If Republicans go so far right that they swing back around to the left I’d be fine with that lol

Hitler’s regime launching the first anti-smoking propaganda campaign in history doesn’t mean they were going “so far right that they swing back around to the left.”

Please stop this liberal “horseshoe” bullshit.

Critics see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation,

Give me a break. Since when does the billionaire parasite class have anything to fear from the US establishment?

Americans went for a second helping at the trough of fascism.

The US has been pro-fascist long, long before Mussolini gave it a name.

At least they learned from their mistake, unlike the US.

If Brazil had learned from it’s mistake it WOULDN’T HAVE ALLOWED A FASCIST INTO POWER, genius.

Brazil is a good world citizen.

Uhhh, did you forget that Brazil was being run by a fascist war criminal just a short while ago?

So, the US wants to lose the only influence it actually has on Europe?

I say go for it.

“belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of ‘Israel.'”

Now that’s a false-flag if I ever saw one. Out of all the sites of arms manufacturers, funding operations and troll-farms that directly support Israel, these creeps attack… the Internet Archive?

Tell me another one.

I should not have grouped Progressives

I’m not sure why people use the term “progressive” - it seems to simply refer to liberals that don’t want to be associated with their far-right cousins, but also don’t want to give up on liberalism (which has always been a right-wing ideology) and actually move left. Just sems like edgy liberalism to me.

Liberals tend to move policy forward

Not really. When people were calling for fascist institutions to be defunded, Biden responded by upping their budget and putting a thousand more fascist goons on the streets. That’s not “forward.”

Conservative values represent upholding the status quo

That’s liberalism.

Considering the microscopic ideological differences between liberals and their slightly-closer-to-overt-fascism liberal cousins called “conservatives” I’d have to say… this is absolutely much ado about nothing.

It’s not fun in 2024 because, thanks to the internet, we now have mountains of evidence at our fingertips to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what they really are and always have been - ie, what the leftists have been trying to tell us since forever.

I generally agree with your post, but I’d say one correction is in order here.

Remember Stan Lee was in the military when it was antifascist pretending to be antifascist in order to wage war on colonialist rivals.

The US military has never been antifascist.

gives an escape to readers to fantasize about themselves as the hero?

Your “escapist” fantasy is to be rich, dress up in tacticool BDSM-gear and be allowed to beat up working class people?

Yes, comic books are propaganda, and the super-creep variety has always had the smell of Objectivism to it.

It’s certainly worked on you.

and Batman is a fascist by then.

I’d say that Batman is fundamentally fascist. He wages war on the working class so that crime can be preserved as an activity reserved for the class Bruce Wayne represents - the capitalist one.

Are people ready to admit that characters like Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne has always served to propagandize the idea of “genius millionaire/billlionaire” capitalists despite the fact that no such thing has ever existed in reality?

And that this propaganda is partly the reason why parasitic fraudster racketeers like Musk, Gates and Bezos gets to get away with their gargantuan crimes against humanity?

No?

Oh, so it turns out that “genius billionaires” only exist in comic books?

Nobody could have seen that one coming!

You know, in some ways, I appreciate Musk. He has gone out of his way to demonstrate, for all to see, how billionaire parasites get to fail upward no matter how irredeemably incompetent and vile they happen to be.

Scumwads like gates and Bezos hides it all behind walls of pr propaganda, but not Musk.

I wonder what a cyberguillotine would look like.

Plastic-coated fertilisers?

Rally?

WTF do we need plastic-coated fertilisers for?

Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way

As if capitalists have ever cared about that…

He’d patent avocado genetics and call them “xavocados.”