I don't know much, but I have seen it in both anarchism and Eurasianism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_of_Chaos
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Well millions of people arrive to watch Lenin sleep, it's only fair.
Neo-nazis have a long history of promoting online. I think it's the case especially since it's hard for them to do regular propaganda IRL without getting beaten up, and it gives them easy access to alienated young people (this is not a new development). I don't use TikTok so I don't know if there's anything special about that platform beyond being hip and widely-used.
I also think an aspect is that the online world is (still) a refuge for those unable to express themselves in public. It's no secret that even among the right-wing, neo-Nazis are controversial, I saw a video posted on Lemmy today of an Australian antifascist YouTuber talking about how neo-Nazis organized a cryptofascist nationalist march and still faced some resistance from attendees once their mask-off speakers took stage, using plainclothes plants to try and get others to cheer and still getting shut down in their own rally in one of the cities. So online is really the only place they can freely express themselves without having to invite a whole violent crew to protect them.
I gotta delete my acc like jfc I just wanted to watch stupid videos while shitting.
Good move. Social media is bad enough (yes, even the online left) but mainstream social media is an addictive-by-design clown show.
A government or state, like a corporation, will always act in its own best interest.
I can't think of any human structure, or any person, who doesn't tend to act in their own perceived best interest. The issue is when self interest contradicts mutual interest.
Self-interest is an important concept in understanding why capitalist corporations are consistently antisocial and why most states act against their citizens, but self-interest isn't a reason in itself.
It was just called thoughts before governments weaponized it.
Government propaganda definitely predates the modern English language. e.g. Roman Empire
He literally was just some guy.
On one hand, to Europe they were just some guy. True.
On the other, they were the co-founder and CEO of a political influencer operation so influential that the US President and their party are doing all this crap to honor them. Kirk is responsible for radicalizing many people into real violence.
I don’t think many anti-capitalists suggest abolishing currency entirely.
Why don't you think that? You're right that abolishing currency isn't implied by abolishing capitalism, but plenty of anti-capitalists advocate for eventually abolishing money in any form (I assume that's what you mean by abolishing currency, although there are other interpretations), and some others advocate to abolish it as soon as possible (I believe, although I can't prove right now, that many intentional communities/communes have done this).
Communism's long-term aim is ultimately to create a communist society. That is, a public, stateless, classless, moneyless society - goods are distributed by need rather than for wealth.
We don’t want people filling swimming pools with cheese and diving into it.
I actually had to check to make sure some e-celeb hadn't done this stunt for content. I don't think currency is what stops people from doing that, just like how for-profit healthcare systems aren't what's keeping people from injuring themselves.
Worrying about any kind of surveillance is pointless if you dont leave your ph9ne at home every day.
It's not quite as simple as that. The overall point has truth, but one can still use a phone and reduce surveillance, especially if you're just trying to avoid surveillance capitalism or police surveillance at certain times (e.g. protests). Privacy isn't binary. Security isn't binary.
No spoilers and punchlines in the title pls!
You should unironically read Mein Kampf though, at least once
The funny thing about that book is if you tell a neo-Nazi you've read it and have a criticism, they'll immediately ask which translation and claim most of them are a "Jewish trick".
Olivier Mannoni, who translated the 2021 French critical edition, said about the original German text that it was "An incoherent soup, one could become half-mad translating it", and said that previous translations had corrected the language, giving the false impression that Hitler was a "cultured man" with "coherent and grammatically correct reasoning". He added "To me, making this text elegant is a crime." [snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Criticism_by_translators
A while ago, I noticed that some leaders of M-L AES states had authored many theoretical books, articles and essays^[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_bibliography] ^[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#Writings_and_calligraphy] while I hadn't really seen this occur in liberal democracies.
If we include ghostwriters (and if you like Xi's works, then you should), Donald Trump may in fact be the most prolific author of the White House leadership.
Depends on your instance and the community you're posting in.
For example, on lemmy.world a user might get warned or banned for openly celebrating the shooting of Brian Thompson. (I forget exactly where they draw the line, but it's an "advocating violence" thing)
Or here, a user on lemmy.ml might get banned for bigoted statements, even normal things that plenty of people don't even notice are bigoted because it's "common sense" in their own country.
But you've got to be pretty damn intolerable to get banned from more than a few instances. Like, actual Nazism.