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Written by NeonSnake on 2025-01-30 at 14:19

Some years back, the BBC in the UK used this as a backdrop for a story on Jeremy Corbyn:

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Written by NeonSnake on 2025-01-30 at 14:23

It's absolutely beyond reason to imagine that he wasn't being painted as some kind of Stalin-esque "off to the gulag with you!" type.

The relevant story was about the Salisbury poisonings, carried out by Russia, and the photo was from two years' earlier.

Clearly placed to show Corbyn as some kind of pinko-Stalin-pro-Putin-USSR-Marxist-Leninist stooge

(and if my conflation of terms is incoherent, welp)

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Written by NeonSnake on 2025-01-30 at 14:34

And yet.

We're currently watching a full-on fascist take-over in the US (and I don't use fascist lightly), with literal concentration camps, nazi salutes, and...fucking everything else (!)...and we're playing with "no, no, you're overreacting!"

If a vaguely left figurehead had pulled even a fraction of this, the right would be losing their shit about their "liberties", but no. It's fine, because the only people affected (LOL so far) are the people they don't like.

And we know who those people are, that they don't like. It's fucking simply "people who aren't like them".

I dunno, I'm no expert of fascism, but seems pretty fucking fascist to me, and if you're in the UK and 3/4 of your personality is "Me Nan used to make parachutes for Our Boys, and me Grandad was in the Navy until 1945, simple as, and me ovver Grandad spent the summer of 1940 desperately repairing Spitfires", I'd probably not be keen on excusing fascism anywhere.

But hey, what do I know?

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Toot

Written by NeonSnake on 2025-01-30 at 16:28

I mean, there's an option here: on one hand we want to go back to the 40s and 50s.

Okay, the sort of people who want that are also - largely - the sort of people who say shit like "sunlight is the best disinfectant!" when confronted with antifa, and are very against violence - either because they're centrist tea-sippers or because they know that they deserve the violence.

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Descendants

Written by NeonSnake on 2025-01-30 at 16:30

Which is, like, okay? Fine.

But I'm not sure you understand that I'm also okay with that, because before disinfectant was invented, what my dear old Nan did to get rid of germs or bacteria or whatever was to beat the ever-loving shit out of it

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Written by there is beauty in simplicity on 2025-01-30 at 16:40

@neonsnake and salt, lots of salt

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