I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I’m now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.
I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:
"Humans, and some other biological life forms, are just a bunch consciousness’s riding a path of physical entropy.”
if this were true, fascism isn’t an evil ideology, it’s just a thing that happens and is neither good nor bad.
Its bad because Fascism causes pain and suffering. It causes death. As a policy, it makes existence worse. Fascism itself is largely its own system driven entirely by irrational and emotional thinking and catharsis of demographics with power. Its a threat response that justifies itself with a mystic ideology of a chosen or special group, one that “deserves” to be in charge over others and to dominate.
Further, “Will” is a big thing with fascists.
I don’t oppose fascism because the fascists lack virtuousness or are bad people. Why would I give a shit about that? I oppose fascism because of the consequences of fascism. I oppose fascists being tolerated because it can lead to fascism, not because I want them to suffer for their bad fascist thoughts.
I do also want to say: catharsis and the perception of having will power for one’s self are not in of them selves bad things. “Making choices” feels good, and I want people to feel good. And another thing fascism does is deprive people of their agency (which is not the same as free will btw). It deprives them of their perception of freedom.
Like I’ve said, I only care about consequences, because that’s the only rational thing to care about.
>I oppose fascists being tolerated because it can lead to fascism
but you can’t choose whether you oppose it. your opposition, according to you, is just an emotion you feel as you ride your meat suit to the grave. and fascists can’t choose whether to be fascist. and the very act of toleration can have no will behind it, so it can also not be good or evil.
It can be bad because I think its bad.
I’ll admit, when I discuss morality in other context’s (especially lately as I’ve lost my patience) I’ll use the word “evil”. In reality though, the word I mean is “bad” but with an extreme emotionally charged intensity.
I don’t believe in “good” in the sense of divinity, the word “evil” is opposite of divinity. Divine vs Evil is mysticism.
I do however believe in good things and bad things. Technically subjective, but objectively they are things contained with in human minds. Positive and negative experiences and consequences. Good things are things we want and need. Bad things are things we avoid and hurt. This applies to us individually and collectively.
So sure, I don’t believe in divine vs evil. I only believe in good vs bad.
it can’t be bad if it’s just a natural phenomenon like gravity. it just is.
As said in another response, “bad” is subjective. But its also objectively a commonality conceptually in the human mind, as it has evolved. “Bad” just is.