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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by smsm42 on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:23AM (#26433057)
Not sure what you mean by "fascists form of government"? Something like Italy in 1924-1945? I don't think there's any political power that advocates anything like that, and I am sure that at least 99.999% of daily use of terms "fascist" and similar ones are not directed at people who advocate appointing Il Duce and advocating government after Mussolini's example.
Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by ncallaway on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:47AM (#26436332)
Well there was just an attempt by the ex president to overturn the results of an election and install himself as the president contrary to the expressed will of the people.

Maybe that’s what they meant by “fascist form of government”?

Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by smsm42 on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:20PM (#26442160)
> Well there was just an attempt by the ex president to overturn the results of an election and install himself

Just as there was an attempt by a presidential candidate to overturn the results of an election and install himself in 2000. And many times before. Challenging election results is not something unusual, it happens all the time. And will undoubtedly happen again. There's nothing "fascist" in using free speech and court system to try and prove there were election fraud (or miscount, or whatever the next candidate could think of). That's why we have the court system, so they have their chance to prove their case.

> Maybe that’s what they meant by “fascist form of government”?

Except nobody tried to change the form of government. So either we already have the fascist form of government right now, or trying to prove, using existing form of government, that you were - by existing laws - the rightfully elected candidate - can not be seen as advocating "fascist form of government".

Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by AnimalMuppet on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:50PM (#26439357)
Technically, that would be a coup (more specifically and auto-coup). That's bad enough. The fear is that it would lead to a dictatorship, which is worse. Whether it's fascism or not would depend on the specific policies of that illegitimately-installed government.

So, if "that's what they mean", they're mis-using the term.

Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by ttt0 on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:07AM (#26432964)
You mean like corporatism? I don't think I ever saw anyone arguing for that besides left-wingers. Not explicitly at least.

Or do you mean fascist as a slur, ie. anything I don't like?

Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by lamp987 on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:17AM (#26434522)
Corporatism isnt argued for by leftists. Far left especially generally strongly opposes class collaboration. So much so that Stalin declared Social democrats "social fascists" (see wiki article, its quite funny how retarded it is).
Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by albedoa on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:09PM (#26438001)
Are those really the only two meanings of fascism you can think of.