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Re:EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by... by em1sar on Monday June 13, 2022 @09:07AM (#31725002)
I strongly disagree. This is as close to planned economy as possible. Just that this time the planning organ is a weird hybrid mix of the private and public sector, technically very close to the official definition of of the word "fascism". A marriage of the multinational conglomerates and the globalistic supranational state-esque constructs like the EU.
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Re:EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by... by felurx on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:00AM (#31726546)
Genuinely curious: What's the official definition of the word facism, and who gets to set it? I did a surface-level search, and couldn't really find that one definition everybody seems to agree on. One commonality seems to be in having some kind of dictator, and I think that even if your view of the EU was correct, it wouldn't have much to do with a dictatorship.
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