• Ech@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    This is fascism-lite. Just because people aren’t disappeared doesn’t mean it’s not in the same category. And the only way we can hope to stop from getting to “actual” fascism is by resisting shit like this.

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      6 months ago

      Exactly.

      Fascism doesn’t come in detended stages, it’s tiny increments where the state seizes more power and restricts rights gradually until suddenly you notice that people are disappearing and everyones primary emotion is fear

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      6 months ago

      I don’t disagree that silencing protest is bad. It’s just not fascism. Fascists kill dissenters.

      Treating protestors like this is the norm (though it always must be fought). It’s how they were treated during Occupy Wall Street. It’s how they were treated during Vietnam and the civil rights fight. Authoritarianism can come from both the left and the right. Fascism is always from the right.

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        6 months ago

        Fascists kill dissenters.

        Not in the beginning. In the beginning it’s more about the economic side of fascism. And that has definitely happened in the US. For decades now.