• qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I know but why not call their actions fascist? They’re doing it because they’re fascists. It’s not a coincidence. Who benefits from us discussing the finer details of when a murder is fascist or fascist-adjacent or only Dr murderer is the fascist but the action isn’t… Like, why?

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      12 hours ago

      Because words mean things. Blowing up those boats is terrible, probably even terrorism, but just being awful behavior doesn’t make it fascist. They’re doing lots of fascist shit, and those things should be called out as such and need to be dealt with by the American people. Terroristic, colonial crimes against humanity are separate and need to be dealt with by the international courts. Details matter. Don’t dumb down the situation. Don’t dumb down yourself. Everything being simplified and made digestible and minimalized to spoon-feed the stupid fucking masses is what got us here. It’s fucking lazy. And look, I shouldn’t blow up on you like that, but I’m frustrated. I grew up watching the same fucking people who put these fascists in power make fun of Trump for being an obvious idiot, a sleaze, and not as rich as he claimed to be. Those people got lazy as they got old, and I guess the leaded gas had put enough holes in their brains that they started to believe the fucking liars. And let worse and worse people gain power over things like their kids education so that they could teach them “the answers” instead of how to find answers. So now I’m ranting, and there’s no chance you’ll bother reading all this. Your previous comments tell me that. I’m still gonna hit send, so here you go.