[chimprich]

> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it.

It looks like you have paramilitaries roaming your streets - not wearing ID or proper uniforms, covering their faces to avoid identification, not answering to usual democratic controls - executing protestors.

In the latest incident, they seemed to be beating and spraying a woman with a chemical agent for filming them, and then executing a bystander who tried to help her. The regime then tried to deny reality and falsely claim that they'd attacked said paramilitary operatives.

In any Western democracy (and I'm not sure if the US is currently part of that category) there would be a public investigation, but they seem to have been squirrelled away and the politicians who have spoken out about it have been threatened.

This all seems to be fascistic by any reasonable standard.

[gadders]

>>covering their faces to avoid identification

Covering their faces to avoid doxing and being attacked at their homes.

[NekkoDroid]

Weird how normal police (or almost any other actual LEO) doesn't have to do this, especially considering how bad their reputation in the US is.

[joe_mamba]

SWAT also covers their face.