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Al-O-Meter said:
Interesting that she chose Jim Crow and the Progressive Era KKK as examples of fascism in America. Both were democrat. Woodrow Wilson was showing The Birth of a Nation in the White House. She also mentioned Henry Ford, who was asked by KKK-loving Woodrow Wilson to run for the Senate.
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And? I know the history. What’s important to me today, in the here and now, is that I know how to recognize fascist trends today, 2022, and where to find them. I do.
Al-O-Meter said:
Many of the same examples Sarah Churchwell relies upon are presented in this book:
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Uh huh, and I didn’t buy it when DutchJazzer was pushing that same narrative, and it only looks more ridiculous today.
 
Surely said:
You mean like doubling the size of the IRS, and just willy nilly forgiving $300-$500 billion in student loans (does biden even have the authority to do this?).
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Just because you'd don't like something doesn't make it fascism.

As for if he has the authority, well, there are differences of opinion about that. I am not an expert in constitutional law. Are you?
 
Surely said:
You mean like doubling the size of the IRS, and just willy nilly forgiving $300-$500 billion in student loans (does biden even have the authority to do this?).
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Willy nilly bringing us in line with most other developed nations. Now we just need a way to keep people from going bankrupt for getting needed medical care and maybe we can pass up like, Iran into 20th place or something. It's painful to bring a backward country out of the dark ages.
 
Surely said:
You mean like doubling the size of the IRS, and just willy nilly forgiving $300-$500 billion in student loans (does biden even have the authority to do this?).
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What a weird comment. What’s fascist about adding enough tax agents and forgiving student loan debt?

Is this what counts as “conservative dialogue” these days? There’s plenty I think to criticize about student loan debt but I’ve never seen forgiving student loans be described as “fascist.”

Fascist isn’t code for “stuff I don’t like.” It actually is supposed to mean something. Words matter
 
One Brow said:
There are people in government, or recently out of government, supporting behavior indicative of fascist regimes.
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Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, and many Congressional Republicans. Not to mention the members of the media, like Ingraham and Tucker. This is textbook fascism:

View: https://youtu.be/iCXUfylGOGk


View: https://youtu.be/FJfUu1LKn44

https://youtu.be/gogCccQsum4

This guy is a regular on Fox News

View: https://twitter.com/kurtschlichter/status/1424162623545692161?s=21&t=Ph4IwKTpgKR2AuMldxwJwA


View: https://twitter.com/kurtschlichter/status/1424162626444021761?s=21&t=Ph4IwKTpgKR2AuMldxwJwA


View: https://twitter.com/kurtschlichter/status/1424162636367753216?s=21&t=Ph4IwKTpgKR2AuMldxwJwA


This is fascism. Not forgiving student loans. Using the state to crush labor unions, takeover public education, disenfranchise political enemies from voting, using the state to take over unfriendly media, emphasizing tradition and idolizing the military, etc is textbook fascism.

This is also fascism, and it’s one of the most influential writers in the right wing:

Let’s be blunt. The United States has become two nations occupying the same country. When pressed, or in private, many would now agree. Fewer are willing to take the next step and accept that most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term…
Practically speaking, there is almost nothing left to conserve. What is actually required now is a recovery, or even a refounding, of America as it was long and originally understood but which now exists only in the hearts and minds of a minority of citizens…
What is needed, of course, is a statesman who understands both the disease afflicting the nation, and the revolutionary medicine required for the cure…
If you are a zombie or a human rodent who wants a shadow-life of timid conformity, then put away this essay and go memorize the poetry of Amanda Gorman. Real men and women who love honor and beauty, keep reading…

americanmind.org

"Conservatism" is no Longer Enough

All hands on deck as we enter the counter-revolutionary moment.
americanmind.org americanmind.org

And this guy was a speaker at CPAC 3 weeks ago. This is textbook fascism:
 
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The White House Twitter account reminded Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a frequent Biden critic, that she was once a recipient of the Paycheck Protection Program, established by former President Donald Trump during the pandemic to help small businesses.

“Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven,”

In additional posts on Twitter Thursday, the White House called out Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), who it says, had over $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven; Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who it says, had over $1.4 million in PPP loans forgiven; Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), who it says, had over $1 million in PPP loans forgiven; and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who it says, had $482,321 in PPP loans forgiven.

Each Republican the White House put on blast had criticized Biden’s student loan forgiveness.

LOL MTG you incredibly ugly idiot. You are hilarious.
 
Surely said:
You mean like doubling the size of the IRS,
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The IRS has been underfunded for years, and it's allowed record tax cheating and tax evasion by the wealthy, resulted in hours-long waits on the customer service lines for middle Americans, and short-changed our government, forcing higher tax rates on the middle class or increasing government debt. Fascism is associated with easing the tax burden on the wealthy. Try again.

Surely said:
and just willy nilly forgiving $300-$500 billion in student loans (does biden even have the authority to do this?).
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If Biden doesn't have the authority, there will be a couple of hundred Congresspeople that take this to court.

Again, I'm not aware of the historical association of fascism and the forgiveness of student debt. Can you provide a source for that?
 
The Thriller said:
Practically speaking, there is almost nothing left to conserve. What is actually required now is a recovery, or even a refounding, of America as it was long and originally understood but which now exists only in the hearts and minds of a minority of citizens…
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Almost all of that can be condensed into this sentence. Make things the way they were in the "good old days" of segregation, and white supremacy, when people knew their place and stayed there, but which now exists only in the hearts and minds of a MINORITY of citizens. Now the minority matters, when it is made of those who held the majority and the power for so so long. So now the majority rule, of white upper-class, is diminishing and they feel their power being threatened, and they see many others in their "class" are getting behind the wave of change. So the solution for the minority that are still fighting back against the social changes in motion is to forcibly go back to the days when the rich white man was king and ruler, and the minorities were all in their place. Very telling, and not without a modicum of irony and a huge dose of hypocrisy.
 
One Brow said:
The IRS has been underfunded for years, and it's allowed record tax cheating and tax evasion by the wealthy, resulted in hours-long waits on the customer service lines for middle Americans, and short-changed our government, forcing higher tax rates on the middle class or increasing government debt. Fascism is associated with easing the tax burden on the wealthy. Try again.


If Biden doesn't have the authority, there will be a couple of hundred Congresspeople that take this to court.

Again, I'm not aware of the historical association of fascism and the forgiveness of student debt. Can you provide a source for that?
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Well the nazis were more than happy to "educate" you entirely for free!! In fact in most fascist regimes they have no problems issuing free curated education for everyone.

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