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by zimza 452 days ago
Because tech and society, like everything else, is inherently political. Backdoors, surveillance, control. These are things fascist and proto-fascist societies try to achieve. And they are thriving as of late.
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Fascist behavior and actions aren't limited to the political right wing. Anyone can do it, you just choose to cherry pick the one you dislike under "fascism" and be OK with the fascist behavior that allies to your political views as being correct and justified.

Do you see any conservatives firebombing people's private property right now, or is it only the "tolerant left" doing it?

How much online free speech was censored under the leadership of the left in the years prior, all under the guise of "protecting free speech" and "creating safe spaces"?

One can abuse the "think of the children" emotional arguments to justify a lot of fascist totalitarian behavior and policies, all in the name of "good". Remember: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

> firebombing people's private property

So any destruction of private property due to political or ideological reasons is inherently "fascist"?

Anyway not that this justifies anything but wouldn't insurance pay for the destroyed Teslas? If so the terrorists are doing those people a service in an indirect since they would be able to buy a car they wouldn't have to be ashamed of driving anymore, so win-win (as long as nobody is harmed, there is no valuable stuff in the car etc.)

Vandalism by itself isn’t really a fascist action, so I’m not really sure what your point is.

However, it is my experience that people using the phrase “tolerant left” aren’t frequently interested in discussions grounded in reality.

People labeling everyone who disagrees with them as "fascists" or "right wing", aren't capable of any kind of discussion or rational thought.

It's my fault I got involved in the silly discussion in the first place since nobody starting a discussion with blaming "the right wing", is fully allright in the head. We closed down the asylums, and so they moved online.

Why do you think they label everything they disagree with fascist, not just some things? You only have one example of a thing which they disagree with, and labeled fascist. You are arguing against something someone didn't actually say (a.k.a. a straw man).
> We closed down the asylums, and so they moved online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_bla...

> Fascist behavior and actions aren't limited to the political right wing.

Fascism is a right-wing political ideology, not a set of personal/non-governmental behaviors and actions.

So while this is a series of words that grammatically forms of a structurally valid sentence, it doesn't actually have any meaning.

It has a meaning. Fascist behaviour and actions are the behaviour and actions of fascists.
now we have president and his apostoles publicly calling on journalists to be jailed. “free speech” for right means “only shit we want to hear” and for left means “you can’t really say shit that entices violence and is blatantly false” neither of course is “right” but as you initially stated this shouldn’t be political and then you proceeded to politicize it fully :)
fascist behaviour is right wing by definition.