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  • your nonsequitur doesn't change the nature of the hegemony

    • It's not a non sequitur. It's a reference to Plato's definition of man being a featherless biped, which Diogenes replied to by presenting a plucked chicken and announcing "Behold, a man!". Likewise, you're using a deliberately vague and incomplete definition of "fascism" in order to try to justify your weak claim.

      What fascist policies have Democrats been gleefully enacting? Not just bad ones, we can all agree that Democrats have problems. What fascist policies are they enacting?

      • you’re using a deliberately vague and incomplete definition of “fascism” in order to try to justify your weak claim.

        that's a lie.

      • conscription, mass surveillance, mass incarceration, bank bailouts, prison slavery, extraordinary rendition, collusion with the arms industry... I don't feel I need to go on, but we can also look at their foreign policy of wealth extraction.

        if they're prioritizing the interests of the state over the interest of other institutions (the academy, churches, etc) and forcing those institutions to come into alignment with their interests (Pentagon backing research grants, selectively enforcing tax laws in return for compliance, etc), they're fucking fascists.

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