• The last angel@feddit.uk
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    17 hours ago

    Oh, I’m more of a pacifist, and someone on this platform recently convinced me that it’s kinda difficult to occupy the moral high ground while also laughing at jokes about killing the ‘right kind’ of people. It’s annoying, but if The Axis Of Evil are whipping up violent rhetoric about what a threat women / minorities/ experts / lefties / non conformists are, it wouldn’t really help to put up stickers about killing them.

    Bit counterproductive.

    (I absolutely reserve the right to keep proclaiming ‘eat the rich’ on a regular basis, because that’s not violence so much as a communal nourishment from the glorious circle of life).

    ‘Keep calm and convert nazis’ is more accurate, but it does sound a little like I’m pushing catholicism (weird) or the gay agenda (would be funny but best not encourage the delusion that sexuality is a choice). ‘Keep calm and re-educate / deradicalise / discourage’ also works, but gives the distressing impression that I’m aiming for more intelligent, moderate or temporarily glum nazis which, not really.

    ‘Keep calm and get off the internet’ would probably be the most helpful, concise message but somewhere between aspirational and hypocritical.

    ‘Keep calm and defend diversity’ captures the main problem with nazis, but it sounds a bit ‘placards and knitting’.

    I’m struggling to find much beyond ‘keep calm and eat the rich, the intolerant, and the men who seek to enfeeble other men by creating a dependance on thinking machines which inevitably lead the newly unthinking masses into the servitude of the men who made the machines’, say which point it may as well just say ‘Join The Butlerian Jihad, meetings Thursdays at 19:00’.

    Which actually works, but it is quite a long way from the original message.

    • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus
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      17 hours ago

      Nazis literally cannot be talked down. Its part of how they consume information. It’s really depressing–but once they hit critical mass there’s nothing to be done.

      “Keep calm and eat the rich” is also good. Keeps the original pattern. Love it.