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ananda

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2. That may appear to be true now...

Reply to wcmagumba (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 20, 2026, 12:30 PM

5 hrs ago

but absolute power changes the dynamic.

And we're not talking about free and fair elections
here.

But since your point about Vance is basically true,
it's also true that the power structure would be
equally turnipy.

It would all depend on whether hardcore fascist
competent people would take it on.

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Were we meant to become Mussolini's Italy? [View all] ananda 6 hrs ago OP

Like someone in another post said, "JD Vance is a turnip"... wcmagumba 5 hrs ago #1

That may appear to be true now... ananda 5 hrs ago #2

The term "fascism" comes from Mussolini's political party. surfered 5 hrs ago #3

Thanks. Mussolini was in power for 18 long years. ananda 5 hrs ago #4

Either that or the fascist Great Britain that Sir Oswald Mosley no_hypocrisy 5 hrs ago #5

I don't see them as mutually exclusive. ananda 5 hrs ago #6

I believe Mussolini called his movement displacedvermoter 5 hrs ago #8

"Look at how he's trying to get our elections gamed for him." J_William_Ryan 5 hrs ago #7

And don't forget that behind fascism is corporatism. ananda 4 hrs ago #10

;-{) ASPIRATIONS Goonch 5 hrs ago #9