politics

Some people are slower on the uptake than others.

Fascism is a big word with a lot of weight to it.

The more you get into politics and the more you debate with people across the aisle, the more you realize you have to be careful what words you use, so as not to lose credibility.

That being said.......this is fascism. Period.

It's happening. It's happening now. It's happening here. It's not debatable anymore.

"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.

Yes, we know.

See, everyone knows that fascism is a bad thing. That has been taught in every school since the end of WW2.

It's just a shame that most people never bothered to look up what fascism actually is, and it can be something your guys do as well.

You guys are so screwed, I left Reddit cause of all the censorship and siding with the government.

I’ve had comment removed from this community for being incendiary, for saying Trump and ICE agents need to feel the force of the second amendment.

You guys are not even allowed to discuss anything further than a useless peaceful protest, or you get banned or shut down and silenced.

Even regular folk who mod on Lemmy are tripping over themselves to stop us from actually doing anything

It was fascism this time 12 months ago when Trump had women and people of colors plaques and images covered at national museums and at nasa.

When they banned words from research. Like: women. Female. Bias, transgender, equality. Privilege.

When they prosecuted women as murderers for having a safe first trimester termination of pregnancy.

When they started demanding a woman must die before any medical procedures would be performed that could harm a fetus, even if that fetus was dead or non viable.

When they removed black veterans stories from the VA websites and other government websites.

When they changed the dod to the department of war.

My gawd. This all started a year ago. It was fascism then.

Thinking it a term best avoided for reasons of decorum is part of what got us here.

The Atlantic is trash. Lib bullshit late to the party and faking it. These are the same people who enable fascism. Not to mention the zios...

I feel like this debate over whether it's fascism or not misses a big point:

It's an oppressive nationalist state with practically unchecked presidential power. It is responsible for numerous war crimes. It instates hardline policies targeting everyday Americans. It puts people in detention camps. It is fueled by exceptionalism on all levels, from foreign policy to religion. And at the same time, it doesn't provide for its people, cutting all forms of social support.

It also erodes democratic institutions in an attempt to cement itself, so that other powers couldn't change course.

You can call it fascism. You can call it authoritarianism. What matters is that America is turned into an angry shithole hostile to both others and it's own people. Isn't that a reason good enough to stand strongly against it? Why do people wait for a "fascist" label, like it's some sort of red cloth, and would it change much if tomorrow Trump would plead allegiance to Hitler?

I’d like to take this opportunity to express the profoundly tragic failure of Democrats to mount any kind of meaningful opposition to this fascist project, that has been underway since at least the Reagan administration.

I’m glad you got there eventually. Keep listening closely to the people who told you this years ago, they are clearly more perceptive than you.

Now it's fascism even for idiots to see

So you literally ignored hitlers plot playing out until it was to late, and now it’s okay to call them hurtful name. Another banger from the Atlantic.

Fascism brought to you by full blown dementia and criminal behavior. Wheeee!

“Oh gee wiz, turns out he’s doing the dictator thing like he said he would”

So the United States, once the world’s exemplary liberal democracy, is now a hybrid state combining a fascist leader and a liberal Constitution; but no, it has not fallen to fascism. And it will not.

Well that’s alright then. I almost thought the Atlantic was becoming less useless for a second there

Peak The Atlantic article

I wonder which of the 3000 things over the past decade changed their minds.

For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types

Jonathan Rauch is holding out on the one thing we want to see: the websites of these left-leaning types, because they're the ones whose voices we should be hearing and promoting.

We need more community defense classes now more than ever. Seriously!

And too late to matter. Thanks.

Before the election, WSJ's presidential nominee highlights had something like "we've heard some people say Trump will lead America into fascism but we don't believe that to actually be true and think this is an exaggeration" or some other bullshit along those lines.

Would love to have the WSJ editorial staff follow up on that if they haven't already.

Well, welcome to the party, I guess.