Robert De Niro Loses It: Says If Trump Wins, ‘We’re Into Fascism, Period’

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[–]Chipit 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Uh, this already happened?

There needs to be a name for this constant "we're over a cliff now" screaming. We're perpetually doing it, and yet every day it resets so that we can do it again. Anyone got a catchy phrase?

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I really don't get the constant equating Trump with facism at all. Does anyone know the logic behind it?

Edit: oh, and I have to add in my standard De Niro is a sexual harraser who blacklists men who refuse to sleep with him so has no moral high ground to stand on.

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

Yeah me either - don't care for trump and dislike all politicians/celebrities the same, but do they even know what fascism is? I suppose the words they use don't really have to mean anything - everything is an -ism or -ist

[–]Questionable 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Giving them the benefit of the doubt? It's because Trump had no idea how the office of the presidency worked when he was first elected and said a bunch of really absurd things during his first year. And these people can not move on past that.

Not giving them the benefit of the doubt? They either have a financial or personal investment in his defeat, or they are as equally oblivious to what is going on as Trump once was. And again, they did not move on.

As for that article, it's amazing how that De Niro managed to say so much, and make so many accusations, while saying absolutely nothing at all. If someone would care to point out exactly what he's accusing the president of in that article, I'd really like to hear it.

[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not that Trump is a fascist. Far from it. He's a 1980s Democrat. It's that they just can't think of a worse thing to say. It's the worst insult they can think of, so they use it freely.

You have to realize just how much Trump damaged leftist psyches by being elected. At a stroke, everything they knew about the world was proved wrong. This led to crippling cognitive dissonance, as they realized that Hillary was a criminal warmonger who belongs in prison and how could I have voted for her? Bad, bad, bad feelings. They have to get it out somehow. And screaming is what they chose. The worst thing they can think to scream is "Fascist". So they scream all the time, trying to feel better.

The idea that maybe they were complete assholes and that was the problem was rejected. They aren't going to change. It is the American people who were wrong.

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

SJWs have a tendency to go straight for the nuclear option. Don't agree with somebody? They're a fascist who must be destroyed!

While emotionally satisfying for a while, it leaves them little scope for escalation and moves them ever further away from normal people. It's psychologically ruinous to think this way. There's no way a person can be mentally healthy while believing that half the country elected a fascist hater all all that is gay, brown, or wamen. This is how people like Ted Kaczynski are made.

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Uh, based?