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by temp453463343 4745 days ago
Yeah, if you think the US is going to go fascist you're living in a fantasy land. You wouldn't just need a depression, you would need the whole fabric of society to unravel and become as poor as pre WW2 Germany.

No country with a high GDP has turned authoritarian. Authoritarianism doesn't work in wealthy countries.
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short_circut 4745 days ago
Japanese internment camps were not a fantasy land. The US exhibits fascist qualities all the time. We don't usually call it that but there are certainly examples which could be considered that way.
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temp453463343 4745 days ago
You mean back when people thought blacks were less human than white and women didn't have the right to vote? Back when a depression meant people starving to death?

We're not the same society we were back in the 1940s.

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kaoD 4745 days ago
> if you think the US is going to go fascist you're living in a fantasy land.

Snooping on citizen's private business seems quite fascist to me.

> No country with a high GDP has turned authoritarian.

For how long will the US have a high GDP? Every single empire has fallen, even the wealthiest.

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