something the founders acknowledged by explicitly protecting the right to the same in literally the first amendment

Well you see

Fascism is just what the people who I don't like follow

So when the people I don't like argue for free speech, obviously that means I must remove it because it's something the people I don't like like

And to do this I must build up extreme state power over the individual

It's not fascism because I'm the one doing it and I'm a good person

they are just scared that they have zero ability to form counter arguments

@nolsen that is probably how i would turn it around on them; censorship of political speech is a shield used only by those unable to defend their ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLySvAv36E

AP party has a white chick with problem glasses!

im dying

@nolsen plus, fascism is unironically less worse than communism so there's that, too

I'd argue that in fascists nations, you cannot use free speech

you would get arrested

or sent to the FUCKING HOLOCAUST

that's actually true of most kinds of governments

So their "free speech" to call other fascists

permitting free speech is a rarity if you look at all the countries ever

would not be allowed

free speech is a traditionally liberal value

pretty much no other country on any other ideological basis has ever permitted free speech

unless it was a benevolent monarch or something

fascism isn't worse than communism

they're the same

fascism is like "Eat food, but work all day without breaks."

communism be like "Don't eat food, eat tank instead."

fascism: "Why aren't you working? Are you a degenerate? Do you not care about the nation?"

communism: "You should be working, but only when govt is watching."

communism: lol I already starved

fascism: "Oh god, I was drafted to fight in a war I didn't want to be in."

"But at least the food is okay."

fighting in wars wasn't super uncommon before nukes made conventional warfare suicidal

yeah, but fascists tend to advocate aggressive foreign policy to put it lightly

the nazis were probably the most principled fascists

because they really adhered to the social darwinism

just declare war on everyone basically

lol

annex everything, war is human nature, so be the first to declare it, REEE

also, fascism tends to pursue total war, which is something wholly different from most wars throughout history

unless it's the mongols

because mongols killed everyone anyway