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> Congress gets a lot wrong, but at at least they tend to stay clear of Godwin's law. Diminishing the industrial slaughter of millions of people by comparing it

> Congress gets a lot wrong, but at at least they tend to stay clear of Godwin's law. Diminishing the industrial slaughter of millions of people by comparing it with some minor adjustments to copyright law is certainly not raising the level of debate. Fascism is about an alliance between industry and government against the people. Genocide is neither necessary nor sufficient to label a system "fascist."

mainstreemm 6y ago
> an alliance between industry and government against the people. Well at least this guy's got a definition, that's the first time I've ever seen someone try to define fascism in an internet argument. Hell even Wikipedia doesn't do that! Unfortunately I don't see how the definition fits to the three classical examples of fascist regimes, Japan, Italy, or Germany. In all of those cases the nationalized industries were aligned with the groups perceived to be "the people." The oppression was against perceived internal aliens but the majority of people benefited in the short term and that's why these leaders were popular. The genocide is a necessary side effect of perceiving some internal groups as authentic and others as aliens or oppressors. The real parallel can be drawn with attitudes on the Left today who perceive BIPOC people as authentic Americans and those of European descent to be Colonizers responsible for everything wrong with our society who should give the land back. Unfortunately this attitude has also energized morons like the Proud Boys to "fight back," but at least for now all these idiots are just LARPing revolution. Hope it stays that way.