n’ r-rebel-resist? uh ah, uh ah, I don’t know anybody