• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Words didn’t work on Hitler, they won’t work on Trump.

    Send a fleet to Greenland as a show of force. Trump is a feebile little bitch and will back down at the first sign of resistance.

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      1 day ago

      Bit of a stretch, no? I certainly see an axe… but while all fasces are axes not all axes are fasces, obviously.

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                i mean that was somewhat tongue in cheek but law enforcement is fundamentally the state’s way of enacting violence in line with whatever it’s leaders see fit - which imo at the very least has fascistic elements.

                would you say that killing almost exclusively Arab and African people, tear gassing, shooting and brutalizing protestors because they disagree with governmental policies is not in any way fascistic?

                what about the french national police massacring hundreds of peaceful Algerians explicitly due to racism, with full governmental support and subsequent censorship, led by Maurice Papon, an actual Nazi coraborator who deported thousands of Jewish people to concentration camps only to spend 4 years in jail 30 years later (while serving in government all that time) - would you call that a rule of law that applies equally to everyone?

                at what point do we look at these “individual incidents” and start questioning the whole system of oppression?

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                  I don’t think it’s just the lawmakers that want laws enforced. Most civilians also do, in my experience, and if it’s a reflection of the will of the population, maintained by elected officials, it’s by definition not fascist. Fascism is about central control. In a healthy society powers are compartmentalized to prevent any sort of absolute authority. You can bring up all kinds of examples of injustices, but injustice is the fascism, not law and order.