• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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    24 hours ago

    Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader✔️, centralized autocracy✔️, militarism✔️, forcible suppression of opposition✔️, belief in a natural social hierarchy✔️, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race✔️, and strong regimentation of society and the economy✔️.

    Putin hit the uncle tom daily double on fascism

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      3 hours ago

      It’s funny how you can tell which insults have made liberals the most sore in the past. You would never call your despised Putler an Uncle Tom if not for the psychic wound left from that term being levied at Obama and others like him.

      That’s the typical Timothy Snyder/Hannah Arendt breakdown of authoritarianism and fascism, yes, which is always problematic as these definitions could easily apply to any western leader or the subimperialist regimes they prop up, your entire logic is inconsistent. But of course you know that. Poinring out the inconsistencies in your irrational beliefs would be a waste of time, not only because of your belligerence, but because fascism can only coherently analyzed historically.