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Re:Don't Be a Sucker by sudosysgen on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:08PM (#24334870)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King

As requested, as provided. Anyone who preaches the supremacy of the white race I think can be fairly characterized as fascist.

The majority of Republicans are indeed neoliberals, but there are and have been avowed white supremacists and fascists. Various republican-aligned groups in the US actually cooperated with the NSDAP.

Re:Don't Be a Sucker by a1369209993 on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:51PM (#24335811)
While racial supremacism and facism obviously work well together (especially if you can confuse racial identity with national identity), they aren't actually related and King only seems to support the former. He seems like a rather revolting person from what I bothered to read of the Wikipedia page, but I don't see anything to support "the Republican has many fascists", unless you're going by a suffiently broad definition of "facist" as to include most of the US congress, Democrat or Republican, which doesn't seem to be what you're asserting.
Re:Don't Be a Sucker by Chlorus on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:19PM (#24334996)
The guy who was repeatedly reprimanded by his own party for it & stripped of his assignments? By this standard, the Democrats are socialists since they won't reprimand AOC. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-wh...

> Various republican-aligned groups in the US actually cooperated with the NSDAP.

If we're bringing up stuff from the 1930s, you're not going to like what the Democrats were doing from then until 70s.

Re:Don't Be a Sucker by sudosysgen on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:25PM (#24335078)
Steve King isn't the only one, and as far as I know he is still a member of the Republican party.

When AOC shows support to a Marxist-Leninist State and party, and when she loudly claims for the seizure of the means of production, you'll have a point. So far, the most extreme thing she's advocating for is Nationalized Healthcare and investment in infrastructure. I don't really think you can equate that with complaining about the white genocide. Her policies and rhetoric are at the very most that of a left-leaning liberal anywhere else in the world.

So no, your argument doesn't really hold up.

If you're going to claim that the Democrats were collaborating with the Soviets, I'd like to remind you that Mccarthy was a Democrat.

Re:Don't Be a Sucker by AlexTWithBeard on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:48PM (#24335255)
> economic security for all who are ... unwilling to work.

goes slightly beyond investment into infrastructure

Re:Don't Be a Sucker by sudosysgen on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:57PM (#24335344)
Economic security for people who are unwilling to work is a basic feature of most advanced economies. See the BS in Québec, the RSI in France, and so on. There was a time in the US when it was a thing too.
Re:Don't Be a Sucker by AlexTWithBeard on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:27PM (#24335581)
Regardless of whether it's implemented in certain countries, the idea that society must support those unwilling to work seems to be quite far on left side of the spectrum.

The "you don't work - you don't eat" idea is not "rightists". It's just a basic law of nature.

Re:Don't Be a Sucker by sudosysgen on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:46PM (#24335767)
"You don't work - you don't eat" isn't a reality anywhere in the world today. It's not a basic law of nature, it's a delusion. The world doesn't actually work like that.

Do you think that the Republicans are quite far on the left side of the spectrum? Because last I've heard they haven't repealed food stamps yet.

Re:Don't Be a Sucker by anm89 on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:51PM (#24337093)
The definition of fascist is not person you don't like.