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Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’
(www.latintimes.com)
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I don't believe that ‘being able to be elected by voters one more time’ is even close to being the same as a ‘fascist dictatorship’.
Except it's not being able to be elected, because he's served two terms and that limitation isn't just a law, it's an amendment. I don't care how much of congress they control, changing it will require a new amendment and that's just exceedingly unlikely to happen, much less happen before the end of his current term. So if he can't change the rules, attempting to stay in power anyway is absolutely fascist dictatorship material.
The first amendment is an amendment but he ignores that one.
Ignoring the law is what makes Trump's approach dictatorial.
And that's also fascist. If we're assembling a list of the fashy shit Trump has done one by one we might be here a while.
Simple. If done by a single person or small group that is not representative of the whole, it's facism. If done with the blessing of the people, it's not.
If trump passed an amendment changing that, and did so by acquiring the proper amount of votes in all areas, that would be fine.
If he does it by saying "I can because I say so", that's facism.
I know you're just being a troll or intentionally ignorant, but that's the answer. You're intentionally stripping ALL THE NUANCE out and trying to act naive.
To be fair, that just makes it authoritarian, not fascist. It's all the other stuff he does combined with that which makes it fascist.
Fair point. I was focusing more on the "with or without the people's blessing" aspect.
Where was the question? I only see misinformed assumptions and straight falsehoods.
I refer you to my original request about stfu-ing
Hitler was elected to office. Being elected doesn't mean one doesn't have fascist ambitions.
Incorrect. Hitler never won the elections he ran in. Instead, President Hindenburg appointed him after facing pressure from various directions.
You are correct, his party had won elections.
The point being that elections does not mean one is not a wannabe dictator. Perhaps a better example would be Orbán.
Not everyone is Hitler.
No one disagrees with that. But there are fascists in charge of the USA right now, and they're apparently modelling much of what they do after Mussolini and Hitler.
The guy using the same rhetoric as Hitler in his campaigns wishes he was, though...
Not all fascists are Hitler.
Did Putin write this?
Seems like there's a rise of shit takes on Lemmy today.
Edit: ... I'm on your side, people, read to the end of this novel of a post.
When Angie entered her 16th year of being German chancellor, USians yelled about dictatorship too. I had several discussions about how simply remaining in power for a long time does not mean one is a dictator, as long as free and equal elections happen. I may not have agreed with CDU voters (ever), I certainly have never voted for them, but tough.
Circumstances in this case however do suggest that he's trying to overthrow their entire system and this third term stuff is just an overt symptom of a disregard for their constitution.
what are you waffling about!? obviously not the same thing at all
What's not the same thing? I didn't say anything was the same thing as another thing?