He'll be the death of us all. - eviltoast

It’s not like any candidate was actually good but they did pick the worst one.

  • MolochAlter@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not really, no.

    It can be, but fascism is extremely malleable as a template and can absolutely not give a shit about abortion (or even actively encourage/enforce it like china during the one child policy) or any other specific individual freedom.

    The ones it really cares about are the ones that allow you to dissent and work against the government, so speech and association.

    Fascism is fundamentally authoritarian first; specific social and economic prescriptions are tuned as the party/dictator deem necessary.

    That’s how you can have red fascism like China and Stalinist Russia, and capitalist fascism like Pinochet’s Chile.

    The US is never going to properly address its issues until it properly identifies them.

    What you’re dealing with is not fascism imposed from the top down, it’s puritanism endorsed at all strata of society by a significant amount of people who genuinely co-sign it, either because they don’t understand the repercussions or because they genuinely don’t care.

    If you’re incapable of understanding that people in those states genuinely support banning abortion, for example, and are not actually being oppressed by a minority of powerful people who are denying them their rights, but are instead actively signing away those rights for the minority who want to keep them, you’re never going to be able to effectively change this state of affairs.

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      10 months ago

      Sad to see you got some downvotes, your takes here are very technically correct and aware of the big picture and actual facts of the mechanisms.

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        10 months ago

        People hate it when they can’t just abuse terms to label people they don’t like, unfortunately.

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          10 months ago

          My surviving jewish family were freed from a nazi death camp by the people you call fascists. Equating the two is holocaust trivialization and antisemitic. I literally link you to a well known mainstream Jewish historian and activist about this issue. Do you think David Katz is a “tankie”?

          You call me scum equivalent to a nazi in response. Have words lost all meaning to you?

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              Oh my god there was antisemitism in the USSR, even among some leadership! Several doctors got killed!

              You’re right, a few incidences of antisemitism are the same as the holocaust, or the pogroms that the pre-soviet monarchy backed by western liberal democracies engaged in. Or the antisemitism in the post soviet union liberal democracies. /s

              You are a deeply unserious person. And a holocaust trivializer if it “owns the tankies” apparently. Great priorities.

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                Can you point me to the exact sentence where I trivialised the holocaust? Hint: I didn’t say anything about the holocaust. All I gave you is a link, the rest is your imagination.

                You, OTOH, are severely trivialising antisemitism within the USSR. Stop fucking fanboying.

                pre-soviet monarchy backed by western liberal democracies

                Please fucking what liberal democracies during Tsarist times? England, France, possibly, am I missing one? And none of that antisemitism was home-grown, it was all the fault of those evil foreigners making poor Russian nobles and priests do stuff? The country most busy with fucking with Tsarist Russia, specifically sending Lenin over mind you, was Germany, very much not a liberal democracy. The age of liberal democracies started after WWI.

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                  Can you point me to the exact sentence where I trivialised the holocaust? Hint: I didn’t say anything about the holocaust. All I gave you is a link, the rest is your imagination.

                  Oh, so to clarify, you don’t think that the USSR could be described as morally equivalent to fascism?

                  You, OTOH, are severely trivialising antisemitism within the USSR. Stop fucking fanboying.

                  Only in the sense that it is trivial in scale compared to the alternative socioeconomic systems of the time.

                  Also a woman, stop being sexist by assuming a male default.

                  And none of that antisemitism was home-grown, it was all the fault of those evil foreigners making poor Russian nobles and priests do stuff?

                  During the Russian Civil War the US, Britain and France sure militarily and financially supported those nobles and priests who did pogroms regaining power. They went so far as to invade the USSR. They had previous working relationships with them and wanted them back in power. The nobles and priests were antisemitic, as were their western partners.

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                    Oh, so to clarify, you don’t think that the USSR could be described as morally equivalent to fascism?

                    Morally? I’m not talking about morally I’m talking objectively and no of course it was objectively fascist. So was Italy and they didn’t do the Holocaust. So is Scientology, in case you’re looking for an example of non-racist fascists. So are Kahanites and they definitely aren’t antisemitic, being Jews and all that. Your point?