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• DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IIUC, even the Communists say that communism doesn’t exist, and that they were in a socialist phase.

  IIRC I’ve read the term “Actual Socialist Countries”.

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  You think calling the US fascist is an exaggeration, lmfao?

  Fascists have an ideology. Trump pretty well has none, and he’ll be gone in 27 months if not sooner.

  You are free to protest against Trump in the US; call ICE goons names—scream at them even; IIUC no one has been conscripted in over 50 years; there are still Pride Parades—even now, the US is less homophobic than today’s Russia or yesterday’s USSR; Trump’s party will probably lose a House, maybe 2; and unlike Stalin, IIUC, the US made no treaty with the USSR to carve up a neighbouring country.

  I’d say the US is part democracy, part plutocracy, and part kakistocracy, but fascist? not really.

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  • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Right. So no countries ever reached communism. Glad we can agree.

    Oh man this is getting old. Give me the definition of fascism now, or the 14 tenets or whatever, and we can go through how the US fits most if not all of the markers, lol.

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    • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right. So no countries ever reached communism. Glad we can agree.

      What do you think about the governments of North Korea, the PRC, Cuba, Nicaragua, Maduro’s Venezuela, or the former USSR?

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      Oh man this is getting old. Give me the definition of fascism now, or the 14 tenets or whatever, and we can go through how the US fits most if not all of the markers, lol.

      wt:fascism

      Noun

      fascism (usually uncountable, plural fascisms)

      .1. Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition. [1922]

      .1. (strictest sense) The ideology and practice of the 20th-century Italian movement from which this name came.

      Coordinate terms: Francoism, Nazism

      .2. (loosely, by extension, derogatory) Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.

      .3. (figurative, derogatory) Any extreme reliance on or enforcement of rules and regulations.

      Synonym: sticklerism

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      • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        .1. Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition. [1922]

        Bingo bango America is fascist, lol.

        I hate all governments by the way, some are definitely more worthy of scorn than others though.

        Do you think your time is best spent arguing about the government of a small island 90 miles off the coast of Florida that sends free doctors around the world, or the global hegemonic power that’s starving the children there to death, who’s also responsible for destabilizing the world for the last 80 years?

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