So’s your mom.

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I never understood order of operations in school. Did I do it right?

Why does she show up as LibLeft on political compasses if she’s so Reagan?

We don’t even come close to the racism in places like Europe, either.

One half dismantles the building illegally or unethically, then hands the tools to the other who says they can’t fix it, who then hands the tools back for further disassembly.

Meanwhile both have parachutes due to insider trading, so it doesn’t really matter if other people in the building are killed when everything falls apart.

I didn’t say they were. Reread this thread.

You said you could only think of one box it checks, so I gave you more boxes.

Now you’re telling me no individual box mentioned is inherently fascist.

Do you see how you’re moving the goal posts?

How many boxes does a government need to check before it can be considered fascist? Does it have to contain a Consul guarded by people in tunics carrying fasces or it’s just Sparkling Authoritarianism?

You don’t think The Federation was nationalistic or militaristic?

The society as described by Heinlein definitely ticks many of the boxes for fascism, much like platypuses tick many of the boxes for being a mammal.

Unnamed because…

One problem is the GOP has been taken over and continually converted to MAGA; it started with calling people “RINOs,” attacking each other for party purity.

“Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line.”

I can’t tell whose views you’re trying to parody because that doesn’t align with either half of the discussion.

You’re a crab in a bucket, pulling at other crabs to ensure they’re treated poorly because someone else is rather than encouraging others to treat each other well.

By pretending, or worse, believing that the best way to a better society is by making things worse for certain groups, you have more in common with misogynists than anyone else.

Your attitude is used as ammunition by the far right to convince impressionable people that feminists are inherently hostile and unreasonable, and if women are elevated in society, they will immediately use any gained power to attack men.

Okay.

Do you think that’s relevant to determining whether or not you’re being misandrist?

Or are you just defending your misandry by saying people who are attacked less deserve to be attacked?

No, but saying they deserve hostilities as a result is.

Oh it was very important in centuries past, yes.

Every time I read about Brits and their Don’t Mix Waters it reminds me of Koreans and their Fan Death.

We have mixed taps in the US because our water heaters are set high enough to kill Legionnaires bacteria.

Oh. I mean that’s definitely a Trump Trait but I don’t think it’s relevant to a conversation about why he’s attacking his allies.

I don’t understand your comment.