Seems reductive.
Because the dishonest fucks only engage in bad faith arguments.
Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?"
Submitted 6 months ago by Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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devolution@lemmy.world 6 months ago
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s a convenient place to rest the goalposts until they have to snatch them up and run away again.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are by far the least emotionally accessible portion of the US populace. They are also very deliberately ignorant. They really don’t know what some of the words represent in full. They are put simply, stupid.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are genuinely bad with anologies and empathy. That’s how they got to be conservative. Everything taken at face value, nothing they haven’t experienced is real. Fascists are people named Mussolini. See? This isn’t 1930s Italy, so this isn’t fascism
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It’s just sparkling authoritarianism.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 months ago
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.
You know, morons.
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Damn, you really are the waco kid
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Gabby Johnson is right!
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 6 months ago
Because otherwise they’d really have to struggle with some highly uncomfortable and inconvenient realizations.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
That’s a kind way of saying some of them would have an aneurism thinking too hard. /s
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 6 months ago
They certainly do not strike me as people overburdened by introspection. Or ethics, decency, conscience and compassion for that matter.
Regrettably, they’re just smart enough to have stumbled upon the secret known to all psychopaths and sociopaths: That being an unmitigated asshole can be both liberating and profitable, so long as one can manage to dodge the consequences. It helps if other people - usually referred to as ‘victims’ - are too civil to apply the FAFO principle.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because they genuinely don’t know what the definition of fascism is
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fucking no one does. Right, left, you are all fucking morons, using the word as a buzzword because everyone else is. You are ALL calling each other fascists like kids call everyone over 18 “boomer”.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, that is plainly incorrect. MAGA and the Project 2025 plan are an indisputable textbook example of fascism, complete with a dictatorial leader, obsession for rebirth of a nation which is idealized to be assumed to be of homogenous identity, and cleansing of undesireables/foriegners. From Trump/MAGA rhetoric, to ICE deportaton raids, to nationalizing companies like US Steel and Intel, they’ve literally checked every box and are following the fascist playbook step by step.
So, you’re actually the moron.