Did the word get overused or has there just been a lot of fascism going on
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Tom Nichols
I am not blaming Democrats for Republicans becoming fascists. I am blaming people who overused "fascist" for years for removing the power of that word and gutting it of meaning, and making it useless now that we need it.
Something I warned would happen.
Something I warned would happen.
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Tom Nichols: Now is not the the time to discuss the gas. We have more pressing matters. Like the dishes.
Everyone - Passing Out: Hey the gas is really bad
Tom Nichols - Passing Out: We would have paid more attention to the gas if you hadn’t…
Seems like it's less a problem of people crying fascist wolf than it is a problem people normalizing fascism.
EG. TOO MANY SHARK SIGNS.
The GOP President uses the secret police to grab citizens with no paperwork: It isn’t fascism unless it was made in the 1930s in the Fasci region of Italy.
These centrist hacks make my blood boil…
Could you please take the lead? I’m Schumering.
The math I heard was that the protesters in Belgrade were the equivalent of 17 million Americans. THAT, I would like to see.
“Went into the kitchen and caught Chuck Schumering, again”
I was not 100% serious. I just wanted to highlight that we have some responsibility here.
And all our problems go away!
>writes for The Atlantic
yep checks out
his objections to fascism are very much in the Liz Cheney mold: "hey, I was supposed to be inside the death fortress firing down, not outside trying not to get hit"
*(The person who called Mussolini a fascist was Mussolini.)
Now those same people are going. "This is your fault for calling the trashcan fire a fire!"