Deaf/hard of hearing.

Guy who bullied me constantly, calling me slurs and all that. I swore I would take revenge, and broke his jaw. He pretty much stopped after that.

For people in the Netherlands and Belgium: Bol.com.

For elsewhere: AliExpress, Temu, Vinted (European).

For more specialised services:

Furniture: IKEA (Swedish)
Clothes: Zalando (German)
Food delivery: Jumia (German), HelloFresh (German).

Generally, it’s best to buy directly from the companies themselves. Buy from small or mid-sized companies. You’ll skip on the high prices that way, as there’s no markup. Additionally, since you are not one of millions of consumers - but one of a few hundred, they will care more about you.

I disagree. I’m very well off, cishet, white, fairly traditional – and would never consider living in the USA. It’s a country for and by egoistic people, not for families of all kinds. To me, it might as well be a fourth world banana republic, masking as a first world country.

From what I read the issues can give wildly differing results, though.

That said, I’d wage that if they played it accordingly to their own IRL beliefs, most normal people would fall anywhere inbetween these;

• Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
• Democratic Socialists
• New York Times Democracy
• Left-Leaning College State
• Civil Rights Lovefest
• Scandinavian Liberal Paradise* (really should be labelled “Scandinavian Social Democrat Paradise”)

The media are deeply insidious and dangerous. What needs to be done, is cutting off access to Twitter, to Facebook, to any of those media that sow hatred.

The only answer is to cut off the access to that hateful propaganda entirely.

They believe they are part of the ‘in-group’ rather than the out-group, which they actually are. It’s the tragedy of the commoners.

Extreme inequality, easy scapegoat, control of virtually most large media by a few oligarchs, algorithms, lack of education on recognising desinformation… they also think they’re part of the in-group rather than realising they will never be considered ‘one of them’ by the oligarchs.

The one answer is to cut off all hateful news from them, by any means possible.

I agree with you. Once a fascist and unwilling to change (even in the face of deradicalisation programs), always a fascist.

I pity them, but at the same time, reserve no compassion for those who would kill everyone.

I pity your dad. May he either turn back and no longer be a slave to fascism, or die as swiftly as possible.

There is no place in the world for fascism.

One can distinguish the two while adhering to neither.

Lol, no. Reactionaries violently upend and attempt to revert to medievalism, conservatism does nothing; the latter might as well be somewhat apathetic.

As I mentioned, the status quo. So basically the average Joe that doesn’t care much either way, isn’t gonna hate or support, but also not apathetic. Basically people who just want stability, not fascism (which is inherently unstable in that it perpetuates a state-led chaos and terror).

As for nature, the whole “X is UnNattural” is nonsense fabricated by religious fundamentalists, tbh. Nature is wilder than whatever they can cook up.

I’m not sure how effective that’ll be in the long-term though, if the less politically aware instances don’t block them, or don’t realise in time. They’ll attempt to chip bit by bit away.

I used to be one of those oldschool conservatives. I’m much more progressive now, but what I do think helps, is the following.

Fascists won’t listen to progressives. So what will pull them out of that black hole, is having them listen to more ‘boring’ people, but without the opportunity to overtalk them. Let fascists listen to normal views and don’t let fascists take over the discussion. Youtube videos with comments disabled, PDFs by anonymous authors, and so on, that can help.

The common man’s best ally is reaching out to the milquetoasts, and having the fascists listen to them and you while also not listening to them. Never yield to their beliefs; have a red line beyond which you won’t discuss with them. Use their own tactics against them.

I used to know one. Whenever they still wanted to discuss their batshit crazy views, I told them I declined discussing that stuff with them, and wouldn’t interact with them unless if they could shut up about that.

It usually worked (though not 100%), so I consider that a general-ish success.

Ah, a false appeal to a majority.

Yes, sometimes that majority can be wrong. If I don’t call for people to die horribly simply because they’re not allowed to abort, which would save their life, does it make me the problem? Or what with people who shout people should be murdered because they’re Jewish/Muslim/atheist whatever?

No, the problem lies with the oligarchs fueling that hatred.

Anyway, thanks for adding one to the block list!

It’s reactionary, not conservative. If they’d been conservative, they’d not actively try to revert the US back to the colonial age.

They’re not the same.

MAGAhats are exactly the same as those who defend loli. Just ask Trump and Epstein.

I think it’s completely fair to downvote Christian fundamentalists.

And what is that acronym stand for? There is no “kneejerk” when collective defederation, save for outright removing the instance, is the only sane method of kicking out fascists.