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Let's talk Trump and free speech...or read it anyway.

 
How is this any different from what Harris wants to do? Other than she wants to use the rule of law and this is DeSantis straight up using executive order to **** all over freedom of speech. Is it because what's happening in Florida can lead to dangerous and damaging actions? Well isn't that what Harris claims about regulating Facebook ad content? It'll be fun to see the hoops conservatives will go through to defend this.

 
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How is this any different from what Harris wants to do? Other than she wants to use the rule of law and this is DeSantis straight up using executive order to **** all over freedom of speech. Is it because what's happening in Florida can lead to dangerous and damaging actions? Well isn't that what Harris claims about regulating Facebook ad content? It'll be fun to see the hoops conservatives will go through to defend this.

Who would defend this? Not me. Also it’s not full context here as well Log:


The guy who sent the letters already resigned last week, looks like it was for his actions. So before you claim it’s DeSantis, maybe get more details first. I don’t see him out there campaigning on this.

Also, I already posted that I disagree with the 6 week abortion law and will be voting against it.
 
Meanwhile, from a scholar versed in authoritarianism….Sad that this is happening, while so many sleepwalk their lives through the history of their own time. People fail to see what’s happening while it’s happening.


Robert Paxton, in Anatomy of Fascism, offers this pragmatic definition of fascism: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
 

Who is in the lead?
According to FiveThirtyEight’s daily election poll tracker, Harris is currently leading in the national polls and has a 2.4-percentage-point lead over Trump.

But the race is still tight. FiveThirtyEight’s election forecast suggests that Harris is favoured to win 54 times out of 100 while Trump wins 46 times out of 100.






I could go on all day long.

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Wall Street giving Harris 72% chance of winning….


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Stock market kicking *** currently.

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Y'all should see how woke I am at work today.
We have the option to wear pink hairnets in support of breast cancer awareness and chose to wear one.


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Meanwhile, from a scholar versed in authoritarianism….Robert Paxton, in Anatomy of Fascism, offers this pragmatic definition of fascism: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
That entire definition is gobbledegook that conveys nothing to the reader beyond the pretentiousness of the speaker. Your earlier statements of riding down a gold escalator is what identifies someone as fascist was at least concise. It was wrong but at least everyone knew what you were saying. It made more sense than your linked "scholar versed in authoritarianism".

Fascism is not "hard to define" as your huckster claimed. If anyone wants to really know what Fascism is, in the words of Giovanni Gentile (the inventor of Fascism), Benito Mussolini (the implementer of Fascism), and even self-described Fascists today who make arguments for what they believe in their own words, here you go:



The above video is dry in the way many academic works are and although possibly the best word on the topic, can at times be a slog to get through. A much more digestible set has been put out by Metatron. I'll give away the ending in that he says it is neither right wing or left wing in the modern context, but the journey in getting to why that is so goes through the ideology point-by-point.





If you'd like to see the counterpoints to Metatron's videos, responses were done by these history teachers:





All of the above videos are light years better than the supposed scholar who spouts nonsense of Fascism being compensatory cults of energy from a mass-based party spurred by an obsessive preoccupation blah, blah.
 
Meanwhile, from a scholar versed in authoritarianism….Sad that this is happening, while so many sleepwalk their lives through the history of their own time. People fail to see what’s happening while it’s happening.


Robert Paxton, in Anatomy of Fascism, offers this pragmatic definition of fascism: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
Not only have scholars recognized Trump is a fascist for years, but so are those who worked closest to him:


“Fascist to the core.”
 
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