Derek Powazek 🐐Oct 19, 2024
About damn time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/politics/harris-trump-fascism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU4.rqyp.UI_7JqBDA6hl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist

Since Gen. Mark Milley was quoted as saying Donald Trump is “fascist to the core,” a term avoided by top members of the Democratic Party is suddenly everywhere.

The New York Times
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Oct 19, 2024
I have realized that I am now a one issue voter and that issue is preventing a fascist takeover of the United States.
Show threadUpthorn
@fraying I agree. I'm just worried that a few more cycles of our current shit and neither candidate will represent that option
Oct 20, 2024 at 7:35amWeb
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Oct 20, 2024
@upthorn say what you want about Democrats, they’re not fascists.
Show threadUpthornOct 20, 2024
@fraying Not yet, but they've just been sliding steadily right each election, since they have no credible challengers from the left
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Oct 20, 2024
@upthorn I ask this sincerely: how old are you? Because anyone who was voting in the 90s knows that the Democratic Party is so much more left now it’s not even close. I think you may have absorbed some misinformation here.