"Look just because we control all three branches of government, have replaced compent government workers with loyal ones, tried to overturn the last election we lost and are working to ensure we’ll never be able to lose another (assuming our plan to incite riots doesn’t work so we can just declare a national emergency so we don’t have another election), have created a secret police to snatch people off the streets, are prosecuting our political opponents or anyone that we deem to be not loyal enough, are removing press credentials of journalists and trying to force news outlets to sign agreements to what that can report, are using the FCC to silence voices of dissent, have sent in the military to occupy our own cities, have had friendly oligarchs purchase traditional and social media companies to silence critics and push our own propaganda, are using government resources to push partisan messages, have declared anyone that disagrees with us as anti-American, are using our military to sink civilian boats and murder the people inside, are ignoring orders of judges who don’t rule in our favor, let our oligarchs choose which government programs to axe, created our own cryptocurrency to facilitate bribery by foreign nations, have declared anti-fascism to be terrorism…
doesn’t mean we’re fascist!"
I have lunch meeting with a magat in a few hours, I’m going to try my hardest to memorize this!
You guys dont even know a real fascist.
Whatever Lemmy calls fascism is just hilarious.
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism
- American Heritage Dictionary
America is literally a fascist state rn
Now look up definition of dictator next.
If your definition is different that mine, isn’t it easier telling us what your opinion is so we can actually confront, instead of using a 4th grade version of the Socratic Method?
Tell me you have no expertise in political science without telling me you have no expertise in political science
It sounds like the sort of garbage you hear shortly before “anyway it’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic”.




