[o1inventor]

Spend a decade crying wolf or "muh fascists" at every little thing we disagree with, and suddenly everyone is surprised when the public tunes it out and we get fascists.

"who made you this way?"

"you did."

- american politics circa 2025

[piperswe]

I mean, the fascists today are basically the same people as the fascists 10 years ago. It wasn't crying wolf, it was seeing what was going to happen in the future.

[o1inventor]

If I tell a young black man he is gonna grow up to be a criminal, that makes him more likely to grow up to become a criminal.

Especially if I refuse to debate him and instead hurl insults at him and viciously deride him.

The same is true of the ordinary and the middle-of-the-road people when it comes to fascism.

The best way to create fascists is to attack and histrionically go after non-fascists and demand they conform to our way of thought.

Just being left-wing and going after people out of disgust over their opinions, I've accidentally alienated more people and created more fascists than any of these limp-wrist right-wing conservatives could ever hope to create.

I only realized it years later.

Radicalism begets radicalism.