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I always notice how these groups will just launch right past the argument phase to make a claim. They'll just say someone is fascist without ever explaining how. This was explained well by an author on Tom Klingenstein's website; I forget the name of the author who wrote the piece but he was saying what the administrative state has done is to come to a point where they mimic the form of debate without its substance. For instance someone might say 'What's the strategy for the Ukraine war and likelihood that Russia will be defeated?' Answer: 'Why do you love Putin so much?' There's no debate there, just slander and strongarm tactics.

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Sounds like an interesting piece. I guess they hope you'll be too busy explaining how you're not a fascist to actually expose their lack of an argument. The more I learn about any of these groups, the less sense they make (not that they made much to being with).

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To a committed Marxist, anything else, at least since WW II, is labeled as fascist

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Yeah, it's just so obvious that they're weaponising the term for political benefit. I don't know how others don't see it. They never say why they think it's true. They just claim it.

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"I always notice how these groups will just launch right past the argument phase to make a claim. They'll just say someone is fascist without ever explaining how."

That's because explanations are Euro/Logocentric. As such they are Racists!

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That has be been the Dems’ MO for quite a while.

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