Once again this is normal fascism
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Hmm. Yeah. Maybe I should have gone with some other title.
I hate Newsom (and neoliberals in general) but man, this is a good one.
I'd really hate if it does come down to him as presidential frontrunner, but his team's tweets have been incredible
From my post elsewhere in response to Trump's post.
That's socialism, right? Maybe not because the workers won't own the means of production, the government will. Which is communism. Well 10% communism? Well, starting out at the introductory rate of 10%. I'm sure that Trump will demand more in the future.
Remember when Republicans talked about the free market, government not picking winners and losers, free trade, etc? They are being conspicuously silent on the government taking over part of a major company. Imagine if Obama started buying stakes in companies? You don't have to. The federal reserve did it via quantitative easing during the 2008 crash. They pumped trillions into companies to keep them afloat during Obama's term and the Republicans that knew about it had a hissy fit. But they are all quiet now. Nothing to say. It's okay for the government to have a little corporate ownership as a treat. Even though they called it fascism for years.
That’s socialism, right?
The Marxist definition of socialism is that the government owns the means of production. That definition prevailed during the Cold War when you had such socialist countries. Communism is a utopian state which is promised to come after socialism. It's the system of a post-scarcity society where you don't have property because everything is abundant. The state withers away because it is no longer needed. Basically, it's a society like in Star Trek. In Marxist thought, the development is: feudalism->capitalism->socialism->communism
Of course, it's not wrong using the term "socialism" more loosely.
Under any definition it is most definitely not something that would have been acceptable to most Republicans if done by a Democrat.
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Now you are getting it, they enjoy when you call them nazis, gotta play around that
For real. Republicans are all for one party state with state owned monopoly corporations.
Does not get you control, this is just the government giving money to big corporations which is perfectly in line with actual capitalism (as.practiced, not the fairy tale version).
Real capitalists will also have no problem with the government taking over a failing company, paying off it's debts and later selling it at a loss to them.
Government ownership over industry where they do have direct control would still be capitalism though, as long as commodity production, wage labor and markets exist, since that's what actually defines it. Ownership alone isn't relevant.
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Fascists calling eachother communists like this on Twitter while working class people cheer them on for being so funny is just not the future I envisioned or wanted.
I don't have many nice things to say about Newsom but let's not dilute the word fascist into a generic insult eh?
Ya. Honestly, I'm getting pretty close to being done with Lemmy at this point. The way to fight extremism is not with different extremism. Between the hyper purity test Leftists, and the AI=evil absolutists, it feels like there's never any room for constructive discussion anymore. If I even ask a clarifying question about someone's views, even one that I could potentially be swayed towards, the response always comes back as some variation of "You're one of them aren't you!"
hyper purity test Leftists, and the AI=evil absolutists
IMPURE LEFTISTS BAD, AI BAD
UPVOTES NOW OR YOU'RE ONE OF THEM
ain't rigid, overzealous thinking great?
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He made being unhoused illegal.
While I like him mocking trump I still don't like him.
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I mean, there are non-fascist neoliberals out there, but this shit is just fascism. If it can happen to the homeless, it can happen to anyone.
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I mean yeah, he’s doing what leftists could only dream of, he’s destroying American imperialism
The point was to spread it to the whole world. Mission Accomplished!
If you were paying attention during the Cold War when the US was overthrowing democratic governments and installing fascist dictators you would have already known.
The war is over there is no need for central control anymore. Welcome to your fascist world.
The MAGA turd stains swing back and forth from Fascism to Communism. Fucking hypocrites.
Fascism also implies state control of the economy, so nah this is very in line with historical fascist states.
The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State–a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values–interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. (p. 32)
The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State. (p. 41).
-Mussolini https://politicalresearch.org/2005/01/12/mussolini-corporate-state
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None of them stand behind anything but money.
I recently cut a new friend from my life, went from normal seeming dude to full trumpism, I guess I just didn't see it before. Told him I don't associate with trump supporters and blocked his number. He said he shouldn't have brought up politics.
No man, be proud of the shit you believe in, don't hide it! You voted for hatred, stand behind it! It's everyone else that's wrong!
Fuck em. Stand up for what you believe in and either receive the hatred happily or reevaluate why you're getting shit on. Being a decent human doesn't cost much at all.
This is why democrats are still losing to trump, they can't give any sort of positive vision for the country. They're turning into reactionaries so whenever trump does some bastardized version of progressive policy, they don't say we'll do that but better, they say that's dumb and we won't do it at all. So anyone who wants the current system to change ( a majority of americans) they see trump as the only one who's even trying it.
If Trump says he's gonna bring peace to the middle east, they need to point out how shitty his plan is and how bad he is at negotiating and then give a better plan, not brag about there close connection to war mongering psychopaths in Israel.
If trump says he's gonna raise tarriffs to bring back jobs, they should point out how untargeted and useless they are and put forward a plan to use them in combination with industrial policy to make green industry in America, like China did.
If trump is taking 10% of intel to probably just sit on, they should say we'll use that stake to guarantee workers rights and to keep jobs in America, not call it communism like some reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy.
This is the most braindead comment I've read here yet. Google search Democratic Party Platform and you'll find a 92 page document covering everything you pretend to be looking for. Now Google the Republican Party platform, and you'll find it's "Whatever Trump wants at any moment'.
You could be complaining out of sheer ignorance, which is a common feature in today's political environment, when a simple Google search has the answers for the 'do your own research' generation, or you are being disingenuous on purpose to push the Both Sides Same narrative.
Who gives a flying fuck what you can google? I would have hard time believing them if they were saying it every day on live TV. Some documents barely tied to any politician without loud commitment is not worth the disk space it is occupying.
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Ironically it's a messaging issue. Trump did great with nuh uhing Hillary and just talking up whatever hed do instead rather than saying what it is. The dems need to move to what Bernie did, you scream loudly about what you need done and what the problem is and you tell them that they've been having a hard time.
Ironically yeah, this is an action I would've supported anyone else doing, its just that Trump is so wildly irresponsible and vindictive I suspect hes going to just meddle with the economy on culture war bullshit. Also the whole repealing subsidies that were a great first option before they had the chance to play out
I am not, nor any normal person, is gonna read that 92 page platform. I am commenting about the messaging they are giving to the masses, like it or not orders of magnitude more people see these Gavin tweets then there platform and this is what's informing there view of the democrats, and that view is terrible. They are at a 30 year low in approval rating, even with the unpopularity of trump to play off. What do you think explains this if not shitty messaging? Cause I think we can both agree there platform is nominally better then the Republicans, yet your average person doesn't believe that.
And the Republicans did have a platform, it was project 2025 and it was full of a lot of extremely unpopular shit. Did that stop them from winning all three branches of government? No, because no one reads a platform.
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The only thing the Democratic Party hates more than Republicans is actual leftists.
Dems are also all bark, no bite. Hard to get behind a consistently weak, losing team. We finally got a few "squeaky wheels" hoping to make some change. After Bernie got shafted, fuck DNC too. America is bought and paid for, all higher ups are in on it. They only go into politics to fatten their wallets. Fuck you pelosi and anyone else benefiting from insider trading.
Fuck Newsom, but his twattering is apparently amusing to some of my very dejected friends who've been in a rut post-2024 election, and that's worth something. Hopefully the combativeness spreads.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
America can only dream of being socialist or communist. Such a confused place that they can’t tell the difference between fascist and socialist
MAGA Communism vindicated
All of his money is tainted and when it touches other money that money is then tainted. We should take away all that tainted money no matter who has it at the end. His grandchildren should know what it means to work or be destitute.
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