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I’ll never understand the appeal of nazism.
It provides easy targets for all frustration and anger people have.
I just don’t understand how they can’t see that the people that benefit the most from the system are the people making it awful and trying to keep them from targeting them.
I mean even when I was young and conservative (because I had no fucking clue about anything) I always knew it was the ultra rich that were the issue.
Ultra rich are the problem AND they usually support nazis at least indirectly.. because it's just too convenient to have the poor blame other poor for the enshittification of the society.
Weak people need a strongman, they love boot leather
Also simple solutions and scapegoats to complex issues. Elite is safer when the people fight each other
Hate is addictive because it releases Dopamin. And if your hate doesn't get checked and countered, then you'll grow to like this feeling.
Same appeal as other forms of extremism. You get a set of enemies to blame for everything wrong with the world. You can hate them and feel justified for it. You get simple solutions to complicated problems. You're in the know, while ordinary people are being manipulated by some evil elite.
I do t like lumping all extremism into the same boats, because they’re drastically different. Nazi extremism is not the same as Bolshevik extremism, taliban extremists are not the same as anarchist extremists, and there are situations where the label “extremism” is applied to oppressed people trying to change things or face annihilation with the only means left open to them, and then there’s racist pricks who just don’t like black people and non Christian’s. There’s rich people who don’t want the poor to have any sort of quality of life, and there are poor people who just want to feed their families. It’s fucked.
Recently it turned out this fella has lied about his education and work past. Turned out instead of masters on goverment studies, he signed up on open university but never finnished a single course.
Nazis are bad at thinking. Not surprising.