yathrib » 07 Mar 2021 18:25 wrote:Maybe alternative views on this topic would have gained more of a hearing if most of the people propagating them didn't also believe in Jewish Space Lasers. There are only so many hours in the day, and when I hear the rest of the conspiracy crap, it pretty much nullifies anything the person said before or says after.
Another thing: If conspiracists are such critical thinkers (as they claim to be) why do they all believe without question in the same conspiracies, as if just trying to keep up with the trends in a sort of oneupsmanship? Example: some moronic fad like flat earthism. The next day, you can't find a "truther" who is willing to express doubts about the earth being pancake-shaped. The only thing that "truthers" disagree with each other on is which of them is a shill for (((them))).
Yeah! Because mandated small business closures, mandated school closures, mandated niqābs, mandated experimental vaccination, mandated curfews, mandated hazardous chemical disinfection, mandated isolation from family and friends (even during the holidays), the revocation of the right to assembly, the complete militarization of the US capitol, mandated prohibitions of basic human contact, mandated quarantines of perfectly healthy individuals, and mandated confinement in COVID wards in nursing homes with no visitation allowed are such anti-fascist policies.
Did you ever just consider the possibility that there is currently no coherent argument for any of these authoritarian mandates and that COVID hysteria and Trump Derangement Syndrome have warped your perspective (and that of most other "good liberals") to the point that you have decided that WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, AND AUTHORITARIANISM IS ANTI-FASCISM?
I mean, just look at your trenchant analysis above. It's basically straight out of the JREF handbook of guilt-by-association generalizations and castigations without a single shred of substance.
How in the hell does cheerleading perpetual martial law make you an anti-fascist? Because being against martial law cursorily aligns some of your views with those of some idiotic Trump supporters and we all need to be totally and reflexively against anything that those fascists support? Is that what now defines anti-fascism for you?
If not, what exactly is your argument?