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[–] [email protected] 252 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The definition of fascism is the marriage of corporation and state

  • Benito Mussolini

This is part of what true fascism looks like

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, well, what does that guy know about fascism?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

I thought he was mostly remembered for his diet plans.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Corporation in the sense he's using it is muddled, but what this is describing is accurate to what he meant. He meant that industry should be run by cooperative alliances that are under the fascist state. Like most fascists, he was always shifting what he meant by corporatism based on whatever rhetorical expediant that was most useful at the time. Corporatism sounds good but in principle it doesn't describe how exactly you form the corporations and how they govern themselves. It's accurate in the sense that this is an example of what he desired in using state power to always be a boot over any cooperative.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism to understand it's essentially a theory to contrast itself with Marxisim without actually describing specifics so it has wildly different interpretations that basically boil down to "let's get together and do what's best for everybody." Who knows how to draw the rest of the owl though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's looked that way for a long time, we just can't play pretend, anymore. And for those who keep trotting out the "told you so," we told you the Dems needed to stop playing pretend and get serious with serious candidates, rather than slightly less fascist fascists.

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[–] [email protected] 201 points 1 week ago (3 children)

At least name the rep. There’s plenty of us here who would gladly call them.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago

It really does seem like they are just trying to click bait when they pretend to not want to name the Employer

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I looked up the original thread and given that OP posts in r/Omaha, it's likely Don Bacon but since that's a small district it could also be one of the surrounding districts (possibly even in Iowa)

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[–] adarza 138 points 1 week ago

we have a government agency to help with that sort of thing.

oh. right. had.

[–] Sunshine 119 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We warned the people who sat home on election day about project 2025 and yet they covered their ears and enabled all of this.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (19 children)

And Democrats were warned that they need to stop putting their thumbs on the scale to push the most dog shit candidates that don't promise anything that will help the working class. Fascism happens when democracy is unresponsive to the needs of the working class, and for the last 50 years Democrats have just been great at finding excuses for why they can't do something. Do you think Trump will listen to the parliamentarian if they disagree with something?

Fuck, Democrats have even been voting for his cabinet picks, despite claiming Trump is a fascist. They all voted to confirm Marco Rubio.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And voters were warned with years of inaction that they needed to start being more engaged.

The reason we have so many shit candidates is because people don't show up for the real ones.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (15 children)

"The purpose of a system is what it does". If our system consistently produces shit candidates, shit policies, shit results and demoralizes voters... Then we have a shit system and nothing will ever improve until we demand a modern multiparty democracy with proportional representation and safe guards against fascism.

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[–] corsicanguppy 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Democrats fielded someone who wasn't a criminal IN A BINARY CHOICE.

It's baffling how stupid people are. Just vote for the person who isn't a rapist bent on destroying the country. Like "see the man-child who can't keep his hands to himself? Vote for the candidate who isn't him."

Stop whining that Dems didn't field mother Theresa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Genocide apologist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Mother Theresa was a fucking monster by the way…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Harris is a neoliberal in favor of genocide and Israel. If she wanted to win all she had to do was stand for Palestine and/or healthcare.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Stop whining that Dems didn't field mother Theresa.

I voted for Harris, but she was an accessory to Biden's genocide of Palestine. So don't pretend like she was a decent candidate. Her refusal to condemn genocide was monsterous and made her completely unfit for office, but she just happened to be the lesser evil so I voted for her.

Our system is just rotten beyond redemption. Conservatives ratchet the country towards oligarchy while Liberals act as bulwark against socialist reform that would actually help the working class.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Democrats were warned

So, the litmus test of this logic is this: Do we blame the opposition for the Nazi party? Should we start doing that too after 80 years?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's a concurrence. Who do you blame for the rise of the nazi party: the nazis who kept rigging the deck in their favor and sowing discord, the conservatives who enabled them, the ineffective social democrats whom people were disillusioned with, the people who held out against voting for them, or the people who basically were screaming at the latter three to do fucking something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With the amount of screaming and championing that the Dems have ignored I refuse to believe it's incompetence or ignorance. This is wilful and active support for the party they claim they're in opposition to.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was told by a coworker, just after election day, that Project 2025 was just propaganda, and that "Democrats have their own propaganda too you know..."

Shit left me speechless. I was just like, let's revisit this conversation in three months.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

mine were like yea but the price of eggs

I assure you we now talk about the price of eggs, inflation, and job security daily

and by that I mean I talk at them while they pretend it is all fine

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So did you revisit that conversation?

Because I've heard that exact sentence from my buddy, who is from Eastern Europe - still talking about the US. Where did they get that info, I will never know.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I voted for Harris out of harm reduction with a funeral dirge in my heart yet again voting for neoliberal scum that sold out the country to the corpo Fascists lock step with Republicans for decades, but is this the resistance from now on, or will we eventually stop scolding what is now the past hoping it will change the present or future?

Because it won't. You can't shame his voters, Republicans have been immune to shame since Reagan, and scolding the low information "I'm not political, teehee when's football/Reality Show crap on" people who haven't had anything at all to vote FOR, only against the greater evil for the last 50 years will only make them roll their eyes and remain disengaged.

Either foment hot revolution starting with destroying the capital markets, steal the DNC with a socialist populist as trump did as a fascist populist to the RNC, or back a socialist Party. Everything else is masturbation on a sinking ship with the capitalists tearing new holes every day.

Because either under neoliberals or Fascists, the capitalists are unrestrained. And if the capitalists remain unrestrained, the planet WILL burn in our lifetimes for all of humanity effectively forever, as millions of years is forever to our little monkey brains.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know some illegal recourses, and if they try to illegally destroy American lives then turnabout is fair play.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every fascist act is carried out by just a mere human. Same old problems have the same old solutions.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is a good opportunity to remind people to search yourself on the major search engines and take whatever steps necessary to remove your online presence.

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