Nice try, but you're wrong. As usual.
[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2659806]You are fooling yourself with the sophistry that Fascism is strictly a right-wing authoritative, coercive, nationalistic system of government, e. G. National Socialism, and the term can not be used to describe a left-wing authoritative, coercive, nationalistic system of government, e. G. Communism. But the extreme Left, Marxism, is essentially the same thing as the extreme right, Fascism. Under both systems there is no individual freedom and you do as your are told or it is prison or death. So tell me what the functional difference between Hitler (responsible for 11 mil dead) and Mao (responsible for 40 to 80 mil dead) was. Hitler started more wars and had a thing for the Jews, but Mao killed and enslaved more people. Or tell me the difference between Mussolini and Pol Pot or Franco and Maduro, or Franco and the Castro brothers. The only functional difference I see is that Marxists are usually better organized than Fascists.[/QUOTE]Not only don't you know what fascism is, you evidently don't know what communism is either. I suspect that your fellow wingers don't know either. Like your other wingers, I'd have better luck getting my dog to understand the differences than getting any winger to understand the differences.
Though ignorant rightwingnuts claim that communism and fascism are two sides of the same coin, they are different in their ideology and other aspects. Communism is a socio economic system that stands for a class-less, state-less and an egalitarian society. Fascism is an ideology that tries to bring together radical and authoritarian nationalism. You know, like Make America Great Again. I realize that you don't know what nationalism is either but I can only try to educate you on one topic at a time.
Fascism became popular between 1919 and 1945 and originally referred to the Fascists under Benito Mussolini. Communism became popular after the Bolshevik Revolution of Russia in 1917. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is considered to be the bible of communism. The authoritative document of Fascism is "The Doctrine of Fascism" which was written by Mussolini. You should read it sometime. It isn't very long and doesn't contain many bigly words. You'd find that it almost perfectly describes the rightwingnut philosophy, especially when it comes to religion.
Communism stands for a state-less society where all are equal. No one is rich or poor in a communist system (in theory). In practice, though, that falls apart. In Communism, it is the community that holds the production and the major resources. On the other hand, Fascism pertains to state and it considers state on top of everything. In fascism the state is all embracing. For the fascists, no human values exist outside the state. Look at what is currently happening when someone criticizes the one-term, twice-impeached former guy. They get cancelled. Fascism believes that everything is within the State and nothing is above the State or outside the State or against the State. Fascism believes in nationalism (includes economic nationalism), corporatism (includes economic planning), militarism and totalitarianism (dictatorship and social interventionism), again just like MAGA did. The only difference between fascist Trumpism and traditional fascism is that the OTTIFG didn't like war. But he sure did like the trappings of it like military parades.
The Communists think globally where as the Fascists think only in a national level.
In communism, the state is the custodian of everything and it is the state that owns everything. On the other hand, in Fascism, the state has control over everything. In simple words, Communism means state ownership and fascism means state control.
Fascism is derived from Italian "fascio" meaning bundle. Actually, "fascio" is close to "fiasco" which is what we had under the OTTIFG. Communism comes from French "communisme", meaning common.
So no, communism and fascism aren't two sides of the same coin. They are vastly different and only an idiot would consider them similar. And, no, you don't love "freedom". What you love is the freedom to own and demean another person and the freedom to hate someone who isn't white and straight and male. And every supporter of the OTTIFG that I know is exactly like you.
Arizona Republicans are stooooopid
"Dec. 14,2020 was a heady day for Arizona Republicans. Despite the fact that their candidate Donald Trump had been defeated in Arizona, despite the fact that his defeat had been certified by the state's governor, Doug Ducey, in late November, there was a sense of jocularity in the air. This was the prevailing spirit as 11 Republicans gathered around an ordinary conference table to blithely falsify the results of their fellow Arizonans' votes and summarily disenfranchise 1,672,143 of their fellow citizens, who had voted for the election's lawful winner.
The Wannsee-like informality of the proceedings was underscored by the presence of water bottles and coffee cups, the latter hastily moved aside as a young man in a jogging outfit passed out white sheets of paper. The papers were copies of the fraudulent, collective statement of the group. He sidestepped not one but two American flags (one draped on a wall and covering some unsightly electrical cords painted a sickly yellow) as he placed before each participant the paper they would all sign, betraying their fellow citizens with a staid disregard that one could only describe as banal.
