• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    a modern nation state with a mechanized military

    This describes nearly every country that has ever existed, so how does the term have any meaning if you’re right about this definition of fascism?

    it seems that you are content to tolerate the fascist state so long as someone you can’t identify as politically fascist controls it. i am not.

    … this is a conversation about policy difference. Somehow by saying “actually there’s a large difference” when there obviously is, means I have no issue with fascism? Nevermind that that would be an entirely separate topic that we only touched on because you brought it up apropos of nothing. I mean, that’s just brain dead. Your official position:

    “closing all the borders and eliminating all healthcare programs is literally the exact same as mostly maintaining the status quo then slowly adding improvements here and there. just like how boiling water is identical to lukewarm water.”

    I often wonder like what deluded thought process gets you from just going around saying smoothbrain bullshit like this and the perfect communist utopia you imagine? Are you actively eating lead every day or something? I don’t even know how I’d turn my brain off like that if I wanted to.

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      5 months ago

      if you’re willing to vote for joe biden, knowing his policies up to this point, then you are willing to vote for fascism.

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          5 months ago

          Interesting you ignored the question of how that word could have meaning if it describes all countries

          if all countries implemented direct democracy, does direct democracy lose its meaning?

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            5 months ago

            Actually, kind of, yes. Because there wouldn’t need to be a distinction drawn… just how words work.

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                5 months ago

                Lol nope. The word human exists because other lifeforms do and you need a way to differentiate. Democracy is a word that exists because other governments exist. This is hilarious.

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                    5 months ago

                    You’re proving my point. You need words to describe things that aren’t obvious or differ from other similar things.

                    And I wouldn’t ridicule you if you weren’t obviously dodging facts.

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          5 months ago

          If you’re willing to pretend different things are the same,

          this is so vague it probably doesn’t even mean anything.