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Written by Marc "Anarchy" Godin on 2025-02-01 at 12:19

A thing that gets missed in fascism discussions sometimes is that fascism is by design unevenly applied. There must always be doubt whether a rule applies or not, must always be doubt whether a new draconian law is feasible, must always be a doubt whether your routine trip to the government office will be successful, a failure, or land you in jail or the gallows.

When the rules are inconsistent, power decides, and that's all fascism wants, is power. The fascists love to have folks beg them to make an exception, love to be told they're kind and generous when they bend their own laws to let someone live. They adore hearing people be met with skepticism when they tell their friends how awful an experience was, and their friends say "Well, it wasn't that awful for me."

Don't expect efficiency or competence when dealing with a fascist government. It will NOT get better as the fascists settle in. The disparities are baked in, they're a feature not a bug.

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Written by Marc "Anarchy" Godin on 2025-02-01 at 12:23

This isn't just fascism, btw. I, a person with a disability who has been through the system, filled out forms, got my doctor to sign off on them, met with specialists, waited two years, etc etc etc can tell folks my experience and instantly be dismissed because my experience doesn't map easily onto their assumptions about how things work.

We were already there, but fascism in power will make this exponentially worse.

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Written by The Little Wars on 2025-02-01 at 12:22

@quietmarc I keep joking about writing a zine called "The Structurelessness of Tyranny" about this.

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Written by Marc "Anarchy" Godin on 2025-02-01 at 12:24

@Montaagge Bless this mess, indeed.

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Written by Anatol on 2025-02-01 at 17:31

@quietmarc "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

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Written by Free Leonard Peltier on 2025-02-01 at 20:53

@dngrs @quietmarc

~ Wilhoit's Law

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Written by Cassandrich on 2025-02-02 at 04:58

@quietmarc Reminds me of my answer here getting deleted (eventually restored) by asshat Stack Exchange mods: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48454/why-do-right-wing-parties-generally-oppose-the-legalization-of-marijuana/48474#48474

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Written by LisPi on 2025-02-02 at 06:32

@dalias @quietmarc > Further, the ability to get by with breaking the rule as long as you're one of the "in group" builds feelings of loyalty and unity.

To me this has always felt like unnecessarily providing blackmail/leverage. A major OPSEC failure.

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Written by αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎ on 2025-02-02 at 12:54

@quietmarc as arbitrary as possible, essentially

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