Oh, but they're just fascists because of economic anxiety. It's understandable that they're rent is high, so now they want to throw brown and queer people in a meat grinder 😢

We need to remind them how happy they were during the new deal (funded through the birth of American global dominance) when black people were famously excluded from those benefits and Japanese people were in internment camps!

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago

I think the new deal policies that improved people's living and working conditions could still work without global dominance or racial exclusions. Weather or not the US or whatever succeeds it can be pushed to do that is another matter...

And I don't really think of chuds as outright fascists. They hold conservatives beliefs, but when you only look at their actions, they become indistinguishable from liberals (or any other broad group of americans). Yes, there's potential for them to be radicalized into fascism (and that's where a lot of the selective pressure currently is) but they're not necessarily there yet. It's why I'm pushing back against this "Round up the chuds!" narrative. People who actually hold and act on violent positions on race, sexuality, and/or gender are another matter altogether.