Candelestine @ Candelestine @lemmy.world

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Feb 29th. I'm 7 now.

j/k

Not a platitude, a harsh and brutal reality. Though I do agree that it is time to fight fascism. Just don't think you can actually destroy it by fighting like this is all some fictional story with a happily-ever-after. Real life doesn't work that way, only fiction.

Real life needs more difficult and complicated fixes.

They don't need evidence when they have their "gut instincts".

Probably don't want to just believe that her words reflect her stances. Much like McConnell, she'll say whatever she thinks she needs to say to help accomplish her personal goals.

World is a complicated place, especially when you're trying to not fall quickly to a purge, which is pretty clearly a goal she has. Otherwise she'd be gone by now.

...not wrong. Except remember that an idea cannot be genuinely destroyed, since it's not an actual physical thing. Even if you did somehow manage to destroy it in the present day, nothing prevents people from creatively coming up with it again.

Netanyahu wants to learn this the hard way.

Find another way that doesn't involve death, destruction and ill-fated attempts at control.

If you don't acknowledge the repubs trying to fight against the fascist slide inside their own party, you're just helping fascists get what they want. They're doing a political purge. This should be remembered.

ozma isn't as bad imo.

This cat is a malicious commenter that shits on almost everything. ozma posts news articles and pushes on some genuinely important issues.

I argue with ozma from time to time, I definitely don't always agree with their stances, but I have no real problems with them. I think people like that are important in a healthy democracy. Not a troll imo.

This one though, has me doubting sometimes.

Haley does not have the Heritage Foundation's 2025 plan in the wings. She would probably not have done a Jan 6th. If you can't see the difference between a fascist and a shitty Mitch McConnell type, the problem with our country is you.

Nuance and details are important. People's bullshit gut checks based on their feelings are not.

Dude's comment was clearly saying that Trump and Haley were the same. If someone cannot see the very clear and obvious differences between the two, their brainwashing has been strong.

Except I wonder if its brainwashing or just trolling.

Don't feed the low-effort trolls folks. At least make them put a shred of effort in.

This cat has been lumping 90% of the country together for months now, we've gone back and forth on it before. There seem to be zero colors asides black and white in his eyes.

I've been curious where the hell he came from for awhile now.

It should be pretty damn clear there's differences between an outright fascist and a generic pro-business idiot.

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It's really just not a very good unpopular opinion post. It's literally the mainstream position of one of our two main political parties.

Which makes it a fairly meh troll post.

Huh. I thought that'd be about that "Lay Flat" movement among certain teens in China. Guess not.

"everyone I don't like is all the same".

How do you extremists get made, anyway?

That's what the U part of UBI is for. Otherwise you just have a BI.

Military occupations of active warzones are their own thing. Not everything bad has to be a fascist state.

Let me help:

In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.

In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]

Under Newsweek's current co-owner and CEO, Dev Pragad, it is profitable with revenue of $60 million and also growing: between May 2019 and May 2022, its monthly unique visitors rose from about 30 million to 48 million, according to Comscore. Pragad became CEO in 2016; readership has grown to 100 million readers per month, the highest in its 90-year history.[15][16] The operations of the company were researched by the Harvard Business School; they published a case study in 2021.[17]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek

Then just check into those companies and the CEO.

So far lacks the authoritarian power structure, which is a pretty key trait of fascist regimes.

Can we not find a source for the news that isn't owned by an East Asian religious cult since 2018?

All that headline accomplished for me is getting Miley Cyrus stuck in my head... :/