oh yeah no it wasn't material conditions of mass poverty/exploitation and general loss of faith in current governance to solve the systemic issues underlying society it was the Great Man that did the thing ooo the big spooky great man ooooo
final assignment in this class thank fucking god
literally backwards causality
those things don't happen because of populist leaders, populist leaders get elected because people see that shit happening and a populist message sounds appealing as a solution
liberals are the biggest fucking morons i stg
Nazi Germany happened because Hitler was just that skilled a public speaker there was no people being disilusioned and due to the first world war used to the idea of violence as a solution to problems.
there was just this evil guy with 10 points in charisma
Tyranny is when someone in power actually addresses the problems in society.
I mean sometimes that does happen but that's a matter of their solution to the contradictions not the contradictions proper.
The ultimate power move. You can even quote this chomsky bit which predicts trump 7 years in advance. Link
every time you post about his class i get shivers down my spine, I can't believe academics are this fucking stupid (i mean i can but come on) :spongebob-party:
A lot of them aren't. This prof is particularly egregious. RateMyProfessor is a vital tool for navigating college.
Yeah most of my professors in college were cool. I did take a international relations class as an elective, taught by some neolib ghoul, which was not fun at all.
Can you talk to your dean? Because like, even libs should know that is factually incorrect, you have plenty of examples in pre-fascist Germany, Italy, and Spain to contest that?
Deans are incredibly predictable:
-“Will this issue possibly result in bad press for the university?”
If no: do nothing
If yes: try to limit any bad press. And maybe, just maybe consider addressing the issue if absolutely necessary*
*if this is a matter of capital (e.g. having billions of dollars invested in fossil fuels/etc) then make no change is the only option
any dealing with problems which is primarily concerned with reputational damage is going to include a lot of willingness to cover things up
hence the absolute state of police anti corruption efforts
Usually I'd say argue with the professor because here they fucking love that but I feel this guy is so libchud (a word I just now made up I'm on my 3rd wine its not my fault) that would be a bad idea
Yeah fascism begins when there's tribalism and people stop saluting the flag. What we need is more apple pie and baseball.
Fascism doesn't start when capitalists panic and suspend the illusion of democracy
at this point, i can look at a post and go "damn, bet whyesseff posted that shit" and be right 9/10 times
these people literally think that no one in rural america flet left behind by neoliberalism and the new financial economy until Trump suggested it to them
People in the rust belt will just tell you that they would never vote for Clinton bc of NAFTA. It was that simple.
oh it STARTS with the election of the Bad Man? that's when it STARTS? there's nothing that happens before that? people have complete faith in the managers and institutions where power concentrates, so they elect a populist for no reason, and then suddenly things get bad? democracy is functioning just fine and it randomly just commits suicide?
yeah it's like how completely functional systems normally just break for no reason with no causes
remember, the only way to END Bad Man's reign of tyranny is to :vote:
FUCK. FUCK! YOUR CLASS IS BASICALLY THE SCENE FROM WRATH OF KHAN WHERE THEY PUT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN
Where actually is this true even within liberal ideology?
Like look at the classic "authoritarian" states, when is this true?
Is Tsar Nicholas or Kerensky populist leaders?
Which Weimar leader is a populist before Hitler?
Was the Italian king a populist leader before Mussolini? Or Luigi Facta?
