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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Fascism, what it looks like
Date: 06/24/24 10:15 PM
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From WIKI. There are lots of different lists, but I'd forgotten this one, and it is more understandable to me today.

Laurence W. Britt

In the Spring 2003 issue of the secular humanist magazine Free Inquiry, Laurence W. Britt, who is described as "a retired international businessperson, writer, and commentator" published "Fascism Anyone?", which included a list of 14 defining characteristics of fascism. The list has since been widely circulated in both modified and unmodified forms.[46] In a newspaper interview in 2004, Britt expanded and clarified the meaning of some of the points in his list, and discussed how they applied to the United States at that time.[47]

The headers for Britt's original list, without his sometimes extensive explanations, are:[48]

1 "Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism" MAGA! MAGA! MAGA!
2 "Disdain for the importance of human rights" Trump. Especially for minorities.
3 "Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause" Deep State, Ruling elite, Jump in everyone.
4 "The supremacy of the military/avid militarism" We are pro military, but we aren't there yet.
5 "Rampant sexism" Trump.
6 "A controlled mass media" Fox News, ONAN, etc., but we aren't there yet.
7 "Obsession with national security" Border! Border! Border!
8 "Religion and ruling elite tied together" Trump is King Cyrus! The CHOSEN ONE!
9 "Power of corporations protected" Yep.
10 "Power of labor suppressed or eliminated" They want to.
11 "Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts" In Spades.
12 "Obsession with crime and punishment" Perception that it is getting worse, when it has gotten better,
13 "Rampant cronyism and corruption" Trump in spades. But I don't think we're there.
14 "Fraudulent elections" OMG YES! Jan 6, etc., etc., etc.

Jump in everyone. :)

Here's the original article:
secularhumanism.org - Fascism anyone

en.wikipedia.org - Definitions of fascism
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