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[–]proc0 21 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 3 fun -  (68 children)

it's just a matter of looking up who sided with lockdowns, mask and vax mandates. Those are the literal fascists by definition.

[–]Site_rly_sux 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (38 children)

What's the definition of fascism have to do with masks and lockdowns?

[–]proc0 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (34 children)

It's the part where gov. mandated it and forced companies to comply, coupled with the media collusion to censor and only promote one narrative. Fascists support gov. influence on corporations.

[–]Site_rly_sux 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (30 children)

Ah, your imaginary extended universe. Got it

[–]proc0 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I can't hear you with that mask on.

[–]blackpoop321 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Serious question, are you stupid?

[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You think people with brainpower can only agree with you and never disagree?

Also, come on, don't ask people that. Dunning Kruger effect states you're never going to get a correct answer

[–]blackpoop321 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Wow you sound stupid AND gay. Did you just come out of reddit?

Also, IT IS a tangible information, you can literally go to a doctor and they'll assess whether or not you are officially stupid and then you get some more freebies from taxpayers, sounds like that would be right up your alley.

[–]Entropick 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They're probably ashkenazi jew. This is how you conquer people; fabricated and exaggerated "danger". It's a form of warfare. Chickenshit, backstabbing, disingenuous warfare but a form of nonetheless. They rely on this delusion of reality because it protects them and allows for a reaction in the target, which then may be accused of various definitions, such as, crazy, terrorist, racist, anti-semite; as the individual is greatly frustrated with the dishonest twisting of reality. It's very clever but not very smart because it relies on the shifting of definitions and a complete inversion of actual consensus reality. The dam will break eventually with this level of sadistic oppression and schizophrenic delusion.

[–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (23 children)

You're a dumbass. It is amazing you can see all this government overreach by dumbass liberals and you NOT deem that fascism.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (22 children)

Well, ok, let's hear it. I'll give you the chance to explain to me what overreach you experienced that you deemed fascism. Because to answer your question, no, I don't deem any overreach that I experienced to be fascism, but I'm willing to hear from you about it. Then we can look together whether the overreach you're talking about is similar to what people go through in fascist countries

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (21 children)

I could only see 5 people, I couldn't hold christmas with my family, I couldn't go shop without special government permission, I couldn't leave the country, I couldn't ... the list is endless

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

its those people YOU work for

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

    Figures fascists go out of their way to deliberately conflate their label rather than own up to such an accurate monicker.

    [–]Bonn1770Republican Party 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

    You want to know something interesting about the definition of "fascism"?

    THEY CHANGED IT.

    The real definition of fascism is government and large corporations colluding to consolidate power. Which is exactly what the Biden admin is doing, pushing queers, pedophiles, trannies, BLM and all forms of degeneracy, while all the biggest corporation now have rainbow faggot flags, BLM logos on their ads, every ad is a black man white woman couple, basically in lock step with the government. I can't imagine a more insidious form of fascism than the Obama and Biden admins' versions. And guess what, Hitler's National Socialist government was fascist as well, but was anti degeneracy and used fascist tactics to engineer the greatest economic miracle for Germany in all history. Time magazine made Hitler Man of the Year for this.

    But in the Communist Handbook it instructs anyone critical of Communism to call them a fascist, rule five of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: ridicule is our most powerful tool. But there was a problem, the real definition (now called the "classical" definition as if that doesn't mean the real one) of fascism is exactly what they are doing. Jews using their banking power to make corporations and governments work in lock step to gain power, see above. Larry Fink will bankrupt you unless you jam blacks into every ad. So they changed the definition to basically "a fascist is anyone on the far right" (which let's face it is anyone even moderately on the right).

    Language is so important. And we are letting them change the definitions of everything, which changes what we perceive as real. They changed the definition of "vaccine" so Pfizer and all could make hundreds of billions of dollars on a "covid vaccine" that ticks NONE of the check boxes for a traditional vaccine. And the other effect of constantly changing the definition of things, what is a woman, what is a fascist, is that nobody can agree on what is real anymore, which separates us into our own realities and prevents us from banding together against the globalists who are enslaving us.

