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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoI really wish I had a solid argument against this theory
Fascist rhetoric can be defined as a rhetorical regime that like a light switch is flipped between speaking from an authoritarian position of extreme power to call for violence in a system and speaking from a position of complete helplessness to stop evil being perpetrated by said system.
It is a specific flavor of self-delusion, one perfectly enabled by a technology like AI to grow out of control like a cancer in a fascists mind.
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
Which is why capitalists always ultimately bend the knee and go along with fascists, because the smart ones understand that the fascist movement is utterly unsustainable and will collapse catastrophically, and it is exactly that species of crisis that allows rich ruthless capitalists to lock in their power for generations.
The dumb capitalists just go along with the fascism because they have lobotomized their empathy.
This is the heart of the love affair between fascism and capitalism.
That’s a quote from Eco’s essay on ur-fascism, for the unfamiliar
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s isolated cases that would never be blamed on other technologies.