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[–] pr0xy_prime@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Strange, "Fuentes" don't seem like a WHITE name for a white supremacist. I wonder how the ACTUAL white white supremacist feel about that..... Also, fuck that racist piece of offal!

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There was a firewall? The Heritage Foundation was already the nazi bar. The surprising thing is that a bunch of staffers didn't know that.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yep. I was worried this was coming years ago, and here we are. The next generation of young men both here in the US and abroad will have a large proportion of fascists.

Fighting this ideology is more important than fighting Trump or any individual authoritarian on its own. Encourage empathy and community wherever you are, especially among young children. Strongly condemn fascism wherever you are able. And shame Nick Fuentes and his ilk relentlessly. Let them never sleep.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Encourage empathy and community wherever you are, especially among young children. Strongly condemn fascism wherever you are able.

This is like paper straws...

Sure it'll help.

But the real problem is ~30 years ago No Child Left Behind strip everything that wasn't STEM out of public schools and focused on standardized testing.

Schools are what are supposed to socialize the next generation into well adjusted adults. But we've stopped doing that for so long people can't even connect that to why there's "suddenly" a bunch of angry young adults who can't do critical thinking or empathize with others...

Just like ke climate change there's no switch to flip and fix it immediately. Prior generations took a long time off, and it'll take a long time to fix.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

They don't even teach money management or personal finance. When I was in school the HomeEc teacher taught everybody how to at least balance a budget, along with cooking and sewing. I remember being annoyed that they didn't go into any kind of investment management.

Almost 4 decades later and kids get none of that.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmmm.

My thoughts are that once Trump picks a fight in some backwater country and starts a war and hits these same angry young men with a draft, you'll likely see a lot of them changing their tune.

School is one thing, but the culture of the last 30 years has been decidedly tilted towards being cautious and wary of risk.

Right now, they think it's cool to be tough and callous about life and since most of the men that actually fought fascism are now dead, this is when generational amnesia takes over. It was inevitable we'd swing in this direction.

How far it goes before the hot young things see the actual costs of this political viewpoint - and start paying it themselves, is the question of the day..

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There won't ever be a draft unless it's a real war with China or equivalent. The US won Iraq without a draft.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm not sanguine qbout that. Young men are still required to register with Selective Service to this day

When that requirement is gone, I'll believe that a draft isn't a possiblility.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I relate to this way too much. Spot on

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

It's all the hyper focus on capitalism...

If something didn't generate capital, it got cut out of schools.

50 years ago the highest tech you got was maybe a typing course for a semester.

Think of how much we need to teach a kid today compared to 1975, the solution has always been lengthening public free education, but instead we chopped out everything that took kids (all kids are psychopaths) and spit out adults who could function and cooperate in their society.

The worst part is fixing it is like planting a shade tree. 20 years from now we'll have them, but there's always going to be the gap where some areas don't have mature trees.

We created another MAGA, even if we pull them left, the normal effects of aging will turn them into ahitheads again when they're 65+

[–] MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's just until they figure out he is into dudes.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every time I read this comment, I misremember him as the dude who unintentionally jacked it to gay porn on stream. What’d Fuentes do again?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Groypers. He did groypers.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ugh, I can’t even internally categorize them as gay. They’re genuinely rapacious sexual deviant terrorists.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I agree. Nick Fuentes should have been aborted.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 week ago

They don't call it gay either. But it is. And that's (sexuality) fine, just reckon with it.

He was caught looking at femboy porn, which good tastes aside is seen as peak gay shit if you don't mind some old 4chan tier terminology. Regardless the pissant is in the closet to some degree, whether he knows and is doing it on purpose is anyone's bet. Also I think he did something weird with one of his followers so take that as you will. Regardless he is as my friend put it a weird Nazi Hispanic twink, which is so many modifiers someone will probably hate crime him for shits and giggles.

[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Also rumored to have been with Destiny.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uh, was he ever really outside the radical right wing extremists?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The less far right types used to embrace him in private. That they're now doing it openly representa a big change in the kinds of policy they're willing to implement.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 12 points 1 week ago

They need a fresher since Chuck ate one for the team.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago