I know the left keep spewing that word, I wanted to look at the proper definition of it and holy crap its all turned upside down.
They don't know the meaning of the word and its not even a hundred years cold.
Fascism... coming from the Fascistica - Fascisti of Benito Mussolini, and thus the Fasces of the Roman empire, the badge of office... but literally it advocates taking control politically with violent means. Regardless of what the leader said, it caused violence and people turning on each other if they had different world views...
Anyway... FASCISTS employ political violence. They do NOT employ debate. They did not give a shit about debate and used violence, fear and indoctrination to get what they wanted.
Mousilini's Blackshirts... the start of Fascism... paved the way for the Brownshirts of Germany, who eventually because the Nazis. So... now we have the Rainbowshirts... This is not liberty or liberal at all. If you kill or hurt to make your arguement win... you did not win the arguement...
The Republicans and Democrats are both technically kinds of fascists in America.
Economically, fascism is state control of the economy with nominal private ownership of the means of production. The left calls it a "mixed economy," and the right calls things like the 10% takeover of Intel "capitalism," but neither are laissez-faire respect for private property and voluntary exchange. Both want intervention, just from different angles.
Politically, fascism means arbitrary laws enforced with brutal violence and demonizing the opposition as the reactionary element destabilizing society. January 6th, 2020 has to be an insurrection. The George Floyd protesters are all mindless rioters. COVID dissent is practically terrorism. Opposition to ICE is tantamount to treason. It never ends.
Xenophobia and violence against dissenters are two of the ways the public responds to those pressures as they take sides, not so much integral to fascist systems as an unavoidable consequence of allegiance to totalitarianism.
Not when there is a centralized power structure. Disputes over who should wield such power magnifies differences of opinions and drives wedges between people who could otherwise get along despite their disagreements. Spike Cohen recently pointed out that even where two candidates agree on 99.5% of issues, they must compete on that last 0.5% disagreement, and male that small fraction an outsized issue, leading to ever-escalating rivalry for the electorate.
Wait a minute!
I know the left keep spewing that word, I wanted to look at the proper definition of it and holy crap its all turned upside down.
They don't know the meaning of the word and its not even a hundred years cold.
Fascism... coming from the Fascistica - Fascisti of Benito Mussolini, and thus the Fasces of the Roman empire, the badge of office... but literally it advocates taking control politically with violent means. Regardless of what the leader said, it caused violence and people turning on each other if they had different world views...
Anyway... FASCISTS employ political violence. They do NOT employ debate. They did not give a shit about debate and used violence, fear and indoctrination to get what they wanted.
Mousilini's Blackshirts... the start of Fascism... paved the way for the Brownshirts of Germany, who eventually because the Nazis. So... now we have the Rainbowshirts... This is not liberty or liberal at all. If you kill or hurt to make your arguement win... you did not win the arguement...
The Republicans and Democrats are both technically kinds of fascists in America.
Economically, fascism is state control of the economy with nominal private ownership of the means of production. The left calls it a "mixed economy," and the right calls things like the 10% takeover of Intel "capitalism," but neither are laissez-faire respect for private property and voluntary exchange. Both want intervention, just from different angles.
Politically, fascism means arbitrary laws enforced with brutal violence and demonizing the opposition as the reactionary element destabilizing society. January 6th, 2020 has to be an insurrection. The George Floyd protesters are all mindless rioters. COVID dissent is practically terrorism. Opposition to ICE is tantamount to treason. It never ends.
Xenophobia and violence against dissenters are two of the ways the public responds to those pressures as they take sides, not so much integral to fascist systems as an unavoidable consequence of allegiance to totalitarianism.
Yeah... it never ends...
When putting these groups together, can it ever end?
Not when there is a centralized power structure. Disputes over who should wield such power magnifies differences of opinions and drives wedges between people who could otherwise get along despite their disagreements. Spike Cohen recently pointed out that even where two candidates agree on 99.5% of issues, they must compete on that last 0.5% disagreement, and male that small fraction an outsized issue, leading to ever-escalating rivalry for the electorate.
Politics in other words... that competition and division that turns free speech and good intentions into evil things.
🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Indeed.
But what is their alternative?