[mcphage]

At what point will you consider it fascist, if anonymous masked police kidnapping people off the streets doesn’t, and building concentration camps doesn’t, and silencing of critical media doesn’t? Are you waiting for a specific number of mass casualties, or is this just sparkling despotism?

[kcplate]

Those are “tactics”. You are confusing relatively common control and power tactics that are used by some governments with an ideology that encompasses many different characteristics. The Soviet Union used many of the same tactics, but you wouldn’t call them fascist. Many of the important (political and economic) fascist ideologies don’t apply to the current administration…in fact politically and economically the current US administration is directly opposite of what was found in historic fascism.

I get that you want to redefine what “fascism” is, because historically it’s associated with some really evil things, but I am not willing to dilute that definition.

[mcphage]

Well then, keep on fighting the good fight, and hopefully you won’t end up in the gulag.

[kcplate]

I’ll just continue to “not break any laws” since that has kept me out of the gulag so far.

[mcphage]

Breanna Taylor tried that, too.

[kcplate]

Not sure what that has to do with me, gulags, fascism, or the current administration.