Comment by delaminator
7 hours ago
you should ask the GP about his use of the word fascist on everything he doesn't like.
> if the comment you've posted responds meaningfully to the discussion at hand.
7 hours ago
you should ask the GP about his use of the word fascist on everything he doesn't like.
> if the comment you've posted responds meaningfully to the discussion at hand.
Nothing deep going on there. Fascism in modern informal parlance is a synonym for authoritarianism. Those who object most loudly to Stalin being called a fascist are usually themselves actually fascists, or stalinists. Everybody else gets it.
"We use different definitions now, fascism is things I don't like."
Everything I don't like is pretty broad brush. I have only used it with the Trump regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-su...
> you should ask the GP about his use of the word fascist on everything he doesn't like.
If mirror dot org actually existed, you might want to look into it, because your long list of examples has one related to 1930s Germany, and the rest has nothing to do with the political definition of "fascism"?
Your point about legality was valid, but you're undermining it with the sarcasm.