Pierre and Scheer has a lot to say about freedom of speech but get real quiet when Canadians get threatened.

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Ummm, he died literally one sentence after blaming gun violence on blacks. I’m pretty sure he was racist.

    I don’t know how the right is justifying calling the left fascists but looking up the definition, and I think defining this is both important and difficult, it is characterized by a strong sense of nationalism. MAGA. Check.

    Concentration of power into a small number of or a single person. TACO. Check.

    Creating an enemy of a segment of the population. Immigrants. Check.

    A capitalist economy subject to strict government controls. Government takes part of nVidea’s profits to allow then to seek secrets chip technology overseas. TACO ordering the fed to let rates. Tariffs. Check.

    Violent suppression of the opposition. I would call the way ICE is working violent and clearly removing people disloyal to Trump’s agenda from the government along with sueing news organizations and admitting that he would take revenge on his political opponents is pretty friggin close. Check.

    A policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. If you can’t see that, then I’ll never convince you. Big check.

    Oppressive dictatorial control. Well let’s see. The right has the house, Senate, the supreme Court, oligarchs, the presidency and the president is acting like a dictator circumventing normal governmental controls. Check.

    Charlie Kirk has been a lightning rod of indoctrination of young people into this philosophy.

    So yeah, fascist.

    The definition comes from the American Heritage Dictionary by the way in addition to other sources. Merriam Webster has a more comprehensive definition. I’d like to see one America DOESN’T match.