Liberal comedian Jon Stewart pumped the breaks on the media's "fascist" attacks towards President Trump during an exchange with a "Daily Show" audience member.
I also think Democrats, and especially Lemmy, use it wrong. It’s legit the go-to insult for anyone that doesn’t join in on the circle-jerk groupthink that Lemmy has going on these days.
The word “fascism” had been used a lot in regards to Trump - not because it’s a go-to insult, but because Trump is meeting every characteristic of the word.
Per Wikipedia:
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
Dictatorial/autocratic: Issues a flood of executive orders and works through Elon to exercise singular executive power with zero regard for Constitutionality and separation of powers.
Militarism: Threatens land grabs/annexations of Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza
Forcible suppression of opposition: Lawsuits/investigations/threats against media companies that say things that hurt his feelings
Belief in a natural social hierarchy: lifelong history of public racist and misogynistic comments
Subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race: suppression of transgenderism, everything DOGE is shredding, abolition of CFPB, OSHA, etc.
Strong regimentation of society and the economy: extreme censorship, immediate blame of disasters on DEI (even if only white, cisgender, qualified men were involved see DC airliner/heli crash), tariffs (and threats thereof), intent on destroying the renewable energy sector and forcing fossil fuels
The word “fascism” had been used a lot in regards to Trump - not because it’s a go-to insult, but because Trump is meeting every characteristic of the word.
Ok, but what about the number of people on Lemmy who use it as an insult as soon as they find out someone didn’t vote for Harris?
Lemmy is a collective of uninformed Maoists. Probably young and never had any responsibility.
Wait till they have a family and need to pay taxes. That exorcises the Marxist out of any sensible creature.
I also think Democrats, and especially Lemmy, use it wrong. It’s legit the go-to insult for anyone that doesn’t join in on the circle-jerk groupthink that Lemmy has going on these days.
The word “fascism” had been used a lot in regards to Trump - not because it’s a go-to insult, but because Trump is meeting every characteristic of the word.
Per Wikipedia:
Ok, but what about the number of people on Lemmy who use it as an insult as soon as they find out someone didn’t vote for Harris?
Lemmy is a collective of uninformed Maoists. Probably young and never had any responsibility. Wait till they have a family and need to pay taxes. That exorcises the Marxist out of any sensible creature.
Lemmy’s demographics are considerably older than other similar sites like reddit.
Hmm… source?
This guy the avarage Lemmy user?