Jessie Gender's account on Bluesky suspended seemingly because she said "I also wish ill will to JK Rowling" https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zy7ifa3dmd46dcrbjkgkg2xz/post/3lwiszke4bk2x
Joining in to wish JK Rowling ill will here in solidarity https://bsky.app/profile/dustyweb.bsky.social/post/3lwjhfzebtk2i
I encourage everyone to wish ill will upon JK Rowling, here and, if you have a Bluesky account, please do so there as well. If you get suspended, please share that information here.
@Gnuxie I don't think it's an incitement to violence. I've never heard the phrase be that way. I think it's like a kind of curse-from-a-distance: I hope bad things befall you, that your luck turns against you, that you trip over tree roots from your own clumsiness and bad karma
JK Rowling, I curse you, from a distance. I will not personally harm you, because that's not the kind of person I am. But I wish you bad luck: that your bad karma eats at you, that your shows and books sell poorly, that your bad reputation catch up to you in the general public's eye.
And for the pedants like me who will point out the subtleties of fascism, I was specifically referring in that passage to people who worship the state and hope the authoritarians will take out your enemies. State worship, creating an US vs them mentality, and authoritarianism being three (but not the only three) elements of fascism.
Eventually, all you're free to say is "good morning. I love the regime. That is all."
We obviously aren't talking about a state here, but the core principle remains.
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I sometimes wonder if these people know who created the stage upon which they dance.
As my gran used to say, we should be careful what we wish for.
@katzenberger @cwebber Yes, that's me. I've known Kaliya for a long time and didn't know about her views on trans rights at that time.
@katzenberger I can confirm that @evan didn't know, since @evan and I talked about the situation, and Evan responded thoughtfully as information became available.
@sj_zero @cjd @cwebber "State worship, creating an US vs them mentality, and authoritarianism being three (but not the only three) elements of fascism."
Indeed, although which fascist or ""fascist" regimes in history didn't start out being a reaction to Communists and their Leftist fellow travelers having already created an existential "us vs. them" distinction and cold, warm or hot civil war?
Maybe Italy, I haven't studied its history enough....
@cwebber wow you mean this Jessie Gender? @jessiegender
Everyone follow her over here on the fedi
I just did.
I can wish ill of JK Rowling all day...
and I will
@sj_zero @cjd @cwebber Well, yes, but what happens when both sides are from offshoots of the French Revolution?
In the case of Germany, the Nazis would be a historical footnote without a solid decade and a half of Communist violence starting before their founding. As in, and maybe this is just a quibble, they didn't create the us vs. them framing of Germany society.
@cwebber I also wish ill will to JK Rowling. May all her works and all her fame and wealth disappear and may her damned name be forgotten.
If you think that your method of running the world is rationally, logically, empirically, and scientifically the obvious and correct way to run the world, then there's going to be an ideological coherence and unity among people, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to promote that ideology. It becomes a moral good to push your ideology. In that sense, if National Socialism came to pass without Bolshevik soviets to the east, it's probable that they would have been the aggressive hornet just the same.
Even liberalism (which is more enlightenment immediately before the modern period) has this problem, and so after it "won", it turned into neoconservatism which wanted to take over the world and install itself as the single correct ideology for planet Earth.
So you're not wrong, but modernism was always fated to die the way it did by ramming totalitarian ideologies against each other until they break, because that sort of epistemological arrogance and stupidity is built in. That will eventually result in totalitarianism and expansionist ideas because when you're convinced you've found the mathematically perfect way to live you have a duty to spread your mathematical truth.
@sj_zero @cjd @cwebber "The reason it matters is the common genetics of all modernist ideologies have something in common that they think they're rational, logical, and empirical. Socialism, national socialism and fascism all share that they think that they are scientifically the obvious way to run the world."
Per Jerry Pournelle, for his political science Ph.D. which was about his two axis chart that maps everyone uniquely, this turns out not to be true.
Per Wikipedia: "Conservatism, fascism, and Nazism are placed in the lower right-hand quadrant of high state control and low rationalism."
Per himself: "Fascism is irrationalist; it says so in its theoretical treatises. It appeals to "the greatness of the nation" or to the volk, and also to the fuhrer-prinzip, i.e., hero worship."
This is not something I've studied itself, but I remember the "flash of light" when I first read the above in the anthology book you see at the top of the link, he said that smaller series could be titled "There Will Be Politics" or something like the latter, compared to his starting earlier series "There Will Be War."
I think your thesis can be adjusted to account for this, you can still say all of these including the reactions as in counter-revolutions against Communist/Marxisim believe they have The One True Way as you say in the end of the above quote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart
https://web.archive.org/web/20050407204125/http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm
I never claim to be anything but a retard, but I like to try to be less retarded by learning more.
