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Seems like there's a whole lotta fascists on this internet.
by pfkurtz 6y ago
Seems like there's a whole lotta fascists on this internet.
- koheripbal 6y ago...where "fascist" is defined as: "anyone who disagrees with me".
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- albedoa 6y agoThat this comment is still up five days later, and amidst the current news, is a shocking failure by the mods. What an embarrassment.
- pfkurtz 6y agoNope. Where it's defined as people enacting or cheering right wing authoritarian destruction of democratic society. Like the supporters of Donald Trump.
- koheripbal 6y agoFeel free to keep putting those goal posts wherever you feel like today.
- pfkurtz 6y agoI have no idea what this is even supposed to mean. But that's what fascism is — right wing authoritarianism built around a leader cult merging racist populists with a corporate elite, directing state violence at marginalized/demonized groups. Which is what Trumpism is.
- groundpepper 6y agoThere's a political illiteracy in our politics (I'm including Canada, but more prevalent in the US it seems) that says fascism is hitler himself and the swastika and nothing else.
- albedoa 6y agoWhich makes their confidence in their literacy so bizarre. koheripbal's reaction to the uncontroversial observation is to first convince himself that it must be wrong and then project a specific and fantastical reason to explain why we have observed it. He really thinks he has figured something out.
- busymom0 6y agoSo the person who literally defends the right of citizens to be armed to defend themselves and right for their speech is an authoritarian destructor? Man I used to think HN consisted of intellectuals with more logic. I guess I was wrong. EDIT: Oh look, downvote brigade has arrived.
- claudiawerner 6y agoWho has actually expressed or implied this definition of fascism?
- albedoa 6y agoWhy is this comment allowed to stay up?