    And every time you use a Jewish buzzword like "racism" (invented by Leon Trotsky a Bolshevik Jew leader who starved 11 million Ukrainian Christians to death in the Holodomor), you give it more power. In fact "racism" is what is called a "thought terminating cliche", as in it is designed to stop all discussion and shame you into silence in shame. "Discrimination" is a better word, it takes race out of it and is in fact a real word not some Jewish commie psyop, so please stop using that word. And here is why the fascists in the USA are so desperate to make everything about race:

    https://i.ibb.co/PCCyTyP/1661897568772175.png

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

    Communist fascism? WTF? You have no idea what you are saying dude.

    [–]DirewolfGhost 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

    Nice thought terminating comment comrade.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

    Fascism and communism are opposites.

    [–]DirewolfGhost 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    News to me. I thought they were both authoritarian.

    [–]Gaslov 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Authoritarianism takes many forms, all of which promise a lot.

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

    Yes, and?

    [–]Mr_Nikto 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

    None of these things are Fascist.

    let me find a video to educate you on what Fascism is... Here are some good ones.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_98uT1IZs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQbFgszFaZg

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    I don't have time to watch these videos, but if he thinks that German National Socialism is the same as Italian Fascism, he is completely wrong.

    Watch

    FASCISM DEFINED | The Difference between Fascism and National Socialism.

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

    No, he goes into the differences fairly well, but he does spout propaganda too.

    [–]Reed_Solomon 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

    The definition of fascism includes "right wing" so the left can never be fascist

    [–]proc0 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

    Musolini who created that movement, was a socialist before that. He applied the same ideology with some twists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#Beginning_of_Fascism_and_service_in_World_War_I

    The point is those extremes are not as polar opposite as it may seem, not to mention "right wing" is a vague term, not to mention defining a term with a specific political leaning can be a political strategy.

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

    Hitler also had many socialist policies in his platform. It was very right wing. And it was also very pro workers rights. I don’t want to re define words.

    But fascism is very authoritarian while appealing to the masses. It is an emotional movement, not a logical one. Fascism in Nazi Germany is similar to the left today, in that they took over with emotions. What they said made no sense. And it diddnt have to.

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

    It made sense to the nation's soul. Yes, it was very emotional, but it didn't CATER to whatever individual emotionality inhabited people like today's left, but rather authoritatively enforce whatever values were at the root of the common emotionality of the people. So they remain truly opposite.

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

    I dusagree

    [–]blackpoop321 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    Serious question, are you stupid?

    [–]Reed_Solomon 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    No, I'm simply displaying for everyone what the left will say.

    [–]blackpoop321 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    phew

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      [–]blackpoop321 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      "You should judge people by their character, not how dumb their username is" -Donald Trump

      The way you elevate usernames as some holy measure determining what someone can and can't say speaks a lot about your character and I bet you are clinically stupid too. I can change my username in a minute, but being a stupid is forever.

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

      Which one you are referring to?

      [–]Davethe_blank_ 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

      man do you leftists fucktards have to ruin every goddamned site on the internet? GTFO with this MSNBC propaganda.

      [–]at_finn 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

      MSNBC...totally trustworthy guys...totally not leftist, Democrat talking points.

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        [–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

        violent, racist proudboys..

        That's leftist propaganda.

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

          Not wrong about the network in general. Republican talking points on Fox are equally as trustworthy. What you have to do is go to Fox to find out truth about dems and to MSNBC to find truth about republicans, because they never tell on themselves.

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            [–]Site_rly_sux 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

            banned Trump from social media, impeached him twice (2 coup attempts), spied on his campaign, jailed his supporters, and then raided his home

            Those are the things that you're supposed to do when fascists criminally organise to gain power

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

              Wow did you find that on a facebook boomer page, grandad?

              Ok so let's say you're in charge of the justice department and you hear that a political candidate's staffers are almost all unannounced foreign agents, like how Manafort was working undercover for Yanukovic or Carter Page with the ruz. What would you do?

