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@SuneAuken @Remittancegirl

The libidinal pleasure argument rings very true to me. One of the things I've often seen in people falling towards fascism is that they become annoyed at having to regulate their behaviour to fit in with others, and see it as an imposition. They are entitled, in their own minds, to behave as they please.

This combines closely with other entitled behaviours; for example young men in the incel-adjacent sphere often complain that they have to do a whole list of things to "get a girlfriend", regarding it not as a simple piece of mutual consent, but as society holding "their" girlfriend away from them until they jump through arbitrary hoops.

Someone on here once called Trump's policies "owning the libs as an ideology unto itself", and I think that's a good way of describing broader fascist behaviour. It's impulse driven, minute to minute, without a master plan of any sort.

@fishidwardrobe @thepoliticalcat @emory @Nonilex