Something I keep taking a certain solace in is that fascism tends to burn out because it’s an assemblage of thuggish careerist snakes looking to fuck each other. That doesn’t spare their victims but it’s almost never sustainable for long-term governance.
Franco is the obvious counterexample here but he had the backing of the entire Catholic Church and minions who weren’t uniformly feckless dipshits with no real principles
I believe in American ingenuity, I believe we can innovate a kind of fascism that is distinctly worse than life now but that can last almost indefinitely
i have this theory that AI art tends invariably toward fascism because the tech base is incapable of creating anything genuinely novel and instead constantly reiterates what is
Yeah one small hope is that everyone involved in the American fascist project is insanely stupid in one or more of three ways (Christian fundamentalist, business moron, business moron but cyber); everyone we feared might serve in a vanguard (Bannon, Cotton) is only smart compared to those dopes.
We don't have to descend into fascism at all. We can save this place. Remember we're not the only ones fighting. There are lawyers, politicians, clerks, analysts, judges, and more on the side of democracy. This country is too big to control easily.
It usually burns out in a somewhat literal fashion though, and takes way more innocent people with it, and leaves the country it occurred in decades behind in development.
I will never understand why people assume the German or Italian model from the 20th Century when the 21st Century Russian model is staring them in the face
fascism can be hard to get rid of generally it is replaced with just another fascist leader take bautista in cuba castro removed him to become the new fascist leader and even now it is under communist rule so the old saying is true power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely "FASCISM"
Who the fuck are you reading Wikipedia pages in the middle of an argument? Destiny?
Personally I like Umberto Eco's definition of Ur-Fascism, which I don't think would include Castro.
authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization
so you are saying castro was not a authoritarian leader just like bautista and the current regime is not authoritarian
castro also closed down opposition newspapers, jailed thousands of political opponents and made no move toward elections.
sounds like fascism to me and what trump wants
Fascism does not just mean dictatorship, it’s got a more complex, specific meaning that people have been writing about for nearly 100 years and you are frankly embarrassing yourself here
