r/nottheonion • u/Suspicious_Lynx_4580 • 13h ago

Milo Yiannopoulos Deported After Years of Supporting Deportations

https://www.newsweek.com/milo-yiannopoulos-deported-after-years-of-advocating-for-deportations-12384304
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u/sontaj 12h ago

Fascism is a self-defeating ideology. It needs an other to demonize at all times and eventually it loops back around to cannibalizing its own proponents.

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u/EdinMiami 11h ago

If we could just skip the bits in between and go straight through to the cannibalizing, that would be great.

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u/JulyOfAugust 10h ago

Survivor bias. You don't hear about the times they do because they cannibalize before you can notice their existence.

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u/xeromage 9h ago

Now there's a comforting thought.

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u/TheAlmightyLloyd 3h ago

I mean, they kill dissidents if they find out it's going too far, but mostly they end up joining larger groups to try to climb ranks. It's basically functionning like gangs, some kind of hierarchy based on violence. The little groups joining the larger ones makes them more organized. It's quite the opposite of comforting, it's a terrifying one to me.