Oh yea, Palantir. Reminds me that Thiel will be doing a conference in Paris soon 🤮.

Yes absolutely everything ! /s

If we’re talking about next-door neighbors yes, sure.

I reckon it means people living in the same neighborhood as you, which in big cities can be quite large.

In France we have people on far-right billionaire-funded yet widely popular TV channel openly advocating for the adoption of ICE tactics.

We’ve also already got special administrative prisons with inhumane conditions for undocumented migrants for a while. Likewise, on paper, the far-right has never participated in any government since 1945.

Let’s not forget that the EU has delegated arbitrary arrest and violent policing of migrants to other states for quite a while now.

Dark times ahead, we need to fight now, but, indeed, also prepare for a worsening of the situation.

Fascism is stupid.

I mean, all of what one might construe as benefits of fascism would be better served otherwise: strengthening your country, a sense of belonging, public order…

You’ll experience a much stronger sense of belonging if you don’t push your neighbors to hate you because you’ve arbitrarily decided to hate them and support doing bad things to them.

Letting armed thugs arbitrarily arrest people is not public order, quite the opposite.

Countries which have fully embraced fascism never stayed strong for very long and lost quite a lot in the process. This is when they were ever strong in the first place.

And I’m not even going to talk about the even more blatant lies (family values, moral righteousness, upholding traditions…)