• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    One thing that I’ve realized: Fascism is not strictly top down. It’s also bottom up. It’s the people on every rung (police, courts, whatever) that act on his behalf without being directly ordered.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah it’s a weird concept called voluntary servitude, Étienne de La Boétie que about that in 1577.

      Somehow people seem fond of the idea of a big leader.

      I saw a lemmygrad post in which a college student was wondering if he should report a Chinese Co Ed that has said some things about xi to the Chinese government. It’s wonderful