Gotta hold onto that power somehow

I have seen that in a civ game....
Didnt end well.
- In my experience, late game domination runs don't end well
Fuuuck these are some saucy memes

Not even tough... just like... slightly inconvenient

Things aren't tough yet. Wait until the effects if climate change absolutely destroy our shore lines, food and water supply, etc.

How is fascism a result of capitalism? It would exist just the same way without capitalism.

- I mean, yes, but you should understand that when the creator of this meme wrote "capitalism" they really meant "liberalism" but didn't want to scare the normies.
  It's not just about the ruling class, it's about uncertainty leading people to look for "strongmen" to provide direction and certainty, no matter how false it is, creating the popular support needed to overthrow democratic institutions.
- Still doesn't make much sense, fascism is a populist movement.
  It would make way more sense if it said Feudalism instead. Keep the peasants in line with your armed militia class, eventually murder-robots. The peasants might be miserable, but they're going to work the land because that's they're only choice to survive.
Neoliberalism is agnostic to the form of government so long as profit keeps moving. Business is still done in the worst countries. And that keeps capital voting with their wallets for an increase in evil.
While fascism can exist without capitalism. when an unrecoverable economic crisis happens under a capitalist country and the system is not challenged, instead minorities like jewish people or immigrants take the blame
- I dont think that is generally true. It may have happened in the past and may also happen in the US, but the opposite can happen with people turning to socialism like in many countries. In times of crisis people turn to extremes, but that doesnt mean it has to be fascism.

Yeah this meme is really stupid. I'm anti-Capitalism, but fascism doesn't not do all that well in free markets. Nazis get deplatformed, demonetized. If you have money and influence, outing yourself as a Nazi is career suicide.
Fascism flourishes under a populist authoritarian leader, an obsession with national identity and the state, fear of an external boogieman, and a feeling that you've been oppressed but you're about to get the reward you deserve.
- Hitler was defeated on the market place of ideas

When you can be brainwashed that times are tough by a news organization...

Over 11,000 people died last week because of a cyclone, and they are investigating hundreds of deaths in phoenix from the heat.

Snowflakes: block CyberGhost's lefty posting OP: Bitches, you thought?

Who is cyberghost?
- Idk but I think you do 😉

When wearing a mask from time to time for a few months in certain places is your life’s persecution story you know you’re a spoiled diva.
Only one variant had mask requirements btw. And it was while millions of people were dying and out hospitals were at max capacity, and people without Covid couldn’t get basic treatment.
But POOR YOU.
You’ve got the right to swing your fist as long as it doesn’t end up in someone’s face. Is that also fascism?
Normal people have already forgot about covid
- Ukraine war really ended the whole thing, feels like.

I have to applaud David Nolan on some next level marketing for this one.
He invented the predecessor of that chart as a way to promote libertarianism. It's very clever in how subtly it introduces a loaded question.
The phrasing asks the viewer to consider if they want more or less political freedom and if they want more or less economic freedom. Obviously, most people want more freedom. Therefore Libertarianism is the best form of government. QED!
But that makes two big assumptions that are almost certainly incorrect:
It assumes that choice of government is entirely, or at least predominantly, determined by your views on economic and social regulations. Questions of military, legal process, environmental policy, etc are all either irrelevant or can be entirely described within the economic and social regulation factors. That doesn't even pass the sniff test. If two people agree that they want social and economic freedom, do we really believe that they necessarily have identical political beliefs? No, because we know that in real life they'll define those freedoms differently.
It assumes that complex topics such as economics and social regulation can be entirely described on a single axis of “more vs less". If you look at the disagreements that people actually have, it's almost always about the types of regulations, not on the degree of regulation.
It's a little frustrating that unabashed marketing is so frequently trotted out as though it were an established fact.
You keep saying that word...