• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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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      1 day ago

      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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      2 days ago

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