lumbaghini:lighthouse1138:docincredible:bando–grand-scamyon:why am I chuckling so hard The cure for
lumbaghini:lighthouse1138:docincredible:bando–grand-scamyon:why am I chuckling so hard The cure for fascism is… politically-motivated threats of brutal physical violence?That’s literally fascism.Yeah, remember how we defeated fascism in WW2 through polite conversationFun fact! The misconceptions we have about the definition of fascism were created by Soviet disinformation campaigns targeting American youths during the “hippie” era, in an attempt to hijack the term so that we would start using it to describe western governments and policies, in line with their cultural predilection to describe anything anti-Russian and anti-Communist as “fascist” despite their own clearly fascist governmental system. And it worked, to a degree.So just threatening violence against authoritarians is not fascism, and calling it fascism is in fact spreading Communist propaganda in addition to just plain missing the point. How fun! -- source link