Yes, of course they are. However badly things are going, they could always get worse. But the final collapse of liberalism is a situation in which liberalism seems perversely comfortable. Anti-fascism is only one half of what the world needs; it also needs a positively articulated vision of how it can be improved, and the centrists have nothing: lower business rates, softer racism, friendlier faces. Of course it’s necessary – urgently, frantically necessary – to defeat the Nazis, not least because it buys us more time. But it’s not enough, it’s a stopgap for the symptoms. Almost all the advanced capitalist societies are tilting in the same direction, and these Nazis didn’t come from nowhere. They are entirely immanent to the liberal political order as it stands; their racism and violence and hatred comes from a society which is already racist and hateful and violent. The fascists gain their energy from the failure of liberalism, and liberalism gets to stave off its failure thanks to the threat posed by the fascists. Both are the living undeath of the other. The whole order is monstrous, decrepit, shambling, and lifeless; it has to go. To struggle for a better world isn’t a luxury in a time of rising fascism, it’s the only thing that can save us.
I've never seen Kyle Chapman express
any kind of extremist view. It
can be argued he's a violent thug or criminal in the most basic of terms, but then so is Bike lock asshole and the dickheads throwing M80s around.
D'yknow why "traditional" liberalism is collapsing, kiddo?
Because your group is making
everyone the enemy. Anyone who stands about and disagrees with Antifa or BAMN on one
minute modicum is suddenly a fascist who should have their teeth kicked in.
Suddenly, some asshole who runs his mouth off while clicking his heels, but
doesn't kick your head in when you shout "I disagree!" but instead invites you to respond?
Suddenly he's not that big of an asshole, and both of you have a common enemy threatening to smash your heads in with bike locks.
There's been stranger bedfellows. One side constantly pushing everyone into the same pit only floods the pit and drowns the dumbass who filled it.
On top of that, the reason why such groups can exist and rise up is easy when the "establishment" whatever its stripe begins to ignore the will of the people below it. The Globalism we've been through over the past 30-40 years have had a lot of cost both economical and societal on plenty of people and the bottom end of the population who have been actively ignored for years and years now. It only takes
one man to stir up that hive.
The Political pendulum will always swing and attempts to stop it usually result in either a totalitarian state trying to keep things "just so" or the group trying to stop it swinging being crushed.
Immediately running for the "racism" card is childish on so many levels and so yawn-inducingly standard for someone trying to hide behind intellectualism.
It's not occurred to a lot of people in these groups and even entire political parties that if you keep repeating the same phrase, and extending to mean anything and everything (as racism has been over the past 17 years) then it rends the word fucking
meaningless.
Ya know, bit like how homosexuals call themselves queers, fags and gays?
Or black people call themselves niggers?
You idiots handed them that word on a silver fucking platter with your stupid zealotry.
Realtalk what do you guys expect your lives to be like at age 42 in a post-Trump world
Who the fuck cares? I'm not a yank and I very much doubt the post trumpian world in 2024 is going to look that different from the one we have now. The man's only got 8 years and a lot of people roadblocking for very
very petty reasons.
