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Ron DeSantis is a fascist.
I love how everybody throws around comparisons to fascism and Nazis these days. We could focus on the left or the right and easily create a list of all the things we've done that was similar to things Nazis did. It really isn't hard to do...
During World War II, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced relocation and internment of around 120,000 Japanese Americans.
Under the Democratic administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the FBI's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) targeted various political groups, including civil rights activists, anti-war organizations, and socialist and communist groups.
The Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson used the Espionage Act of 1917 to suppress dissent during World War I. The act was employed to prosecute individuals who criticized the war effort, including socialists, pacifists, and anarchists.
Democrat Bill Clinton invoked executive privilege to withhold information in various investigations, including the Whitewater controversy and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Democratic President Barack Obama faced criticism for the use of drone strikes and the extensive use of executive orders.
The Democratic administration of President Barack Obama faced criticism for its continuation and expansion of surveillance programs, such as the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
We could talk about how Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, continued and expanded the "War on Drugs" policies. Which disproportionately affected minority communities and led to mass incarceration, raising concerns about civil liberties and racial inequality...
Good old "Drug War Joe".
We could discuss how countless groups of college libs attack people who they aren't intelligent enough to have a conversation with. Or how the libs are trying to coerce speech through legislation with their fantasies concerning deadnaming and misgendering.
Or you know, we could accept the facts that both sides are similarly as evil as the other. Instead of just pointing fingers and acting like children.
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Ron DeSantis is a fascist.
Restrictions on education about sexual orientation and gender identity, a ban on gender-affirming care, an anti-trans bathroom bill, and measures that limit academic freedom and allow healthcare providers to discriminate based on religious beliefs.
Or, for the people who don't follow the religion of LGBTism... Laws concerning a reality check. "Gender affirming care" is mislabeled, should be "gender denial". Bathrooms are segregated based on sex to protect women from sick or aggressive men.
These are all great things, these people need mental help, and being their "yes men" or playing into their fantasy is not the help they need.
Or maybe the government should stay out of people's personal lives and let them live however the hell they want as long as they aren't hurting anyone. These dweebs spend way too much time worrying about what is or isn't in other people's pants. Who cares?!
How is restriction on education ever a good thing? Maybe you should have educated yourself with studies on the topic, then you might not have embarrassed yourself like this.
You might want to reevaluate your own education if you think "playing into a fantasy" makes any logical sense for how people treat each other...it's not a game.
Or, maybe you should consider that if what you're saying is true, why isn't there education on that, rather than the restriction of education on something that was approved elsewhere?
Or even how this entire "facade" can be held up all around social life, if in your eyes most of it is in regards to public bathrooms.
It honestly just sounds like you're poorly educated on the subject.
edit: Based on the fact most of what you're saying further down is just political talking points, and not anything based on something you yourself could've come up with...I think poorly educated is pretty right on the dot....
So you have fascist Republicans on the far right
And somewhat fascist democrats who are right of center
Guess as a leftist I'm good then. Seems to me like we have a right wing problem. But even then, only one of the parties is pushing for genocide
Hey grandpa I think you accidentally logged on to kbin instead of truth social this morning.
DeSantis IS a fascist though. That’s not loosely throwing around the term.
Bro Barack Obama didn't try to ban books and make gay people illegal.
How about you address the topic? Do you think gay people should be illegal?
DeSantis isn't "making gay people illegal", he's doing what is right by protecting women and children from your BS.
If he wants to protect women and children he should ban religion.
I understand the desire to educate, but this post just reeks of whataboutism. Which by the way is a popular method of normalizing horrible behavior favored by authoritarians and proto-facists.
I detect no desire to educate here. It is 1000% defensive whataboutism.
It’s not even defensive. Reads like an actively aggressive stance.
Did you try to “both sides” the fact that Desantis is a fascist?
Stick to the topic at hand or keep your whataboutism to yourself. Everyone can see right through that crap.
Oh yes, because when I think facts and understanding, I think about painting as many political factions as I can with the same broad strokes.
That's what nuance looks like, right?
Right?
Really top notch analysis.
I like your username.
Unfortunate that it represents so many aspects of the modern world.