DessertStorms

Good for them for taking a stand against consumerism, but their personal shopping habits (even collectively, they equal less than a drop in an ocean) aren't going to change neither climate change, nor inflation.

This idea that "every little helps" is just more of the same "personal responsibility" those who are actually responsible but refuse to be held accountable push on to the rest of the population to distract us from their own actions.

The only way to fight climate change (and be rid of the artificial concept that is inflation, which is there solely to make the rich richer) is by removing the cancer, rather than continue to apply band aids to it, and abolishing capitalism.

I'd also challenge "unhinged" - the oppressive systems we all live under are designed to make this shit the norm, they not only breed and encourage racism, misogyny and the rest, but reward those with the privilege and sense of entitlement it gives who do them "best", it's why people in such positions can and do say such things, and suffer absolutely zero consequences.

(to be clear, I'm not condoning the behaviour or saying it's ok in any way, just that these people are not "unhinged", they are acting exactly in the way white supremacist patriarchal capitalism normalises and encourages them to)

You're not. There has not been any room left for doubt for nearly a decade that he is anything but an opportunistic racist misogynistic queerphobic ableist christofascist grifter. Those who already support him will continue to cheer him on because he feeds directly in to their need to feel superior to "others", and no one still on the fence is going to suddenly have an epiphany..

Yeah, about his show, and what a good guy he now is.. And look, it worked!

It really is an incredible read, but to be fair, it was already the case back in the day, and even earlier, off the top of my head:

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/ye-olde-anti-vaxxers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Francisco

Difference is we now have instant global mass media, so it all spreads much further, much faster.

But anti-intellectualism has always been a core feature of fascism

At some point it won't anymore, but for many different reasons, they can't see/don't care.

First of all, as we mentioned, capitalism decays in to fascism, at which point (and why they actively working towards it) they will have even more power and less human rights to get in the way of the exploitation oppression and resource accumulation.

Then there's also the fact that, being so far removed from the rest of society and being the ones who make the rules, they don't feel like those should apply to them, not even rules of nature like "infinite growth is impossible in a finite world".

This also means that their view of reality is so warped they think they'll always be on top/secure. For example - they're all spending millions even billions on bunkers, but never stop to consider who will serve and protect them in that bunker and why anyone would still be willing to (when things get bad enough, their money will be useless), as well as what world they might come out to if they do survive. Never mind stop what they're doing to prevent the need for a bunker in the first place (to them, being equal to everyone else seems like a worse fate than global destruction).

The problem is that capitalism is a global cancer, and one fascist coming to their end doesn't mean the system that got them there has been destroyed, or even "fixed" (you can see this in the failures to de-nazify Germany after the war, or to de-racist America after it's founding, or de-monarchize? the UK for example), and that is why we say "workers of the world unite", because it will take a global effort, not only in revolution, but in creating an equitable, just, and inclusive foundation for something better to be built on out of the void (this will require mass deprogramming and unlearning of the social structures imposed by the kyriarchy, and re-learning solidarity, compassion, community, cooperation, and so on - all things that actually come naturally to us, but are beaten out of us by life under capitalism).

And now I've lost my train of thought, and I've probably rambled on enough, so I'm going to leave it there lol

I'm not sure I understand, since the two don't contradict - the system working as intended for capitalists, doesn't stop it from also being decaying, it is a literal inevitability of an unsustainable system that only ever works for a tiny fragment of a percent of the population.

Being an acceptable feature to those removed from the harm they're causing doesn't give their perspective any validity - nothing about the current state of affairs is sustainable, that's the point.

Why the far right is surging all over the world

Capitalism is decaying, and fascism is its inevitable conclusion. This isn't news, either: The Question of Fascism and Capitalist Decay