It is not just closing someone's Twitter account. It is closing down democratically-appointed people's accounts, while seeking to impeach & prosecute them, depriving them of a platform from which to defend themselves, and moving to outlaw their broader movements. It *is* fascism.
You may want to split hairs about precise definitions, and of historical parallels and the pitfalls of drawing them. But fascism was never so clearly defined by its theoreticians, or since, by historians.
They will use the law, violence, and war to further their interests, against their opponents, against democracy and against their populations.
That makes the case, as far as I am concerned, and the rest is for the birds, so to speak.
That makes the case, as far as I am concerned, and the rest is for the birds, so to speak.
*This* is what clumsy historical parallels looks like.
It is invoking history in order to legitimise doing what the fascists did, to pass oneself off as an "anti" fascist.
It is invoking history in order to legitimise doing what the fascists did, to pass oneself off as an "anti" fascist.
https://twitter.com/clim8resistance/status/1348279406444343298
It is not what is doing the banning that needs precise definition. It is what is being attacked that needs to be defined and defended. There is a frenzied witch hunt going on to establish a mythology that somehow, closing down debate and democracy is liberation.
That mythology is being used and will be further used to close down anyone who disagrees, at all, on any basis, not just in the USA, but throughout the world. Because if you question the viability of wind turbines, you were aligned to the insurrection of Jan 6, 2021.
That's not *my* dramatically lumping together necessarily distinct movements or arguments. It is what is already being said by the likes of Guardian journalists, who will see any alleged "link" as the "nexus" of political movements. Go read Monbiot's timeline!
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