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Rob_the_Ninja
09/21/25 1:58:22 PM
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"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology."
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UnsteadyOwl
09/21/25 2:35:30 PM
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100% right. That's why pointing out their hypocrisy doesn't give them pause. Like she said they want to establish that the rules apply to you but not to them because that gives them power.

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UnfairRepresent
09/21/25 2:40:23 PM
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She's right

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Metal_Gear_Raxis
09/21/25 2:43:23 PM
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UnsteadyOwl posted...
100% right. That's why pointing out their hypocrisy doesn't give them pause. Like she said they want to establish that the rules apply to you but not to them because that gives them power.
The only rhetorical strategy to beating fascists is mocking them.

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AsucaHayashi
09/21/25 3:29:14 PM
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"when you're projecting your own grown-ass adult world view onto them you aren't seeing them clearly.

this makes 100% sense.

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HighSeraph
09/21/25 3:30:19 PM
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I'm not sure it's the point but it certainly doesn't bother them

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Takuya_Lee
09/21/25 3:31:10 PM
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Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
The only rhetorical strategy to beating fascists is mocking them.

That's true. Fascists thrive on being taken seriously. Take that away and they're just a bunch of wackadoos.

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UnfairRepresent
09/21/25 3:33:14 PM
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Takuya_Lee posted...
That's true. Fascists thrive on being taken seriously. Take that away and they're just a bunch of wackadoos.
It's hard not to take them seriously when they run the government, the largest social media and news media networks and the Supreme Court.

People tried disregarding facists for decades and it brought us Donald Trump winning the popular vote and mass capiliation from everyone in power

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myusernameislame
09/21/25 4:40:10 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
It's hard not to take them seriously when they run the government, the largest social media and news media networks and the Supreme Court.

People tried disregarding facists for decades and it brought us Donald Trump winning the popular vote and mass capiliation from everyone in power

Fascists got power because people (thanks mainly due to the media) started taking them seriously. "The Republicans are a major party so everything they say has merit and we have to compromise with them." "Donald Trump is a famous business guy who's been on TV so he must know what he's talking about."
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ai123
09/21/25 4:48:23 PM
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myusernameislame posted...
Fascists got power because people (thanks mainly due to the media) started taking them seriously. "The Republicans are a major party so everything they say has merit and we have to compromise with them." "Donald Trump is a famous business guy who's been on TV so he must know what he's talking about."
Which is why they hated being dismissed as 'weird'.

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Syfe
09/21/25 5:51:26 PM
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Who knew that "trolling" being an issue would bleed into the real world and just become straight up fascism.

Seriously though, yeah, there isn't reasoning with them. Just like a troll.
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hmnut7
09/21/25 5:58:45 PM
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Girl is right. We need to stop trying to fight insanity with logic.

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mybbqrules
09/24/25 2:26:09 PM
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myusernameislame posted...
Fascists got power because people (thanks mainly due to the media) started taking them seriously. "The Republicans are a major party so everything they say has merit and we have to compromise with them." "Donald Trump is a famous business guy who's been on TV so he must know what he's talking about."
No, fascists got power because it was clear decades ago they were seeking to take power, and nobody did a fucking thing about it.

Reagan eliminates the Fairness Doctrine, within a decade we've got our first tried and true propaganda network in america: Faux "News". And that was the beginning of the end. Three decades of blaming brown people and liberals for everything the right actively destroyed got us to where we are now, 30% of the country being openly rabid, proudly stupid, arrogantly ignorant cultists who literally worship the ground a fat orange inciter walks on.

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Paragon21XX
09/24/25 2:48:27 PM
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mybbqrules posted...
Reagan eliminates the Fairness Doctrine, within a decade we've got our first tried and true propaganda network in america: Faux "News".

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/18/instagram-posts/dont-blame-ronald-reagan-for-fox-news-the-fairness/

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mybbqrules
09/24/25 3:08:25 PM
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Paragon21XX posted...


https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/18/instagram-posts/dont-blame-ronald-reagan-for-fox-news-the-fairness/
That absolutely got us started down that road, don't give me that. Did it not apply to AM radio too? You know, another place where massive amounts of right wing indoctrination go on?

Heritage Foundation-backed Reagan eliminates impartiality and fairness in news broadcasting and Murdoch-backed Faux News just happens to spring right up in it's wake within a decade? Puh-lease.

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Scardude
09/24/25 3:14:01 PM
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Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
The only rhetorical strategy to beating fascists is mocking them.
Not mocking them. Hurting their purse. The more you bleed them, the more they back off

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UnsteadyOwl
09/24/25 3:23:57 PM
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mybbqrules posted...
That absolutely got us started down that road, don't give me that. Did it not apply to AM radio too? You know, another place where massive amounts of right wing indoctrination go on?

Heritage Foundation-backed Reagan eliminates impartiality and fairness in news broadcasting and Murdoch-backed Faux News just happens to spring right up in it's wake within a decade? Puh-lease.
Yeah, the explosion of conservative talk radio, guys like Rush Limbaugh, absolutely did come about because of the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine. And that style of talk radio pretty directly informed what Fox News would be.

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Scardude
09/24/25 5:30:23 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

No. He used that to make deals for his friends. That's him bleeding the citizens and no revolt.

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action52
09/25/25 4:30:28 PM
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Calling it "mostly false" to claim that eliminating the Fairness Doctrine led to Fox News seems harsh and maybe even a little unfair to me. I wouldn't say it's untrue, just an oversimplification.

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EPR-radar
09/25/25 5:22:55 PM
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action52 posted...
Calling it "mostly false" to claim that eliminating the Fairness Doctrine led to Fox News seems harsh and maybe even a little unfair to me. I wouldn't say it's untrue, just an oversimplification.
Fact checkers do this all the time, because otherwise their jobs would consist entirely of calling out Republican lies, and that would undercut the Great Both Sides Lie.

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CobraGT
09/25/25 5:31:59 PM
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ANSWER none of the above

The relevant factors are
  • Who controls how property is used at the present time
  • Who has the real power
  • The potential of automation


Artificial intelligence with the automation which comes from it has changed what can be. Fascism has another name. That name is utopia for the privileged few.

The world is on the brink of utopia for all. Equality is worse than death of the planet for The Heritage Foundation.

Do you want to let organizations with finance capital make the decision? I.E. let things fix themeselves?

Or do you want to get your ass in gear and fight for utopia?

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Th3HonestTruth
09/27/25 1:16:23 AM
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Obviously
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StopBeinMad
09/30/25 8:47:51 AM
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on point
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