(01-11-2021, 10:50 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Mike. You're missing the point again. There are lots of differences if you want to get into the minutia. But even accepting your point, those differences still are more closely aligned with the establishment and not trump. The word fascist is use by the left with virtually no context accept to malign their political opponent.

I share your concern about the confluence of shutting down Parler while simultaneously elevating members of Facebook's board to government positions.  It rhymes with many other bad phases of history.  

But it may come to nothing - the people coming from facebook may merely have personal ambition. Facebook may have been their stepping stone into the rarefied upper echelons.  They may have no further loyalty to it once they get into government.  Even so, the goldman sachs drones that have already infected our government certainly had dual loyalty but didn't lead us into fascism either.

I share your alarm, but maybe not to the same magnitude.  But I don't think it's worthwhile to insist these things point to fascism but not communism.  I also think ignoring the links between Trump and fascism is foolish, regardless of if similar links are also found among the Democrats.

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