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[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Symbols have more than one meaning… The word “fascism” comes from one of these symbols: the Fasces. However the fasces are still used by France:

Or by the US:

Are these countries fascists just because they use the Fasces? Of course not. They have other meanings. It's the same with this Ukrainian symbol.

[-] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago

are u implying that the amerikkkan empire, the country created to steal land and genocide and preserve slavery the country that bankrolls fascists everywhere, the country that does everything it can to oppress working people not only within its borders but outside them, an oligarchy where the head of state is selected by rich oligarchs and has near limitless political power, ISNT fascists. Amerikkka IS fascism it is the very template that the original fascists and the nazis based their designs on.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The difference is that at the time the fasces were adopted they didn't mean fascism. But also, coincidentally, the US and France are fascist.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And the tryzub didn't mean fascism when it was firstly adopted by the (menchevik communist) Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917…

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay but it did mean fascism after ww2. You know, after nazi collaborators participated in the holocaust in Ukraine, killing Ukrainian Jewish folks and others.

I dont think the original Ukrainian republic in 1917 was fascist though, we agree there.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Vichy France of Pétain participated in the Holocaust too. France still use the fasces, the same anthem and the same flag.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, hot take /s, France bad

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That's not the point. The point is: Ukraine is a normal country, nor a fascist hellhole nor a perfect Paradise. Their national symbol is also used by its far right, today and during the WWII; just like all other countries under the Nazi rule in Europe. And just like all other countries under the Nazi rule in Europe, they continued to use their national symbols after the WWII.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

The point I was making is that France is also a fascist hellhole.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

You have no idea of what fascism is.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I have literally dedicated years of my life to a thorough understanding of German fascism, I know what fascism is. France is ideologically fascist and transitioning to it economically.

[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You follow the tankie definition of fascism? “Everything at the right of the bolshevism is fascism”?

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

No, I am able to distinguish between less informed socialists, social democrats, anarchists/libertarians, liberals, and fascists, thank you.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Mhmm. And you have to look at what France does to immigrants right now

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

We don't gas them, so it's not as bad. But yeah it's still not great

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I mean, you don't have to gas people to be fascist, look at the US

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Well USA do gas people all the time on protests and cop raids. They even used real deal Zyklon B to fumigate immigrants at border prior to WW2 (both theoretically non lethal doses though afaik some people did died or had other health problems) there was also over 600 executions in gas chamber.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Tear gas is bad not equivalent to gassing in the concentration camp sense. The US has stopped using Zyklon B and is still fascist.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they killed much more people even without gas.

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