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This is good advice on it’s face, but what if you’re living in a country full of Nazis?

Like, let’s say - hypothetically - the cops are Nazis. And all your mass media is full of Nazi agitprop. And friends and family are periodically repeating Nazis talking points. And you are feeling increasingly isolated by the sheer madness of the outside world.

Hypothetically, of course.

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“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Have you considered moving?

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Sadly, I’m an English speaker so I’m very limited in my options.

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You mean the most widespread language on earth?

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But you always have the option to learn another language. It just takes some effort. It is easier to do than it ever has been before in history.

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Find yourself a nice blue city and move into the suburbs. Lots of good jobs too.

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Come to New Zealand.

We still have Nazis but they spend all their energy on hating the Māori population.

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You can go to literally any city in Earth and find many English speakers. Estimates are 1.5 - 2 billion people on earth are Anglophones.

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Tbh, if that’s the case then, I will just join in a Marxist group that is serious about arm resistance. I’m too poor to move out anyway.

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Complain about it online and hope someone else does something about it, as far as I can tell.

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You know what’s crazy? People who are Nazis would say exactly this about the “Woke” Society. They see no difference in accepting Trans people and killing minorities. Just take a sharp look at the conservative narrative.

“Green Fascist’s with woke ideology” to what about their way of live.

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People who are Nazis would say exactly this about the “Woke” Society.

It reminds me of the left/right split during the Iranian Revolution. Folks love to post pictures of “Before 1979” with the wealthy kids of the industrial elites dressed like EU/US fashionistas. Iranian progressives saw this as a privilege of the elites that shouldn’t be exclusive to the upper end of society. Iranian conservatives saw it as a symptom of elitism that shouldn’t be permitted at any tier of society.

After the revolution, conservative Iranians (very briefly) aligned with conservative Americans, as the Ayatollah and the Reagan/Thatcher governments aligned on this idea of regressive religious anti-Communism. But then Iran didn’t open itself back up as a western gas station, so the American white supremacists and the Iranian Islamic supremacists fell back into conflict again.

Then it was just two ultra-orthodox conservative groups screaming “Woke Decadent Radicals!” at one another, while everyone around them were ground to paste by the slew of wars to follow.

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Awesome explanation. The similarities are striking. I don’t understand why people have the tendency to interfere with others lives. Conservatives have a fetish for this.

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