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"I resisted calling it fascism until it was too late and people were dying at the hands of monsters."
Get fucked. It was fascism when it was George Floyd and it's fascism now. It's been a fascism white people were willing to ignore because it didn't impact them directly for fucking decades, if not a hundred years or more.
Great job joining us in reality.
Yeah, this guy can fuck right off.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
Maybe he's been in opposition of using the term because he's fucking fascist-lite himself. Fascist with half the calories.
Calling liberals fascists is literally overusing the term to the point of meaninglessness.
Fascists are real and they're here, and they hate liberals and liberals hate them too. Calling liberals fascists is not going to help the situation.
And if you're going around making liberals bleed because you disagree with them, then you might wanna look in a mirror because you might be a fascist.
The phase comes from the original Black Panther Party.
Doesn't change anything I said
Just giving some historical context.
Do they hate fascists? They seem to be quite accommodating what with the slow rolling of justice for any infractions and the weakest of resistance to funding any 'security' concerns.
But no, calling them fascist wont help.
You seem to be confusing the democratic party leadership and a handful of traitors with every liberal.
Hard to tell the fucking difference. Nice words don’t matter only action matters.
Okay dude, go out there and take some concrete actions and when I see you in the headlines I'll know you made a difference.
But until then, stop blaming the people who literally voted against this to try to stop it from happening in the first place.
You were probably one of the idiots going around telling people not to vote, and if so you're as much to blame for this as anyone who voted for trump.
“Don’t overuse the term fascist you’ll make it meaningless and that makes you a fascist!”
Like you people can’t help but be hypocritical in the same damn sentence.
I didn't say "don't use the term fascism." If someone's a fascist, call them a fascist. And there absolutely are fascists.
But don't call people who aren't fascists, fascists, because that makes the the term meaningless. And liberals by definition are not fascists.
Focus on the actual fascists, the far-right and everyone enabling them. Don't call the opposition fascists just because they're ineffective, with minorities in both chambers of congress and the supreme court.
What makes you a fascist is advocating for making people bleed just for being liberals.
And you had to willfully butcher everything I said in order to pull such a distorted interpretation out of it so you could make your strawman. And guess what? That's what fascists do!
I'm not sure if I've ever heard of Rauch before but this is Bari Weiss level of bullshit. Fuck opinion writers.
This is infuriating.
We’ve been calling it fascism for at least 10 years because that’s what it’s been.
We were trying to get you fucks to wake up and stop it before it was too late, and now that you’re finally willing to acknowledge it, it’s too fucking late.
Thanks for ignoring us and enabling it. You can fuck all the way off.
How long until we stop complaining about fascism and actively talk about doing something about it—publicly?
Talk about it in the back of coffee shops, not publicly. That’s how you get the Feds on you.
the feds already have you if you post on lemmy, blusky, or mastodon
And if you talk about what should actually happen then the Secret Service knocks on your door. Still best to do it in private.
I have neither the charisma nor the aim to be a priority for them. I'm interested in long-term direct action that can build something better, not just fighting and protesting. The internet should be decentralized immediately.
Lmfao. Worry about yourself.
Only worrying about oneself is part of the reason we are in this mess. I am actually worried for a lot of people currently.
I’m worried about the entire country. You seem to want to let fascism happen. Which is why you try to crush anyone talking out against the government lmfao.
You're a fucking idiot. If everyone willing to take direct action talks about it publicly, then before long there won't be anyone left to take action.
The French Resistance didn't exactly stand in the middle of a public square telling everyone "We're the french resistance."
You aren’t doing that tho?
You support Trump.
10 day old account trying so hard to ragebait, regularly inciting violence, but accusing someone else of supporting rump.
That's fucking rich, lol. Blocked.
Good. Lol
Incorrect.
Say you want Trump dead. Say you think he should be assassinated. Use the words.
Okay this is some straight up fedposting. Everyone should tag this person as a fed and treat them as such.
Fuck off feddie. No one wants you here.
No, they showed me their antifa membership card, they're legit /s
Say it, magat
Bruh. Fuckin chill out. Go drink some water and lie down.
You love Trump. That’s why you shut down dissent.
I’m shutting down obvious feds. Cause I don’t like feds.
Lmfao, you’re such an idiot. You’re shutting me down because you love Trump and you don’t want anyone fighting the government because you enjoy where the country is going.
🤨
So, you support Trump then. Got it.
Lmao
When was the US not fascism? Serious question.
Serious answer:
From wiki: “Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”
I’m not a historian or anything, but I would say that until trump we haven’t really had anyone you could call a dictator. And saying we had a strong regimentation of society and the economy seems like a stretch with the exception of wartime. You could make a good argument for ww2 era USA under FDR though that also came on the back of the new deal and a relatively progressive thrust in US politics (of course many groups of people were still oppressed and marginalized though), and possibly some parts of US involvement in Vietnam. But I think realistically there are better descriptions of the US government during those times.
This comment is intended not to discount the historic atrocities and abject failings of the US government, but rather to maintain the power of the word fascism and to assert that things are in fact different at this moment, even if they’ve been bad for a lot if people for a long time.
I would say certain white people but they don’t consider me white so maybe that’s why I’ve been freaking out too.