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And some of you are just itching to hit that reply button to scream at me that "they are NOT the same" even though that's not at all what I said. I just said, both parties are running on doing fascism and doing fascism makes one a fascist. The reasons WHY are irrelevant; fascists are people who do fascism. And you cannot "stop fascism" by agreeing to do "some fascism, but not as much as the other fascists." Which is why the Dems couldn't turn out the vote to stop fascism like they did in 2020.

The very same "wise centrists" who just lead you to ash and ruin, are pretty sure that the problem is "the voters are wrong" even though that is categorically impossible because the job is to get elected, and everyone but the people who had full control over the campaign and decided to run on an even worse version of the platform that lost to Trump in 2016, instead of the one that beat him in 2020 is to blame.

If you're dumb enough to go for it? We didn't have anything to talk about anyway.

I cannot stress this enough - the job, is to get elected. It just is. The Harris campaign and the larger democratic party chose enabling a genocide, giving handies to racist murderpigs, and hunting down migrants over getting elected. Gaslighting people about inflation and Covid probably didn't help either. But nobody put a gun to their head to MAKE them abandon their successful 2020 platform to embrace fascism and run back Clinton's neocon campaign from 2016.

They did that. They're responsible.

What a great number of liberals seem to have learned about fascism over the past six years is that "fascism is what the GOP does; if the GOP isn't the one doing it, it's not fascism" and "fascism is only when the violence affects me and people who look like me; if the violence targets people who don't look like me or is exported beyond my neighborhood, then it's not fascism."

This is hogwash, but also extremely on brand for Americans. But you aren't antifascists. Not even close.

@AnarchoNinaWrites But I am not a trade unionist.

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John Locke was just an asshole

toss his bullshit in the compost & your plants will die

@gwynnion

@RebelGeek99 Yeah; I've been calling it Weimar American for over a decade, for a reason. If anything, 2020 was the aberration; especially given that we know how Biden governed AFTER running on a platform about dismantling fascism and pushing back the fascist tide across vast portions of the state system.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @RebelGeek99 "Over a decade?" I pretty much gave up with "The Patriot" act.

@phaedral @AnarchoNinaWrites I pretty much tuned them out in 2012 after the ACA was compromised on, the crooks of Wall Street had been absolved of ruining millions of people's lives, and Obama's immaculate PR campaign gave it all a thin veneer of IDpol to make it palatable. As the gentler kinder looking face of the duocracy, obsessed with means testing and openly seeking the bipartisan approval of fascists, I've been calling them the Vichy Dems for a few years now.

@trochee For once, Imma blame the spell checker. :) Usually it IS me, but this time I just clicked that button.

@photoncollector Go fuck yourself.

Great chat.

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I merely stated a fact.

@photoncollector I am pretty sure "go fuck yourself" was not ambiguous.

You'd like to parse definitions of fascism, and I'd rather dive naked into a swimming pool full of razorblades than bandy wits with the likes of you.

We have nothing else to say to each other; now get on yer fucking bike.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @photoncollector I am an adult leader in a youth organisation. One of the (tragic) issues we deal with is child sexual abuse. We get training on the appropriate response (and yes, it is mandatory to report).
One of the issues the training covers is self-doubt. Is what I am witnessing fit the definition of CSA? It is possible to get so caught up in definitions that you dismiss what you are witnessing, and talk yourself out of doing something.
The trainings' recommondation is to listen to your gut. If your gut is telling you "this is bad" then your gut is probably right, and you should go ahead and report it.
I reckon fascism is similar