• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    13 hours ago

    When exactly did fascism stop in the states? Was it after the Civil War ended slavery but didn’t give blacks the right to vote? Or when we gave them the right to vote but also sent their men to die in Vietnam? Or did it end with the USSR while we supported the genocide in Palestine? Fascism in the states exists on a spectrum and voting is often choosing which direction it will creep towards.

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      12 hours ago

      Donald Trump isn’t creeping, he’s speed running, and voting did put him in office. Also fascism did not exist during the civil war it was invented in 1919.

          • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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            Unquestionable authoritarian force, outside of that it is literally all debatable and just outlines of different types of approaches and tactics to achieve political goals via that level of authoritarianism. If you want to define it as what was written in the 1919 manifesto specifically that would be a specific brand, or plan, of fascism, which was different from the later brands of Italian and Spanish Fascisms, which differed from McCarthyism, which differed from Jim Crowe, which were all different from the fascism of The Roman Legion, The Spartans, The Caesars, or The Crusades. All were fascism.

            Don’t be a pedant, it’s annoying and pointless.