• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    i mean theyve always been openly couping and subjugating the rest of the world. its just been successfull for their own for most of this time.

    as the meme says, its just ran out of space to expand and its now fucking over their own people and allies instead.

    what fascists are doing right now in the us is not much different from what they have been doing to south america, africa and east asia for quite some time now.

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      14 days ago

      Imperialist ≠ fascist

      America was often imperialist, only had periods of fascist political movements and has been transitioning for a while.

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        13 days ago

        they are not the same thing per se, but imperialism is a fascist strategy. genociding brown people or otherwise oppressing them for money sounds pretty fascistic to me.

        its just that its on a worldwide stage now, so the in-group is even more insulated from seeing it.

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          13 days ago

          Racism is not fascism. Imperialism is not fascism. Nationalism isn’t facism. They are characteristics that sometimes or often lead to facism. Facism has a fairly explicit definition. Things can be a part of each other and overlap each other without being each other.

          If I make a snowman, that doesn’t mean that the carrot is a snowman or every snow sphere is a snowman. You can say that when you see me laying out the carrot with 3 balls of snow and a hat, it is leading to a snowman, but it has not always been a snowman.

          But yes, facism is a huge danger and on the rise all over the world. Not even just in white western countries either.