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Any politics anywhere in the world. Inevitably it'll be 99% US stuff, but that's not a rule.

This community works differently to how most politics communities work. It has strict rules designed to facilitate productive discussion. You can be rude, to a point, but you can't participate in bad faith:

The idea is to make the discussion productive. Let's see how it works. Maybe this is a fool's errand but IDK how any set of moderation could be worse than lemmy.world.

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[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Democracy should not hand out its tools to parties who want to use them to actively dismantle it. We've seen where that leads to.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, is there any evidence at all that defensive democracy actually works? Given the strength of the far right all over Europe I'm not convinced that it does.

[–] MountainVeil@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's an ongoing experiment, but we know for sure that the alternative of letting the anti-democratic party win and rule does not work out.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

False dichotomy. It could be that the solution to fascism can't be found in institutions run by rich elites.

[–] MountainVeil@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't present a dichotomy, actually. What is your solution then?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Short answer: Labor organization. Long answer: Organize the working class and force the elites to make the concessions necessary to solve the problems giving rise to fascism in the first place.

[–] A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

The paradox of tolerance.

If you allow people to participate in civilized society when they don't believe in the foundations of civilized society then they will destroy civilized society.

Fuck Nazis. Quit defending them.