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Ed The Fascism Checklist, Trump 2025

Totally not fascist one little bit.

President Donald Trump’s attack dog atop the FCC, Brendan Carr, garnered lots of attention on Saturday for threatening the licenses of local broadcasters over news coverage he deemed to be “fake.”

Carr has very little power to follow through. Television stations are not at serious risk of being banned from the airwaves because of Carr’s crusade.

However, his comments still carry weight since Carr represents the US government and advances Trump’s policy agenda. The administration keeps taking extraordinary actions and applying extreme pressure to crack down on news content and entertainment that the president dislikes.

Thus, critics called Carr’s latest threat “authoritarian” and “unconstitutional,” and some suggested that he did it for attention, to publicly pressure local stations licensed by the FCC.
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thaiboxerken said:
It won't be long until MAGA folks here argue that apartheid isn't fascism, therefore it is ok.
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After all, up until the 1960's in the US it wasn't! There are plenty of people still around who would argue that desegregation was statist if not downright fascist. But it may take a while to get people comfortable with it again, but it likely helps that all sorts of brown are becoming black enough. Terminology helps too. You know what low IQ means! Make social justice a phrase you spit with contempt, woke a dirty epithet, diversity a sin, systemic bias a weapon against the innocent. Paint it over in the halls and forbid it in the documents, sanitize the museums and cleanse the colleges and smear the dissidents in the press, and and it can all become a kind of generalized "problem" that needs a solution.
 
bruto said:
After all, up until the 1960's in the US it wasn't! There are plenty of people still around who would argue that desegregation was statist if not downright fascist. But it may take a while to get people comfortable with it again, but it likely helps that all sorts of brown are becoming black enough. Terminology helps too. You know what low IQ means! Make social justice a phrase you spit with contempt, woke a dirty epithet, diversity a sin, systemic bias a weapon against the innocent. Paint it over in the halls and forbid it in the documents, sanitize the museums and cleanse the colleges and smear the dissidents in the press, and and it can all become a kind of generalized "problem" that needs a final solution.
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FTFY
 
A facist strategy. Create an environment which stimulates criminal activity, like poverty, racism and tribalism, and easy access to guns. Point out the criminality and claim that they are the only ones that can fight the rising crime rates.
 
thaiboxerken said:
A facist strategy. Create an environment which stimulates criminal activity, like poverty, racism and tribalism, and easy access to guns. Point out the criminality and claim that they are the only ones that can fight the rising crime rates.
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"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity." So I would say your effect can be caused by either a deliberate strategy or simple incompetence Or even a combination of both, where the malicious take advantage of their incompetent predecessors.
 
Blue Mountain said:
"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity." So I would say your effect can be caused by either a deliberate strategy or simple incompetence Or even a combination of both, where the malicious take advantage of their incompetent predecessors.
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That's fine except where there's evidence of malice. And there is.
 
Blue Mountain said:
"Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity." So I would say your effect can be caused by either a deliberate strategy or simple incompetence Or even a combination of both, where the malicious take advantage of their incompetent predecessors.
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In addition to what was said in the posts above, I believe Trump isn't behind the strategies of facism. His handlers are the ones pulling the strings, with Putin and Miller being the chief puppeteers.
 
thaiboxerken said:
In addition to what was said in the posts above, I believe Trump isn't behind the strategies of facism. His handlers are the ones pulling the strings, with Putin and Miller being the chief puppeteers.
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Sort of, but I think Trump is as fascist as anyone, and his handlers strategize because he's too stupid to do so and they're too unappealing to do it themselves. He's the container for their ambitions, but too self-unaware to realize he's an empty vessel.
 
To not derail another thread.

The MAGA movement is clearly not fascist.

It is just hyper nationalist. And hyper Christian, with the clear and stated intent to turn a specific brand of Christiantiy into a state religion.
And banning 'decadent' art
And banning books
And focused on 'Family values' (That most of the proponents openly flaunt themselves)
And led by a single man, whose many incompetent errors are ignored or blamed on flunkies, while claiming to follow democracy.
And it has a clear cult of personality, putting Dear Leader's face and name on everything
And it has a focus on supposed masculinity, where that is expressed with being violent and in control.
And it has started a pointless, costly war that have no clear winner and or strategy
And has camps where 'criminals' can be dragged off to without any form of trial or even indication where they went
And these camps are fed by armed men, who hide their identities and who answer to no government agency.
And it is openly selling off the better parts of the country to their financial backers from various industries.
And it is involved in re-writing history to be heroic and 'winning', while erasing from history any figure going against the narrative.
And the leader is openly calling for fixed elections, because his opponents must have cheated to be winning.
And it is using vulnerable communities as scapegoats to distract the population from it's many failures.
And it is removing all non-loyal parts of the government and other parts of the state that should in theory check the government.


But they don't *call* themselves fascist, it's just pure coincidence Mussolini and Hitler and Franco (and Stalin) did all these things as well.
And pointing that out is really hurtful and might cause people to not be nice and obedient, so we should stop doing that.
 
Nate O on bsky, Sep 10, 2026
Love it when Telegraph commentary runs headfirst into Telegraph journalism
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Trump unveils Space Force uniform inspired by Nazi-aesthetic filmDirector Paul Verhoeven said his 1997 Starship Troopers was about ‘fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism’
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The long commentary starts here:
Nate O on bsky, Sep 10. 2026
Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it.
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Lewis PageThe idea that Heinlein's Starship Troopers were fascists is a lazy Leftist smearJust because you don't like an idea doesn't mean it's Nazi
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Maybe Gregory Bovino was fired because his Nazi outfit wasn't Nazi enough.
 
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