I’m inclined to think that Umberto Eco knows what he is talking about better than any present company here.

That just boils down to “whatever I don’t like is fascism”. It’s worthless. Thougj it can take many forms, there are absolute characteristics that define fascism.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

How exactly do you define fascism?

So you support Republicans then?

So you support Republicans then?

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Posts like this only help the fascists. They have no other purpose.

I believe there are all sorts of restrictions on what sources they are allowed to buy from. This is also supposed to be “punishment” so they don’t want the prisoner to feel good before they die.

Most pharmaceutical companies won’t sell the state the drugs used to properly kill someone. Rather than stop executing people, the state tries to make do with whatever they can get their hands on.

Yes, air conditioners are pretty much replace only nowadays. You should just be able to get another C&H inverter and just replace that part and keep the indoor unit you have.

https://cooperandhunter.com/

That would be amazing, not only for Flock cameras but also for the cash grab red light and speed cameras.

But Heaven forbid you marry more than one person, because then the government might send you to jail.

If you were a civil war veteran and you died, you could pass your military pension on to your wife. Because of this, it wasn’t uncommon for an elderly man to marry a young girl so she would get the pension. Often the girl would do basic chores for the elderly man in exchange. Because of this practice the last civil war widow died in 2020 (she married a 93 year old veteran when she was 17). A certain amount of the attitude is a weird cultural relic coming from this practice.

In a world with infinite resources where these things require no labor to produce, you would be right. Sadly we don’t live in that world.

I assume any VPN integrated into a browser is useless at best. Anyone know specifically the problems with it?

Every election is the most important the same way each breath you take is the most important. If you stop, you’re dead.

Amy Acton may not support trans athletes, but she still supports broad anti-discrimination protections for trans people in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

Vivek Ramaswamy does not support trans athletes, has advocated for bans of gender affirming care for those under 18, said he would “ban genital mutilation or chemical castration”, and said “transgenderism… is a mental disorder”.

I don’t know about you, but the former seems less harmful than the latter at the very least.

Where do you think Gaza is located?

Palestine, aka not Iran.

Did you miss the Biden administration and every administration before?

You mean the Republican Eisenhower administration that participated in the 1953 Iranian coup? Or when the Republican Reagan administration shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988? Or when Bush’s Republican administration lied to go to war with Iraq as a proxy war with Iran? Or when Republican Trump administration started the 12 Day War With Iran in 2025? Or when Trump unilaterally went to war again with Iran in 2026?

That was really the moment that solidified for me that a significant portion of the people of this country are irredeemable.

Red party: “I’ll blow up an Iranian girls school”

Blue Party: " I won’t"

Guy in hat: “I only care about Gazan children”