Just your average friendly neighbourhood radical.
Yes that’s what we’re Increasingly moving towards.
Nope. We’ve been there for a long, long time now. People are only figuring it out now, though.
Beware though, that all of this is a spectrum…
The (so-called) “political spectrum” becomes perfectly irrelevant once you understand WHY and HOW our political establishments dangle the liberal carrot and the fascist stick before us.
You don’t want to know why the liberals keep fascists around?
They do say ignorance is bliss - maybe that applies to you.
they don’t have control of state militaries
Of course they don’t. They don’t need direct control of the military. That’s what their pet political establishment is there for. You know… the political establishment who gets to decide who they will ALLOW you to vote for every four years?
In fascism, the state is at the top
And liberalism differs from that… how?
and become an extension of the government
And what did you think the Military-Industrial Complex was?
You’re not describing anything here that differs from liberalism in any fundamental way. You’re not wrong - I just don’t think you realize the full implications of what it is you are saying.
It doesn’t matter how much money you have,
We’re not talking about the surgeon who lives in the nice part of town and drives a Merc here… we are talking about the capitalist class who controls ALL of our society INCLUDING it’s repression apparatus. And Trump, an incompetent capitalist nepobaby cosplaying as a fascist, needs Zuckerberg far more than Zuckerberg needs Trump. Trump knows it, and the entire US political establishment knows it.
The billionaire parasite class ARE the people in charge.
The fascists serve them, genius. That’s the whole point of fascism.
Critics see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation,
Give me a break. Since when does the billionaire parasite class have anything to fear from the US establishment?
a system that prevents fascism, but it doesn’t exist.
Who brainwashed you into thinking that? The liberals who always come up with a 1001 excuses to keep fascism around, perhaps?
You prevent it through other sociological structures.
And what “sociological structures” would these be, pray tell?
The method for selecting power can’t do what you want it to do.
Oh we cannot democratically decide what power should do or how it should be distributed, eh?
Why am I not surprised that your TRUE ideology turns out to be as anti-democratic as the status quo you are shilling for?
The Holocaust was a short while ago, tadpole. Read a history book.
Oh, look… the liberal edgelords telling me to “learn how to read” is proving incapable of reading, comprehension, and/or a combination of both.
This is what I said in response to your liberal gibberish:
Democracy isn’t a magic anti-fascist spell,
Remember that piece of liberal gibberish you spouted? Here’s what I said in response:
Yes it is, genius. THAT IS LITERALLY WHY IT WAS INVENTED.
Does your liberalism-addled brain require a picture, perhaps?
Save it for the next fascist your (supposedly) “democratic” system siccs on you, liberal.
You’re the one who said that democracy was invented as a measure against fascism.
Prove it.
you specifically said fascism
No I did not, genius. What you call “fascism” is merely the specific form that hierarchical violence takes in the liberal nation state.
Is something beginning to gel here for you?
which was invented in the 20th century.
Oh, really? Why doesn’t all the mass-murder perpetrated by the liberal order in the colonised world count as “fascism” to you, Clyde?
Where the victims not white enough for you?
ethno-nationalism, militarisation of the state, flexible suppression of opposition and centralised autocracy.
Oh. So… bog-standard hierarchical violence, then?
Just because you’re
Again. How the fuck do you liberals get through the day with all this foaming, nuclear-level incoherence bouncing around inside your heads?
Seriously - I’d STILL like to know.
Americans went for a second helping at the trough of fascism.
The US has been pro-fascist long, long before Mussolini gave it a name.
Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.
Yeah. The responses on here certainly seems to bear that out.
Democracy has existed far longer than fascism has…
And? Are you so utterly brain-addled as to believe that hierarchical violence was invented in the 20th century?
the earliest fascist movements weren’t until the 1910s,
Oh, right… for a minute there I almost forgot that liberals only call it “fascism” when the victims are white.
while the earliest recorded democracy was around 508 BC
So it was invented all that time ago, and you STILL don’t have the foggiest idea what it actually is, eh?
That tracks, liberal.
My dear god, this is history fundamentals.
Again. How the fuck do you liberals get through the day with all this foaming, nuclear-level incoherence bouncing around inside your heads?
Seriously - I’d like to know.
Democracy isn’t a magic anti-fascist spell,
Yes it is, genius. THAT IS LITERALLY WHY IT WAS INVENTED.
If someone can convince enough of the population to elect them,
then they get into power, fascist or not.
If power is conveniently centralized for a fascist to take control of, Clyde, IT MEANS YOU NEVER HAD A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY TO START OFF WITH.
By your definition, there really hasn’t been a blah, blah, blah…
How the fuck do you liberals get through the day with all this foaming, nuclear-level incoherence bouncing around inside your heads?
At least they learned from their mistake, unlike the US.
If Brazil had learned from it’s mistake it WOULDN’T HAVE ALLOWED A FASCIST INTO POWER, genius.
And now it isn’t, that’s democracy,
Abso-fucking-lutely not. Fascists would NEVER be able to gain power in a truly democratic society. No ifs, ands or butts.
Fascists are funded into power (and into existence) by CAPITALISTS - adherents to an ideology that is violently incompatible with anything that can be called democratic with a straight face.
Brazil is not a democratic society. It is a (so-called) “liberal democracy” - something that can be more accurately described as 95% capitalism with some fake democracy substitute thrown in as a legitimising measure.
That is THE WHOLE POINT of liberalism.
Brazil is a good world citizen.
Uhhh, did you forget that Brazil was being run by a fascist war criminal just a short while ago?
I’d like to pet it with a .50 cal.
How many times will the liberal establishments have to blatantly show you what it truly is before you believe them? They’ve been doing it at least since 1919, but it has never been more blatant than now.
Since you’re European, I’d like to know what thought-terminating cliches you use to explain to yourself why Germany’s oh-so-liberal political establishment has co-existed, side-by-side, with a securotocracy that was filled to the brim with Nazi war criminals ever since the end of WW2.
You’d think the oh-so-liberal Global North being exposed red-handed funding yet another colonialist genocide would make a dent in those cliches, but I guess it’s true what the anarchists say… scratch a fascist and a liberal bleeds.
Fascists don’t “concentrate” power - they are HANDED power that has ALREADY been concentrated FOR them. You wanna guess who it is that concentrates it before handing it over to them? Do tell… how has police funding been doing under all these liberal regimes in Europe, eh?
Let me ELI5 it to you so that you cannot claim nobody told you.
The capitalist ruling elite, like all ruling elites throughout history, requires TWO things to stabilize their own power and privilege. They need a way to CO-OPT certain segments of the populace they rule over, and a way to brutally REPRESS those parts they can’t or don’t want to co-opt. Carrot and stick - no need for a fancy poli-sci degree to understand this.
Therefore, the capitalists have developed a POLITICAL wing, which we call “liberalism,” and a REPRESSIVE wing, which we call “fascism.” That is what they have been since the start (ie, long before Mussolini gave fascism a name) - and which one you get depends on how much of a threat the capitalists think you pose to their precious world order.
Fascism and liberalism is joined at the hip - you can’t have one without the other.