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Seems like there's a whole lotta fascists on this internet.

>>pfkurt+(OP)
...where "fascist" is defined as: "anyone who disagrees with me".

>>koheri+h
Nope. Where it's defined as people enacting or cheering right wing authoritarian destruction of democratic society.

Like the supporters of Donald Trump.

>>pfkurt+L3
Feel free to keep putting those goal posts wherever you feel like today.

>>koheri+GO
I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean. But that's what fascism is — right wing authoritarianism built around a leader cult merging racist populists with a corporate elite, directing state violence at marginalized/demonized groups. Which is what Trumpism is.

>>koheri+h
Who has actually expressed or implied this definition of fascism?

>>pfkurt+o21
There's a political illiteracy in our politics (I'm including Canada, but more prevalent in the US it seems) that says fascism is hitler himself and the swastika and nothing else.

>>ground+Mv1
Which makes their confidence in their literacy so bizarre. koheripbal's reaction to the uncontroversial observation is to first convince himself that it must be wrong and then project a specific and fantastical reason to explain why we have observed it. He really thinks he has figured something out.

>>pfkurt+L3
So the person who literally defends the right of citizens to be armed to defend themselves and right for their speech is an authoritarian destructor? Man I used to think HN consisted of intellectuals with more logic. I guess I was wrong.

EDIT: Oh look, downvote brigade has arrived.

>>koheri+h
Why is this comment allowed to stay up?

>>koheri+h
That this comment is still up five days later, and amidst the current news, is a shocking failure by the mods.

What an embarrassment.