• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    At what point do we just start openly calling Republicans Nazi sympathisers? They’ve thrown their weight behind this shitty fascist Nazi wannabe, again, and have done fuck all against him.

    They’ve sat down at the table with Nazis (quite literally with some of their supporters), so they may as well have to defend or accept it publicly rather than being crypto fascists about it.

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      They’ve sat down at the table with Nazis (quite literally with some of their supporters), so they may as well have to defend or accept it publicly rather than being crypto fascists about it.

      They literally cannot admit it: any discussion on the topic devolves into reverse accusations about how leftism is the new fascism, even though that’s a fuckin’ stupid thing to say.

      Conservatism has morality exactly backwards: they see their ideology as “good,” so obviously fascism can’t be on that same side of the spectrum! They see their beliefs and values as clearly superior because they hold them. There’s no intellectual integrity there, which is why they change their minds about policy only when it has a negative impact on their life. They haven’t carefully considered the topic; they’ve been force-fed reactionary propaganda that keeps that from happening.

      Lies and anti-intilectualism are the fertilizer that fascism requires to thrive; winding up the “woke” is a deliberate effort to recruit more reactionaries.

      They will never admit it, because that ruins the game.

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      Sympathizers? I mean they started the trump presidency by marching in the streets with torches and there’s already been a Reichstag fire. Trump kept a collection of Hitler’s speeches on his night stand and rips lines straight from it all the time. I think you can just call them Nazis.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally

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      At what point do we just start openly calling Republicans Nazi sympathisers?

      7 years ago. You’re way late to the party.

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      The main issue is with mainstream media’s “both sides” approach. They will not show how far gone the Republican party is because that would drive away what little “centrist”/Republican viewers they have, which would cut into profits. If you showed every new story that came out about a Republican saying/doing some fascist ass shit, people not in the political scene would label you as a biased liberal.