fascism

It isn't pretty itself as well, but it is far, far, far from fascism.

I want to ask them, "how does it feel when you destroy your own insurance against fascism, idiots?

----->[ good times ]---->[ hard times ] ---> [fascism] --\\\n ^ |\n \\-------------------[revolution] <--------------------/\n\nRevolution merely starts the cycle again.

We throw around terms like fascism and tyranny and they lose a lot of their force because they are not really applicable.

Fun fact: fascism wasn't the first name Mussolini wanted for the Italian political movement of the 1920s-40s.

Most discussion today is at an extreme best described as fascism: all privileges of decision and control reserved to a single person.

Think of Singaporification as a gentler, less overtly violent form of Spanish fascism.

The essence of fascist and other totalitarian thought transcends this simplistic "shell".Thing is, in the 1920s and 1930s fascism did not carry a strong negative connotation.

Secret law all but guarantees an eventual transition to outright totalitarian fascism.

"Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites"This is why State capitalism or something like fascism to them is the ideal.

To paraphrase a famous quote, I have no idea what fascism in US would look like, but I know it will involve the stars and stripes, and not brown/black shirts, Nazi uniforms, Confederate battle flags, Swastikas, or shaved heads.

But I think we need to recognize that limitations to personal liberty need not be due solely to tyranny or fascism and so forth, there are other forces, other modus operandi at play.