This is the hot thing in Northern California right now. They’re also doing it in Richmond and Sacramento that I know of.

It’s not too hard actually, if anyone is interested in doing it in their city I might be able to share some resources.

Don’t worry, there won’t be many more like this. They’ll be much hotter.

Fascism always requires an enemy. So they are manufacturing them.

Makes sense to me. People tend to think of speeding as a victimless crime but it certainly is not and is implicated in the deaths of thousands each year.

I mean I have issues with the whole institution of policing but this seems like one of its more useful aspects.

Interesting points but I think you’re conflating fascism with what I would call authoritarianism. If you define fascism as any system where a minority clique takes control of society then you’re going to have to call nations like the USSR or China fascist. Which, while I agree they have similar features, are getting pretty far from the colloquial and academic definitions of fascism.

But you’re absolutely right that no modern society has had universally equal rights. We still have many groups that don’t have much legal protection including felons, children, immigrants, even animals could be viewed through this lens as well. But I don’t think that makes any societies that don’t meet this very high standard fascist.

I completely agree. But to be clear, not all nations go down this path of increasing authoritarianism, and not all of those who do end up at fascism.

It might seem like a small distinction but this idea of the inevitable course of history is such a common thought terminating cliche and it leads to all sorts of wrong ideas and wrong political strategies that I feel a need to call it out. Even though my own position is not completely dissimilar.

Absolutely. This is a thought pattern I find very annoying. Just because you’re opposed to capitalism doesn’t make every critique of it correct. Defeating it means understanding and identifying its real features, not some caricature.

Old age isn’t even a thing you can die from. This analogy fails on multiple fronts.

Capitalism has existed for centuries and usually did not end in fascism. There’s no historical support for this claim. It’s simply an invention of authoritarian leftists because it’s useful to convince people they need to choose one brand of authoritarianism or the other.

I didn’t say it would be easy, just that fascism is not inevitable.

Can you elaborate on how liberalism could have prevented this? This seems in contradiction to your overall point that fascism is inevitable under liberal governments.

We’re clearly in a trend of rising authoritarianism, but that doesn’t mean it’s inevitable. Such waves have receded in the past and they likely will again.

I just don’t like these inevitability narratives because they deprive people of agency in shaping society. Sure, maybe liberalism has a tendency to creep towards fascism, at least under some conditions. But this happens through the actions of the people that make up those societies and it can be resisted.

Well I guess if you have a long enough timeline everything possible becomes inevitable. But I don’t think that’s quite what the meme is saying.

This is some Marxist nonsense my dude. Societies don’t have inevitable endpoints.

Comes naturally for some people I guess.

I don’t think the expectation is they will get through. The goal is to create a scandal that will increase international attention and pressure to make them stop.

If they hurt Greta I predict there will be a lot of backlash due to her fame and popularity.

Ah damn that’s still cool though.

Lab-grown organs will be an incredible medical breakthrough when they are achieved. Assuming we don’t destroy our society before then.

Wait is this real though? Because that’s pretty incredible.

lol you gotta change your email preferences. I don’t let them send me shit.

Interesting but it’s important to remember that Europeans and their plants have been in the Americas for over 500 years now, which is plenty of time for oral traditions to develop. I’m not saying it’s untrue but I’d be curious to see what the genetic evidence says, since that would be a verifiable way to confirm. But in my experience dandelions grow almost exclusively in human developments, so it would be pretty surprising if they were native here.

Wait, what? Expand on this.