• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    Schrodinger’s Immigrant: simultaneously working hard, taking all the good jobs, buying all the real estate and also living on the streets, causing crime, and using all the social services.

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      Literally no. 8 on Umberto Eco’s 14 properties of fascism:

      1. Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
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      The social services, crime, and street-living is how they can afford all the houses, duh. I wish I could buy more houses, but I’m too rich for food stamps. 😭

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      Schrodinger’s Immigrant: simultaneously kicking them all out of the country and inviting more of them in because corporate party contributors really like desperate low wage workers

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    Keeping him in the public eye while Walz continues to be second chair. This is the nature of a demagogue.

    And it’s working. Please instead speak of Walz and his greatness.

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    …by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

    Classic fascist plays