It’s human nature to trust strongmen, but we’ve also evolved the tools to resist them
    • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      I only trust physically weak men who have a complex and nuanced view of things and have a hard time making decisions.

          • andybytesEnglish
            14·
            3 days ago

            Well, considering both the left and the right are self-dealing pieces of shit, I would rather have a clueless pot head than an ambitious asshole. I’m a libertarian socialist. Everything I want to do to empower myself is illegal. Death to the Empire

    • will@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      Word. Also it’s not even remotely true, as history, anthropology and archaeology have all shown us.

  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    394·
    3 days ago

    The fuck do you mean ‘we’?

    Just because you fucking suck at judging character doesn’t mean I do. The moment someone starts exhibiting fascist behavior, I just assume they’re a fascist, not just some billionaire crybaby blaming his asbergers.

    I fucking swear when law and order breaks down, I will not consider the media a neutral force.

    Eat my entire ass guardian.

    • andybytesEnglish
      94·
      3 days ago

      Neoliberalism is a right-wing ideology. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. America is an imperialist empire.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      “We” being the collective “us”.

      “We” always behaves differently than “I” do. That’s kind of the point.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    During desperate times, yes.

    Hence why all fascists need a bogeyman.

    If we were invaded by aliens and had to fight an epic war, then having the military be in charge would probably increase our odds.

    It’s as if humans have an emergency override mode that was critical in the past but some people have figured out they could take advantage of it.

    Naturally, the solution is education, so you don’t fall for attempts of power grab, hence the book burning.

    • andybytesEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      Failing capitalist societies, especially in the first world even though we’re considered a developing country now., will turn fascistic in nature, and fascist are the useful idiots of empire.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Hardwired? No.

    Victims of a decades long plot to erode civic education and demonize critical thinking in order to render a population of stupid voters? Yes.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Our ancient ancestors, like most primates today, lived in groups dominated by violent and aggressive alpha males. Yet over the course of our biological and cultural evolution, unlike our primate cousins, we learned to work together to counter those bullyboys, organising to diminish their influence.

    Yeah, that’s true, if you ignore essentially ALL of human history, in which violence and aggression were ever present, as was social hierarchy, that almost exclusively had a single male sovereign at the top.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    74·
    3 days ago

    Basically yes. Vertical organization is the default fallback to organize ourself in groups, since it worked mostly fine in the groups of up to 150 people for most of our evolution.

  • Limcon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I think not, it’s about political systems, power distribution and about the “elite” thinking about what they gain from it. Mussolini, Trump, Hitler, Sulla, etc, all have in common is that the rich people get richer, while destroying progress for the lower classes.

  • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
    412·
    3 days ago

    More propaganda… We have never had a more Authoritarian power as the Western ‘liberal/Globalist’ power. But they apparently have a lot of success convincing uneducated people that THEY are freedom/democracy, while anyone else is ‘Dictators’ and ‘Evil’. Childish and sad…

    Trump have the exact same policies as everyone before him - not more, or less 'Authoritarian than all the DEMS that did exactly the same as Trump. All ordinary people should really include some criticism of Liberalism/Globalism, and follow criticism of the Empire known as ‘The Empire of Lies’ (not without reason).

    For those that have started to sense the cracks in the Western Narrative, maybe that Russia and China seem to be fine countries, and are interested in understanding what is happening in the world, start by watching Brian Berletic on Youtube. The rest will follow…