A government that says you can’t call it authoritarian is most certainly authoritarian.
If you don’t want to be called a fascist, simply do not behave like a fascist. It doesn’t get any easier than that.
A government that says you can’t call it authoritarian is most certainly authoritarian.
One that outlaws anti-facists is facist
He’s a pedo facist Nazi imbecile crybaby
Nicely said, but you forgot rapist, conman, pants-shitter.
Nepo, thin skinned, business failure
Draft dodger, charlatan, media whore
Bankrupter of Casinos. Pornstar Hush money Payer. Exploiter of Cancer Foundations.
Kids cancer foundations
If we put everything shitty thing he is in there he’s gonna end up with a title like a Game of Thrones character
DONALD THE CHEAPSKATE, BREAKER OF TREATIES, MOLESTER OF CHILDREN, PROTECTOR OF PEDOPHILES, AND SHITTER OF PANTS. FIRST OF HIS NAME AND LAST IF WE’RE LUCKY. LONG MAY HIS STENCH LINGER.
Nailed it
Okay, pants-shitter is a bit unfair - we’re almost all likely going to start having bodily malfunctions by that age.
But the rest? Hear, hear!
Pants shitter stays
A cursory search on X shows dozens of examples of Miller referring to Democrats as “fascists” over the years, but as I’ve previously written, it’s a fool’s errand trying to shame MAGA bigwigs by holding up a mirror to their flagrant hypocrisy. They don’t care, and they relish shameless trolling — like wielding awesome power to police the same words they use all the time.
Don’t be cowed by MAGA’s speech-policing threats. Just as it has the right to say horrible things, you have the right to call the president a fascist. God bless America.
Yes, but for the sake of accuracy the president is a vulgar conventionalist and parafascist. Factions within the Republican party, such as the Christian nationalists, meet academic definitions of fascism but Trump has no ideology. He uses fascism as a tool to gain more wealth and power, he’s not a “true believer” like many of his followers.
Vulgar conventionalism is … that the life according to nature is the preserve of a small minority, of the natural elite, of those who are truly men and not [born] to be slaves. To be more precise, the summit of happiness is the life of the tyrant, of the man who has successfully committed the greatest crime by subordinating the city as a whole to his private good and who can afford to drop the appearance of justice or legality.
Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss.
para-fascism – a form of authoritarian and ultra-nationalist conservatism which adopts the external trappings of fascism while rejecting its call for genuine social and ethical revolution (see pp. 120–4)
Nature of Fascism, R Griffin
While interesting bit of political theory, do these distinctions really make that much of a difference? Like pretending to be a fascist, and being a fascist both seem like they’re heading toward the basically the same end result, a singular authoritarian dictator who uses the power of the state to their functionally exclusive advantage.
They do in so far as understanding motives and anticipating actions, it’s like any science, you want to be as accurate and precise as possible to avoid errors in making decisions.
His narcissistic personality disorder and deteriorating mental condition leaves him increasingly vulnerable to manipulation by advisors. The fascist elements within the party are prone to factionalization without competent leadership, these elements are a legitimate threat to his rule. It’s beneficial to know that while these parties all share a version of a palingenetic myth, the utopian visions differ considerably after America’s destruction, which can be used as a wedge to promote infighting and schisms between them.
For instance, the Dark Enlightenment oligarchs and JD Vance are working to scapegoat and get rid of Trump, (see mimetic theory of desire). Normal conservatives would be put off by the idea and their public support would wane, and the MAGA diehards possibly turn rabid to defend Dear Leader against Trump’s financial backers.
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Or push stories equating Trump/MAGA with Marxism/communism to sow division among the pure capitalist conservative types against his agenda.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/maga-marxist-maoist-trump-assault-free-market-capitalism-socialism/
Not in everyday conversation, no. In an accurate analysis, they make a useful distinction, yes.
I find it interesting that after a media companies licenses were threatened, pundits/comedians jobs threatened, and their editorial sovereignty threatened they suddenly decided to start writing articles criticizing the administration. Even if it is self serving.
😭 the paper the slavers wrote when they stole this joint says we got cut in!! we voted for fascism over there, not over here!
