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@gaditb right the train of thought playing out in my mind is:

(first thought) there is definitely a difference between {someone who is willing to commit a genocide because they believe in an ideology} and {those who are willing to commit a genocide because of an ideology they don’t believe in}. the first group is a more immediate threat but also, maybe you can break them of that ideology someday. the latter group seems a lot more difficult to get a handle on

(second thought) but, is the existence of the first group actually a prerequisite for nazi·ism?

(further pondering) is the point of the quote maybe in fact that {our tendency to treat fascism as an ideology which people do or don’t have} causes us to miss how it actually functions?

idk here. if the difference between the nazi and the not-nazi is just that the nazi finds violence politically expedient in the short term while the not-nazi doesn’t (yet), that's less a difference in the quality of the person themselves and more just one of their current political situation

which is still important to measure but less essentialist

@gaditb do you think nazi·ism is a coherent ideology which it is possible for a person to have? i think my analysis of the hypothetical changes depending on whether it is or isn’t and i don’t know which is true

@aescling if meow had a mega evolution what would it look like

@aescling @Satsuma you can just say “yes”

@aescling @Satsuma were you just thinking about eevee completely unprompted

@coriander @aescling you can't tell from this screenshot but they spent the entire previous episode hammering home that she has a girlfriend