I don’t mean just business “war”, I mean violent takeover, assassinations, corrupt officials doing big favors, mafia shit. Fewer lawyers, more goons.

Inequality is a feature. Decay is when it’s running out of runway and starts to turn catabolic. They eat each other, starting with the smaller ones.

A fascist regime helps to guarantee inequality. As capitalism decays, it gets worse for everyone who’s not rich, leading to more inequality. But there are feedback loops, people rise up, workers form unions and go on strike, and so on. Fascism is there to make sure that the “right people” are getting the benefits from the economy, they police this social hierarchy. The racism and other bullshit is there to draw those contrasting lines between classes. It’s always about exclusion. Economically, fascism embraces selective austerity. A middle class life for me, a miserable slave life for thee. So they align great with capitalism and liberalism in this economic sense. GDP 📈.

The mass of fascism is the working class traitors. The petite bourgeoisie and those who pretend and desire to become that. Of course, they’re going to get shafted later, by the rich fascists.

Egocentric victimhood is linked to support for Trump, study finds

The Thoroughly Respectable Capitol Rioters - The Atlantic

The Kenyan Inquisition.

“Historically people here in Kilifi do not have [land] documentation. The only document they have is the narrative from these elderly people. That is why mostly men are being killed, because once you kill them, then you have removed the obstacle,” says Mr Wanyama.

As is tradition.

only if there are ads

When’s the last time you donated to Lemmy.world?

Thanks to social media, youth unemployment, an uptick in asylum seekers, ballooning energy prices and oodles of nationalist right-wing cash, Macron is no longer the only politician with the regal ability to play Jupiter on TV. There are now a record 4,005 candidates running in the first round, with many fabled divinities to choose from.

There’s your problem. Defund the rich.

Can anyone EILI5?

Sure. A lot of people voted for bullies who can talk themselves out of consequences.

easy emotional messaging × a lot of funding from rich assholes of all types × great means of communication that can target audiences even in isolation.

abducted thousands of Palestinians

Who won’t?

check the authors’ browser history

nuclear clowns are the least funny

I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

The more I read about how they classify food, the more I see it as a shitty classification system. It almost reminds me of the DSM.

Just don’t replace this with paleo diet bullshit.

Vulnerable people are easy to recruit.

Kibbutz leader confirms movement’s role in establishing and maintaining Israeli apartheid

tl.dr.: driven by propaganda and a persecution complex or Jingoism

Israel’s path forward is unclear, and it will be influenced by a few issues. An increase in public pressure on Netanyahu may force him eventually to take responsibility for not preventing the Oct. 7 attack and resign.

Israel’s dilemma is that you can’t have both:

• An ethnonationalist (ethnic apartheid) state.
• Liberal democratic state with human rights and rule of law.

Pick one.

Drug cartels are black market capitalists.