Hexbear is where it is happenin'!

Correct

If you think anything is bad, that is the same as racism.

Frickin' Sweet, I'm a nationalist now!

fosshost! I am getting all hot and bothered!

So, she was stupid and naive enough to embrace the most destructive and losing campaign she could have possibly chosen and give up everything that was working? Weird how it is a constant refrain that tacking towards the right is the winning move that all campaign advisors point out, and even though it always loses, Obama was the only Democrat after Bill Clinton to not follow this advice, it is not a damning condemnation that a Dem candidate always listen to this advice, despite its obvious failures. Litterally, Biden could not have won on this playbook (only Democrat since Clinton to win with this) if the combination of COVID and BLM made Trump seem obviously failing, through no virtue of Biden.

No, we should glorify and defend Harris for selling out to the most loosing and useless tactics possible, because being polite and positive is more important that defeating, in her words!, fascism.

I wasn't blaming Walz as much as saying that putting Walz on the ticket was, in their eyes, enough of a sop to progressives and midwesterners, that they should be able to give nothing else to those constituencies.

Democrat's use of the vice president to "balance the ticket" is what got us here. Everyone forgets that the entire reason that Biden was Obama's VP was that there was trepidation at having a black candidate, so to balance the ticket, they looked for the most racist white guy still in the Democratic party, which was Biden. Biden's staffers were pulling their hair out and complaining in the 2020 primary, saying things like "please, use any other examples of reaching across the aisle to work with Republicans, other than how much you loved Strom Thurmand and worked with him to stop desegregation". The calculus with Walz was that you get a "bumbling Midwest guy" on the ticket and they can continue to take progressive voters for granted and possibly appeal to purple states, since several of them were Midwestern.

Oh no, he melted!

Learn theory

I just got the best one, gone but not forgotten.

Wait a minute... That's just Nazi third positioning!

I am giving up Rust, and will only program in Holy C from now on. Blessed is God's operating system!

So the Czar was fascist? King Leopold of Belgium was fascist? King Friedrich the Great was fascist?

It really does matter for circumventing or over-ruling the constitutional order that you have another "card" to play that your paramilitary is independently answerable to you and not just because your guy is currently head of state.

Wow, ThyssenKrupp is willing to be anti-Semitic? This is the first I am hearing of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp#Nazi_Germany_(1933%E2%80%931945)

Mass politics is more about actual political involvement like regular party meetings, party social clubs, and enrolling your children in something like the Hitler Youth. Again, modeled after the socialist parties having social organizations, sports clubs, theater troupes, etc. Having people regularly interact with the party and can be called out for mass action with a days notice. It isn't just a double digit percentage of people vote for the party.

The fascist paramilitaries are outside of the government and independently, only answerable to the party. Not that the party takes over the state and can make the state apparatuses do what the party wants.

You keep saying things like down with the bourgeoisie, eat the rich, sodomize the land-owners, impale all people who have more than 25 reál in their pocket

I do think that in an academic sense, Trump is not fascist. I mostly agree with Daniel Bessner on this front. The purpose of creating a category or ideology called fascism and not just what a weird Italian party called themselves because they are Roman LARPers, is that there was something new with this strain of European politics in the 1920s. So I do feel that any definition of fascism has to embrace that part, that it is something that is unique to Europe in the 1920s and not pre-existing political positions or precedents. So, to some extent, the lack of mass politics or the use of a party paramilitary being involved can lead one to say that Trump isn't fascist.

To a lesser extent, I do think that maybe Bessner is correct in that there is real stakes to this discussion, in that this is trying to make Trump's ideology and actions a foreign, European import and ignoring how it is a natural extension or direct conclusion of the American Right-Wing.

I don't usually push back on people calling Trump or American politicians fascist, since most people think fascism is just racism and reactionary politics. But as I said, I am mostly just looking at an academic classification, and even though all political terms being contested, any definition of fascism has to take into account that the use of the term as a category was because Europeans in the 1920s said "wait, this is something new and unique". Why people get worked up about this is that fascism, due to the united front, is something that is almost universally agreed as a bad thing. Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Liberals, and even some Conservatives were united against fascism in allied countries. So fascism fulfills the roll of the political bad, so when people hear you say "Trump isn't a fascist", what they think or hear is "No, he isn't really that bad". Despite the fact that things can be bad in multiple ways, so Trump doesn't have to be fascist to be really racist, "authoritarian" and bad. The Belgian Congo under King Leopold wasn't necessarily fascist, but it was extremely evil and bad.

Okay. You are correct, tsugae prefers hemlock and will grow on other conifers.