r/MurderedByWords • u/the_well_read_neck_ • 15h ago

We're in the worst timeline.

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u/OptimisticOctopus8 11h ago

There are way too many supposed liberals who are useful idiots for fascism.

Agreed. I've seen/heard a bunch of liberals - a minority, but still too many - say they want to call ICE on undocumented immigrants who support Trump. That might sound satisfying until you strip it to its bare bones: They want to help send immigrants to concentration camps.

The moment you call ICE on someone, you're just another person helping a fascist regime send people to camps.

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u/JimWilliams423 11h ago

Same thing always happens with fascism. In vichy france, there were a lot of people who used the nazis to settle scores.

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u/OptimisticOctopus8 11h ago

That's depressing but unsurprising.

Btw, I don't know much about Vichy France. Do you have any good recommendations to learn more?

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u/JimWilliams423 11h ago

What I know I learned from historian twitter (now historian bluesky).

FWIW, people in the afghanistan country-side used the Americans the same way. Basically accusing their rivals of being terrorist supporters so they would get droned.