Tarkan wrote:So when conservatives do it, it's intentional signaling to to their racist / fascist base, but when the left does it, it's just because Hugo Boss has some stylish designs and they didn't realize the symbolism, honest?
Yes. Choice of lighting Vs. Stage design.
To me the conservatives now are doing this:
Biden: Fascists.
Conservatives: You're Fascist
That's it.
Tarkan wrote:But if we were to actually check the boxes of which party aligns with fascism, I think more checkboxes would be on the Democrat side of the ledger. It matters that the Democrats have a stranglehold on most of the things that matter. For example, the right can't forcibly suppress it's opposition because it doesn't have state power or much in the way of non-state power to do so. The left can, and does, either formally through government action (FISA wiretaps, FBI raids, IRS audits, contrived prosecutions intended to break the target - e.g. Michael Flynn) or through coordination with corporate partners (banning from the social space and pressuring financial institutions to de-person you by closing your accounts and eliminating your ability to execute financial transactions - can't wait for that CBDC and social credit score to come online), or to whip up their own brownshirts in Antifa and affiliated "affinity" groups.
The right sent unmarked Federal Troops to Portland and abducted people on the streets. Trump wanted to shoot everyone and hence his literal desire to be more like Nazi Germany.
About banning from "Public Space" that public space is privately owned. Hence why blatently Neo Nazi "GAB" is around. Because Torba actually has skills to make it happen. No one could ban GAB without null routing the backbone of the internet (has anyone suggested doing that? Probably but it's gone nowhere)
The problem is that "Get off my land!" only applies when it is literal land and a gun and a funny hat are involved (or possibly killing a person cuz they do not know what a Purple Fence means or are colorblind) but as soon as you say "Quit saying Nazi shit on my platform" and then they get banned it is cry cry, weep weep the snowflakes banned me.
Fact is Nazi shit doesn't get traction unless there are people to harass with, that is why GAB has 3.2 million page views per day and a moderately known trans-sexual has 300,000 page views per day. That means GAB = 11 moderately known transsexuals.
And GAB is the only group that knows what they are doing.
Anyway, I look at it as MAGA is an existential threat to our country and physically to me and my family. So Antifa and BLM are the good guys in my book and the Democrats were idiots in joining in their oppression.