conscription, mass surveillance, mass incarceration, bank bailouts, prison slavery, extraordinary rendition, collusion with the arms industry… I don’t feel I need to go on, but we can also look at their foreign policy of wealth extraction.
if they’re prioritizing the interests of the state over the interest of other institutions (the academy, churches, etc) and forcing those institutions to come into alignment with their interests (Pentagon backing research grants, selectively enforcing tax laws in return for compliance, etc), they’re fucking fascists.
conscription, mass surveillance, mass incarceration, bank bailouts, prison slavery, extraordinary rendition, collusion with the arms industry… I don’t feel I need to go on, but we can also look at their foreign policy of wealth extraction.
if they’re prioritizing the interests of the state over the interest of other institutions (the academy, churches, etc) and forcing those institutions to come into alignment with their interests (Pentagon backing research grants, selectively enforcing tax laws in return for compliance, etc), they’re fucking fascists.
Those are not fascist policies. Corrupt, authoritarian, sure. But if you think that’s fascist, you don’t know what that word means.
if you don’t think that’s fascism, then you and I can’t agree about what fascism is
Uh, if you keep insisting on using it incorrectly, then yeah obviously. Why would I want to agree with an incorrect definition?
the feeling is mutual