Maybe US mainstream media should begin using the term ‘fascism’

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America’s mainstream media is by now comfortable talking and writing about “authoritarianism”. Maybe it should also begin using the term “fascism”, where appropriate.

Even Joe Biden, never known as a rhetorical bomb-thrower, last Thursday accused the Republican party of “semi-fascism”.

Authoritarianism implies the absence of democracy, a dictatorship. Fascism – from the Latin fasces, denoting a tightly bound bundle of wooden rods typically including a protruding axe blade, adopted by Benito Mussolini in the 1930s to symbolize his total power – is different.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/31/ron-desantis-republican-party-fascism
 
I’ve been watching the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, for some time. Last Tuesday I tweeted: “Just wondering if ‘DeSantis’ is now officially a synonym for ‘fascist’.”

I was surprised at the outrage my little tweet provoked in rightwing media.

The Washington Examiner, for example, called me an “ultra-leftwing elitist” who wrote an “insulting slur”, which is “what leftwing ideologues do when they discuss Republican politicians who pose any threat to the existence of their political ideology … Anyone the Democrats don’t like or disagree with is a fascist.”

This was among the kindest responses.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/31/ron-desantis-republican-party-fascism
 
Earl said:
Indeed.

Biden, threatening to use F-15’s on American citizens.

Fascist.
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Maybe you better look up civil war to see what it means


Did the union hold back its entire military to be fair to the confederate troops



Yes we will destroy you assholes if you get violent with Americans

Cry more
 
We are America

You trump lying assholes claiming you will go civil war on us are not America


See how that works assholes



How many F15s do you racist trumper shits have?


Think about that
 
We are a democracy and a lawful society



You didn’t like how all that democracy and law worked out for trump



So you attacked us on J/6


Now you are saying you will attack us again


That you will start a civil war to keep your fat assed king out of an Orange jump suit



We will treat you as you should be treated under our Democratic law based government as it was designed



Like deadly criminals



Bank on it
 
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BidenPresident said:
Why? How is Biden a fascist?
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He's deep into using the power of the state to direct and control the economy. Statist capitalism is a staple of fascists and fascist governments.

He's using the police powers he has control of to go after political enemies.

That's two of many examples.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Energy policy. Pushing the New Green Deal stuff like subsidizing EV vehicles, etc. While some of this isn't new, statist capitalism is fascist and Biden's doing nothing to reign it in. If anything, he's using far more of it to direct the economy.
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The government always subsidizes research.
 
BidenPresident said:
America’s mainstream media is by now comfortable talking and writing about “authoritarianism”. Maybe it should also begin using the term “fascism”, where appropriate.

Even Joe Biden, never known as a rhetorical bomb-thrower, last Thursday accused the Republican party of “semi-fascism”.

Authoritarianism implies the absence of democracy, a dictatorship. Fascism – from the Latin fasces, denoting a tightly bound bundle of wooden rods typically including a protruding axe blade, adopted by Benito Mussolini in the 1930s to symbolize his total power – is different.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/31/ron-desantis-republican-party-fascism
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YES, TO DESCRIBE THE PEOPLE WHO SOUGHT TO USE FORCE TO MAKE PEOPLE WEAR MASKS ,SHUTDOWN THEIR BUSINESSES, GET VACCINATED, THREATENED MEDIA OUTLETS TO BURY THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY....ETC, ETC., ETC...
 
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