I wonder if one day an ostensibly centre-left major party in the Anglosphere will consider trying to counter fascists by saying fascism is wrong and should be opposed, rather than by saying "they're right and we agree with them"? Seems to me that might be an idea. - ThreadSky

andrewhickey.500songs.com • 22 days ago

I wonder if one day an ostensibly centre-left major party in the Anglosphere will consider trying to counter fascists by saying fascism is wrong and should be opposed, rather than by saying "they're right and we agree with them"?
Seems to me that might be an idea.

Reposted from Lee Hurley

"Today Starmer will attempt to counter Farage’s party with a series of hardhitting videos on immigration. The party has also run adverts with Reform-style branding and messaging." Times

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thasceles.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've been trying to remember recently what the last adventure film was where the hero(es) fought Nazis. There was the first 10 minutes of last year's Indiana Jones film. Before that - the first Captain America film? Tarentino's Inglorious Basterds?

variousvarieties.bsky.social•20 days ago

These weren't exactly major blockbusters, but the most recent that come to mind are Sisu (2022 - about a Finnish John Wick/Nobody killing lots of Nazis in creatively gory ways) and last year's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

thasceles.bsky.social•20 days ago

Good point. I think Ministry was meant to be a blockbuster, but never caught the attention.

stuartdouglas.bsky.social•20 days ago

For good reason. Worst film I've seen in *years*.

thasceles.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wasn't great, was it?

loreandordure.com•22 days ago

Seems like it might be worth trying, huh?

andrewr.bsky.social•22 days ago

Some actual Labour policies might be nice.

loreandordure.com•22 days ago

That too!

andrewr.bsky.social•22 days ago

The British Labour Party, and their Federal Canadian counterparts, the NDP, have been hugely disappointing.

andrewhickey.500songs.com•22 days ago

I mean, to be fair, this *is* actual Labour policies. The last time the Labour party in government was remotely left-liberal was the first Wilson administration (before Wilson moved Roy Jenkins and Jim Callaghan into different jobs for which they were far less suited in late 67)

stuartdouglas.bsky.social•20 days ago

Linked to this, it's so very strange to be watching a dictatorship taking the place of democracy and the rule of law in real time in America, when we've only ever seen it in sci-fi books up until now.

But it's even stranger that nobody in opposition seems all that bothered.

orionkidder.bsky.social•22 days ago

Centre-left parties today are just conservatives who occasionally say nice things about gay people.

commoner.bsky.social•21 days ago

Clearly not a centre-left party any more.

sylvie-62.bsky.social•22 days ago

If only. Sadly, McSweeney’s Labour Party is morally weak, pro-oligarch, pro-wealth extraction, authoritarian. No sense of history. Refer Chile under Pinochet for the arc of maintaining extreme neoliberalism. Refer Christian Democrats in 1930s Germany for trying to outflank the right from the centre.

dalesmithonline.com•22 days ago

I think after all this time, we might have to consider the idea that they do agree with them.

michaelsharris.bsky.social•21 days ago

#crazytalk

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