March 31, Bill Maher had dinner at the Whitehouse with Donald Trump, Kid Rock, and Dana White.
April 11, Bill Maher made an episode of his show glazing Trump. It was loaded with civility shit. He talked about how civil Trump is in person and how they agree on a lot of stuff.
Bill Maher is a right wing Zionist who identifies as a Democrat on his talk show.
April 21, Larry David (creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm) publishes a satirical story in NYT titled "My Dinner with Adolf". It does not name Bill Maher directly but people have interpreted it to be mocking Bill Maher. https://archive.is/tNjw7
I think Larry David is a Bernie-crat. He's met Bernie Sanders. Some articles say he has never been to Israel but some of the episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm seem pro-Israel. He might be a Liberal Zionist.
Yesterday, Bill Maher accuses Larry David of disrespecting the victims of the Holocaust by comparing Trump to Hitler.
Comparing modern day fascism to historic examples of fascism, is always valid. Choosing to "leave it in it's own place", is a form of denial. You are ignoring the obvious signs of fascism that are right in front of you, because you refuse to compare them to past examples. Hitler was a fascist. Every single one of Trump's policies that are comparable to Hitler's, need to be recognized for what they are. This is what fascism looks like. Closing your eyes to that fact, is dangerous.
It’s iffy with me. It overshadows the homegrown history of this stuff from a country that inspired the Nazis. Jackson, McKinley, Wilson, Buchanan, Hoover. The list goes on. They’ve done a lot of the same things and have stronger parallels to Trump and yet they’re overlooked all the time in favor of being compared to fascists from across the pond.
Like I’ll see foreigners make the Hitler comparison with Bukele when Central America has no shortage of fascist assholes to compare him to.
Fascism is definitionally incoherent to most americans and even most leftists. It's just a synonym for people in government that I really don't like. If it's mild dislike, they're an asshole. Serious disagreements, they're "authoritarian". And if you really hate them, they're fascist.
History may rhyme but it doesn't repeat itself. Curious what your definition of "fascism" is. Don't say "capitalism in crisis". Give me something analytically useful.
Are you seriously doing the ‘anything you don’t like is fascism’ thing?
been here alla 1 day and gonna get your account nuked for this shit? libs are so fucking boring
Libs are people who cannot provide an analytically useful definition of fascism.
I love Xi.
Capitalism in crisis is analytically useful because it literally states what the economic basis/precursor for fascism is, you dolt.
sometimes vibes are more important than technicalities
definitely not in this case.
Oh no what if we accidentaly call an asshole hitler
This post smells like magacommunism shit. I seen a lot of Hinkle followers on twitter say that people can't be fascists today because fascism could only exist within the period that it was invented.
My baseline definition of Fascism is anticommunism. A Fascist is someone who will do whatever they think is necessary to prevent communism. The definition of Fascism is incoherent is because Fascists just took Marxism and said "let's do the opposite of that". Like if you look at Mussolini's theories, Mussolini has the theory of Class Collaboration, whereas he believes that working class and capitalist class naturally benefit each other. Mussolini just took the Marxist concept of class conflict and then declared he believes the opposite.
A fascist is a person who sees the contradictions of capitalism and makes up alternative explanations for why these problems are occurring under capitalism. Not enough jobs? Blame immigrants. Planes crashing? Blame minorities. Citizens don't want to reproduce? Blame gay people or women. Problems occur under capitalism because of capitalist profit seeking. Fascists make up alternative explanations because they want to preserve the hierarchies. Fascists have decided that they like their position in the capitalist hierarchy and want to preserve that position.
So what makes Trump similar to Hitler? There is the obvious opposition to communism. There is also the desire to preserve and even reinforce the social hierarchies of capitalism. Hitler believed in a conspiracy theory called Jewish Bolshevism. Hitler did not just oppose communism or Jewish people individually, he believed that communism and Jewishness were the same. Hitler believed that communism was a Jewish plot and that the Soviet revolution was a Jewish revolution. In that communism was a threat to hierarchy of German Society, Hitler also believed that Jewish people were a threat to hierarchy of German Society. Trump exhibits many of these same behaviors. Trump has said many times that he believes that "radical left" politics is controlled by an external force. He believes that immigrants are a source of the opposition of the hierarchies of American society. Like Hitler attributed communism with Jewishness, Trump attributes "radical left" politics with immigrants. Thereby Trump thinks that he can remove "radical left" politics from the US by deporting immigrants. The Nazis also originally planned to deport Jewish people and Communists, but then later resorted to mass extermination.
I prefer to take a more scholarly approach to the definition. And I believe it is critically important to always push back on the idea that all it means is "whatever I don't like". Whenever someone responds with that kind of answer, I will post one of thousands of articles that actually attempt to legitimately define it. It's important to understand what it is, if we're expecting to stand up to it.