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    In the Romanian presidential elections we just had, we have a fascist extreme right-wing candidate who got 1st place (note that we have a 2 round election system and this was only the first round). He appeared out of nowhere with a TikTok campaign, he didn’t have a traditional ad campaign, he didn’t participate in any debates, a lot of people who don’t use TikTok haven’t even heard about him. We will know in 2 weeks if we become fascist or not.

    There are 2 problems. First is the hybrid war going on. The western world needs to do better. Ban TikTok and take drastic measures to limit the spread of misinformation and propaganda on social media.

    The second big problem is that western leaders are ignoring the real problems affecting average people. The out of control immigration (the problem isn’t with the people immigrating, but with a system unable to integrate them into the rest of the society), rising costs, unaffordable housing, huge tax burden are real problems that aren’t being addressed. People are rightfully angry with the current leaders and are looking for alternatives. But most people aren’t very smart or care enough about politics, so they are easy prey to propaganda and extremist groups that are calling out these problems.

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    Mexican here. Last month, a reporter known for being critical of the government was fired live in the middle of his segment. We’re definitely going fascist.

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      Yeah, this is a strangely euro-centric viewing. It needs to include so many more places. Russia is a big one that’s missing, for another example, and there are a ton more. We’re in bad economic times, which is where Fascists thrive. On the good side, leftists can also take advantage of it to actually help people if they succeed.

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    Among the ones not going fascist north Korea, Russia, Eritrea, China, Syria, Iran…

    Among the ones going fascist New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark……

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      You’re correct, it’s innaccurate to not portray the entire world as descending into fascism, as has always been predicted on any path that embraces capitalism.

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    India and China are missing. Japan is pretty fascist too… at least when compared to European “fascist” countries marked in the map.

    Apart from that… the amount of fascism is too damn high!

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      Is Japan “going” or just sitting roughly where it’s been for decades? I don’t know enough about Japanese politics but it doesn’t seem from my perspective like it moves fast.

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    Canada’s not fascist yet. We’re electing our own Vance in a few months, so save your sympathy for us then.

    Apparently the Corporation has been able to convince people - as they’ve tried from the start - that Hair Guy is somehow worse than them. They haven’t actually put forth a platform with any numbers or promises on it, but “hair guy bad” has finally found an audience so dumb to swallow it.

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      So, not particularly effectively and using it as an increasingly threadbare excuse for maintaining the status quo?

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    Ah yes. The west. Famously known for being the most authoritarian of geopolitical regions.

    In the memes defense you can’t be moving towards authoritarianism if you’re already there.

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      They said fascist, you can be authoritarian without being fascist.

      How do you know Shrek isn’t portraying someone in the west asking the rest of the west to stop turning fascist?

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        If you want to play the fascism isn’t authoritarianism card then name a single state indicated in the meme that has taken up fascism as official policy.

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          Fascism is most definitely authoritarian.

          Poo by any other name is still poo. Fascist principles can be seen to be taking root in many western countries. Do they label themselves fascist … well southern and eastern Europe seem to be starting to openly do that.

          Regardless, both Italy and Spain seem to be highlighted in the meme soo … there’s two?

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                I wouldn’t say they’ve adopted a fascistic internal political system. Like they still have elections and aren’t led by a dictator. You can only be so ethno-nationalistic while remaining in the EU lol.

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                  Yeah Giorgia Meloni and the Fratelli d’Italia sound pretty ethno-nationalistic to me …