Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

[Fascism] has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action.

Yeah, this guy can fuck right off.

When was the US not fascism? Serious question.

I would say certain white people but they don’t consider me white so maybe that’s why I’ve been freaking out too.

How long until we stop complaining about fascism and actively talk about doing something about it—publicly?

It was clearly fascism when Project 2025 was leaked.

Maybe the mainstream will finally reach consensus on the label just as the last reporters are being onboarded at gunpoint to concentration camp trains.

It was fascism in 2016 when he promised to ban people from entering the US based on religion.

Sure, all of that is true.

Why would you (not you, daannii, the general 'you') want to alienate an ally by rubbing that in their face?

You get a little emotional boost by feeling self-righteous in exchange for helping splinter the enemies of Fascism.

Welcome converts, don't spit on them.

Also the fact that Donny got off for January 6th still blows my fucking mind.

That's because they're fine with fascism too. This isn't a fight between parties. It's a fight between the rich owner class and everyone else.

They just voted to fund ICE. Again.

They're not failing at anything. A significant amount of them are just quietly complicit.

Actually Clinton joined in with them and started them on their process of becoming controlled opposition.

Like Bill Clinton and Trump were very close friends.

The red and blue party work as one and have been ruling in usa for a century

It was literally fucking YEARS of me dealing with variations of "he's not a fascist! He's just an impotent wannabe dictator, we'll be fine. You're overreacting!" from acquaintances and family. Not friends, I don't have friends that stupid.

I will stand arm in arm with every person who mocked me for "being a worrier", not just because it's the only way out of this, but because it's the best way, maybe the only way, to build a better future.

With that having been said, I hope each and every one of them gets a terrible case of genital lice at some point in their lives.

This is the best response.

How can I upvote this comment more than once?

I am so upset by articles like this, but the saddest part is that they're needed. Months ago a professor who studies fascism fled the country due to rising fascism. There were articles about it. I sent them to family and friends in an attempt to warn them about what was coming. Some did listen, but there are so many people we will have to pick up along the way and "meet where they're at". I wish all articles like this were "I'm a huge idiot and was horribly wrong and will devote myself to fixing this now", but in reality that helps no one. I can keep sending out articles like this and since it's not "wow! I and by extension you were a dumb idiot" people may feel like maybe realizing it now is smart and can have their minds changed. I would appreciate a better note at the end, once the reader may be swayed, that was about what to do going forward and how to learn to listen, but it is what it is.

Yay, The Atlantic gave us permission!

3000 things? Using the short list? 😆

"I declare it"

Fucking ridiculous. "Hitler is a Nazi, but Germany isnt Nazi!"

If they keep plugging their ears it can't be true!

the United States, once the world’s exemplary liberal democracy

When?

I'm pretty sure it was The Atlantic where I saw an article sanewashing Donvict being so weirdly thirsty for Greenland.

I mean....what the fuck?

Fascism is bad, communism is bad, socialism is bad. Leftists have successfully been labeled socialists and communists, why would the other side care about being labeled fascists anymore? They're just words, meaningless abstractions now.

The sad and dangerous thing is that many are actually starting to come around to the idea that fascism is good. They have spent years denying that Trump is a fascist and are now fully embracing it.

America needs a New Deal for both wealth inequality and authoritarianism.

their silence today with the atlantic coming forward is extremely embarrassing, along with the nytimes

Well, the US has arguably always been fascist. Essentially fascism is copratist control of the economy and a merger of corporations and state. Of course corporations as entities have evolved after the US's conception, but we've never been a democracy of the people, with only wealthy white business owners calling the shots.

We stole the land with genocide and apartheid, then built it on the backs of slaves. The house the president lives in was even built by slaves. When we "abolished" slavery, we had to make sure that we had a way out through incarceration. Guess which nation incarcerates more citizens than any other nation?

Not only that, but the US was a major inspiration for both Hitler and Mousolini.

And not to mention how we are constantly starting wars and instability around the world for our oligarch's own benefit. And that out biggest enterprise is weaponry and war technology.

The US is and has always been a fascist nation.

“President Trump was clearly making a joke.” - Enablers like the media, “centrist Democrats”, and others

.world communities are particularly squeamish about not toeing the corpo line.

No sub, on Lemmy or Reddit, is safe from power tripping mods. I'm currently dealing with a Lemmy mod on a few other Lemmy subs that's abusing his mod powers.

The bottom line is the other mods either need to step in and reign the bad mods in or remove them, or their sub dies. Seen it on Reddit plenty of times. But I've also seen Reddit mods that successfully removed their bad actors and then everything was fine. So it could go either way.

You guys are not even allowed to discuss anything further than a useless peaceful protest, or you get banned or shut down and silenced.

Everyone who isn't actively complicit is terrified of standing up and therefore standing out. It's a rational response and one we've been struggling with since the era of modern policing.

Even regular folk who mod on Lemmy are tripping over themselves to stop us from actually doing anything

I see a lot of empty gestures towards "someone should do something". I see books like "How to Blow Up A Pipeline" and movies like "One Battle After Another" exemplify and valorize domestic insurrection. It isn't as though there's some total censorship. And we have plenty of nominal organs of resistance - from charity groups to gun clubs to local political caucuses - that could "do something" if they knew what exactly it was they were trying to do.

But relatively few people want to risk their lives and livelihoods to take a turn at being Revolutionaries. We don't have a revolutionary movement. We have a random collection of martyrs piling up in the street - people who did not wake up that morning and declare they were going to die for their cause, but were just swept up in the violence for the most token forms of resistance.

Lemmy mods don't have to try particularly hard to squelch something that isn't emergent.

Some things are best discussed privately.

Even if, as I put it in my other reply to a similarly limp dicked Atlantic article, you're so late to the party that the caterers that were hired for it were deported by ICE months ago.

Stuff like this is why I unsubscribed. Just respectability politics.

Yeah, that’s fucked. Liberals aren’t fascist, they’re just fascist enablers.

LMAO they're calling people fascists for acting like a fascist 🤷 not sure how that makes it meaningless.

I think it's telling that you're getting down votes without response. Your question is simple: What do we have to gain by turning away potential allies other than massaging our egos?

It's a good question.

In a position commanding a wide public audience, Jonathan Rauch has spent years speaking against us and mocking us. Today, he's had an epiphany and figured out he's been well-paid to be wrong. That's cool. "Welcome to the fight. This time I know our side will win," and all that.

I'm not going to waste any effort kicking him today, but I'm also not shocked, not scolding anyone who doesn't welcome Jonathan Rauch with a bouquet of flowers and wet kisses. Anyway, in five days or five minutes he'll decide we're wrong again. Shrug.

I don’t need my ego salved and yes, i handle being called all sorts of names as a slight public figure and i don’t have a job important at all compared to a journalist. Knock this shit off. The fully grown professional man doesn’t need his ass patted because he might turn to fascism if not.

I remember when Americans could still believe they were the good guys.

And I know there are lots of good Americans. I'm talking about believing their country is a force for good.