              Or let's say you run a social media company and you learn that a politician is using your platform to incite his followers to violence. What do you think you'd do about it?

              Or let's say you are a judge and the FBI have applied for a warrant to search a premises for top secret nuclear weaponry information. The FBI have already physically seen the documents in the location they've applied to search. Do you think you'd sign it, or would you abandon your duty?

              I mean you seem to have a real problem with these decisions, but when pressed, you just said I wasn't serious and offered a boomer meme. So now I challenge you to show whether or not you are a serious person and examine the points which you raised in more detail

              [–]Davethe_blank_ 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

              okay, so what you're saying is the FBI should listen to it's own lies. The entire Russian collusion thing was a hoax, a proven lie yet you parrot that shit.

              twitter does not apply that standard to both sides, so STFU with that shit.

              There were no nuclear weapon info in Trumps possession. Another proven lie. How can someone talk to you when all you believe is bullshit?

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

              what you're saying is the FBI should listen to it's own lies.

              No, I'm saying the courts should listen to sworn testimony from law enforcement officers.

              The entire Russian collusion thing

              I didnt mention that, you did (because I disagree with you about it)

              twitter does not apply that standard

              What? The point was, twitter won't allow you to incite violence on their platform, I have no idea what you mean here.

              There were no nuclear weapon info in Trumps possession. Another proven lie

              You and I don't know what. We only know that top secret documents were in an unlocked room, and they shouldn't have been, and all Americans are safer because the FBI went to secure them

              [–]ID10T 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

              You are actually the fascist. Wow get a grip.

              [–]Site_rly_sux 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

              Are you going to cry baby? Is it too difficult for the little baby to hold a rational debate?

              [–]ID10T 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              That would require a rational person to debate with.

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

                Yeah the real hallmark of a troll is asking you multiple exploratory questions based off the content you already wrote to get a wider picture of your beliefs on the matter. That's basically what it says under "troll" in the dictionary.

                What's not a troll, is the guy who just pastes boomer facebook memes then leaves before clarifying any of the nonsense he wrote.

                [–]SoCo 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

                Fascists always call their opponents fascists.

                An easy way to recognize this, is by noting the blanking calling a large group of people fascists, rather than specific actions.

                [–]Site_rly_sux 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                Commies always call their opponents communists.

                An easy way to recognize this, is by noting the blanking calling a large group of people communists, rather than specific actions.

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

                Yes, grouping and labeling people has became so very played out. We really should focus on specific arguments and actions, rather than mindlessly dividing others into with-us or against-us teams of arbitrary negative groups.

                [–]Rastafoo 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

                MS-DNC

                [–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

                Yeah, I get MSNBC thinks Trump is literally Hitler and anything they do to stop him from regaining the Presidency is warranted.

                However, these politically motivated attacks against a former US president are unprecedented. This is the kind of thing banana republics do. It's a bad look.

                Both parties are trash, but the trash the Dems push is worse.

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                  [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

                  Shit negro, how long do you think a bottle of vodka lasts me? That was yesterday nibba.

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                    [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

                    They're both pieces of shit, they're politicians. I'd appreciate if you'd stop the vote manipulation. Cheating to achieve what you believe is a noble goal is still wrong. It's this noble lie bullshit that's dug your party into a hole as is.

                    Only 30% of Americans have any booster shots. I figure that correlates almost exactly to how many people were forced to take it. Now we have a medical system nobody trusts. Yay.

                    There is an ancient bit of human wisdom that two wrongs do not make a right.

                    [–]SMCAB 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

                    Somebody doesn't know what Fascism means.

                    [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

                    Anyone not only talking but actually working towards an agenda is seemingly called "fascist" nowadays.

                    E.g.: You should see my circle of people meeting.

                    Mainly white folks, some black folks, two spaghetties and even one Asian gal. Working as a team. And these local politician mofos call us fascists.

                    While they are playing with their microdicks and grooming someones children, we are actually doing something.

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                      [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

                      Democracy ("as is") is one of the biggest lies they decorate their slavery-systems with, imho.

