Those train tracks are the non-voting, bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe idiots.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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What's important to note is that people have been doing it according to your politics for decades, and it has produced the situation we're in right now.
It kind of seems like the lesser of two evils and pied piper strategies are actually closer to being the tracks in this metaphor, not the people who refuse to vote for Fascist Lite.
Yeah, this is what always bothers me about the vote shaming crowd. Yes, we need to reelect Biden because Trump is a literal fascist who will end American democracy, but we need to have a hard look at how we got into this position, starting with Democrats embrace of neo-liberalism in the 90s and ending with the fact that the party is running a candidate that 67% of their own voters didn't want on the ticket. And no, Biden and Trump are not the same, but George W. and Obama were pretty damn similar, as well as Clinton, Regan, and the first Bush. If the Democrats don't start offering and actual progressive alternative to the right, we're just going to keep doing this until a more competent fascist finally wins.
It's been here since around September 11th, 2001
Did you know, in 1953, the US and UK governments overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran and installed a monarch after they voted to nationalize their oil industry to wrest control of it from BP?
Seems pretty fascist to me.
Is your definition of fascism essentially anti-democracy? Or military aggression/ colonialism? Honestly asking, because I’m not seeing what I’d consider hallmarks of fascism in your description.
Look up the definition of fascism. There are a few. Here is one:
Broadly, a tendency toward or support of a strongly authoritarian or dictatorial control of government or other organizations; -- often used pejoratively in this sense.
What do you call it when the American government supports and imposes strongly authoritarian or dictatorial control of government even if in another country. Is that not fascism?
We did this in Guatemala too at the behest of the United Fruit Company. The CIA director Allen Dulles and his Secretary of State brother, John Dulles, were on United Fruit Company’s payroll for 38 years. In 1954, the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala after they passed reforms to end exploitative labor practices by United Fruit Company that it saw as a threat to its profits.
Another definition of fascism involves the repressive use of government by business to ensure control of the market.
A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights.
That train needs to be more rickety and the tracks terminate over a cliff. Fascists always destroy themselves. They literally cannot help it, it's built into fascism itself. Sadly, they always aim to hurt and kill as many as possible along the way. Bunch of short sighted mental invalids.
I fear the rise of fascism like I fear the rise of restaurants not having ice for my water.
Ah, wonderful, stay the fuck out of the way while people who care about things keep our society aligned towards morality and democracy. Just keep quiet and enjoy the world that others have built for you. I legit don't mind, I want to help the idiots and brainwashed as much as I want to help the rest of the population have a better future and more personal freedom.
Eh, maybe. Just cause it hasn't worked long term yet doesn't mean it won't. Don't copy their "the enemy is simultaneously weak and stupid, and strong and crafty" rhetoric
🙄 This reeks of chronic online-ness.
This reeks of someone who uses the word "woke" unironically
Edit: I couldn't help my curiosity. Turns out not only do they use the word "woke" unironically, they seem to think that grown men dating teenagers is A-OK, because of course they do:
Imagine my utter lack of surprise.
Yes. Teenagers are basically children.
You reek of ignorance. Right wing parties are gaining support pretty much all over the place.
Not really. The alt-right isn't a new thing anymore, it isn't growing by leaps and bounds, and it generally isn't fascist by any historical definition of the term.