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[UNI88]

Fascism is pertinent today because of pearl-clutching chicken littles who ignored or defended the violence and intimidation of the AnTiFa riots that began in 2020 but got their panties in a bunch over January 6 (and that trump won in 2016). trump is not a fascist. Our Republic was not in danger of falling on January 6. To say otherwise is incendiary, fear-mongering.

These same illiberals who are up in arms over what they perceive as fascism are okay with using fascist tactics against their opponents and say nothing about the adoration by the left of socialists whose crimes against humanity exceed those of the fascists they abhor.

Leftists who want to oppose fascism and fascist tactics should start by considering their own tactics and actions. People in glass houses and all that.

It’s also pertinent because of…you know…fools acting like fascists and trying to subvert the election process and preaching violence as a means. And some principled conservatives sharing the same concerns over this.

But I promise to try harder and point out to leftists that Mao, Chez, Pol Pot etc…were bad guys too.

The irony of fools acting like fascists ...



I condemn words that incite violence but it isn't nearly the one-way street dominated by the right that the left and MSM want people to believe. Just look at Baldy's post about Pat Harrigan in the Violent Rhetoric thread. Let's condemn all violent rhetoric rather than focusing on the other side's while sweeping ours under the rug.

Election deniers of the recent past include:



Where are the principled liberals pointing out the hypocrisy and warning of the threat to the Republic of the last 3?

[SDHornet]

It's about kalm trying to tie fascism to corporations (i.e. private power). If he's really worried about that then he should support trump and the MAGAts, they're the ones fighting the establishment.

The government is no closer to being beholden to a private power today then it was under trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, and so on. Between the MAGAts and pseudo-progressives, anarchy or 1984 are much more likely future outcomes.

I'm actually shocked he posted something about fascism that didn't tie it to political conservatism, which we were told repeatedly was a definition requirement of fascism (despite a dearth of definitions including that). It must be crazy to have to go outside every day, not sure which direction fascism is coming from but knowing it's out there, stalking him.

I thought he was talking about how the gubmint was in collusion with Big Tech to control a narrative...I mean that's fascism, no?

[SDHornet]

Yeah! What did FDR know about fascism anyway?!?

Lol

It's classic kalm to resort to pulling something completely out of context, ignoring the context altogether, and trying to celebrate that you made some heretofore unknown discovery of intellectual genius that you now graciously pass on to the rest of us.

The quote you so latched on to, again simply because it included the word "fascism", was more or less a temper tantrum by FDR back in 1938 when the recession of '37 was still hurting the country. The country, as told by FDR, was moving out of the Great Depression because of all the great things FDR had done, as FDR said often, so there had to be some culprit other than FDR when the economy slid back into recession. So FDR decided to blame the recession on the greed of monopolists and corporations who were using the downturn to line their own pockets. He even closed the speech with the trite line of "for idle factories and idle workers profit no man".

Of course, in retrospect, all of that was bunk (certainly there was concentration of wealth and power, but that didn't cause the recession). FDR had been hounding business for years up until then (remember, '37 was the year that he tried the court packing scheme to get around that silly "democracy" thing). Surprisingly, business investments during that time were muted for fear of being accused of profiting during such a bleak time in the country. And then, throwing economic sense aside, FDR decided balancing the budget was more important than keeping the momentum of climbing out of the Depression and he drastically cut back money to programs that were working (PWA and WPA especially). And he did this while the Fed raised rates and negatively impacted the supply of money. Again in retrospect, no shock that a recession followed.

Ironically, this resorting to calling things "fascist" to cover over failings and to place blame on others, including the other political party, isn't just a recent phenomenon, it was a playbook of FDR even back then. And again, ironically, poor economic policy by the Executive branch, coupled with poor decisions by the Fed, along with scaring away business investment (back then in factories and manufacturing, today in fossil fuels and things associated with it) resulted in a recession that those responsible for tried everything to pass blame onto anyone but themselves.

I can't wait for your next example of unsubstantiated fascist-shaming of something else, especially from history, you don't know the full story of but looks good today in a meme. It's like batting practice and you're just grooving pitches in to be smacked around.

