Is Trump a Fascist?

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Fascist or not?

  1. YES

    26.8%
  2. NO

    50.0%
  3. No, he just suffers from untreated Narcissistic Personality Disorder

    26.8%
  4. No, he's just a con man

    17.9%
  5. Maybe so

    5.4%
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  1. gorfias

    gorfias Well-Known Member

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    Antifa is their brown-shirts.
    Well written.
    Even Left-wing comic keeps marveling at the Dems doing what they accused Trump of planning to do. Remember back when they said his election would make American poorer while starting WW3? Yeah. Beijing Biden, not Trump, has done that.
     
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    Who have ANTIFA killed or imprisoned in the US?
     
  3. gorfias

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    Well, at a min. I do have to admit that so far, Andy Ngo has survived their violence. Not sure whether or not his brain bleed caused any permanent injury or not.
     
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    Imnotreallyhere Well-Known Member Donor

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    Worth remembering that the brownshirts were wiped out in the Night of Long Knives. Infighting among fascist factions is not unknown. Nor does that prove that TFG is not a fascist. He has goon squads in his pocket too. He showed his hand early on Jan.6 and is paying the price for his incompetence.
     
  5. Polydectes

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    I felt my intelligence draining watching this garbage.

    Anybody who watches is dumber than before they watched.
     
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    “What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
     
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    Precisely
     
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  8. edna kawabata

    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    Is that possible for you?
     
  9. gorfias

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    You do know that 1/6 is a false red flag planted by the Left, right? Yeah, some yahoos over acted but even the Shaman was invited to tour the capitol.
     
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    If my IQ was zero watching that garbage would make it negative.
     
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    DEFinning Well-Known Member Donor

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    Your reply fails to address any of my arguments, or questions-- which are absolutely applicable to the thread's subject. It is the topic itself, which you seem to not accept, and so, ironically, your response is the thing which is not relevant to this actual debate (and, btw, which is also misspelled).

     
  12. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    Like always you probably don't have an argument. That's why people aren't addressing it it doesn't exist.
     
  13. Junkieturtle

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    Calling Trump a fascist sort of misses the mark because it assumes he actually has governmental goals. He doesn't. The purpose of his first term and a possible second term was and will always be to bring attention and adoration onto himself. That's it. It doesn't go any farther than that. The people, the government, the nation, none of that actually matters to him. What is interpreted as fascist behavior is really just immaturity and vindictiveness. It's a fine line to be sure, but my judgment comes from the fact that it is not his true intent to be a fascist because again, power is not actually his real end goal. Power is just the means for him to get what he truly wants and needs, which is your undying attention, love, and reverence. He's a man-child, who despite this life-long crippling lack of personal growth, has managed to accomplish quite a lot considering. But that doesn't matter, because he's still a dumpster fire and a danger to this country.
     
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    DEFinning Well-Known Member Donor

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    OK-- because your arguments are, on the whole, much more intelligent than mine... :roflol::roflol:Keep dreaming, my inarticulate friend. :banana: And never lose that sense of humor. It will no doubt be helpful to someone who comes to a debate site, and bothers to post an "argument," only to say to the person you address, "like always, you probably don't have an argument."

    Who knows, one day you may even get beyond this dipping of your toes in the water, and actually put forth a real argument, as to why I, or whoever you choose, doesn't have a valid point. Until then, keep that lightness of heart, as you make your laughably lame attempts at countering anyone's points-- such as by merely your saying, that the poster never has an argument, probably.



     
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  15. Polydectes

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    Fascism requires a giant powerful government. Was it Trump that wanted to hire 87000 more IRS agents?
     
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    jokes on you I didn't present an argument.
     
  17. Junkieturtle

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    Did you even read my post?
     
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    As this site is meant for political debate, how was your failure to make an argument-- which was what my sarcasm had been pointing out, BTW-- a joke, on me?

    You believe that pointing out how devoid of any value, or thought, was your post, is a defense against its being criticized?
     
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  19. Polydectes

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    It's just OMBS yawn
     
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    I didn't fail to make an argument I didn't attempt.
    Nope. Don't need defense. Your criticism is facile not constructive.
     
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    I don't know what that is, but if you had actually bothered to read my post, you'd have seen I disagreed with calling Trump a fascist. Your kneejerk must-defend-Trump reaction gave away your laziness.
     
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    Yeah disagreeing with it is accepting reality.

    I get that you understand reality to a degree the rest of your post wasn't that interested.
     
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    That's not even close to true. TFG called them up and sent them forth. They didn't 'over act', they attempted to nullify an election. Some of them have been convicted of seditious conspiracy.
     
  24. gorfias

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    Translation, "I drank the koolaid! It was luscious!!!" Stop trusting people that want to enslave or murder you please. Your gullibility puts all of our lives in danger.
     
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    LMAO-- you call my criticism "not constructive," after posting this:

    Polydectes said: ↑

    Like always you probably don't have an argument. That's why people aren't addressing it it doesn't exist.

    That, though, you somehow consider constructive? And not "facile?" It is the equivalent of saying, "Well, you're a dum-dum head"-- my misspelling, btw, is on purpose.




    First of all, I guess my argument was not too simple, as you suggest, since you clearly did not comprehend it. The idea is that, on a site especially for political DEBATE, when one disagrees with another's opinion, the stating of a coherent reason for that disagreement (that is, an "argument") is generally expected. So, not having one is, itself, a failure.
    Also, your merely telling me that I, "as always... probably don't have an argument," is as "facile" as a critique could be.

    Secondly, though,
    you did present an argument:

    Polydectes said: ↑
    Like always you probably don't have an argument. That's why people aren't addressing it it doesn't exist.

    The bolded part, is your argument: the thing that supposedly backs up your assertion, that I probably don't have an argument. The problem with it-- that I will note, anyway-- is that it seems to presume that this whole thread, about Trump being Fascist, is mine-- which it is not. So the reason you give-- the thread's lack of responses-- doesn't really apply to my individual argument.

    Therefore not only was your reasoning, a bust, but
    you apparently cannot even recognize an argument, when it is you, who is making it! (LOL). FYI, an absolute minimum criterion, for anyone who thinks themself worthy of critiquing others' arguments, I don't think I'm going out in a limb to say, is that the person at least be able to know an argument, when they see one-- and your multiple claims that you did not make any argument, demonstrates that you do not even know what an argument is.

    If you derive no benefit from my pointing this out, that would be your own fault, and does not mean that my showing you the meaning of "argument," was not a constructive thing to explain.


     

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