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The reason people focus on definitions like “oh, it’s really about toxic masculinity!” is because admitting the truth would make them look bad: Fascism is a co

The reason people focus on definitions like “oh, it’s really about toxic masculinity!” is because admitting the truth would make them look bad: Fascism is a collectivist authoritarian system with regulated commerce rather than direct state control, often co-occurring with systemic racism. The reason people don’t want to be honest about the definition is that it’s the platform of modern Democrats, who are gaslighting by calling everyone else a “fascist”: Democrats are collectivist authoritarian. Democrats are pushing for regulated commerce. Democrats are rebuilding systemic racism, from rationing healthcare [2] and government aid [1] based on race to attempting to repeal civil rights laws in WA [4] and CA [3]. Democrats took to the street in acts of arson, violence, and murder to terrorize the public ahead of an election — the modern Brownshirts. [5] Democrats are fascist. Sources: https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/farmers-upset-with-bidens-american-rescue-plan-act/ https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/farmers-upset-with-bidens-amer... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/race-based-covid-rationing-ideology/621405/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/race-based... https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Proposition_209_Affirmative_Action_Amendment_(2020) https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr... https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmative_Action_and_Diversity_Commission_Measure_(2019) https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat... https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-what-happened-at-the-chop-shooting-that-killed-a-teenager-and-led-to-the-areas-shutdown/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-wha...

leereeves 5y ago
> Fascism is a collectivist authoritarian system with regulated commerce rather than direct state control That's the clearest definition of fascism I've ever heard. Where's it from?
- zmgsabst 5y ago
  I’m paraphrasing what the fascists said their goals were. If you read about fascism, their proponents viewed it as “Marxism 2.0” — where they could leverage the socialist ideas of collectivist authoritarianism without the problems encountered by the original Marxist revolutionaries with total state control of commerce. A unified populace where “everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
  - _0ffh 5y ago
    Quite, one of the biggest influences on fascism was the nationalist wing of the corporatist syndicalists. Mussolini himself said "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power".
8note 5y ago
The Democrats are trying to get rid of government violence via getting rid of police. How is that authoritarian?
_usr1 5y ago
I couldn't care less what oblique definition of fascism came out from some american think-tank in the 80s, narrow enough to not anger any of their thatcherian or reaganite friends. I'm italian, my grandfather was drafted in the balilla first at 14 and the fascist army later. And his stories of the time were all about the violence, the machismo, the open contempt for the gay, the jewish, any other minorities. That's fascism, no matter if it doesn't match your clinical idea of what fascism should or shouldn't be. And yes, they were as silly and ridiculous as the tiki torches guys or the Jan 6 coup guys. Until they were fully in power. Then everybody stopped laughing, or wondering if they were really dangerous or not. And to be quite honest with you, worry not - I think we'll find very, very soon how close those are compared to US democrats to actual fascists(tm).
CyberDildonics 5y ago
Democrats took to the street in acts of arson, violence, and murder to terrorize the public ahead of an election — the modern Brownshirts. [5] Your link for this sweeping generalization is a single shooting in seattle months before the election of someone not old enough to vote.

leereeves 5y ago

> Fascism is a collectivist authoritarian system with regulated commerce rather than direct state control That's the clearest definition of fascism I've ever heard. Where's it from?

zmgsabst 5y ago
I’m paraphrasing what the fascists said their goals were. If you read about fascism, their proponents viewed it as “Marxism 2.0” — where they could leverage the socialist ideas of collectivist authoritarianism without the problems encountered by the original Marxist revolutionaries with total state control of commerce. A unified populace where “everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
- _0ffh 5y ago
  Quite, one of the biggest influences on fascism was the nationalist wing of the corporatist syndicalists. Mussolini himself said "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power".

8note 5y ago

The Democrats are trying to get rid of government violence via getting rid of police. How is that authoritarian?

_usr1 5y ago

I couldn't care less what oblique definition of fascism came out from some american think-tank in the 80s, narrow enough to not anger any of their thatcherian or reaganite friends. I'm italian, my grandfather was drafted in the balilla first at 14 and the fascist army later. And his stories of the time were all about the violence, the machismo, the open contempt for the gay, the jewish, any other minorities. That's fascism, no matter if it doesn't match your clinical idea of what fascism should or shouldn't be. And yes, they were as silly and ridiculous as the tiki torches guys or the Jan 6 coup guys. Until they were fully in power. Then everybody stopped laughing, or wondering if they were really dangerous or not. And to be quite honest with you, worry not - I think we'll find very, very soon how close those are compared to US democrats to actual fascists(tm).

CyberDildonics 5y ago

Democrats took to the street in acts of arson, violence, and murder to terrorize the public ahead of an election — the modern Brownshirts. [5] Your link for this sweeping generalization is a single shooting in seattle months before the election of someone not old enough to vote.