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Early Warning Signs of Fascism (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago

I tick all the boxes! Beautiful boxes! Nobody ticks all the boxes the way I do! Many people say so!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This means we get a free froyo, right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

You will get this Fanta, and you WILL BE HAPPY ABOUT IT!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

The froyo contains potassium benzoate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Funny (not funny) thing is that it's hard to pinpoint which country is collecting the stamps here

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I don't see, "Sieg Heil at the Presidential Inauguration," on that list.

Checkmate, liberals!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

This ship set sail in 1992. I've been referencing this very checklist for at least 20 years when ~~debating~~ being dismissively yelled at by conservatives. Everybody thought I was nuts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A lot of these are perfectly naive.

It, for example, assumes that mass media wasn't being controlled beforehand (it always is) and that corporate power wasn't being protected beforehand (it always is).

Fascism is not some aberration of the liberal nation state - it's a built-in feature of it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

This is a list of paragraph titles from the original magazine article, which offers some nuance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

We’re way past the early warning signs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Welcome to 2017.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This could be a bingo sheet...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck all the MAGA scum!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Any idea what that says at the bottom?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Here’s a higher res version