Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end

Re:Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end by cycomanic on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:18PM (#32680697)

I'd like to point out that the US had people with literally Nazi flags walking through the streets attacking people who looked different, supported by a significant portion of the establishment (including a president). I would not call that minor transgressions. How do you think Hitler got into power?

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Re:Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end by nostromo on Thursday September 01, 2022 @02:25PM (#32680804)

This endless catastrophizing, something you're taking part in, is a big part of the problem.

Trump isn't Hitler and Antifa burning down police stations is not the Warsaw Uprising.

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Re:Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end by cycomanic on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:09PM (#32683236)

I never said that Trump was Hitler. That's a completely irrelevant statement. Obviously no leader in a western country is going to say I will become the next Hitler, even Putin does not glorify him. That doesn't take away from the fact that he had/has extremely strong totalitarian tendencies, is continuing to undermine the democratic processes and sympathises with open white supremacists.

I as someone from a country who knows a big deal about how the dangers of fascism am certainly worried if the world's most powerful man talks like that.

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