Man I felt that burn from here, and it's not even 50 degrees outside. Ouch.

[SDHornet]

Fascism is obviously a pertinent topic today regardless of your feels. Again…there are historical echoes and FDR is a good source to quote if you hear those echoes. Causes of the mini depression are up for debate as are your takes on FDR’s motivations (hint: he was saying similar things before this and it wasn’t just an American thing). I suggest you read Heather Cox Richardson’s piece. Or…you can always swipe past the uncomfortable posts.

Fascism is pertinent today because of pearl-clutching chicken littles who ignored or defended the violence and intimidation of the AnTiFa riots that began in 2020 but got their panties in a bunch over January 6 (and that trump won in 2016). trump is not a fascist. Our Republic was not in danger of falling on January 6. To say otherwise is incendiary, fear-mongering.

These same illiberals who are up in arms over what they perceive as fascism are okay with using fascist tactics against their opponents and say nothing about the adoration by the left of socialists whose crimes against humanity exceed those of the fascists they abhor.

Leftists who want to oppose fascism and fascist tactics should start by considering their own tactics and actions. People in glass houses and all that.

[Skjellyfetti]

[SDHornet]

[SDHornet]

[kalm]

[GannonFan]

If Twitter does indeed fold, what will that do for the supply of meme's to incorporate without comment into message boards?

[Baldy]

kalm's Boo.

[UNI88]

[BDKJMU]

If Twitter does indeed fold, what will that do for the supply of meme's to incorporate without comment into message boards?

If twitter folds they’ll be something else to replace it.

[BDKJMU]

kalm's Boo.

Donk House Whip

[Baldy]

kalm's Boo.

Donk House Whip

[SeattleGriz]

[kalm]

kalm's Boo.

Presidential historians and other intellectuals are the bad guys!

[kalm]

If Twitter does indeed fold, what will that do for the supply of meme's to incorporate without comment into message boards?

Still hurt I see? By meme posting of memes in a thread about memes?

Fascinating!

[Baldy]

kalm's Boo.

Presidential historians and other intellectuals are the bad guys!

Really?

I was just talking about this guy.

He doesn't seem stable enough to be very intelligent.

[UNI88]

Presidential historians and other intellectuals are the bad guys!

Really?

I was just talking about this guy.

He doesn't seem stable enough to be very intelligent.

I think he's right. We are on the edge of a brutal, authoritarian system. People need to vote for Republicans to prevent a Cultural Revolution in the USA.

[kalm]

Really?

I was just talking about this guy.

He doesn't seem stable enough to be very intelligent.

I think he's right. We are on the edge of a brutal, authoritarian system. People need to vote for Republicans to prevent a Cultural Revolution in the USA.

Not on the edge but far closer than where we should be. Those type of things don’t happen overnight. How we arrived where we’re currently at didn’t either. I’d love to see a persuasive, well formulated opinion from a conservative that this is all much a do about nothing and there are no historical parallels.

[Baldy]

I think he's right. We are on the edge of a brutal, authoritarian system. People need to vote for Republicans to prevent a Cultural Revolution in the USA.

Not on the edge but far closer than where we should be. Those type of things don’t happen overnight. How we arrived where we’re currently at didn’t either. I’d love to see a persuasive, well formulated opinion from a conservative that this is all much a do about nothing and there are no historical parallels.

How we arrived? A Donk is sitting in the White House and Donks control both the House and Senate.

Do you need someone to draw you a roadmap or something?

[Baldy]

How is this not satire?

[UNI88]

I think he's right. We are on the edge of a brutal, authoritarian system. People need to vote for Republicans to prevent a Cultural Revolution in the USA.

Not on the edge but far closer than where we should be. Those type of things don’t happen overnight. How we arrived where we’re currently at didn’t either. I’d love to see a persuasive, well formulated opinion from a conservative that this is all much a do about nothing and there are no historical parallels.

Vote Republican so we don't get any closer. Let's kick these authoritarian Democrats out of power before they usher in an American Cultural Revolution! We may not be there yet but they keep pushing us closer.

[SuperHornet]

[BDKJMU]