• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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
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            11 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.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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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).

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.