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13 Dec 2022, 8:10 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
Trump does advocate many things which can be construed as being fascistic.



He's also a domestic terrorist who got off with a slap on the wrist for the January 6th incident because he's a rich white guy. If he had been a brown skinned foreigner you know that our government would have hung his fat ass and probably go to war against everybody who commited violence that day.

Americans are going to get the miserable dictatorship they rightfully deserve for either being stupid enough to support him or too cowardly to stand up to him and his GOP cult.



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13 Dec 2022, 8:15 pm

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There's Capital F Fascist----which was the party of Mussolini of Italy.

Then there's small f fascist-----which is somebody, in general, who has a reactionary view of things, and advocates authoritarian government.


Right.

The problem is "in general" ^ in your description.
People tend to throw the word around for anyone who doesn't parrot an established narrative.
That doesn't necessarily make the person fascist.


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13 Dec 2022, 8:28 pm

So I guess we're all supposed to just ignore the red flags of history repeating itself. :roll:

Whatever, I hope Americans get exactly what they deserve for enabling Trumpism.



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13 Dec 2022, 8:34 pm

You mean history repeating itself by people judging others with derogatory slurs, and rejecting differences of opinion? ^

I hope you weren't talking to me.

Nowhere did I say that I believe in authoritarian government and never have I supported fascism.

I said the word was overused.

This has nothing to do with Trump or whatever happened last January.

I don't follow that, or know anything about it, since I'm not even American.

Not everything is about Trump, believe it or not.


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13 Dec 2022, 8:44 pm

I certainly don’t throw the word around. I wouldn’t call 99% of Republicans fascist.



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13 Dec 2022, 8:54 pm

I think it's pathetic that people diss me as a leftist-SJW-feminist one week, and imply I'm a fascist authoritarian the next.

Make up your freaking minds, boys.

All I've ever done is advocate for the rights of all human beings.

It seems there's no place here for people with half-a-brain who ask questions and use critical thinking.
Especially not if they have two X chromosomes.


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13 Dec 2022, 8:58 pm

I like people who I know have "full" brains---whatever their chromosomal composition.



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13 Dec 2022, 8:59 pm

All I'm saying is Americans and the entire rest of Western Civilization is getting exactly what they deserve for embracing or making pathetic excuses in defense of those who embrace Trump and all the other Trump wannabes in the world.

So f**k it, let the world burn while the right and left throw s**t at each other like the apes they are. We're all going to end up dead anyways. :skull:



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13 Dec 2022, 9:40 pm

Just consider me a cheerleader for climate change and nuclear war. I'd rather face mass extinction than live under oppression because nobody wants to hurt the feelings of fascist wannabes.



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13 Dec 2022, 9:44 pm

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Just consider me a cheerleader for climate change and nuclear war. I'd rather face mass extinction than live under oppression because nobody wants to hurt the feelings of fascist wannabes.



Yeah no problem.
But you can terrorise people with tarot cards and that's fine.

Get a grip on reality please.


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13 Dec 2022, 9:51 pm

Yeah blah blah blah. Still doesnt change the fact that we're all doomed anyways and foolishly think our political opinions make one damn bit of difference as the jungle burns and floods around the smelly hairless apes like us throwing poo at each other.

Nature really should have stuck with letting dinosaurs rule the earth. Humans were a big mistake. :nerdy:



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13 Dec 2022, 10:13 pm

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13 Dec 2022, 10:16 pm

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14 Dec 2022, 12:10 am

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should it be acceptable to call people nazis and fascists?


No.
It is anti-intellectual and an emotionalistic attempt at causing offence in most situations.
It says a lot about the person gratuitously making such an accusation. 8)



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14 Dec 2022, 12:15 am

goldfish21 wrote:
Do we need them to literally claim to be a nazi to know that they are, though?

If some skinhead is walking around in jackboots with a swastika tattoo he's a nazi regardless of whether he told me so or officially declared it in some document of nazi claim.

Like others said, if the shoe fits.

Same same for fascists -> which donnie trumplestiltskin is, as that's the form of government & economy he wants.


Well, technically, he wouldn't be a "Nazi".
He would be a "Neo-Nazi". 8)



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14 Dec 2022, 2:28 am

The overuse of the word "Nazi" has been going on my entire life and is a pet peeve of mine.

If a "right wing" person supports a combination of genocide and worldwide conquest, or praises/admires Nazism/Hitler a la Kanye West calling the person a Nazi is appropriate. The constant misuse of the word cheapens both how bad the Nazis were, and often how bad the person or movement being called a Nazi is. It unintentionally dishonors the victims of the Holocaust.


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