                      They should be asking people instead of doing stuff their mishpoke pays or blackmails them to do once they walked into their offices.

                      But it is a very wide terrain, we're exploring here.

                      I'm surely not "anti-democratic" per se, e.g. .

                      But i'm able to switch gears faster than those people can blink, if required. So to say.

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

                        People will stay people.

                        The same way as demagogues will stay demagogues.

                        Hitler was nothing, e.g. . A shitty runner when war came his way and an even shittier artist. And he had "jewish" ancestry himself.

                        A small, ugly dwarf with only half a nut shilling for blonde white man.

                        The bigger the lie, the more people can believe it, i concluded for myself. And just adapted "my" tactics.

                        But then some rich folks started funding the bs he was spreading. He had so much fucking help, lifting him: I believe he didn't even know about all the "people" lending him a hand.

                        In the age of evernet this isn't so easy.

                        Thankfully.

                        I already told my truth several times when i wrote that "my" kind of people are doubters.

                        Doubters with hands and the force of will to actually "better" something. If not for humanity as a whole at least for "our" people.

                        Everything has become sort of tactical. Its corollary is as simple as it is hard: Sit it out.

                        And that's some kind of sad, at least.

                        [–]scornedandsedated 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

                        Communism is so fashionable now. Most people don't. even. know. the. fucking. difference.

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

                          Says the poster in an online gulag.

                          [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (16 children)

                          Both the DNC and the GOP are fascists

                          [–]FozzieBear[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

                          Dude.

                          Look at the bills Democrats write, and the number of times ALL Republicans try to obstruct their passage, and consider that the student loan forgiveness would NEVER have happened via Republicans, and that there bave been numerous attempts to reform voting rights, rebuild infrastructure, develop jobs and much more that the Republicans and 1 or 2 traitor Democrats put a stop to. Republicans NEVER do anything for the 99%. 40 years of their abuses have led to extreme income inequality, making the US comparable to a 3rd world nation in some sectors (education, healthcare, amoung of $ people have in the bank, amount of debt, etc).

                          In fact, the weakest aspect of the Democrats, is that they and their supporters will not follow the same party lines. They don't blinly follow one agenda. Republicans are however united in their fascism.

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

                          You mean like that time Joe Biden made it harder to declare bankruptcy because his main backer MBNA bank wanted him too?

                          "How Biden helped create the student debt problem he now promises to fix"

                          https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/02/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-2005-act-2020

                          https://www.gq.com/story/joe-biden-bankruptcy-bill

                          https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mbna-paid-bidens-son-as-biden-backed-bill/

                          "Biden's Link To Credit-Card Firm Questioned"

                          https://www.npr.org/transcripts/93954519

                          Say it ain't so Joe! He does not care about this, motherfucker is buying votes with our tax dollars, may he burn in hell

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                            [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

                            Also, Trump has been bankrupt 8 (?) times, screwing numerous people out of their money. It shouldn't be so easy to file for bankruptcy. People like Trump abuse the option.

                            No argument from me here, 100% agree

                            Good points, but that's not fascism.

                            No, but I will tell you what is. Undermining free speech on a technicality by having the FBI have all the media companies censor true information about hunter biden's laptop when they can't legally do it themselves, and commit election interference by doing it during a presidential campaign, and then appointing a guy to the intelligence board who signed a document saying the laptop story was Russian disinformation, and also trying to start a ministry of truth. That all sounds a lot like somethiing that would happen in George Orwell's 1984

                            [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                            But that's not fasicsm. That's dictature, totalitarianism.

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

                            But that's not fasicsm. That's dictature, totalitarianism.

