Because when the Knight of the Long Knife 2: Electric Boogaloo hits, the people talking about communists being fascists will be marching, arm-in-arm with the actual fascists. It’s really a genius con when you stop to think about it, in theory, we’d never see it coming if it wasn’t already materially predicted and observed.
The reddit exodus tanked the quality of discourse so hard, I have to use my block list the exact same way I was using it on reddit; and that’s fucking depressing. Eternal September, all over again.