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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[–] 36 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    What does history teach us about stopping fascism?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Yeah, I know what you mean. Sadly, our fascism is a really, really stupid form based around a teenager's fantasy of a dictatorship. Trump doesn't care about the potential of large private corporations usurping the throne so he let's then run free as long as they kiss the ring.

    If this managed to extend to decades instead of years (and somehow Trump lived that long), it'd be such a predictable ending for him.

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