its not a 'resemblance' if its the textbook fucking definition. its called 'reality'.
for some reason the media refuses to note reality
(some reason hahah, we know)
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US media is complicit. CBS is the prime example
If you want to fight this stop consuming, and organize a general strike.
Cancel everything - Netflix, Prime, Hulu, cable, iCloud. Don’t spend any money aside from necessities until this stops.
Most corporate media globally is complicit but yeah US media is astounding.
god fucking forbid we hurt the feelings of a rapist pedophile con man by calling him a fascist, which he literally is.
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm
That's literally how children act. It's fucking insane, this is not some keen business man, he's a petulant spoiled child.
King of the gaslight
12 Early Warning Signs of Fascism
Powerful and continuing nationalism
Constant flag-waving, slogans about “greatness,” and framing dissent as unpatriotic.
Us-vs-them thinking (scapegoating)
Blaming minorities, immigrants, or internal “enemies” for social or economic problems.
Disdain for human rights
Justifying abuses as necessary for security, order, or national survival.
Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
A shared fear or hatred is used to rally the population and suppress debate.
Supremacy of the military or security forces
Excessive glorification of police, military, or “law and order,” often alongside expanded powers.
Rampant sexism and rigid gender roles
Hostility toward feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, or non-traditional family structures.
Controlled or attacked media
Journalists labeled as enemies, “fake news,” or pressured through legal, financial, or political means.
Obsession with national security
Fear is used to justify surveillance, emergency powers, and erosion of civil liberties.
Religion intertwined with government
A dominant religion is used to justify laws, policies, or moral authority.
Corporate power protected, labor power suppressed
Close alignment between the state and favored businesses; unions and workers’ rights weakened.
Disdain for intellectuals and experts
Attacks on universities, scientists, teachers, and “elites,” often paired with anti-education rhetoric.
Erosion of democratic norms
Undermining elections, courts, or checks and balances while claiming to represent the “true will of the people.”
12/12 by my count.
I was calling it out for years, warning about what was coming. People said I was hyperbolizing.
I couldn't understand how people didn't see this. It was plain as day, since at least January 6th 2021.
Until recently I thought it a term best avoided
FUCK YOU (author not OP)
Trump has been a blatant, Hitler loving fascist since he announced his run for presidency in 2015.
The last decade of warning people was completely hindered and wasted because of stupid motherfuckers like this author.
Every single time Trump and his goons were called out as fascists, a mob of "WeLl AcTuAlLy" dipshits would follow to spam fuck lies and irrelevancy to everyone to completely tune out the valid warnings.
Pieces of shit like this author want to come off as "its a mistake anyone could have made" BUT NO. YOU ARE THE DUMB MOTHER FUCKER. THE WARNINGS WERE THERE FROM THE BEGINNING.
YOU ENABLED FASCISM. FUCK YOU AND EVERYONE LIKE YOU.
It took zero time into his first cabinat picks to go, oh thats just pure fucking evil. Like his cheif of stratagy, famous for his platform for the alt right, had his platform describe the alt right as "intellectual skin heads". He then order a the imprisonment of anyone (women, children, infants, the eldery, etc) for potential paperwork errors. They then found, after his cruel reign, that there was scheme being allowed to forciable sterlize some of those women.
And they wonder why their readership is declining? Welcome to where the rest of us were a year ago.
Fucking enablers of fascism suddenly decided that it's gone too far. What a joke.
Little late to the party
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