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pfkurtz ◴[] No.23351701[source]
Seems like there's a whole lotta fascists on this internet.
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koheripbal ◴[] No.23351718[source]
...where "fascist" is defined as: "anyone who disagrees with me".
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pfkurtz ◴[] No.23351934[source]
Nope. Where it's defined as people enacting or cheering right wing authoritarian destruction of democratic society.

Like the supporters of Donald Trump.

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koheripbal ◴[] No.23354843[source]
Feel free to keep putting those goal posts wherever you feel like today.
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pfkurtz ◴[] No.23355693[source]
I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean. But that's what fascism is — right wing authoritarianism built around a leader cult merging racist populists with a corporate elite, directing state violence at marginalized/demonized groups. Which is what Trumpism is.
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1. groundpepper ◴[] No.23357515[source]
There's a political illiteracy in our politics (I'm including Canada, but more prevalent in the US it seems) that says fascism is hitler himself and the swastika and nothing else.
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2. albedoa ◴[] No.23362445[source]
Which makes their confidence in their literacy so bizarre. koheripbal's reaction to the uncontroversial observation is to first convince himself that it must be wrong and then project a specific and fantastical reason to explain why we have observed it. He really thinks he has figured something out.