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If you don’t want to be called a fascist, simply do not behave like a fascist. It doesn’t get any easier than that.
Before you take any action, simply ask yourself, "Is this something that a fascist would do?"
Okay but what if I just like the runic script and ancient Rome and medieval Rome and early modern Rome and whatever the fuck the Pontic Greeks were doing Rome?
Well then you are of the same ilk as the illustrious founders of our great nation, which is to say, a fascist
Given the fact I don't like power as a baseline either wielded by mine self or others, I'm gonna disagree. Power corrupts inevitably so thusly to prevent corruption we must prevent people from having power over eachother as much as possible, within reason at least don't think anyone is bitching about paramedics having the power to give someone anesthesia.
I was just joking you can like those things, I have an interest in a lot of stuff. Be curious, learn history and culture, its an improvement over the garbage we are force fed in public schools.
I don't agree with the ol "power corrupts so power bad" mindset. It's learned helplessness. Workers need to become very interested in building power for ourselves as a class. Of course its rife with problems, the 20th century was disaster after disaster wrt socialist politics. Some bright spots, but it didnt pan out. Granted, I am not an anarchist, I know lots of anarchists who organize pretty darn well while pretending they aren't building power.
But we can't pretend, we have to deal with facts. How are going to create a better world without a comprehensive theory of power? Its pure idealism and I don't have time for that.
But educating yourself, being interested in something like ancient Rome, and then building on it and educating is probably the best way forward for a lot of people.
I just have an issue with the neoclassicism of all these slave owning founders, who didn't understand what the romans also didn't understand about their society: the basis of all their progress and success is the slave labor they compel to carry it out.
I largely agree I was just a little fucked up and couldn't think good when I wrote the comment, slipped and smashed into the ground hard nothing dangerous but I physically hurt bad. Regardless I meant undue or unearned power over people cult leaders, cops, and pseudoscientists would be the best examples I have for what type of powers I dislike due to their corruptive tendencies. But of a hard thing to describe since I don't think English quite has the words required, but I am mostly against undue influence over people be it due to lack of education, dishonesty, dishonorable conduct, etcetera etcetera.
Hard to think still I'm gonna nurse this headache and literal pain in the neck while thinking about how I need to get a bath rug so I don't slip again.
Oh no! I hope you feel better!
Hope I do to, have fucken work tomorrow and I actually enjoy it. I drive around in my 01 Tacoma and deliver produce boxes it's great.
Where do the produce boxes come from? Sourced from local farms?
More or less, the packing facility is out in Thermal California but I pick them up in Palm Springs. Anyways they change week by week season by season, though patatos and onions are basically constant more or less.