• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    Let’s see:

    • Fascism is calling from inside the house
    • All of the Republican candidates are fascists
    • The Supreme Court is stacked with Federalist Society-bred Christian Originalists.
    • Trump is likely going to be the Republican nominee

    And here’s Jill, like, “Mmm, yeah. Now’s a good time to try to split the vote.”

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      i think she’s thinking “now’s a good time for a green president” or maybe “now is a good time for an antiwar president” or “now is a good time for a woman president”. but what do i know? i’m just gonna vote for her.

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        now is a good time for an antiwar president

        Then maybe pick someone who doesn’t support Russia’s war of imperial conquest against Ukraine.

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        I mean, in the primaries, I’ll vote for whomever I personally like. But when Biden inevitably wins the nomination, I’ll be voting for him, because it’s either him or fascism. That’s not a hard choice to make.

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              it actually has a meaning.

              it sure does. hey, do you think Biden should march into Congress and take the fasces off the wall, or just drape an American flag over them?

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              fascism is a reactionary ideology the arose in response to leftist ideology like libertarian socialism or communism. a fascist society is strictly stratified and forces every institution to serve the interests of the state. liberal democracies are breeding grounds for fascism. look at the war on drugs or the cias war on communism. then look at every opportunity Biden had to endorse them or hinder them over the last 50 years.

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                That’s not what fascism is (or at least, it’s too broad of a definition). I think you’re responding in good faith, so:

                https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

                Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, 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 good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

                Being reactionary is a facet of Conservatism, and being on the political right itself, can have considerable overlap with fascism, but fascism itself need not be reactionary.

                But Biden supporting the war on drugs, for example, doesn’t make him a fascist. It makes him a supporter of a partial police state, sure, but that’s still not the same thing. Additionally, he’s made considerable effort to promote democracy, something a fascist wouldn’t do. And if he was a fascist, he would be a darling of the extreme right politicians and media, the “Democrat they always wished for.” Instead, they are doing everything they can to invent evidence to impeach him.

                Biden is a self-avowed Zionist, and part of old-guard-Democrats who support(ed) some awful policies. But there is no way you can honestly construe him as being cut from the same cloth as Hitler or Trump.

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                    He most definitely has. Practically every major national address, he’s promoted going out and voting. He literally made an executive order to promote access to voting. Encouraging voting for everyone equally is not the hallmark of a fascist. Ensuring only your own people get to vote is (see Republican efforts to suppress voters, Trump and crew’s efforts to overturn the election, etc.)

                    I’m not sure where you’ve been, but Biden is far from being a fascist. You don’t have to like him, but calling him a fascist is simply untrue.