Of course it does. Calling them “weird” during last the election nearly broke them. The backlash from the memefication of Charlie Kirk’s ironic death to gun violence proved laughing at them is their weakness.
The saying is “men are scared that women will laugh at them women are scared that men will kill them”
Fascists are hyper masculine fuckheads. Laugh at them loudly and always.
Harris would have won if she would have just given Walz the microphone so he could just go off on how “weird” they are. Instead she stuffed him in a basement
Yes this. I don’t even try to argue a point with them. Just make fun of them. They don’t take the truth seriously lets not take them seriously
Fascists are extremely sensitive to criticism because they rely upon the mythology that their ideology is bulletproof and objectively righteous compared to all else. I’ll put this excellent snippet from a u/Professional_Low_646 reply to an r/AskHistorians (a subreddit we desperately need to recreate on Lemmy/Piefed!) thread titled: “What lessons did German resistors to Hitler’s political career leave for future people who found themselves in a transition to fascism?”
the German people were actually nowhere near as powerless in all this as postwar Germans have often claimed. Hitler was a populist, and his rule based heavily on doing things „his Germans“ liked. That didn’t mean that the Nazis didn’t make - conscious and often successful - efforts to change what the Germans liked (or at least found acceptable), but in general, the regime tried to avoid upsetting people with its policies. The distinct lack of enthusiasm for the first „Jew Boycott“ orchestrated by the SA in April of 1933, for example, frustrated Nazi leaders, but also resulted in an order to the SA to refrain from future such „disruptive“ actions - at least until propaganda had worked more antisemitism into Germans‘ brains. A similar pattern is repeated over and over, even on core policy issues and late into the war: when the large scale killing of mentally and physically disabled people began to be publicly criticized, in particular by the Catholic Church, the Nazis stopped the murdering (at least for a while). In February of 1943, around 1,500 women in Berlin protested successfully for the release of their Jewish husbands, who had been rounded up for deportation.
In other words, the real way to fight the fascists is to find a way to force their populist support base to vocally oppose the leadership. That’s a code we haven’t figured out how to crack with the MAGA base but we do know from polling data that Trump is the source of their power.
we desperately need to recreate on Lemmy/Piefed!
Best I can do is !historymemes@lemmy.world .
We’re too small to support subs that require niche talent. They way the fediverse was managed during the Exodus really hamstrung our growth. Things like ml being the default with an incredibly biased mod team. Also, the fundamental structure of the Lemmy side of the fediverse works against creating the kind of network effects which result in things like AskHistorians.
Because every instance of Lemmy is effectively or at least potentially “an entire reddit into itself”, community becomes fracture and fragmented. Networks have different emergent properties at different scales. A combination of moderation, design, and youth currently prevents us from being able to nurture the kinds of communities (which took YEARS to build on reddit) like AskHistorians.
Completely agree that curating that type of collective knowledge has a huge barrier to entry. I do love the historymemes community! I suppose what I would really like to see in the meantime is a more serious discussion-based history community. Even if we don’t have the type of base for credentialed contributors, it would be cool to have somewhere that people could discuss those types of in-depth topics with an assumed higher level of academic rigor built in.
Donald Smallhands can’t handle his shortcomings and inadequacies pointed out. Moreso, in the back of his mind, way, way, deep down, he knows he’s fucked up. And anyone pointing out his lying, cruel, ignorant BS must be silenced.