                            You are right, but it did fit the popularly incorrect definition that OP was using, and I long ago gave up on explaining the nuances of Fascist and Communist theory to people who refuse to understand what those things are

                            [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

                            Well, I don't think the student loan forgiveness is a very good bill. It literally does nothing to address the systemic issues that cause all this debt to be accrued in the first place, nor will it prevent the next group of students from accruing massive debts, just unfairly favor this group over others that have and will have to pay them back. It is literally trying to buy votes with an extremely irresponsible policy

                            Furthermore, these loans are actually a privilege. As not a current student, nobody is give me a loan for a few hundred K with rate lower than your average home loan, especially if I had zero income whatsoever. The people with hundreds of thousands in loans are ones that:

                            a. Made poor decisions to attend pay out of state or private tuition to get a liberal arts degree that wont allow them pay off a quarter million in loans

                            b. Doctors, lawyers and other highly paid professionals that will have no trouble paying back these loans

                            I went to an excellent community college, it cost me $39 a credit, and I got more personal instruction than I ever did at my more expensive state university.

                            The united states has a huuuuge lack of community colleges, trade schools, apprenticeships and options for people that are not 4 year universities. The US, including the Dems have perpetrated this system of loans, overpriced school, worthless degrees, and convincing everyone they need a college degree or they will end up destitute.

                            The current economic situation has been caused by "neo-liberalism" which both the DNC and GOP are practitioners of. You realize all the big banks were bailed out by the Obama industry and donate to to democratic politicians more than republicans right?

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                              I don't disagree with the sentiment that Republicans have been worse on these issues, as they won't even make show of giving us any table scraps.

                              But the fact is that representative democracy has been coopted by billionaires and corporations (again no thanks to the republicans who passed Citizens United which certainly made this worse). The big banks, big pharma, and the insurance companies that have been robbing us blind have largely been donating to and been enabled by left wing politicians. Like Obama and the bank bailouts, or Kamala and Warren's rapid flip-flop on and the refusal of almost all Democrats to support a single-payer health care system, even in the face of Covid when people were losing their jobs and we have healthcare tied to jobs, and there is an obviously a public health interest in everyone being, well, healthy

                              Yes, I'll grant you that the Democrats ARE our only hope of ever getting these things done as Republicans wont even pretend to support these things. And I think this is why its honestly more important to hold the democrats to these standards - because we know the republicans won't ever do it. It has to be the left, and they have to be the ones to be forced by the voters to make this kind of corruption unelectable. We need to follow the model set by the Scandinavian countries which have at least managed to provide a social safety net and basic services to their people while maintaining a capitalist economy

                              Its like if Superman and Lex Luthor both tortured and muredered someone, and then Superman arrested Lex for murder. Id be more upset with Superman, because wtf hes supposed to be the good guy. The democrats are superman, we are supposed to be the good guys, and I dont want to see us acting like lex luthor. I'm not gonna change Lex luthor, but if Superman turns evil too, then we are all fucked

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                              Anyways, also just wanted to say I appreciate the debates we have. I don't want you to think I'm like the others here who resort to childish ad hominems when people don't agree with them. I also wanted to concede a point to you from a while back. I had written a response as such and then soundsituation hit me with an IP ban when I was sending it. You were indeed correct about that white phosphorous article I had posted being an unfair portrayal, after looking at the some of the material you linked and some other sources, there was indeed reasonable context for the policies around it.

                              [–]EthnocratIndependent 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

                              OK boomer.

                              [–]EthnocratIndependent 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

                              I wish!

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

                              Narrator: But it wasn't increasingly apt actually

                              [–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

                              Well be afraid. Be very afraid. Biden's F-15 takes 23 million dollars and 200 people to put in the air for less than an hour. An AR-15 works as long as you have ammo and can reload and pull the trigger.

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                              Oldschool. I sometimes really like your attidute.

                              Imagine one or two companies...

                              And then sme wanting to take something from them with force...

                              With "soldiers" (grunts, i'd rather call them) that grew up playing computer games.

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

                              I grew up in Harmony Church at Fort Benning, Georgia. US Army Infantry School. I'm a real grunt.

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                              I always dreamt of visiting Georgia.

                              Peaches...

                              I can read any map.

                              I vacated German Officers school in Munich.

                              Four years. Then i was bored. Then Afghanistan.

                              So to say. You can believe this one or not:

                              Soldiers don't shoot each other with a loose triggerfinger. They scope actually.

                              Except they are French, though.

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