• @TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Tell me that you don’t know what fascism is without telling me you don’t know what real fascism.

    What the USA has been for a long time is an oligarchy, and there are literal Princeton studies to support it. It’s only now that it’s following Russia into becoming full-fledged dictatorships.

    • hamid 🏴
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      83 months ago

      The Ku Klux Klan is quite literally the genesis of the modern fascist movements

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          43 months ago

          Is*

          The slave owning oligarchs in the American South are classical fascists. They still own slaves but they are now inside prisons.

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            3 months ago

            I would argue it’s fallen out of favor with the preferred organization nowadays being the GQP Trump personality cult. But yes, and they still trade in what slavery basically was, insurmountable debt.

    • @pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      Yeah, Trump’s movement is fascist, and I’m sure that we’ll be in some kind of fascistic autocracy if he wins the election, but I think what this meme is trying to describe is imperialism, not fascism.

      • @TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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        23 months ago

        That would make sense, imperialism and colonialism go hand in hand. Maybe fascism is the inevitable consequence of when expansion is no longer possible and the imperialism and its faux patriotism turns inward.