Thanks for another stark reminder of how comments here are disconnected from reality. Most IRL are tired of people who call everything fascist and froth at the mouth about “anti-fascism.”

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esseph 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This very much mirrors the scenes I grew up with in the late 80s and through the 90s, early 2000s.

I just checked and there's still an old .gif image in the center of one of the websites with an upraised red fist.

A lot of those folks are security researchers, CISOs, network engineers, and software devs now.

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zevon 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Let me assure you that the population that you will find at Congress is rather anti-fascist. And so is the constitution of country where the event happens. As far as I remember from a few side-notes in my history classes, there are a few historic reasons for that. One may go so far as to call those reasons pretty stark reminders of why anti-fascism is a good thing...

	▲	saintjavelina 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah this is exactly the sort of anti-historical menacing puffery I was talking about. The vast majority of polled WW2 GIs were against racial integration and homosexuality and in favor of white supremacy by the way. Somehow I don’t think they’d fit your idea of “anti-fascist.” Neither them nor the literal fasces on the wall in the US Senate.