• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Democracy isn’t a magic anti-fascist spell,

    Yes it is, genius. THAT IS LITERALLY WHY IT WAS INVENTED.

    If someone can convince enough of the population to elect them, then they get into power, fascist or not.

    If power is conveniently centralized for a fascist to take control of, Clyde, IT MEANS YOU NEVER HAD A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY TO START OFF WITH.

    By your definition, there really hasn’t been a blah, blah, blah…

    How the fuck do you liberals get through the day with all this foaming, nuclear-level incoherence bouncing around inside your heads?

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      Democracy has existed far longer than fascism has… the earliest fascist movements weren’t until the 1910s, while the earliest recorded democracy was around 508 BC, with the earliest recorded usage of the term in the 430s BC. You’re wrong by a margin of millennia

      My dear god, this is history fundamentals. And the sheer balls you’ve got to have to be that rude while being just this severely wrong is obscene.

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        Democracy has existed far longer than fascism has…

        And? Are you so utterly brain-addled as to believe that hierarchical violence was invented in the 20th century?

        the earliest fascist movements weren’t until the 1910s,

        Oh, right… for a minute there I almost forgot that liberals only call it “fascism” when the victims are white.

        while the earliest recorded democracy was around 508 BC

        So it was invented all that time ago, and you STILL don’t have the foggiest idea what it actually is, eh?

        That tracks, liberal.

        My dear god, this is history fundamentals.

        Again. How the fuck do you liberals get through the day with all this foaming, nuclear-level incoherence bouncing around inside your heads?

        Seriously - I’d like to know.

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          believe that hierarchical violence was invented in the 20th century

          Well that’s just not what I said - you specifically said fascism, which was invented in the 20th century. It has more specific characteristics than just hierarchical violence; ethno-nationalism, militarisation of the state, flexible suppression of opposition and centralised autocracy.

          Just because you’re mad about being corrected doesn’t mean you need to be a dick about it.

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          And? Are you so utterly brain-addled as to believe that hierarchical violence was invented in the 20th century?

          You’re the one who said that democracy was invented as a measure against fascism. Angrily throwing a lot of words around doesn’t automatically result in a coherent argument.

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      5 hours ago

      Americans are the most propagandized people on earth. That’s why so many of them insist Russia is still communist, while another crop of them think Joe Biden is communist.

      It’s all media slop, in one ear and out the other.

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        Americans are the most propagandized people on earth.

        Yeah. The responses on here certainly seems to bear that out.