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Ed The Fascism Checklist, Trump 2025

Norman Alexander said:
Sorry, but... Brainworm Guy will not only start the next plague, he will actively promote it. So this time, let the stupid people who follow his edicts die without trying so hard to save them. They are they ones needed to be removed from US society, honestly. Self-correction and all that.
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You could say he is bringing evolution back.
 
LiteBright said:
You just may have a point here, I don't know. But to prove it you'll have to do better than an editorial from IBD which is a known purveyor of hard right conspiracy theories. Got anything better?
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So Obama didn't dismiss 197 officers?
 
Trausti said:
So Obama didn't dismiss 197 officers?
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LOL so now you're right unless I can prove he didn't? How is this any kind of argument at all?

I spent a few minutes (literally all it took) looking into some of the names in the article you posted.

Gen Ham was in fact NOT relieved but instead retired.

Head of Africa Command not forced out

The Obama administration’s decision to grant retirement to the top general of U.S. Africa Command is part of the internal jockeying that goes on among the military branches to win top war-fighting assignments and was not related to the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in...
www.washingtontimes.com www.washingtontimes.com

Rear Adm Gaouette was relieved after being reprimanded by the Navy for publically making racially insensitive remarks

Maj Gen Carey was removed after a drunken episode in Moscow

Vice Admiral Giardina was relieved after comitting a felony in Iowa.
abcnews.go.com

Vice Adm. Tim Giardina Fired as No. 2 Nuclear Commander

President Obama relieves him of command amid gambling investigation.
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So the IBD article was pretty much all BS. Is there literally nothing on the internet you won't fall for if it supports your worldview?
 
LiteBright said:
LOL so now you're right unless I can prove he didn't? How is this any kind of argument at all?

I spent a few minutes (literally all it took) looking into some of the names in the article you posted.

Gen Ham was in fact NOT relieved but instead retired.

Head of Africa Command not forced out

The Obama administration’s decision to grant retirement to the top general of U.S. Africa Command is part of the internal jockeying that goes on among the military branches to win top war-fighting assignments and was not related to the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in...
www.washingtontimes.com www.washingtontimes.com

Rear Adm Gaouette was relieved after being reprimanded by the Navy for publically making racially insensitive remarks

Maj Gen Carey was removed after a drunken episode in Moscow

Vice Admiral Giardina was relieved after comitting a felony in Iowa.
abcnews.go.com

Vice Adm. Tim Giardina Fired as No. 2 Nuclear Commander

President Obama relieves him of command amid gambling investigation.
abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com

So the IBD article was pretty much all BS. Is there literally nothing on the internet you won't fall for if it supports your worldview?
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The truth. Trausti has an automatic distrust of any statement that agrees with reality.
 
Purge of the military leadership, sounds more like Trump's a Commie!

en.wikipedia.org

1941 Red Army Purge - Wikipedia

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Again, this thread is just a Texas Sharpshooter, look Trump has crazy hair, you know who also had crazy hair! At least a crazy moustache.

The Soviets purged the generals, Hitler purged the NAZI party, primarily of the SA. I can't find anything to suggest purging the Army is in anyway indicative of Fascism particularly. Tariffs? Really, so the US was a fascist state for the first hundred years of its existence? Tariffs were indicative of practically every government prior to about 1950.
 
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MAGA is promising to punish media outlets that criticised him. MSNBC is on the hit list. CNN is on the hit list. Daily Beast is on the hit list. And many more. But controlling the media isn't facist....
 
thaiboxerken said:
MAGA is promising to punish media outlets that criticised him. MSNBC is on the hit list. CNN is on the hit list. Daily Beast is on the hit list. And many more. But controlling the media isn't facist....
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Don't forget his general demonization of the media and instilling distrust by the people by calling it Fake News.
 
thaiboxerken said:
MAGA is promising to punish media outlets that criticised him. MSNBC is on the hit list. CNN is on the hit list. Daily Beast is on the hit list. And many more. But controlling the media isn't facist....
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It is but it's also what Woodrow Wilson did, commies do, every other brand of authoritarian does. Almost nothing in this thread is all that much more closely associated with fascism than any other form of authoritarianism.

I saw defund education as a sign of fascism, really where is that in Mein Kampf, mostly they wanted state sponsored intervention in education to indoctrinate folks but I'm unaware of any association with fascism and defunding education. This is all just thing folks think Trump will try and are calling fascist, not an actual list of things associated with fascists.

Like saying the Dems are commies because they want state control and federal funding of education. Which, I'm sure lots of Reps do. Doesn't make them right about that.
 
Dont' forget both Dems and the GOP are fascists, they both make it hard for third parties to get ballot access, marginalizing opposition parties.
 
From the "fascist" NPR.

Generals Gone Rogue: A History Of Friction

It has not been common for generals to publicly challenge policies set by the president, but it has happened. In such cases, they've usually been fired.

The bedrock American concept of civilian control over the military essentially demands it, says Richard H. Kohn, a military historian at the University of North Carolina.
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Military commanders must carefully negotiate the discrepancy between the enormous power they wield in the field and the deference they must show to their civilian superiors -- the president and the secretary of defense. Sometimes, they slip.
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I don't know why you care about that, purging generals wasn't even a thing Fascist did.
 
This is even more of circle jerk then all the “Well, it wasn’t technically an insurrection” bull ◊◊◊◊ after January 6th.
 
ahhell said:
It is but it's also what Woodrow Wilson did, commies do, every other brand of authoritarian does. Almost nothing in this thread is all that much more closely associated with fascism than any other form of authoritarianism.

I saw defund education as a sign of fascism, really where is that in Mein Kampf, mostly they wanted state sponsored intervention in education to indoctrinate folks but I'm unaware of any association with fascism and defunding education. This is all just thing folks think Trump will try and are calling fascist, not an actual list of things associated with fascists.

Like saying the Dems are commies because they want state control and federal funding of education. Which, I'm sure lots of Reps do. Doesn't make them right about that.
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I posted a list of things associated with fascism, and pointed out the similarities with what Trump is doing, or has said he will do.
Did you ignore it because, as a non-American, I'm not allowed to comment on US politics, or was there another reason?
 
Cosmic Yak said:
I posted a list of things associated with fascism, and pointed out the similarities with what Trump is doing, or has said he will do.
Did you ignore it because, as a non-American, I'm not allowed to comment on US politics, or was there another reason?
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It's because there are those who refuse to see that MAGA is a fascist movement, despite all of the facts and evidence that show it is.
 
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