• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    "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!"

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    19 days ago

    You guys dont even know a real fascist.

    Whatever Lemmy calls fascism is just hilarious.

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      19 days ago

      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

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          18 days ago

          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?

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          18 days ago

          Tell me you have no expertise in political science without telling me you have no expertise in political science

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            17 days ago

            It sounds like the sort of garbage you hear shortly before “anyway it’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic”.