fascism

Let's make a checklist of what Trumpand the GOP will do to centralize power and turn the USA into a managed-Democracy, like Russia. 1. Censor the media 2. Change election laws in such a way that opposition parties will never win. 3. Weaponise the judicial system and DOJ to investigate and...

I'm talking about Brazil of course, where the first round of the presidential election already had the winner Jair Bolsonaro, and they will go into a second, deciding round at the end of the month. Just read this long but very informative piece by the native Brazilian Pepe Escobar who tries to...

GzKv5gjOzTA Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street (wiki) when a motley collection of socialists, trade unionists, communists, Irish dockers, Jewish shopkeepers and thousands ordinary people faced down and stopped a deliberately provocative march by Oswald Mosley...

Here's Glenn Beck introducing the man named Aleksandr Dugin: 5KuRmiXjAgg I knew already that the picture of "the RASputin behind Putin" is completely bogus and his influence is vastly exaggerated by crackpots like Beck (if you think a man like Lavrov cares one bit about Dugin, you don't know...

Should Fascist power in America find itself threatened, the Fascist's would try to take a **** in everyone’s soup. They had a Cadre of Fascists among the Air Force Officers controlling our Nuclear Missiles. One of the insurance policies for American Fascist power was Nuclear Armageddon...

Lower wages makes life better? Sam Walton was an Army Intelligence Officer in WWII. Title 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4) criminalizes gun possession by (among others) anyone “who has been committed to a mental institution.” Guns and Mental Illness The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 12 May, 2010 | Eugene...

I have noticed that historical facts keep changing as time passes by. What I learned when I was young is not true any longer. No matter which subject, whether it is physics, chemistry, biology or history, I am in a constant state of confusion and googling day in day out about things I thought I...

So says French sociologist Antoine Bueno. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/the-smurfs-are-racist-ant_n_870758.html :boggled:

Recently a claim was made on this forum that there was significant support for fascism among members of the Progressive movement in the 1930s. Supposedly they had written songs in praise of Mussolini and considered fascism to be "the Next Big Thing". I opened a thread so that people believing...

In another thread, theprestige made the claim that: This is a good example of a bad post, at least as far as posts in a forum devoted to skepticism go. The poster makes several claims, but offers up very few details to clarify just what is being claimed. Who, for example, were the...

What is fascism? What is socialism? Is it possible to define either without generating outrage, contemptuous ridicule, and accusations of ignorance? Is it possible to define either in just a few simple sentences? Bonus points if you can manage to do this without examples. No points at all if...

Interesting in the same sense of poking a stick at a dead animal on the side of the road to look at the maggots. more lunacy That can't be good for the sport.

I just received an email from a friend with Naomi Wolf's 10 steps from "The End of America". I know this has been around a while. They are: 1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy. 2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place. 3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary...

From my blog: http://www.rationalrevolution.net/blog/index.blog?entry_id=1685342 A few people had asked about the "documentary" America: Freedom to Fascism. I finally saw it because a friend was nice enough to send me a copy of it. Here is my review of the film. I don't have time to go into...

Naomi Wolf attracted some attention yesterday with a hyperventilating column on how America is turning into a fascist state in ten easy steps. The article itself is obviously more appropriately discussed in the political forums, but I was interested in this one example Wolf used: Is Kevin...

I think so. What about you?

In "Fascism Anyone?," Laurence Britt identifies 14 characteristics common to fascist regimes. His comparisons of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet yielded this list of 14 "identifying characteristics of fascism." http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm ____________ Pass out...

An exchange between two posters on another thread inspired me to address this issue. "Fascist" and "Fascism" are terms that are constantly thrown around, but what do they really mean? Webster's defines it as: Main Entry: fas·cism Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si- Function: noun...

Saw this on the back of a t-shirt and found the article it was from. The article. The signs (boiled down):Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. Disdain for the importance of human rights. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The supremacy of the military/avid...

This is still a rought draft, but since this topic has been raised recently I figured I go ahead and post it. Rip away :p http://www.rationalrevolution.net/understanding_fascism.htm