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Senator Calls for Mamdani to Be Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo (www.rollingstone.com)

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Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville called for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be arrested and sent to the infamous American torture prison at Guantanamo Bay. Mamdani’s crime? Calling indicted alleged war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu an “architect of genocide,” responsible for a series of atrocities in the ongoing war on Gaza.

“Sooner or later,” Mamdani will “do something more stupid than what he’s done, where we will finally say enough is enough, go put the handcuffs on him … and send him to Gitmo,” Tuberville, a Republican, said, calling Mamdani a “thug.”

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago

Fascism

Core Features

One Ruler: Power belongs to a single leader or a small group with no free elections.

Extreme Pride: People are taught to love their country above all else, often looking down on other groups.

No Freedom: The government uses police and military force to silence anyone who disagrees.

Strict Control: Businesses and daily life are heavily watched and run to match the goals of the state.

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

What does history teach us about stopping fascism?

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago

Historical anachronism it would've been a 1911, Webley revolver, Soviet Nagant, or whatever the fuck the French had look I don't know French guns.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Ironically I passed over an image of a 1911 because I figured the glock would be more recognized in this day and age

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

It is, no conservative would admit it though

[-] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I would take the last one… but it seems more the contrary these days

Edit: probably it wasn’t clear: I meant the business part. People are not influencing the state evidently

[-] raze2012@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Fascism is heavily contradictory. Maybe Joe' shop is watched carefully for making gay cakes, but WalMart will do whatever they want as long as they donate a ballroom every few years

[-] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Historical fascism wasn’t like that: big companies were watched more closely. Each director board of a large company needed to have at least one representative of the fascist party.

Of course, the question is what you do with that power. And there probably fascism fails the “evil test”

But in principle I think that business (especially big business) should serve the common interest (represented by the state) and not the other way around

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

It's also kinda wrong for fascism, in that in a lot of ways, fascism in practice is a sort of merger of the state and big business.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

I would take the nationalization of vital industries, like space travel, air travel, trains, education, and healthcare... but

daily life are heavily watched

yeah, not that.

Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant.

[-] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Added an edit given it wasn’t clear

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