yeah but what does that guy know about fascism? i mean, if we can just quote anybody with a funny name and pretend it’s got all this weight behind it, you can make just about any statement you want that way, if you get your friend with a funny name to repeat it first.
Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
so you mean to tell me my country was fascist all along
The Democrats were less obvious but still bow down to corporations.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini.
yeah but what does that guy know about fascism? i mean, if we can just quote anybody with a funny name and pretend it’s got all this weight behind it, you can make just about any statement you want that way, if you get your friend with a funny name to repeat it first.
i’m struggling to think of a single capitalist state i have some knowledge of that doesn’t work like this. there are probably a few of them…?
Merger is the key word.
Corporates do have some power, to greater or lesser degrees, in most government systems. But very few have the level of control over writing laws and paying politicians that the USA has.
i can think of a few, very much including my own.
So watch out for more signs of fascism, particularly when corporate rights trump individuals.
oh we had a literal fascist as our head of state very recently, and things point to this happening again. i think this is a big sign lololol
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lol. Gotta remember freedom means dollars and press means buying politicians.
Not to mention the many actual journalists murdered by empire. There have been hundreds in palestine alone… Plus prisoners like chelsea manning, etc.
It’s a sliding scale and it’s recently descended into unambiguously facist territory.
Its like diagnosing a disease: just one symptom isn’t conclusive, but when you have all the known symptoms you can be pretty sure what it is.
At a minimum, multiple states are/were all they way up to the Governor’s seat. Yes.
USA was founded by slavers who were the pre-cursors to fascism.
USA was fascist from inception even before fascism.