If You Must Ridicule Us For Your Presumption About Our Definition Of Fascism, Would You Deign To Share

Do you want me to shorten my last reblog to make it easier to sort through and respond to? I apologize if it was too long haha. I take after the authors I read as a kid and thus lean long winded and outspoken.

I genuinely would love to have a conversation, and am even willing to take this to private messages if that is available and easier.

Firstly, I ask you to meet the second part of my request in explaining how Elon and trump are not (however incompetently) acting totalitarian and how they are not suppressing rights to benefit the state, or in this case the wealthy and the in group.

Explain how arresting Mahmoud Khalil, “a student activist and lead negotiator for the encampment in the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations” (which regardless of if you agree with the political movement is allowed within the United States under the first amendment. You do not have to agree with the protest or the cause to recognize all nonviolent protest should be protected if you want to protect some of it), being arrested by ICE is not an attempt to limit free speech and protest, as when upon being informed he was a lawful, permanent, legal resident, ICE, acting on orders from the State Department, said his status as this would be revoked instead (they initially assumed he had a student visa). His legal status within our nation is in danger of being revoked due to his political beliefs, which to my knowledge he never expressed violently.

Explain how disobeying orders from judges to not deport the thousands you have arrested immediately and to allow the people you have detained time and a fair trial as required for every person by the constitution is not authoritarian. Especially when refusing to turn a plane full of people you refuse to even name or identify heading towards a Venezuelan prison, despite the judge’s orders. Judges and a judges orders are not a suggestion, a thing you can ignore when it is inconvenient.

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Tensions mount as judge demands more answers about deportation flights

Trump administration lawyers defended the weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members despite a federal judge'

While you may claim that palensteinian support is inherently antisemitic, I must disagree (though I concede SOME people use it as a vessel for their antisemitism) as criticizing a state and its government specifically is not the same as condemning or criticizing an entire people group, even if the state is made entirely or almost entirely of those people. When I criticize the Catholic Church, I am not condemning Catholics, when I criticize the government of Iran and its own human rights violations I am absolutely not condemning the Iranian people. Please understand this distinction, especially in the case of students attempting to end what they see as pointless, genocidal slaughter by specifically the government.

Additionally, I ask you this not to muddy the waters but to have a clear understanding of your own belief and definitions to see if I can help you understand why we call the administration fascist.

My definition is not “some new leftist definition” it is the definition given by Britannica and Wikipedia.

According to Wikipedia, fascism is “a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.”

According to Britannica, fascism is (as stated in the second paragraph) “extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.”

Genuinely, may I have a source or backing for you definition if you have one? If you do not that is alright, but I would like to know your source if you do have one.

If you would like I can go through each point of either definition and explain how I believe it aligns with the current administration, but for now this is long enough. If you have read all of this I earnestly thank you and apologize for my long winded nature, I read too many books for my own good.

Visceral: felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body; dealing with crude or elemental emotions; deeply or intensely, instinctive or unreasoning.

Absolutely the correct usage! 👍

Visceral is EASILY top ten words that feel good as fuck to place precisely into your essay one glorious time

Love without Sex

I’m doing a Philosophy paper on Asexuality. Please reblog if you think Love without Sex is possible! I really need the data. Like if you think love has to have sex.

This is so me and my friends core honestly 🫶😭.

Like one is 6 hours away and we just send voice memos at each other at random times of the day hahah

another internship another airport scene

I'm so glad I live in a world where there's Archive of Our Own

Also if you would like an example of how the current administration is fascist according to your definition, here. As mentioned (somewhat briefly) in my original reblog, Trump and ICE under him has been revoking the rights to a fair trial to illegal immigrants and immigrants in general, despite judges’ orders and that right being for every person per the constitution.

Additionally, the White House and other government organizations (eg NASA) have been taking down webpages across their webpages. For example, on the official White House page the Constitution itself was not available for a long period and pages about women’s and POC’s historic contributions to NASA, an important part of history set aside in a webpage to make it easier to access and learn about as these contributions were and are often ignored, have been taken off of the website. Libraries are being threatened to be shut down for being a “waste of money and space” despite proving an essential service as a free space for all to have access to education, reading, amenities such as printing or watching movies, or even just as a space for teens to hang out without paying or being in danger.

I feel the merging of corporations and state is obvious in present America with lobbyist groups pouring money into politicians and the richest man in the world (who quite literally has done the nazi salute and reposted and retweeted neonazi rhetoric) funding and standing as the right hand to our president and his lackies. I will be honest though, while I agree with this part of the definition, I feel a bit confused on where you got it from. I would genuinely love to learn more about this part and any merging of corporations and state that may have happened within Germany or Italy during That Time.