Unfortunately, this comes across very clearly in your postings.
That you have acknowledged it is a start at least and will help you get better. Ranting and raving online all day every day canāt be good for your health.
Accusing sane, level headed reasonable people of being Nazis or racist or fascist because they disagree with you seems to say more about you than them.
Has he said many things that could be classed as fascist though? Mattie likes the sound of his own vice and isnāt shy of an opinion so id be surprised if hasnt let something slip.
I donāt accuse people of being racist or fascist because or supporters of Nazi style genocide because Iām mentally ill.
I do it because that is exactly what those people are.
What you demand towards racists, fascists and supporters of Nazi style genocides is an obscene form of political correctness to protect genuinely sick, mentally ill and depraved views.
@Rocko You have a lot to answer for here. Enabling this behavior is very irresponsible. Either remove people for their own good or shut this site down.
The likes of Gavin Pepper will say openly fascist things. The likes of McGrath will use a form of words which attempts to cloaks his real and obvious intent and meaning based on bullshit semantics and āplausible deniabilityā, when itās fucking obvious what heās doing.
McGrath uses dog whistles. When McGrath claims the World Economic Forum controls the Irish Government, heās using an obvious anti-Semitic dog whistle of the sort the far right takes as its meat and drink.
Fascists know what he means. They know itās a demonstration of support for them.
Anti-fascists know what it means. They know its a demonstration of support for the fascists.
To the people in the middle - the gullible, the disinterested, the clueless, the dimwitted self styled āvery sensible peopleā with a neat line in dismissing the fascist threat, he can claim semantics and bullshit āplausible deniabilityā.
Trump used to do that. Remember @Tierneevin1979 endlessly arguing not to believe your eyes and ears about what Trump was based on false plausible deniability and semantics. Maybe even he has given up now.
*We donāt talk enough about the connection between the slow death of local journalism and the emergence of Trumpism. As someone who worked in scores of campaigns, Iāve seen how campaigns & candidates operate differently with no local coverage. *
Home town newspapers were a public square that more often than not valued decency and civic virtue. They fought lies & corruption. Weāve mostly lost that and Trumpism has flourished.
Autocracies kill journalism and journalists for a reason.
Testifying before Congress last year on the business crisis in journalism, David Simon, creator of The Wire and former journalist, lamented the decline of statehouse reporting. āThe next 10 to 15 years will be halcyon days for local corruption,ā he declared. āItās going to be a great time to be a corrupt politician.ā