Joe biden authored the patriot act.
joan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They don’t mean anything anymore… Seen people on here calling everything from Joe Biden to Buffalo wild wings fascist… (real encounters)
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
One can argue that the patriot act is fascistic legislation.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes. That is what i was implying.
SpacePanda@mander.xyz 1 day ago
You know, I thought you were wrong. I looked it up was ready to site sources, watched that video and I really dont know what to think anymore.
mrlemmyhimself@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You should think about what Liberalism actually is and see if you agree with any of it
SpacePanda@mander.xyz 23 hours ago
I agree with Wikipedias definition but the US still needs more than 2 parties
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, technically Biden only authored the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995, not the patriot act. But the proposals in his bill were recycled into the patriot act.
SpacePanda@mander.xyz 23 hours ago
Then technology made it worse.
monogram@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
Authoritarianism ≠ Fascism
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Fascism ∈ Authoritarianism
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The same thing happened to terrorist, a term that became overused and dead during the IWoT and yet the Trump regime is still trying to leverage that word against his political enemies.
For my own arguments, I use alternatives to fascist or get specific, such as calling it an autocratic regime that uses fascist rhetoric to justify state violence. That way my readers know I’m talking seriously about a serious thing.
whereyaaat@lemmings.world 14 minutes ago
It’s why I always ask for specifics or ignore what the average person on these forums has to say.