• finn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The King of Jordan

    fascism

    I’m not sure that this is surprising coming from Jordan, but he’s a monarchist not a fascist.

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      And it surprises me that he passed this law. As far as I remember he was trying to reform the country into a more democratic one

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          Ok, so the article says that he’s silencing islamists that started popping up as soon as he liberalised the country

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            Doesn’t sound very democratic to me. The dude is a thug pretending to be a good guy by spreading lies.

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      Its always a bit funny to see people conflate the two, by simply applying the “bad = bad” rubric.

      Fascists, for all their faults, do tend to have a certain degree of popular appeal. Meanwhile, modern day robber barons mostly just have a bunch of armed minions ready to terrorize anyone that crosses them in the midst of their local looting and pillaging.