@evan Given what Communists have done every single place they have come to power, hating Communists is an entirely reasonable position. If you look into Marx's life, there is something dark about him that has lived on in his movement.

One can understand supporting Pinochet or General Park on the basis of anti-Communism. Hitler, well, if you read Mein Kampf you'd know better, but most people didn't.

@evan FNORD

@evan I recently learned of the Dual State concept. The normative state and the prerogative state. The latter starts small and targets the most vulnerable and most-easily othered groups.

The normative state gets shrunk and the prerogative state grows.

Also related is Doctorow's shitty technology adoption curve (not related to enshittification).

@evan Being an antisemite wouldn't even put him outside the law. Would put him outside decency, but not the law.

There's a longer version here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came?wprov=sfla1