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[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I still think the distinction matters, fascism is the empire turned inwards.

America exerting fascism on other populations is just textbook liberalism. The facade of democracy and relative peace at home is different than fascism. Fascism demands obedience of the local population and is a full merger of corporation and state. Laws don't matter, only the head of states will matters.

They're both bad, but I think it's disingenuous to tell people who are about to live under fascism that the liberal government they just had was also fascism because they oppressed populations around the globe.

Basically the time for lectures was when we were living under fake "fascism" and the time for gun and survival training is now

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Umm… millions of Afrasians lived under Fascism, something that began in the 1920s. With all due respect to the Italian lower classes, their suffering differed in significant ways from that of their Libyan and Somali counterparts.