AnarchoNinaWritesMay 12, 2023

I dunno what you want me to say:

A fascist got himself elected president of the United States, did a bunch of fascist shit, and then tried a type of coup known as an autogolpe - a coup to keep a strongman in power anti-democratically. Instead of putting that guy's ass in jail, we're putting him all over our TV under the logic that "he's running for office, so stopping him is anti-democratic."

In many ways, Weimar Germany would laugh at how weak WE are; so the comparison is more than apt.

Show threadPyperkubMay 12, 2023

@AnarchoNinaWrites IMHO, it's still that Trump saw that the GOP had turned itself into a fascist leaning party, and took advantage for his own gain while pushing it all the way over the ledge. He's too lazy, corrupt and incompetent to be any good at being a fascist, but those he surrounded himself with and who enabled him? Oh yeah.

Point being that the problems with the GOP are far deeper than just Trump.

Show threadTrashfirekittenMay 12, 2023
@pyperkub @AnarchoNinaWrites Hitler was an absolute shit leader who made a government that self-destructed with nepotism and infighting. Just because someone's a self-centered power-hungry moron doesn't mean they aren't a thoroughly evil fascist, nor that there's some genius cabal behind them, in fact such nihilistic power-grabs are a defining feature of fascism.
Show threadPyperkubMay 12, 2023
@nbtentaclekitten @AnarchoNinaWrites On the other hand, Mussolini gets credit for making the trains run on time and is the model to really be wary of.
Show threadTrashfirekittenMay 12, 2023
@pyperkub @AnarchoNinaWrites Mussolini was, if anything, a more shit leader than Hitler. The 'trains running on time' is the same sort of mythological revisionism as Hitler's 'German efficiency' and Trump's 'draining the swamp', they are all shit, just good at being populist demagogues and doing worlds of harm in their self-destructive ideology
Show threadPyperkub
@nbtentaclekitten @AnarchoNinaWrites I did a bit of research on this, and it seems as if Mussolini may have weathered the great depression which sunk Weimar and enabled Hitler much better than most countries, However, as I was born in Germany, I definitely studied German History at lot more closely.
May 12, 2023 at 10:39pmWeb