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[–]LtGreenCo 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Neither are fascists. To be a fascist you'd have to be an Italian under Mussolini and it would have to be early 20th century, among other things. Attempts over the years to evolve the definition beyond that have all failed and there's no widely agreed-upon academic definition aside from the original. So these days people just ascribe the label to anybody for any reason because if you can paint others with a word that has a heavily negative baked-in connotation then it is easier to dehumanize them.

[–]UncleWillard56 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Meh, that's a very narrow definition. I like the more general one:

a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

The difference is that any side can become this and the left is working overtime labeling anyone who disagrees with them a fascist, while using the same strategies to gain control.

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Problem is not everybody agrees on that definition.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Truth!

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I should have put “fascist magatards” indicating the SJW boogeyman, on whom the false flag will be blamed (just like Smollet’s fake hate crime was).

The TRAs have lost a lot of ground in the past year, especially in the court of public opinion (although the halls of power in much of the west is remarkably pro-Troon still), they need something big to generate sympathy and regain momentum. TRAs in the UK thought they had it with the Brianna Ghey murder, but it doesn’t seem to have panned out the way they would have liked.

[–]Node 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Dehumanizing them is a lot simpler when you just point out they're sex fakers. Then you do the needful.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fascism

Noun

Someone whose politics I don't like.

[–]turtlew0rk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

To be a fascist you'd have to be an Italian under Mussolini and it would have to be early 20th century

What??

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A tongue-in-cheek way of saying that, without a preamble on which competing interpretation of fascism we're using, the only people everyone can agree were fascists were the ones for whom the term was coined.

[–]turtlew0rk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I copy.