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currently chewing on this thread. think there's some lessons to be extracted here by the US left.

And credit to him, it worked. A sort of digital levee en masse, literally raising an army to counteract the forces that artificially amplify far-right messaging. He did that through organizing and messaging, both on the streets and online, that was so relentless that he put himself in the hospital.

Asinus Pervicax

@knownagitator.lol

like this? this is the whole logic of deplatforming, en toto. if you were wondering why center-right liberals and blackshirts were horrified by deplatforming as a strategy and quailed about 'cancel culture', this is why: because it works.

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

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Asinus Pervicax

@knownagitator.lol

23h

if reasoned debate and logic beat back the scum, Otto Wels would have done the job in 1933 in the Reichstag. but most of y'all don't know who Otto Wels is for a reason.