• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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        a […] nazi fascist

        I can expect you know literally anything about Scott Bessent given this acute political insight. I didn’t know non-fascist Nazis could be a thing, but now I’ll be on the lookout.

        So is he a “card-carrying Nazi fascist” exclusively because this disgusting, wealth-stealing, crony capitalist vermin supports Trump and is in his cabinet for self-enrichment, or did you have a complaint that makes him a “Nazi fascist” outside of that?

        Genuinely curious what else you think this man has done to make him a literal, avowed Nazi; I’ve cut the snark for this part.

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          Probably the part where he was a major power broker in getting Trump elected the second time, and has now been rewarded with a high position in his government?

          Trump’s second campaign was literally ‘I’ll overthrow the government if I have to, I’ll deport all the immigrants, I’ll be a dictator from day one’. I’d say anyone that then spends every waking moment and a significant amount of their own money is at least well on the way to being a fascist.

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            Agreed it makes him an accomplice to fascism inasmuch as hopping on the bandwagon and materially supporting for self-enrichment. I wouldn’t object to people saying that makes him straight-up fascist; it’s a close call for me, where he doesn’t give a shit about the fascist ideology itself and cares exclusively about money, but that’s still doing a fascism™ at the end of the day.

            But, you know, they kind of accused him of being an avid neo-Nazi. “Nazi” and “card-carrying” have meanings. Like we really want to pretend the person who called him a “nazi fascist” knows fuck-all about Bessent? Even the tidbit you just shared about how he got here?

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              If you support fascism and actively work to help facilitate the fascist takeover of your country, you’re a fascist.

              There are many, many alarming parallels between what the Trump administration is doing and what the Nazi party did to gain power, so it’s not exactly baseless to call him one.

              It’s just that this time instead of Jews, it’s Hispanics who are getting genocide.

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              Yeah, I agree that ‘neo-Nazi’ is a logical leap for sure with what is publically known of Bessent.