But unlike their German counterparts of 1942, these attendees—several of whom were sporting baseball caps accompanying their business casual attire, many with wedding bands and diamond rings shining as they clasped their little white plastic pens—chose, in their unbridled enthusiasm, to make a visual record of their treachery. Before a piece of drywall papered with the red-lettered emblem of the Republican Party of Arizona, each of the eight men and three women leaned forward, clasping their hands, some nodding and smiling as the document was read out aloud to them in order to dispel any doubt about what it was they were doing.
Meanwhile, the camera, held by an unknown operator, captured the moment in all its treachery, embedding all of the participants (one partially masked, the others boldly free of such trifles) in its pitiless, digital sweep.
After the recitation, each of the participants expressed their approval of the proceedings with a seemingly spontaneous, heartfelt exhibition of polite applause. As explained in this USA Today article from January:
[I]By state statute, the only electors who mattered were those pledged to cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, as they did Dec. 14, 2020, at noon.
The document the Republicans signed, obtained from the National Archives last year by the group American Oversight, overlooked that detail.
It described the “undersigned” as the “duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America from the State of Arizona …”
That they were neither “elected” nor “qualified” by the irredeemable and inconvenient fact that their candidate had lost the election seems to be completely absent from their concerns. After all, they had fulfilled their task. Their sense of accomplishment is as visible as it was palpable.[/I]
Because they had, in fact, accomplished something. In their starched shirts, sport jackets, pressed blouses, and all of the accompanying certitude and propriety those things manifest, they managed—in a matter of mere minutes—to betray not only their fellow Arizonans, but also their country and everything it has tried to represent and aspire to over the past two and a half centuries.
The importance of that moment seemed strangely lost on them. But no matter. The video will always exist to tell the story.
Here's the article: [URL]https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2078464?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=Sendible&utm_campaign=RSS&fbclid=IwAR065kujYLaZzMDFi7y5r4z1JOwzYXQoKcPx7I8jTHGG7DJMMaBEVgPYWlk[/URL].
And, for the fascists wingers who will say that this didn't happen, here's the video that the morons made of themselves: [URL]https://twitter.com/HelenKennedy/status/1489010079932329987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1489010079932329987%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2022%2F2%2F3%2F2078464%2F-It-isn-t-often-a-political-party-actually-videotapes-themselves-committing-treachery[/URL].
Canadian Ignorance as deep as the winter snow in Anchorage
[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2659210]During the January 6th insurrection rioting there were 140 police officer injured.
Which specific BLM protest had more than a dozen officers injured?
I think there was no BLM protest even come close.
In all the BLM protests of years 2020 and 2021 combined, how many police officers were injured?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Canada;2659346]Please show proof from a real news site that shows 140 officers hurt. Or I will just assume you made this up like the rest if your fabricated posts.[/QUOTE]Are you serious Canada?
Are the sources you rely on for genuine news so narrow that you missed the Police Unions statements that were made in late January 2021?
The Police unions reported that 81 Capital Police Officers were assaulted and injured during the siege of the Capital. According to the Police Officer's Union an additional 65 District of Columbia Police Officers were also injured in the rioting that occurred outside and inside our Capital on January 6th. Other LE agencies also experienced and reported some injuries to their officers.
In Mainstream media I recall this being verified and being one of the most covered news stories in early February 2921. My guess is this was verified and covered by thousands of traditional news agencies.
Yet it is a surprise to you Canada?
What did you do Canada during the month of February 2021 other than read a short stack of Archies Comics?
You were right on your first post
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2659917]I meant the other way around of course. The radical right are MUCH WORSE than the radical left.[/QUOTE]You were right on your first post. Don't be bullied to lie about it being the other way around. Your first instinct's are always correct.
Finally Biden is number 1 in something
Finally Biden can take credit for something in his first year of his presidency. Biden had more police killed in line of duty than any other president in history. It will probably be a campaign slogan for him in 2024.
