• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Republicans: Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, kill all social programs, raise taxes on the 99%, kill public infrastructure, and lastly go fuck yourself (Republican voter base proceeds to cheer)

    Democrats: Uhhhhh… Tax cuts for small buisnesses anyone? Oh wait the republicans are calling us communist for doing that. Well if we just compromise with them and allow sooome fascism we’ll be able to get some of our agenda across as well. (Leftists proceed to boo the Dems for being Fascism Lite™)

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        3 days ago

        Examples of Fascism:

        • Funding "Israel"s genocidal “war”
        • Funding dictators (ex: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc)
        • Tax breaks for the wealthy in exchange for favors
        • Compromising on the civil liberties of minorities
        • Allowing states to establish Fascism
        • Normalizing Fascist positions (ex: border, security, defense, etc)
        • Actively fighting actural Leftists because they make the capitalist class feel uncomfortable
            • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              12 hours ago

              i mean, that wouldn’t be authoritarian, if it had popular sentiment, and was cast into law by popular sentiment more broadly. And yknow, also went through the congress, and the executive, and most of the rest of the federal government. But nope we don’t know how the US federal government works here so we pretend like it works otherwise.

              authoritarianism is a specific brand of dictatorship.

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        3 days ago

        Bipartisan war in drugs/police state

        I guess the George floydd protests didn’t go far enough to get that change Obama promised.

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          i dont see how war on drugs/police existing are fascism.

          Unless you mean to tell me there is a US state where the police run the government.

          unsure what change we’re talking about with obama, but to be clear, the floyd protests were some of the largest and most significant protests in the history of the US. Although with a rather shitty mantra, so that didn’t help much.

      • LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        Giving support to Israel is one example that some people would likely provide. I would like to see as few war crimes as possible, and I’m not certain that Israel isn’t committing any (to put things very lightly).

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          2 days ago

          israeli support is definitely one of them, but then again it’s the middle east. They don’t seem to like peaceful resolution to problems in general.

          war crimes are definitely bad, but when you launch in invasion plan into a country by starting off with a little bit of terrorism, i feel like it’s pretty safe to say most bets are off the table by that point unfortunately.