• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “Libertarian” became popular in the US when it started being incorporated into various science fiction novels.

    They got their que from right-wing economic grifters like Rothbard and Hayek - people whose beliefs wouldn’t be out of place in Nazi Germany. That’s why olden days US sci-fi writing was a festering hole of fascism - nothing else could have produced people like Heinlein.

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      6 months ago

      Heinlein was a huge friend to Philip K. Dick, and any number of Jewish science fiction writers. He was one of the first writers to have an African woman as a hero, one of the first to have a transman character. Stop using the word ‘fascist’ for anyone on the Right. It dilutes the term.

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        6 months ago

        and any number of Jewish science fiction writers.

        And?

        He was one of the first writers to have an African woman

        And?

        one of the first to have a transman character.

        Again… and?

        Stop using the word ‘fascist’ for anyone on the Right. It dilutes the term.

        All right-wingers walk the same path. If you write fascist drivel, you are a fascist. Heinlein was a fascist. Stop making excuses for him.

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                6 months ago

                No, really, liberal - where the fuck do you see anything that can be called left with a straight face contesting anything in the formal political establishment?

                Or is it just that you got your cartoonish and Reagen-esque idea of what left and right even means from hysterical liberals and fascists on CNN and Fox news?

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                  6 months ago

                  If you can’t win an argument without using foul language, you probably don’t have many good ideas.

                  Bye bye.

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                  6 months ago

                  Dawg, you just fabricated your idea of what the other dude thinks in that second paragraph. Touch grass, call someone, go outside.

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                    6 months ago

                    Dawg

                    We are not close enough for endearments.

                    you just fabricated your idea of what the other dude thinks in that second paragraph.

                    No, I didn’t. If you think there’s anything “leftist” about the formal political establishment it indicates a very specific form of brain-rot that is childishly easy to trace to the mass misrepresentation of political concepts one can easily find simply by turning on a television. Both liberals and their fascist fellow-travellers suffer from this brain-rot… and it’s symptoms are perfectly predictable.

                    Not all that difficult to understand, no?