• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    2 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?

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      45 minutes ago

      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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      2 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.