• meeeeetch@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Would seem to be, and probably should be if self preservation enters the mind of the person in question, but ideologies, even those that would seem to have a pretty narrow appeal can (at least at a surface level) make themselves appealing to people of all sorts.

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      5 months ago

      A current example of this would be Alice Weidel, AfD. A lesbian in a German facist party who spends most of her time (allegedly) in Switzerland at her partners place.

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        5 months ago

        Ernst Rohm (an out gay man) was in the previous iteration right up until he was no longer useful to the state/party apparatus.

        Hell, Mussolini was originally a Communist who, I guess, decided he was tired of working on making a better world and decided to settle for immediately making a worse one because at least he’d be in charge of part of it.