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Lessons from an asylum hotel counter-protest: calling our opponents ‘fascist’ doesn’t work
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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You can’t be offended by being called a fascist if you don’t know what it means.
I think it's the lack of repercussions fueling them. They seem to be wearing it as a badge of honour.
Before 2016, they didn't dare show their true colours. But since Brexit & Trump, they've been slowly testing & eroding the limits for their disgusting behaviour.
I mean Elon Musk did an actual fucking Nazi salute and fuck all happened! The media actively played it down.
It's not about offence, it's about whether it's something that anyone even believes.