• JoYo@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t think democracy needs to exist for fascism to exist.

    The ruling class enforcing the hierarchy accomplishes what Douglas describes.

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      He’s describing a very specific situation here. It also doesn’t require fashion choices like he said.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    I’m trying to figure out JD Vance and as far as I can tell so far, he thinks he and the American people are oppressed by the oligarchy of the deep state, elite colleges, and the news media? Vance has turned this all around and thinks he is the people, that is trying to break free of their political and economic oppression, to usher in a libertarian utopia.

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    6 hours ago

    Sigh…

    And now his home province is one of the hotbeds of rural reactionary populism

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      Pendulums of humans.

      The only fix is to have a critical mass of living humans have enough historical education to see the pattern so they can learn the lesson.

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      The NDP and Socialist parties created every single beneficial program in Canada. Canada wouldn’t be Canada without them. It would already be an American clone.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    7 hours ago

    Text from the image:

    "Once more, let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt.

    Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."

    – Tommy Douglas

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    7 hours ago

    The GOAT - Canadians credit Tommy for bringing universal healthcare to canada. And starting the NDP

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    7 hours ago

    C’mon! Let’s get this shizz started, I’ve been workin’ out my smoke grenade kickin’ leg!

    Late edit, because I got triggered, apparently: I swear this would be the dream. Like, just to see something else, at this point friggin’ anything, other than what we’ve been seeing pretty much since humans first decided they wanted to have more than the other guy. I’m so fucking tired of seeing people stepping over other people’s throats just to get an inch higher up the ladder, a ladder which is purpose-built to serve the exact opposite effect by those who already own the grand majority of us.

    It’s not even for us at this point, speaking of those of us who are alive on this planet. I, for one, can feel that fucking ideological corruption still clinging to my moral fibre like a rancid mold no matter how much I try to scrub myself of it. God damn it, I wanted to have kids at one point, but I sure as shit won’t bring’em into this mess!

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      , I’ve been workin’ out my smoke grenade kickin’ leg!

      Lacrosse stick might be a better idea. Might have to modify the net.

      Pick up, maybe run with it, and toss it back.