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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·1 month agoFascism is a type of dictatorship. That means not all dictatorships are fascist.
minus-squareArchangel1313@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI believe there’s a Dr. Seuss quote about this, somewhere out there.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIs it Red Fish Blue Fish 1 Fish 2 Fish?
minus-squarerainwall@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoNah, he had lots to say about fascists https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/seusss-satirical-war-on-fascism
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoHang on, is this going to devolve into communist dictatorship apologia by the way of “America Bad” whataboutism?
minus-squareArchangel1313@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoNah, he wasn’t that far left. He just hated American Nazi collaborators. Believe it or not, there were a lot of them in the US during WW2.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoOkay but tf does that have to do with there not being any real differences between types of autocracy?
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoA subset isn’t the superset. A cat is a mammal. A dog is a mammal. That doesn’t mean there is no real difference between cats and dogs.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoOh okay, cool, so Communist dictatorships are a kind of Fascism. Glad you’re finally on the same page.
Fascism is a type of dictatorship. That means not all dictatorships are fascist.
I believe there’s a Dr. Seuss quote about this, somewhere out there.
Is it Red Fish Blue Fish 1 Fish 2 Fish?
Nah, he had lots to say about fascists
https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/seusss-satirical-war-on-fascism
Hang on, is this going to devolve into communist dictatorship apologia by the way of “America Bad” whataboutism?
Nah, he wasn’t that far left. He just hated American Nazi collaborators. Believe it or not, there were a lot of them in the US during WW2.
Okay but tf does that have to do with there not being any real differences between types of autocracy?
A subset isn’t the superset.
A cat is a mammal. A dog is a mammal. That doesn’t mean there is no real difference between cats and dogs.
Oh okay, cool, so Communist dictatorships are a kind of Fascism. Glad you’re finally on the same page.