That's a really really long idealist article, that dosn't say much in the end and might have been much shorter if the author had a materialist perspective on fascism.
woodenghost
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Why does it increase all over Canada though? Volcanic activity?
Some time after Engels father died, he sold the factory. With the money, he supported not just Marx and his family, but a large part of the underground/communist/German scene in London. He also speculated at the stock exchange and he must have been good at it, because when he died, he left more than he had started out with.
Also, while Marx said: "Je ne suis pas marxiste", Engels really was the first Marxist.
They had met a few times before, but it was when Marx had read "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Engels, that they became lifelong friends.
Yes! Plus, it doesn't spoil as fast. It's more deserving of our trust. Oat milk too and it's cheaper then soy where I live. I now mostly remember cow milk for the bad taste when it spoils or when you pour spoiled milk on your cereal and have to trash it. Don't miss it at all. Glad to be rid of it even. Though I know it's a privilege with how heavily subsidized cow milk is. If it weren't for that, the alternatives would be cheaper. Also, I like cows, but/and it's weird to think where their milk has been.
Another metaphor for the US election.
From 2001 to 2003, people tried getting the Nazi party NPD banned. They sued at the highest court and argued, that it was a danger to the constitution. The court found, that too many members of the Nazi party, including highest ranking leaders, where funded by the state. Specifically, they were paid by the very agency (Verfassungsschutz) that was supposed to protect the constitution. They had funded the Nazis for years and radicalized them under the guise of introducing under cover agents. The court concluded, that a clear distinction between the state and the Nazi party could not be made. And so the case was dismissed. The funding continued.
Earlier this year, the former head of this agency set up his own Nazi party.
My convos with libs seem like I'm talking to a computer chat bot, the empathy and concern that I'd expect from a real person isn't there.
I feel exactly the same way. It's called the empathy gap and it's a symptom of racism. This is how they can manage the mental gymnastics of supporting genocide and thinking of themselves as good people. Brown people just matter less to them.
Yes, it's good that you see the western centrism now, because in its own, this post was a bit racist and invoking orientalist cliches. Like suggesting, that all non Western people are theists. Or saying, that atheism is a western liberal thing, when people all over the world actually think for themselves, draw their own conclusions and become atheists. Like every Marxist movement everywhere, for example. China, Cuba and the Soviet Union. Every liberation movement ever had to struggle against organized religion. Yes, even religious ones like liberation theology in South America, which struggled against the Vatican and lost or in part was ordered to stand down and obeyed.
A Marxist should accepts personal believes and fight oppression based on religion because it splits the working class. But in the end, while organized religion might in some cases be a temporary ally in national liberation, it has historically always succumbed to reactionary authority in the end and turned against us.
Furthermore, you're right, that the new atheists invocations of "facts", "logic" and "science" are seldom more than thinly veiled appeals to authority. They often do not define these things, nor do most of them seem to understand the many material contradictions and open philosophical questions within them. But that doesn't in itself make theism an defensible philosophical position either.
In addition to the advice about a group, like if you don't have a group try to join one and talk to them and so on: In the meantime think about your limits and needs for yourself. It's okay to feel overwhelmed and you don't have to be able to deal with the stress in a certain way. You can still contribute meaningfully, if you know your triggers and are mindful of them. Decide beforehand, what to do if a situation is too much, like getting out or getting some distance or trying calming exercises.
Edit: You might even decide not to go to a protest, if police presence is too high and that's okay too. You can still connect to people and help organize or render support.
Also talk to them beforehand about what you will do in specific situations, like if the police attack or threaten arrest or if it just feels like to much for you. Decide where to meet if you're split up. You could have three meeting places for the start, middle and end of the route of the protest.
And within your group, you could have pairs or triplets of people who agree to stay together no matter what. Within these, the member least willing to engage further in an action or protest should determine when to leave with no shame or questions asked.
And talk to people afterwards too to debrief. This whole concept is called an affinity group.
Yes, I know. That's not what I meant though. It seemed idealist to me, because the author sought fascism and means against it only in the realm of culture instead of linking it to material contradictions in the real word.