not exactly, it’s not theoretical this is how stuff has worked before. someone can be banished from a society and become a persona non grata that can’t get support from anyone.

you’re acting as if something that’s actually in our history is unimaginable

That’s not necessarily true, those people can be banished from a community or even violently resisted depending on your flavor.

And even if you take your statement as fact, isn’t that a much easier problem to solve than what we’re dealing with now? Maybe some limited prisons for the worst offenders might be our only compromise

by its nature there’s a lot of free content online.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works isn’t a bad start.

The works of Kropotkin are on there as well. Conquest of Bread is a banger.

Anarchism is the better version of libertarianism. Left-anarchism gives all of the liberties but without capitalism. If only capitalist realists could get past that hurdle.

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Italian fascism, i.e. the iconic original fascism, absolutely had corporatism as part of its definition. To their credit, it involved not just business owners and employers but included employees at the table, which is better than American billionaire oligarchy.

It’s not the universal and core definition of fascism but that’s not what I said, it’s an alternate definition which has applied to historical fascist regimes. Fascism is a far right ideology. It’s not just classes and hierarchy or authoritarian government and nationalism, it’s a fuzzy intermingling of many of those things.

The “simple” part of the definition is that it’s a far-right authoritarian regime, which contradicts the oversimplification at the top of this thread.

Fair points, a video response for a definition dispute that isn’t even concise is definitely an odd choice.

Nevertheless it’s good for us all to think about what these terms mean because when the dust settles on this Trump crisis we will really need to think long and hard about what the world needs to look like moving forward.

Considering the issue resolved by voting out or otherwise removing Trump, by attributing the problem to him or to Putin’s influence over him, or any other premature celebration of his removal without systemic change will leave us in effectively the same place.

Fascism is also sometimes described as a union of corporations and the state, I think that definition is very closely aligned with the American oligarchy and with Musk in particular. All of that must be cleaned up when the people regain control, not just Trump. Without systemic political and economic change at best we buy another 100 years.

The pattern of inviting Fascism to roost every few decades with developments in technology is not going to end well. Even this iteration may be what destroys us all.

that person is right. The term for an authoritarian government is… Authoritarianism. Stalin’s USSR was arguably authoritarian but it wasn’t fascist.

Fascism is more precise, it’s a far-right ideology and includes an economic aspect to its definition. I’m not going to link a video or anything else because this is a simple definition that you can easily find.

but surely we have to go back to the Sassanids to find an analogue for current events

Yes, my point is you can Thanos snap Trump and Putin out of existence today and if you make no other changes then fascism will still be here or will rise again soon.

Economic and political change is needed

This oversimplification is how the world will learn nothing from this. Putin didn’t compromise 47 million Americans into voting for fascism.

Major political and economic change is needed. How many times does fascism have to materialize exactly as leftists have predicted before people start reevaluating the economic system that creates Elon Musks.

Songs of Conquest is a spiritual successor you might be interested in checking out. I agree HoMM3 is still great to revisit and SoC doesn’t quite scratch the exact same itch but it’s a good way to get more of the same but with some variety keeping it fresh

This. So much this.

if LLMs behaved like this we’d say they’re overtrained on the data and start over. Internet commenters are more predictable and robotic than AI now